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Refrigerator-freezer

Granted 13 Jun 2006 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Whirlpool Corporation · originally Whirlpool

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

Application
29/237,962
filed 8 Sep 2005
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US D523036
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 refrigerator freezer;

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 refrigerator-freezer doors of the embodiment of FIG. 1.

The characteristic feature of the ornamental design resides in the use of a pattern on the refrigerator-freezer doors. Those portions of refrigerator-freezer in broken lines, specifically the surfaces of the refrigerator-freezer at the top and bottom edges of the doors and surfaces extending back from the doors including other surfaces of the refrigerator-freezer are not part of the claimed invention.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D15/91

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