Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus – Hand manipulable shaping couple
Reexamination Certificate
2007-06-19
2007-06-19
Gupta, Yogendra N. (Department: 1722)
Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus
Hand manipulable shaping couple
C425S012000, C425S193000, C425S182000, C425S384000, C425S392000, C425S394000, C401S052000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10796260
ABSTRACT:
In accordance with the present invention a hobbyist-useable apparatus and method for fabricating decoratively shaped writing instruments is disclosed. The apparatus for fabricating decoratively shaped writing instruments having a casing includes a heater unit and a shaper unit. The heater unit includes a heat source, and a heating compartment having an opening for inserting and removing the writing instrument casing. The heat source provides heat to the heating compartment. The shaper unit includes a platform having an elongated slot, an exterior mold assembly attachable to the platform and moveable in the elongated slot; an exterior shaping surface coupled to the exterior mold assembly; and an interior mold insert having an interior shaping surface. The interior mold insert is attachable to the platform such that the movement of the exterior mold assembly in the elongated slot moves the exterior shaping surface towards and away from the interior shaping surface. The writing instrument casing is heated in the heating compartment, then the heated casing is placed on the platform and is compressed between the interior shaping surface and the exterior shaping surface by movement of the exterior mold assembly in the elongated slot.
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Supplemented Excerpt from Killion, U.S. Appl. No. 10/796,260, Oct. 26, 2004.
Excerpt from www.bentcil.com showing decorative shaped writing instruments sold by The Bentcil Co., no date.
Ewald Maria Veronica
Gupta Yogendra N.
Indiano E. Victor
Indiano & Vaughan, LLP
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