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Netting product chute with ribbed floor for automatic and/or manual packaging operations

Granted 25 Oct 2005 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Tipper Tie, Inc. · originally Delaware Capital Formation, Inc.

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Inventors: Dennis J. May, Samuel D. Griggs · Examiner: Antoine D. Davis · AU 2913 · TC 2900

Application
29/195,605
filed 15 Dec 2003
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US D510944
granted 25 Oct 2005

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a top perspective view of…

FIG. 1 is a top perspective view of the netting product chute with ribbed floor for automatic and/or manual packaging operations showing our design;

FIG. 2 is a side view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 5 is an ingress end view thereof;

FIG. 6 is an opposing egress end view thereof;

FIG. 7 is side perspective view illustrating the netting product chute with ribbed floor for automatic and/or manual packaging operations in an exemplary use environment with the netting product chute with ribbed floor for automatic and/or manual packaging operations oriented substantially horizontally; and,

FIG. 8 is side perspective view illustrating the netting product chute with ribbed floor for automatic and/or manual packaging operations in an exemplary use environment, with the netting product chute with ribbed floor for automatic and/or manual packaging operations tilted angularly down.

The opposing side view of the netting product chute with ribbed floor for automatic and/or manual packaging operations is the same as that shown in FIG. 2. The broken lines shown herein are for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed design. The illustrated device is not limited to the scale shown and the illustrated ham product and netting material shown in broken lines in FIGS. 7 and 8 are exemplary only as the netting product chute with ribbed floor for automatic and/or manual packaging operations is useful for packaging other food items as well as other net-enclosed industrial and commodity items and/or may be used with other netting types.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D15/145

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Antoine D. Davis
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