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Folded sheet adapter

Granted 5 Sep 2000 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. · originally Kimberly Clark Worldwide

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Inventors: Stephen Lawrence Phelps, Richard Paul Lewis, Paul Francis Tramontina · Examiner: Brian N. Vinson · AU 291 · TC 2900

Application
104229
filed 30 Apr 1999
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US D430438
granted 5 Sep 2000

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a top, front, and left…

FIG. 1 is a top, front, and left side perspective view of a folded sheet adapter showing our new design, the undisclosed right side being a mirror image of the left, and the broken-line disclosure of the dispensing opening being for illustrative purposes only and forming no part of the claimed design;

FIG. 2 is a front elevational view thereof; and,

FIG. 3 is a bottom plan view thereof.

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