Fire barrier assembly Patent Grant Shaw , et al. [InPro Corporation]

Fire barrier assembly

Shaw , et al.

Patent Grant D848036

U.S. patent number D848,036 [Application Number D/596,984] was granted by the patent office on 2019-05-07 for fire barrier assembly. This patent grant is currently assigned to InPro Corporation. The grantee listed for this patent is InPro Corporation. Invention is credited to Matthew G. Bennett, George Matthew Fisher, Alan Shaw.

United States Patent	D848,036
Shaw , et al.	May 7, 2019

Fire barrier assembly

Claims

CLAIM We claim the ornamental design for a fire barrier assembly, as shown and described.

Inventors:

Shaw; Alan (Lockport, NY), Fisher; George Matthew (New Berlin, WI), Bennett; Matthew G. (New Berlin, WI)

Applicant:

Name	City	State	Country	Type
InPro Corporation	Muskego	WI	US

Assignee:

InPro Corporation (Muskego, WI)

Family ID:

60629084

Appl. No.:

D/596,984

Filed:

March 13, 2017

Related U.S. Patent Documents


Application Number	Filing Date	Patent Number	Issue Date
PCT/US2017/014735	Jan 24, 2017

Current U.S. Class:	D25/199
Current CPC Class:	E04B1/94 20130101
Current International Class:	2501
Field of Search:	;D25/119,124,164,199

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Primary Examiner: Was-Englehart; Leanne
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c.

Description

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view from above of a fire barrier assembly;

FIG. 2 is a top perspective view of the claimed design of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a perspective cross-sectional view from below of the claimed design of FIG. 1, taken along line 3-3 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a right side view of the claimed design of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a left side view of the claimed design of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a top view of the claimed design of FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a bottom view of the claimed design of FIG. 1; and,

FIG. 8 is a front view of the claimed design of FIG. 1.

The evenly spaced broken lines depict portions of the fire barrier assembly that form no part of the claimed design. The dot dash broken lines depict a symbolic break in the article. The portion between the break lines forms no part of the claimed design. The width of the symbolic break in FIGS. 3-7 was reduced as compared to the width of the symbolic break in FIGS. 1 and 2 in order to fit the drawings on the page. FIG. 8 was enlarged relative to FIGS. 1-7 for the sake of clarity.

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