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Holder for a bottle for mounting in a reservoir such as a toilet tank

Granted 7 Oct 2003 · no office action yet

Assignee: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.

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Inventors: Simon M. Conway, Steven A. Zach · Examiner: M. H. Tung · AU 2911 · TC 2900

Application
29/162,026
filed 7 Jun 2002
Publication
Not published
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US D480462
granted 7 Oct 2003

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Description

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›In a preferred embodiment, the nature of this…

In a preferred embodiment, the nature of this product is a holder for a bottle suitable to be mounted in a reservoir such as a toilet tank.

FIG. 1 is a top, right, front perspective view of a bottle holder embodying our new design;

FIG. 2 is a front elevational view thereof, the rear view is identical;

FIG. 3 is a right side elevational view thereof, the left side elevational view being a mirror image of the right side shown;

FIG. 4 is a rear elevational view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a top plan view thereof; and,

FIG. 6 is a bottom plan view thereof.

The broken line representations of mounting structure in FIGS. 1-6, of a float assembly in FIGS. 1-4 and 6, and of internal structure in FIGS. 5 and 6, are for the purpose of illustration only, and form no part of the claimed design.

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USthis patentUS-D480462-SS17 Oct 20037 Jun 2002grantedHolder for a bottle for mounting in a reservoir such as a toilet tank
USUS-D512771-SS113 Dec 200520 Jun 2003grantedHolder for a bottle for mounting in a reservoir such as a toilet tank
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OfficePublicationKindPublishedFiledStatusTitle
AUAU-151718-SS14 May 20036 Dec 2002publishedBottle holder
AUAU-156907-SS16 Nov 200419 Dec 2003publishedBottle holder
CACA-101472-SS13 Jul 20056 Dec 2002grantedBottle holder
CACA-105287-SS13 Jul 200516 Dec 2003grantedBottle holder

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