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Telephone set

Granted 1 Feb 1977 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated · originally Nokia

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Inventors: John Niel McGarvey, Stanley Edward Seretny, Alvin Richard Tilley, Carl Eugene Webb +1 · Examiner: · AU 291 · TC 2900

Application
637175
filed 3 Dec 1975
Publication
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US T955001
granted 1 Feb 1977

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Abstract

An ornamental design for a telephone is disclosed in which the telephone is arcuate and includes a pushbutton dial that has a planar face and rectangular pushbuttons. The longitudinal walls on each side of the dial vary in height, the walls having a greater height at their ends than in the middle. In addition, the portion of the set between the dial and the mouthpiece end of the set includes a planar inclined ramp that extends at an angle to both the flat surface of the dial and the curved surface of the set.

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IPC · International Patent Classification
Section H — Electricity
  • H04M1/02
USPC · US Patent Classification
D26/14.A

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