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Utility knife

Granted 27 Mar 2001 · no office action yet

Assignee: Hunt Holdings, Inc.

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Inventors: Peter F. Falt · Examiner: Philip S. Hyder · AU 2912 · TC 2900

Application
106640
filed 18 Jun 1999
Publication
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US D439491
granted 27 Mar 2001

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a right side elevational view…

FIG. 1 is a right side elevational view of a utility knife, showing my new design.

FIG. 2 is a left side view of the knife of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a top view of the knife of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a bottom view of the knife of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a front end view of the knife of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a rear end view of the knife of FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a front perspective view of FIG. 1 showing the left side of the knife;

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of FIG. 1 showing the left side view of the knife, the blade being shown in broken line for illustrative purposes only, the blade forming no part of the claimed design;

FIG. 9 is a right side view of a modified embodiment of the design, the broken lines showing a clasp and a recess for the clasp for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed design;

FIG. 10 is a left side view of the knife of FIG. 9, the broken lines showing a clasp lever and a recess for the clasp lever for illustrative purposes only and forn no part of the claimed design;

FIG. 11 is a top view of the knife of FIG. 9, the broken lines showing the joint line dividing the two halves of the knife, a button, a track in which the button moves, and a recess for the button for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed design;

FIG. 12 is a bottom view of the knife of FIG. 9, the broken lines showing the clasp, the clasp lever, the recesses therefor and the joint line dividing the two halves of the knife for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed design;

FIG. 13 is a front end view of the knife of FIG. 9, the broken lines showing the button, the joint line dividing the two halves of the knife, the track and the recess for the button for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed invention;

FIG. 14 is a rear end view of the knife of FIG. 9, the broken lines showing the joint line dividing the two halves of the knife for illustrative purposes only, these items shown in broken lines forming no part of the claimed design;

FIG. 15 is a front perspective view of FIG. 9 showing the right side of the knife;

FIG. 16 is a front perspective view of FIG. 9 showing the left side of the knife;

FIG. 17 is a right side view of the knife of FIG. 9, further showing the knife blade extended and in broken lines; and,

FIG. 18 is a top view of the knife of FIG. 9.

The broken lines are in no way intended to form part of the claimed design and are for illustrative purposes only.

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D08/98D80/99

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