Cooking appliance

- Spark Grills, Inc.
Skip to: Description  ·  Claims  ·  References Cited  · Patent History  ·  Patent History
Description

FIG. 1 depicts an isometric view of a cooking appliance.

FIG. 2 depicts a front view of the cooking appliance of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 depicts a back view of the cooking appliance of FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 depicts a top view of the cooking appliance of FIG. 1.

FIG. 5 depicts a bottom view of the cooking appliance of FIG. 1.

FIG. 6 depicts a side view of the cooking appliance of FIG. 1.

FIG. 7 depicts the other side view of the cooking appliance of FIG. 1.

FIG. 8 depicts an off-angle view of the cooking appliance of FIG. 1.

FIG. 9 depicts another off-angle view of the cooking appliance of FIG. 1.

FIG. 10 depicts yet another off-angle view of the cooking appliance of FIG. 1.

FIG. 11 depicts another off-angle view of the cooking appliance of FIG. 1; and,

FIGS. 12-22 correspond to FIGS. 1-11, respectively, and are not shaded but do include tangent lines, which are shown as dash-dot-dot lines in these Figures.

The cooking appliance may be used for cooking, and may be considered a grill, bar-b-que, stove, or smoker.

Stipple shading is used in FIGS. 1-11 to convey surface contouring and not texture or surface finish.

It is to be understood that many of the surface intersections in the depicted embodiment may intersect such that a blended or lightly-rounded edge is formed. As such, there may be no “hard” edge present at such locations. At more prominent locations where rounded edges may be present, a virtual edge represented by a “tangent line” or “tangent edge” which are depicted as grey, dash-dot-dot lines may be used such as in FIGS. 12 through 22; such tangent lines or tangent edges are merely provided for the viewer's assistance.

Dash-dash broken lines are used to depict features or elements that are not considered to be part of the claimed design. Dash-dot-dash broken lines are boundary lines that indicate transitions between claimed and unclaimed regions of the depicted articles, for example, as evidenced in FIGS. 1-11 by the removal of shading within the disclaimed features and elements, and the presence of shading outside of the disclaimed features and elements.

Claims

We claim the ornamental design for a cooking appliance, as shown and described.

Referenced Cited
U.S. Patent Documents
D251893 May 22, 1979 Chan
5394590 March 7, 1995 Yu
5499573 March 19, 1996 Lin
D412808 August 17, 1999 Hinton
D415925 November 2, 1999 Pai
D450976 November 27, 2001 Mosher
D461360 August 13, 2002 Bossler
6513515 February 4, 2003 Wu
D478770 August 26, 2003 Pai
D521801 May 30, 2006 Huxhold et al.
D524097 July 4, 2006 Magnouloux
D549036 August 21, 2007 Chung
D610862 March 2, 2010 Chung
D682614 May 21, 2013 Loyd
D714092 September 30, 2014 Verbrugge
9384921 July 5, 2016 Bekaert
D835448 December 11, 2018 Mansueto
10517429 December 31, 2019 West et al.
10824183 November 3, 2020 Cruz-Pérez
D911091 February 23, 2021 Chung
D920741 June 1, 2021 Kan
D925265 July 20, 2021 Bennion
D935267 November 9, 2021 West et al.
20160255999 September 8, 2016 McAdams
20170258269 September 14, 2017 Morelock
20190117017 April 25, 2019 West et al.
Foreign Patent Documents
D1679483 February 2021 JP
WO2021155060 August 2021 WO
Other references
  • U.S. Appl. No. 29/722,796, filed Jan. 31, 2020, West et al.
  • U.S. Appl. No. 62/968,957, filed Jan. 31, 2020, West et al.
  • U.S. Ex Parte Quayle Action dated Mar. 25, 2021 for Design U.S. Appl. No. 29/772,800.
  • U.S. Notice of Allowance dated Jul. 12, 2021 for Design U.S. Appl. No. 29/772,800.
  • “PK Grill Classic”, downloaded from the internet on Oct. 9, 2020, https://www.pkgrills.com/the-pk-grill-smoker-classic-silver/.
  • Spark Grill Launches Pre-Order Waitlist, Promises Gas Style Precision with Charcoal, first Available Apr. 3, 2020, The Spoon [online; site visited Mar. 3, 2021], available from the internet URL: https://thespoon.tech/spark-grill-launches-pre-orders-promises-gas-style-precision-with-charcoal/ (year: 2020).
  • Spark One, Spark Grills, [online; site visited Mar. 3, 2021], available from the internet URL: https://www.sparkgrills.com/products/spark-one (year: 2021).
  • U.S. Appl. No. 29/722,800, filed Jan. 31, 2020, West et al.
Patent History
Patent number: D941076
Type: Grant
Filed: Jan 31, 2020
Date of Patent: Jan 18, 2022
Assignee: Spark Grills, Inc. (Boulder, CO)
Inventors: Benjamin West (Boulder, CO), Miguel Christophy (San Francisco, CA), Bret Recor (San Francisco, CA), Kenneth Young (San Francisco, CA), Virosh Rangalla (San Francisco, CA), Merric French (San Francisco, CA), Jack Knoebber (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Brett Miller
Application Number: 29/722,796
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: D7/332