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Die for gum forming

Granted 1 Jul 2025 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Altria Client Services · originally Altria Group, Inc.

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Inventors: Dwight David Williams, Anthony Kieu, Feng Gao, David Phillips · Examiner: Patricia A Palasik · AU 2918 · TC 2900

Application
29/777,494
filed 6 Apr 2021
Publication
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US D1081739
granted 1 Jul 2025

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is an upper, front, right-side perspective…

FIG. 1 is an upper, front, right-side perspective view of a die for gum forming, showing the new design;

FIG. 2 is a front view of the die for gum forming;

FIG. 3 is a lower, front, left-side perspective view of the die for gum forming;

FIG. 4 is a lower, front, right-side perspective view of the die for gum forming;

FIG. 5 is an upper, front perspective view of the die for gum forming;

FIG. 6 is a back view of the die for gum forming;

FIG. 7 is a top view of the die for gum forming;

FIG. 8 is a bottom view of the die for gum forming;

FIG. 9 is a left-side view of the die for gum forming;

FIG. 10 is a right-side view of the die for gum forming;

FIG. 11 is a magnified view (as shown in FIG. 1 ) of the die for gum forming;

FIG. 12 is a vertical cross-sectional view (as shown in FIG. 2 ) of the die for gum forming; and,

FIG. 13 is a vertical cross-sectional view (as shown in FIG. 9 ) of the die for gum forming.

The dash-dot-dash lines represent boundary lines for the claimed design, where features inside the dash-dot-dash lines form no part of the claimed design.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D15/136

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