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Combined rail member and connector

Granted 17 Jul 2007 · no office action yet

Assignee: Brefka Paul E

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Inventors: Paul E. Brefka, Barbara Van Reed · Examiner: Cynthia E. Ramirez · AU 2911 · TC 2900

Application
29/211,711
filed 20 Aug 2004
Publication
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US D547024
granted 17 Jul 2007

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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 combined rail member and connector showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is both a left end view and a right end view thereof;

FIG. 3 is both a reduced front end view and a rear end view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a reduced top plan view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a reduced top plan view thereof;

FIG. 6 is an enlarged perspective view the connector removed from the rail member;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged perspective view of the connector member being inserted onto an end of a rail member; and,

FIG. 8 is a reduced perspective view of a plurality of rail members with connectors integrated with one another.

The connector is shown away from the pallet component in FIG. 5 for convenience of illustration.

The pallet component is partially shown in FIG. 6 for convenience of illustration.

The broken lines shown in FIG. 7 are for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed design.

The broken line showing of a platform in FIG. 8 is for illustrative purposes only and forms no part of the claimed design.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D34/38

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Examiner
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