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Ink cartridge

Granted 27 Aug 2002 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Kodak Imaging Network · originally Kodak Limited

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Inventors: David R. Gotham, Laura M. Latta, Dana A. Carlile, Michelle M. Demeyer +1 · Examiner: Cathy Anne MacCormac · AU 2914 · TC 2900

Application
29/146,820
filed 16 Aug 2001
Publication
Not published
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US D462089
granted 27 Aug 2002

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Description

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›This application is related to the following applications…

This application is related to the following applications: U.S design application Ser. No. 29 / 146 , 821 filed on even date herewith and entitled, Ink Cartridge With Integral Handle, filed in the name of R. Windield Trafton et al; U.S. design application Ser. No. 29 / 146 , 899 filed on even date herwith and entitled, Ink Cartridge With Ink Color Discrimination Structure, filed in the name of R. Winfield Trafton et al; U.S. application Ser. No. 09 / 931 , 523 filed on even date herewith and entitled, Ink Cartridge with Ink Color Discrimination Structure, filed in the name of R. Winfield Trafton et al.

The design is embodied as an ink cartridge which contains ink for use in an ink jet printer. The ink cartridge includes an integral handle on an upper portion of the cartridge for facilitating carrying of the cartridge by an operator and facilitating the operator's loading and unloading of the cartridge from a printer.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view illustrating the front, bottom and right side of an ink cartridge showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the rear, top and right side thereof;

FIG. 3 is a front elevational view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a rear elevational view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a top plan view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a bottom plan view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a right side elevational view thereof; and,

FIG. 8 is a left side elevational view thereof.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D18/56347/86

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Examiner
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