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Beverage can with surface ornamentation

Granted 4 Apr 2000 · no office action yet

Assignee: Coors Brewing Company

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Inventors: Patrick B. Edson, Joseph R. Haake, Ray A. Toms · Examiner: Lucy Lieberman · AU 292 · TC 2900

Application
106048
filed 7 Jun 1999
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US D422221
granted 4 Apr 2000

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front elevation view of…

FIG. 1 is a front elevation view of a beverage can with surface ornamentation showing our new design, of which the rear, left and right elevation views are identical to FIG. 1;

FIG. 2 is a top plan view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a bottom plan view thereof; and,

FIG. 4 is a front elevation view of a second embodiment of a beverage can with surface ornamentation, showing our new design of which the rear, left and right elevation views are identical to FIG. 4 and of which the top plan view and bottom plan view are identical to FIGS. 2 and 3, respectively.

The rice grain-shaped surface details on the lower portion of the beverage can in FIGS. 1 and 4 are shallow indentations, the depth of which can be seen in profile on the left and right side edges of the beverage can in FIGS. 1 and 4.

The broken lines showing the top and bottom of the can in FIGS. 2 and 3 are for illustrative purposes only and do not form part of the claimed design.

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D09/551D95/18

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