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Squeeze-and-turn child resistant closure

Granted 1 Jul 2003 · no office action yet

Application
29/167,174
filed 9 Sep 2002
Publication
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US D476563
granted 1 Jul 2003

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a…

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a squeeze-and-turn child resistant closure in accordance with one exemplary presently preferred embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 2 is a top plan view of the closure, the bottom of the closure being without ornamentation and forming no part of the claimed design;

FIG. 3 is a side elevational view from the bottom in FIG. 2, the opposing side elevational view being substantially a mirror image thereof;

FIG. 4 is a side elevational view taken from the right in FIG. 3, the opposing side elevational view being substantially a mirror image thereof;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a squeeze-and-turn child resistant closure in accordance with a second exemplary embodiment of the invention, the top plan view of which is substantially the same as FIG. 2 and the bottom being without ornamentation and forming no part of the claimed design;

FIG. 6 is a side elevational view of the closure in FIG. 5, the opposing side elevational view being substantially a mirror image thereof; and,

FIG. 7 is an end elevational view of the closure in FIGS. 5-6, the opposing end elevational view being substantially a mirror image thereof.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D09/435D94/53D94/54D94/43D94/52

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Examiner
Louis S. Zarfas
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