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Caddy

Granted 9 May 2006 · no office action yet

Assignee: U-Line Corporation

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Inventors: Jack L. Vaughn, Thomas W. Rand · Examiner: Louis S. Zarfas · AU 2914 · TC 2900

Application
29/226,716
filed 31 Mar 2005
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US D520239
granted 9 May 2006

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Description

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›In a preferred embodiment, the nature of this…

In a preferred embodiment, the nature of this product is a caddy for carrying items such as food and/or drink, for example, a bottle of wine.

FIG. 1 is a right, top, front perspective view of a caddy according to our new design;

FIG. 2 is a front elevational view thereof, the rear elevational view thereof being a mirror image of the front view shown;

FIG. 3 is a right side elevational view thereof, the left side elevational view thereof being a mirror image of the right side shown;

FIG. 4 is a top plan view thereof; and,

FIG. 5 is a bottom plan view thereof.

The broken line showing of fasteners in FIGS. 1, 4, and 5 is for illustrative purposes only and forms no part of the claimed design.

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Classifications

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D03/304D75/521D33/9D33/15

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CACA-111096-SS12 Dec 200611 May 2005grantedCarrying tray

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