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Refrigerator

Granted 29 Jan 2019 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Whirlpool Corporation · originally Whirlpool

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Inventors: Daniel Chow, Todd Tunzi, Julia B. Burke · Examiner: Ian Simmons · AU 2912 · TC 2900

Application
29/632,824
filed 10 Jan 2018
Publication
Not published
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US D839321
granted 29 Jan 2019

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front view of the…

FIG. 1 is a front view of the refrigerator according to a first embodiment of our design in a first configuration thereof, the design shown in place within an unclaimed refrigerator, and back, right side, left side, top and bottom views of the design showing no claimed portion of the design when in place within unclaimed portions of the refrigerator;

FIG. 2 is a front-perspective view of the refrigerator of FIG. 1 with unclaimed portions of the refrigerator removed;

FIG. 3 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a back view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 8 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 9 is a front view of the refrigerator according to the first embodiment of our design in a second configuration thereof, the design shown in place within unclaimed portions of the refrigerator, and back, right side, left side, top and bottom views of the design showing no claimed portion of the design when in place within the unclaimed refrigerator;

FIG. 10 is a front-perspective view of the refrigerator of FIG. 9 with portions of the unclaimed portions of the refrigerator removed;

FIG. 11 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 12 is a back view thereof;

FIG. 13 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 14 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 15 is a top view thereof; and,

FIG. 16 is a bottom view thereof.

Broken lines are environmental only and form no part of the claimed design.

Additionally, broken lines between shaded and un-shaded areas represent bounds of the claimed design.

The applied shades in the drawings are presented to show a contrast in appearance.

The dash-dot depiction of a rectangular prism in FIGS. 2-9, and 10-16 that encloses claimed portions of the refrigerator with unclaimed portions of the refrigerator depicted in FIGS. 1 and 9 removed is similarly unclaimed and represents a space within an interior of the refrigerator in which the claimed portion of the refrigerator may be present.

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Claims

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D15/89

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