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Mower deck grass clipping retention apparatus

Granted 4 Mar 2008 · 4 office actions

Assignee: Williams Thomas E

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Inventors: Thomas E. Williams · Examiner: Stella M. Reid · AU 2912 · TC 2900

Application
29/252,803
filed 28 Jan 2006
Publication
Not published
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US D563436
granted 4 Mar 2008

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a bottom perspective view of…

FIG. 1 is a bottom perspective view of the mower deck grass clipping retention apparatus, showing my new design, where the dotted lines represent unclaimed environmental structure;

FIG. 2 is another bottom perspective view of the mower deck grass clipping retention apparatus shown in FIG. 1 , where the dotted lines represent unclaimed environmental structure;

FIG. 3 is a bottom plan view of the mower deck grass clipping retention apparatus shown in FIG. 1 , where the dotted lines represent unclaimed environmental structure;

FIG. 4 is a top plan view of the mower deck grass clipping retention apparatus shown in FIG. 1 , where the dotted lines represent unclaimed environmental structure; and,

FIG. 5 is a right side view of the mower deck grass clipping retention apparatus shown in FIG. 1 , where the dotted lines represent unclaimed environmental structure.

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Claims

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Classifications

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D15/17D15/28

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Pendency
2.1 y
766 days filing → grant
Office actions
2
non-final + final
Responses
2
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Examiner
Stella M. Reid
art unit 2912 · TC 2900
Citations: 30 back · 0 forward

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