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Combination five gallon bucket opener

Granted 4 Aug 2015 · 2 office actions

Current assignee: Home Depot Product Authority, LLC · originally The Home Depot

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Inventors: Michael R. Nelson · Examiner: Phillip S Hyder · AU 2917 · TC 2900

Application
29/464,166
filed 13 Aug 2013
Publication
Not published
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US D735542
granted 4 Aug 2015

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front, right side perspective…

FIG. 1 is a front, right side perspective view of the design.

FIG. 2 is a right side elevation view of the design of FIG. 1 , the left side elevation view being a mirror image thereof.

FIG. 3 is a left, rear perspective view of the design of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 4 is a rear elevation view of the design of FIG. 1 ; and,

FIG. 5 is a front elevation view of the design of FIGS. 1 .

The broken lines in FIGS. 1-5 delineating where the claimed and unclaimed portions of the article meet, depict a boundary that forms no part of the claimed design. The rest of the broken lines in FIGS. 1-5 depict portions of the bucket opener in which the design is embodied that are not considered part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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Classifications

2 codes
USPC · US Patent Classification
D08/14D80/40

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3
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Examiner
Phillip S Hyder
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USUS-D687687-SS113 Aug 20132 Jul 2012grantedCombination five gallon bucket opener
USthis patentUS-D735542-SS14 Aug 201513 Aug 2013grantedCombination five gallon bucket opener
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