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Rigid pipe coupling

Granted 18 May 2010 · 2 office actions

Assignee: Victaulic Company

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Inventors: Ahmad Sith, Douglas R. Dole, Vance W. Henry, Scott D. Madara +1 · Examiner: T. Chase Nelson · AU 2914 · TC 2900

Application
29/339,883
filed 9 Jul 2009
Publication
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US D616072
granted 18 May 2010

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is an isometric view of our…

FIG. 1 is an isometric view of our design for a rigid pipe coupling;

FIG. 2 is a front view of the design for a rigid pipe coupling shown in FIG. 1 , the rear view being identical;

FIG. 3 is a top view of the design for a rigid pipe coupling shown in FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 4 is a bottom view of the design for a rigid pipe coupling shown in FIG. 1 ; and,

FIG. 5 is a left side view of the design for a rigid pipe coupling shown in FIG. 1 , the right side view being identical.

The broken lines in FIGS. 1–5 are for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed design.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D23/262

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Pendency
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313 days filing → grant
Office actions
1
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Responses
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Examiner
T. Chase Nelson
art unit 2914 · TC 2900
Citations: 15 back · 0 forward

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