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Tire sidewall

Granted 24 Oct 2017 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC · originally Bridgestone

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Inventors: Kevin E. Scheifele, David E. Schultz, Keith A. Dumigan · Examiner: Robert M Spear · AU 2922 · TC 2900

Application
29/568,873
filed 22 Jun 2016
Publication
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US D800643
granted 24 Oct 2017

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a side elevational view of…

FIG. 1 is a side elevational view of a first, second, and third embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view along cross-section line A-A of FIG. 1 of a first embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 3 is cross-sectional view along cross-section line A-A of FIG. 1 a second embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 4 is cross-sectional view along cross-section line A-A of FIG. 1 of a third embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 5 is a side elevational view of a fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh embodiment of our new tire sidewall sidewall design;

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view along cross-section line B-B of FIG. 5 of a fourth embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view along cross-section line B-B of FIG. 5 of a fifth embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view along cross-section line B-B of FIG. 5 of a sixth embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view along cross-section line B-B of FIG. 5 of a seventh embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 10 is a side elevational view of an eighth, ninth, and tenth embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view along cross-section line C-C of FIG. 10 of an eighth embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 12 is a cross-sectional view along cross-section line C-C of FIG. 10 of a ninth embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 13 is a cross-sectional view along cross-section line C-C of FIG. 10 of a tenth embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 14 is a side elevational view of an eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 15 is a cross-sectional view along cross-section line D-D of FIG. 14 of an eleventh embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 16 is a cross-sectional view along cross-section line D-D of FIG. 14 of a twelfth embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 17 is a cross-sectional view along cross-section line D-D of FIG. 14 of a thirteenth embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 18 is a cross-sectional view along cross-section line D-D of FIG. 14 of a fourteenth embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 19 is a side elevational view of a fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 20 is a cross-sectional view along cross-section line E-E of FIG. 19 of a fifteenth embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 21 is a cross-sectional view along cross-section line E-E of FIG. 19 of a sixteenth embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 22 is a cross-sectional view along cross-section line E-E of FIG. 19 of a seventeenth embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 23 is a side elevational view of a eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 24 is a cross-sectional view along cross-section line F-F of FIG. 23 of an eighteenth embodiment of our new tire sidewall design;

FIG. 25 is a cross-sectional view along cross-section line F-F of FIG. 23 of a nineteenth embodiment of our new tire sidewall design; and,

FIG. 26 is a cross-sectional view along cross-section line F-F of FIG. 23 of a twentieth embodiment of our new tire sidewall design.

The varied broken lines defining the tire tread, inner bead, inner bead, and portions of the tire sidewall represent unclaimed environmental subject matter; the broken lines immediately adjacent the shaded surfaces of the tire sidewall represent the boundaries of the claimed design but form no part thereof.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D12/605

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