Floor Type Patents (Class D27/122)
  • Patent number: 7757696
    Abstract: An improved cigarette butt receptacle device for receiving cigarette butts, the device having a base retaining a container member, a receiving tube member with a chute segment directing the butts into the receptacle member and a secondary housing member that encloses the chute segment to alter the external visual appearance. In an alternate embodiment, the device has a cap member that joins to the chute segment. In an alternate embodiment the device has a non-linear chute member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Inventors: Mark D. Shaw, J. Tad Heyman, Laurence M. Bierce
  • Patent number: D463880
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: DCI Marketing, Inc.
    Inventors: Carol Luedecke, John E. Luedecke, Dill Beaty
  • Patent number: D480504
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: UltraTech International, Inc.
    Inventor: Curtis Taylor
  • Patent number: D298575
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Assignee: Rubbermaid Commerical Products Inc.
    Inventor: Paul E. Delmerico
  • Patent number: D319128
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1991
    Assignee: Rubbermaid Commercial Products Inc.
    Inventors: Paul E. Delmerico, Eric Gingras, Greg P. Terek
  • Patent number: D615699
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Rubbermaid Commercial Products LLC
    Inventors: Steven Vordenberg, Richard Weiss
  • Patent number: D428192
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Inventor: Friedhel Meyer