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Tee coupling

Granted 7 Mar 2006 · no office action yet

Assignee: Victaulic Company

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Inventors: Anthony J. Cuvo, Jianyong Sun, Charles E. Wilk, Jr. · Examiner: Robin V. Webster · AU 2911 · TC 2900

Application
29/211,753
filed 20 Aug 2004
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US D516686
granted 7 Mar 2006

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a…

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a first embodiment of our design for a tee coupling;

FIG. 2 is a left side view of the tee coupling shown in FIG. 1, the right side being shown in perspective in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is an end view of the tee coupling shown in FIG. 1, the opposite end view being identical;

FIG. 4 is a bottom view of the tee coupling shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a top view of the tee coupling shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a second embodiment of our design for a tee coupling;

FIG. 7 is a left side view of the tee coupling shown in FIG. 6, the right side being shown in perspective in FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is an end view of the tee coupling shown in FIG. 6, the opposite end view being identical;

FIG. 9 is a bottom view of the tee coupling shown in FIG. 6; and,

FIG. 10 is a top view of the tee coupling shown in FIG. 6.

The broken lines shown in the various Figures are for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed design.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D23/262

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