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Modular refrigerator

Granted 13 Jun 2006 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Whirlpool Corporation · originally Whirlpool

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Inventors: Allan R. Steinkuhl, Duane A. Schmidt, Joseph L. Coleman · Examiner: Mitchell Siegel · AU 2912 · TC 2900

Application
29/227,582
filed 13 Apr 2005
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US D523035
granted 13 Jun 2006

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a right front perspective view…

FIG. 1 is a right front perspective view of the design of the modular refrigerator;

FIG. 2 is a front elevational view thereof. The ornamental design is not visible in a rear view, top plan view or bottom view;

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

FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of the pattern on the modular refrigerator door of the embodiment of FIG. 1.

The characteristic feature of the ornmental design resides in the use of a pattern on the modular refrigerator door. One embodiment of a pattern according to the ornamental design is shown in FIGS. 1-4.

Those portions of modular refrigerator in broken lines, specifically the surfaces of the modular refrigerator at the top and bottom edges of the door and surfaces extending back from the door including other surfaces of the modular refrigerator are not part of the claimed invention.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D15/91

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