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Spirit level

Granted 26 May 2015 · no office action yet

Application
29/501,602
filed 5 Sep 2014
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US D730207
granted 26 May 2015

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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 spirit level according to a first embodiment of the invention, the spirit level including a main body, a central horizontal bubble vial housing, a right side handgrip, a left side vertical bubble vial housing and a right side vertical bubble vial housing, a left side end cap and a right side end cap;

FIG. 2 is a front elevation view of the spirit level of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 3 is a top plan view of the spirit level of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 4 is a left side elevation view of the spirit level of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 5 is a right side elevation view of the spirit level of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 6 is a rear elevation view of the spirit level of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 7 is a bottom plan view of the spirit level of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 8 is a front perspective view of a spirit level according to a second embodiment of the invention, the spirit level including a main body, a central horizontal bubble vial housing, a left side handgrip and a right side handgrip, a left side vertical bubble vial housing and a right side vertical bubble vial housing, a left side end cap and a right side end cap;

FIG. 9 is a front elevation view of the spirit level of FIG. 8 ;

FIG. 10 is a top plan view of the spirit level of FIG. 8 ;

FIG. 11 is a left side elevation view of the spirit level of FIG. 8 ;

FIG. 12 is a right side elevation view of the spirit level of FIG. 8 ;

FIG. 13 is a rear elevation view of the spirit level of FIG. 8 ; and,

FIG. 14 is a bottom plan view of the spirit level of FIG. 8 .

The broken lines along the main body of the second embodiment of the spirit level in FIGS. 8 , 9 , 10 , 13 and 14 indicate that the lengths between the horizontal bubble vial housing and its adjacent handgrips, a vertical bubble vial housing and its adjacent handgrip, and an end cap and its adjacent vertical bubble vial housing can vary from the sizes as shown in FIG. 8 . The broken lines form no part of the claimed design.

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D10/69

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Antoine D Davis
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