Wheelchair castor posts

- Stryker Corporation
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Description

FIG. 1 is a rear perspective view of the wheelchair castor posts of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a front perspective view of the wheelchair castor posts of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged front perspective view of the wheelchair castor posts of FIG. 1 shown with most of the unclaimed environment (dashed lines) removed for better clarity;

FIG. 4 is a front elevation view of the wheelchair castor posts of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a right side elevation view of the wheelchair castor posts of FIG. 3, which is substantially a mirror image of the left side elevation view of the wheelchair castor posts;

FIG. 6 is a rear elevation view of the wheelchair castor posts of FIG. 3; and,

FIG. 7 is a plan view of the wheelchair castor posts of FIG. 3.

The dashed broken lines illustrate the environment of the designs, while the dot-dash broken lines represent boundary lines of the designs. None of the broken lines form any part of the claimed design.

Claims

The ornamental design for the wheelchair castor posts, as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D743305
Type: Grant
Filed: Mar 28, 2014
Date of Patent: Nov 17, 2015
Assignee: Stryker Corporation (Kalamazoo, MI)
Inventors: William Dwight Childs (Plainwell, MI), Anish Paul (Portage, MI), Steven Lee Birman (Otsego, MI), Michael E. Graves (Princeton, NJ), Donald S. Strum (Princeton, NJ), Robert B. Van Varick (Yardley, PA), Joseph A. McCarry (Princeton, NJ)
Primary Examiner: Susan Bennett Hattan
Assistant Examiner: Charles Hanson
Application Number: 29/486,311
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: Element Or Attachment (D12/133)