Refrigerator

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Patent Grant D839321

U.S. patent number D839,321 [Application Number D/632,824] was granted by the patent office on 2019-01-29 for refrigerator. This patent grant is currently assigned to Whirlpool Corporation. The grantee listed for this patent is WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION. Invention is credited to Julia B. Burke, Daniel Chow, Todd Tunzi.


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United States Patent D839,321
Burke ,   et al. January 29, 2019

Refrigerator

Claims

CLAIM The ornamental design for a refrigerator, as shown and described.
Inventors: Burke; Julia B. (Chicago, IL), Chow; Daniel (St. Joseph, MI), Tunzi; Todd (St. Joseph, MI)
Applicant:
Name City State Country Type

WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

Benton Harbor

MI

US
Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation (Benton Harbor, MI)
Appl. No.: D/632,824
Filed: January 10, 2018

Related U.S. Patent Documents

Application Number Filing Date Patent Number Issue Date
29520679 Mar 17, 2015 D810795

Current U.S. Class: D15/89
Current International Class: 1507
Field of Search: ;D15/79-91

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Primary Examiner: Simmons; Ian
Assistant Examiner: Anwar; Khawaja
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Price Heneveld LLP

Description



FIG. 1 is a front view of the refrigerator according to a first embodiment of our design in a first configuration thereof, the design shown in place within an unclaimed refrigerator, and back, right side, left side, top and bottom views of the design showing no claimed portion of the design when in place within unclaimed portions of the refrigerator;

FIG. 2 is a front-perspective view of the refrigerator of FIG. 1 with unclaimed portions of the refrigerator removed;

FIG. 3 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a back view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 8 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 9 is a front view of the refrigerator according to the first embodiment of our design in a second configuration thereof, the design shown in place within unclaimed portions of the refrigerator, and back, right side, left side, top and bottom views of the design showing no claimed portion of the design when in place within the unclaimed refrigerator;

FIG. 10 is a front-perspective view of the refrigerator of FIG. 9 with portions of the unclaimed portions of the refrigerator removed;

FIG. 11 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 12 is a back view thereof;

FIG. 13 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 14 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 15 is a top view thereof; and,

FIG. 16 is a bottom view thereof.

Broken lines are environmental only and form no part of the claimed design.

Additionally, broken lines between shaded and un-shaded areas represent bounds of the claimed design.

The applied shades in the drawings are presented to show a contrast in appearance.

The dash-dot depiction of a rectangular prism in FIGS. 2-9, and 10-16 that encloses claimed portions of the refrigerator with unclaimed portions of the refrigerator depicted in FIGS. 1 and 9 removed is similarly unclaimed and represents a space within an interior of the refrigerator in which the claimed portion of the refrigerator may be present.

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