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Floor maintenance tool

Granted 7 Apr 2009 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Butcher Company, The · originally Solenis

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Inventors: Mark Cors, Nicholas Reback, Andrew M. Bober, Daniel Lee +2 · Examiner: Robin V Webster · AU 2911 · TC 2900

Application
29/279,572
filed 3 May 2007
Publication
Not published
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US D590117
granted 7 Apr 2009

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a…

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a floor maintenance tool embodying aspects of the invention.

FIG. 2 is an additional perspective view of a floor maintenance tool shown in FIG. 1

FIG. 3 is a side view of the floor maintenance tool shown in FIG. 1 .

FIG. 4 is a front view of the floor maintenance tool shown in FIG. 1 .

FIG. 5 is a side view of the floor maintenance tool shown in FIG. 1 .

FIG. 6 is a rear view of the floor maintenance tool shown in FIG. 1 .

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the reservoir and reservoir holder shown in FIG. 1 .

FIG. 8 is a rear perspective view of the reservoir and reservoir holder shown in FIG. 7 .

FIG. 9 is an exploded perspective view of the reservoir and reservoir holder shown in FIG. 7 .

FIG. 10 is another perspective view of the reservoir and reservoir holder shown in FIG. 7 .

FIG. 11 is a perspective view of the reservoir holder shown in FIG. 7 .

FIG. 12 is a perspective view of the reservoir holder shown in FIG. 7 .

FIG. 13 is a perspective view of the reservoir holder shown in FIG. 7 .

FIG. 14 is a perspective view of the reservoir shown in FIG. 1 .

FIG. 15 is a perspective view of the reservoir shown in FIG. 14 ; and,

FIG. 16 is a side view of the reservoir shown in FIG. 14 .

The present application is directed to the shape and contour of a floor maintenance tool or portions thereof as illustrated in the drawing. With respect to illustrations featuring broken line, the features shown in broken lines are not considered part of the design sought to be patented in that figure.

The elements shown broken away in FIGS. 7–16 , are for ease of illustration.

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Classifications

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Pendency
1.9 y
705 days filing → grant
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Examiner
Robin V Webster
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OfficePublicationKindPublishedFiledStatusTitle
USthis patentUS-D590117-SS17 Apr 20093 May 2007grantedFloor maintenance tool
USUS-D608514-SS119 Jan 201025 Mar 2009grantedFluid reservoir
›Other offices — 2 members
OfficePublicationKindPublishedFiledStatusTitle
AUAU-318220-SS3 Mar 20082 Nov 2007publishedReservoir
CACA-122986-SS14 Aug 20082 Nov 2007grantedFloor mop

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