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Container for clothes washing machine

Granted 31 Oct 2017 · 2 office actions

Current assignee: Whirlpool Corporation · originally Whirlpool

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Inventors: John M. Hunnell, Gregg P. Fitzgerald, Dean L. Tietz, John W. McConnell +1 · Examiner: Susan Bennett Hattan · AU 2922 · TC 2900

Application
29/566,842
filed 3 Jun 2016
Publication
Not published
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US D801603
granted 31 Oct 2017

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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 container for a clothes washing machine; and,

FIG. 2 is a side view of the container from FIG. 1 .

The broken lines in the drawings depict the boundary of the claim. It is understood that the claim extends to the boundary, but that the boundary forms no part of the claimed design. Only one side view is shown since the container is cylindrical and the textured pattern will appear the same in other side views.

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Claims

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D32/6

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Pendency
1.4 y
515 days filing → grant
Office actions
1
non-final + final
Responses
1
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Examiner
Susan Bennett Hattan
art unit 2922 · TC 2900
Citations: 9 back · 0 forward

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