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Dryer door

Granted 3 Jan 2012 · no office action yet

Assignee: Whirlpool

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Inventors: Seth E. Bixby, David M. Miller · Examiner: T. Chase Nelson · AU 2914 · TC 2900

Application
29/365,946
filed 16 Jul 2010
Publication
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US D651778
granted 3 Jan 2012

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of…

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a first embodiment of the dryer door showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a front elevation view of the dryer door of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 3 is a top plan view of the dryer door of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 4 is a bottom plan view of the dryer door of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 5 is a first side elevation view of the dryer door of FIG. 1 , with the second side elevation view being a mirror image of FIG. 5 ;

FIG. 6 is a front perspective view of a second embodiment of the dryer door;

FIG. 7 is a front elevation view of the dryer door of FIG. 6 ;

FIG. 8 is a bottom plan view of the dryer door of FIG. 6 ; and,

FIG. 9 is a first side elevation view of the dryer door of FIG. 6 , with the second side elevation view being a mirror image of FIG. 9 .

The top plan view of the dryer door of FIG. 6 is identical to the view shown in FIG. 3 . The rear elevation view of each embodiment is not shown and forms no part of the claimed design. The broken lines and areas within the broken lines depict portions of the dryer door and other environmental structure that forms no part of claimed design.

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D32/25

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