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Portable air compressor

Granted 31 Jan 2023 · 2 office actions

Assignee: The NOCO Company

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Inventors: William Knight Nook, Sr., James Richard Stanfield, Jonathan Lewis Nook, Derek Michael Underhill +1 · Examiner: Calvin E Vansant · AU 2915 · TC 2900

Application
29/776,280
filed 29 Mar 2021
Publication
Not published
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US D976963
granted 31 Jan 2023

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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 new design for a portable air compressor;

FIG. 2 is another perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 8 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 9 is a further perspective view thereof with the hinged port access doors in a closed position;

FIG. 10 is the perspective view of FIG. 9 with the hinged port access doors in an opened position; and,

FIG. 11 is an even further perspective view with a pressure hose in an extended configuration.

The broken lines in the drawings depict environmental structure of the portable air compressor that form no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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Classifications

2 codes
USPC · US Patent Classification
D15/9D15/7

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1.8 y
673 days filing → grant
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1
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1
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Examiner
Calvin E Vansant
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Priority chain

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Priority
15 Mar 2021
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provisionalUS 6316117715 Mar 2021

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