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Spigot and collar assembly

Granted 6 May 2003 · 4 office actions

Current assignee: Henkel Ip & Holding GmbH · originally Unilever plc

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Inventors: Mark Douglas Gerhart, George Richard Trepina, Eugene Francis Haffner, Gerald Ross Robinson +1 · Examiner: Robert M. Spear · AU 2913 · TC 2900

Application
29/107,636
filed 9 Jul 1999
Publication
Not published
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US D474112
granted 6 May 2003

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a top, rear and left…

FIG. 1 is a top, rear and left side perspective view of a spigot and collar assembly with a container shown in dotted lines for environmental purposes only and forming no part of the claim;

FIG. 2 is a top plan view of the spigot and collar assembly;

FIG. 3 is a bottom plan view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a right side view thereof (the left side being a mirror image);

FIG. 6 is a rear view thereof; and,

FIG. 7 is an exploded perspective view of the spigot and collar assembly, with a portion of a container in dotted lines for environmental purposes only and forming no part of the claim. A portion of the collar assembly is shown broken away for clarity of disclosure.

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Claims

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Classifications

2 codes
IPC · International Patent Classification
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USPC · US Patent Classification
D09/447

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1,397 days filing → grant
Office actions
2
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Responses
1
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Examiner
Robert M. Spear
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