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Cleaning brush for inanimate surfaces

Granted 12 Dec 2006 · 2 office actions

Assignee: Procter & Gamble

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Inventors: Linda Shumansky Girard, Paul Amaat Raymond Gerard France, Jamie Trafford Stone, Susan Tyler Ede +5 · Examiner: Alan P. Douglas · AU 2911 · TC 2900

Application
29/193,216
filed 5 Nov 2003
Publication
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US D533353
granted 12 Dec 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 cleaning brush for inanimate surfaces showing our new design.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the cleaning brush of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a side view of the cleaning brush of FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 is a rear view of the cleaning brush of FIG. 1.

FIG. 5 is a top view of the cleaning brush of FIG. 1; and,

FIG. 6 is a bottom view of the cleaning brush of FIG. 1.

With respect to the drawings, stippled surface shading is used to represent one color while line shading is used to represent a second different color. The broken line showing of environmental structure in the drawings is for illustrative purposes only and forms no part of the claimed design.

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2 codes
USPC · US Patent Classification
D04/114D41/38

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USUS-D517811-SS128 Mar 200621 May 2003grantedMotorized stain removal brush for inanimate surfaces
USthis patentUS-D533353-SS112 Dec 20065 Nov 2003grantedCleaning brush for inanimate surfaces
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CACA-104927-SS21 Mar 200518 Nov 2003grantedMotorized stain removal brush for inanimate surfaces

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