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Cup-holder insert with angularly offset combo carrier

Granted 25 Jun 2002 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Dixie Consumer Products LLC · originally Koch Industries, Inc.

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Inventors: Michael G. Thomas · Examiner: Terry A. Wallace · AU 2912 · TC 2900

Application
29/142,702
filed 31 May 2001
Publication
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US D459164
granted 25 Jun 2002

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A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material to which a claim for copyright is made. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but reserves all other copyright rights whatsoever.

FIG. 1 is a view in perspecitve of the inventive cup-holder insert with angularly offset snack and sandwich carriers;

FIG. 2 is a view in elevation along a longer side of the cup-holder insert of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a view in elevation of the cup-holder insert of FIG. 1 along the side opposite the side shown in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a view in elevation of the cup-holder insert of FIG. 1 along a side of the cup-holder adjacent the side shown in FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is a view in elevation of the cup-holder inset of FIG. 1 along the side opposite the side shown in FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a top plan view of the cup-holder insert of FIG. 1; and,

FIG. 7 is a bottom plan view of the cup-holder insert of FIG. 1.

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D07/701

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