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Drag cap for a plasma arc torch

Granted 24 May 2005 · 2 office actions

Current assignee: Victor Equipment Company · originally Thermal Dynamics Corporation

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Inventors: Carl R. Mack, Kevin D. Horner-Richardson, Jonathan Brasseur · Examiner: Philip S. Hyder · AU 2915 · TC 2900

Application
29/176,771
filed 27 Feb 2003
Publication
Not published
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US D505309
granted 24 May 2005

Life of the patent

2 dated events
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Description

1 parts
›FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the…

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the drag cap for a plasma arc torch;

FIG. 2 is a side elevation view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a top plan view thereof; and,

FIG. 4 is a bottom elevation view thereof.

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Claims

1 · 1 independent · depth 1
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Classifications

2 codes
USPC · US Patent Classification
D08/30D15/144

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Pendency
2.2 y
817 days filing → grant
Office actions
1
non-final + final
Responses
2
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Examiner
Philip S. Hyder
art unit 2915 · TC 2900
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