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Utensil handle

Granted 16 May 2006 · 4 office actions

Current assignee: Wells Fargo · originally Volrath Law

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Inventors: Rebecca J. Schreiber-Pethan, William I. Kessler · Examiner: Terry A. Wallace · AU 2916 · TC 2900

Application
29/189,849
filed 11 Sep 2003
Publication
Not published
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US D520810
granted 16 May 2006

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a perspective view of one…

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of one embodiment of a utensil handle of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a top plan view of the handle of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a front elevational view of the handle of FIG. 1, the rear elevational view being a mirror image thereof;

FIG. 4 is a front elevational view of the handle of FIG. 1 rotated 180 ° about its longitudinal axis;

FIG. 5 is a left-end elevational view of the handle of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a right-end elevational view of the handle of FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged sectional view of the handle of FIG. 2 taken along line 7—7;

FIG. 8 is an enlarged sectional view of the handle of FIG. 2 taken along line 8—8;

FIG. 9 is a perspective view of a first alternative embodiment of the utensil handle of FIG. 1;

FIG. 10 is a top plan view of the handle of FIG. 9;

FIG. 11 is a front elevational view of the handle of FIG. 9;

FIG. 12 is a front elevational view of the handle of FIG. 9 rotated 180 ° about its longitudinal axis;

FIG. 13 is a left-end elevational view of the handle of FIG. 9;

FIG. 14 is a right-end elevational view of the handle of FIG. 9;

FIG. 15 is a perspective view the second alternative embodiment of the handle of FIG. 1;

FIG. 16 is a top plan view of the handle of FIG. 15;

FIG. 17 is a front elevational view of the handle of FIG. 15;

FIG. 18 is a front elevational view of the handle of FIG. 15 rotated 180 ° about its longitudinal axis;

FIG. 19 is a left-end elevational view of the handle of FIG. 15;

FIG. 20 is a right-end elevational view of the handle of FIG. 15;

FIG. 21 is a perspective view of a third alternative embodiment of the handle of FIG. 1;

FIG. 22 is a top plan view of the handle of FIG. 21;

FIG. 23 is a front elevational view of the handle of FIG. 21;

FIG. 24 is a front elevational view of the handle of FIG. 21 rotated 180 ° about its longitudinal axis;

FIG. 25 is a right-end elevational view of the handle of FIG. 21;

FIG. 26 is a left-end elevational view of the handle of FIG. 21;

FIG. 27 is a perspective view of a fourth alternative embodiment of the handle of FIG. 1; and,

FIG. 28 is a top plan view of the handle of FIG. 27.

The ornamental design which is claimed is shown in solid lines in the drawings. The broken lines in the drawings are for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed design.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D07/395

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Examiner
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OfficePublicationKindPublishedFiledStatusTitle
USthis patentUS-D520810-SS116 May 200611 Sep 2003grantedUtensil handle
›Other offices — 4 members
OfficePublicationKindPublishedFiledStatusTitle
AUAU-156209-SS16 Aug 200428 Jan 2004publishedA set of handles for a utensil
TWTW-D104030-S1S11 Apr 20056 Feb 2004publishedKitchen utensil
TWTW-D106523-S1S111 Sep 20056 Feb 2004publishedKitchen utensil
TWTW-D106524-S1S111 Sep 20056 Feb 2004publishedKitchen utensil

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