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Soap pump

Granted 15 May 2012 · no office action yet

Assignee: Simplehuman, LLC

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Inventors: Di-Fong Chang, Myk Lum, Frank Yang, Tzu-Hao Wei +1 · Examiner: Brian N Vinson · AU 2913 · TC 2900

Application
29/386,878
filed 4 Mar 2011
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US D659452
granted 15 May 2012

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a top, front, and left…

FIG. 1 is a top, front, and left side perspective view of a soap pump showing our new design

FIG. 2 is a front elevation view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a rear elevation view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a left-side elevation view thereof, the right-side elevation view being a mirror image of the left-side elevation view;

FIG. 5 is a top plan view thereof; and,

FIG. 6 is a bottom plan view thereof.

The broken-line disclosure is understood to represent portions of the article in which the claimed design is embodied, but which forms no part of the claimed design.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D06/542

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