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Hinge for spectacles

Granted 27 Mar 2018 · 4 office actions

Assignee: THEO BVBA

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Inventors: Willem Somers, Pierre Verrier, Claude Rabut · Examiner: Michael A Pratt · AU 2914 · TC 2900

Application
35/500,521
filed 27 Jul 2015
Publication
Not published
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US D813935
granted 27 Mar 2018

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Description

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›FIG. 1.1 is a bottom view of a…

FIG. 1.1 is a bottom view of a first hinge for spectacles illustrating an embodiment of our new design, with a mirror image of FIG. 1.1 being the top view of a second hinge for spectacles;

FIG. 1.2 is a left side, top perspective view of the first hinge for spectacles illustrating an embodiment of our new design, with a mirror image of FIG. 1.2 being the right side, bottom perspective view of the second hinge for spectacles;

FIG. 1.3 is a left side, bottom perspective view of the first hinge for spectacles illustrating an embodiment of our new design, with a mirror image of FIG. 1.3 being the right side, top perspective view of the second hinge for spectacles;

FIG. 1.4 is a left side view of a first hinge for spectacles illustrating an embodiment of our new design, with a mirror image of FIG. 1.4 being the right side view of the second hinge for spectacles;

FIG. 2.1 is a left side, bottom perspective view of the second hinge for spectacles illustrating an embodiment of our new design, with a mirror image of FIG. 2.1 being the right side, top perspective view of the first hinge for spectacles; and

FIG. 2.2 is a back side, bottom perspective view of the second hinge for spectacles illustrating an embodiment of our new design, with a mirror image of FIG. 2.2 being the front side, top perspective view of the first hinge for spectacles.

The broken lines in the drawing views illustrate portions of the hinge for spectacles that form no part of the claimed design.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D16/334

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Examiner
Michael A Pratt
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