Netting product chute with ribbed floor for automatic and/or manual packaging operations
FIG. 1 is a top perspective view of the netting product chute with ribbed floor for automatic and/or manual packaging operations showing our design;
FIG. 2 is a side view thereof;
FIG. 3 is a top view thereof;
FIG. 4 is a bottom view thereof;
FIG. 5 is an ingress end view thereof;
FIG. 6 is an opposing egress end view thereof;
FIG. 7 is side perspective view illustrating the netting product chute with ribbed floor for automatic and/or manual packaging operations in an exemplary use environment with the nettng product chute oriented substantially horizontally; and,
FIG. 8 is a side perspective view illustrating the netting product chute with ribbed floor for automatic and/or manual packaging operations in an exemplary use environment, with the nettng product chute tilted angularly down.
The opposing side view of the netting product chute with ribbed floor for automatic and/or manual packaging operations is the same as that shown in FIG. 2. The broken lines shown herein are for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed design. The illustrated device is not limited to the scale shown and the illustrated ham product and netting material shown in broken lines in FIGS. 7 and 8 are exemplary only, as the netting product chute with ribbed floor for automatic and/or manual packaging operations is useful for packaging other food items as well as other net-enclosed industrial and commodity items and/or may be used with other netting types.
Claims
The ornamental design for a netting product chute with ribbed floor for automatic and/or manual packaging operations, as shown and described.
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Type: Grant
Filed: Dec 15, 2003
Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
Assignee: Dealware Capital Formation, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Inventors: Samuel D. Griggs (Raleigh, NC), Dennis J. May (Pittsboro, NC)
Primary Examiner: Antoine D. Davis
Attorney: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec PA
Application Number: 29/195,630
