Tiller bracket for a pallet truck

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Description

FIG. 1 is an isometric view of a tiller bracket for a pallet truck taken from the left rear of the truck (the forks of a pallet truck including the tiller bracket, as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, defining the front of the tiller bracket with right and left being as viewed by an operator of the pallet truck);

FIG. 2 is an isometric view of the tiller bracket with the bracket lying on its left side;

FIG. 3 is a top view of the tiller bracket;

FIG. 4 is a bottom view of the tiller bracket;

FIG. 5 is an elevational view of the right side of the tiller bracket, the left side view being a mirror image of the right side view;

FIG. 6 is an elevational back view of the tiller bracket;

FIG. 7 is an elevational front view of the tiller bracket;

FIG. 8 is an isometric reduced scale view of the tiller bracket taken from the left rear of a pallet truck on which the tiller bracket is installed and illustrating the use environment of the tiller bracket with the broken lines being for illustrative purposes only and forming no part of the claimed design; and,

FIG. 9 is an isometric reduced scale view of the tiller bracket taken from the left front of a pallet truck on which the tiller bracket is installed again illustrating the use environment of the tiller bracket with the broken lines being for illustrative purposes only and forming no part of the claimed design.

Claims

The ornamental design for a tiller bracket for a pallet truck, as shown.

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Patent History
Patent number: D548051
Type: Grant
Filed: Apr 7, 2005
Date of Patent: Aug 7, 2007
Assignee: Crown Equipment Corporation (New Bremen, OH)
Inventors: Adam M. Ruppert (Wapakoneta, OH), James V. Kraimer (Celina, OH)
Primary Examiner: Holly H. Baynham
Attorney: Stevens & Showalter LLP
Application Number: 29/227,193
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: D8/354