Cooktop burner control for glass ceramic cooktop panel

United States Patent

United States Patent	D482,931
Staebler , et al.	December 2, 2003

Claims

The ornamental design for a cooktop burner control for glass ceramic cooktop panel, as shown and described.

Inventors:	Staebler; Manfred W. (New Bern, NC), Tino; Thomas L. (Irvine, CA), Platt; Nils (New Bern, NC)
Assignee:	BSH Home Appliances Corporation (Huntington Beach, CA)
Appl. No.:	D/167,940
Filed:	September 24, 2002

Related U.S. Patent Documents


Application Number	Filing Date	Patent Number	Issue Date
143707	Jun., 2001	D468160

Current U.S. Class: D7/407

Field of Search: D7/346,347,402,407,408,409 126/39B,211,217,218,214C,214R,215,216,152R 219/460.1,506

References Cited

U.S. Patent Documents


4511781	April 1985	Tucker et al.
6198080	March 2001	Rice et al.
6263869	July 2001	Abernethy

Other References

Thermador "Create" Catalog, copyright 1999, p. 27 Black Ceramic Cooktop. .
Thermador "Create" Catalog, copyright 1999, p. 38, Ceramic Sens-A-Touch Radiant Cooktop. .
GE Appliances Product Guide 1999-2000, published Sep. 1999. Built-in Cooktop, picture, top left. .
GE Monogram Catalog, p. 21, Black Digital Cooktop..

Primary Examiner: Morris; Sandra L.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Winburn; John T.

Description

FIG. 1 is perspective view of a cooktop burner control for a glass ceramic cooktop panel showing our ornamental design;

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the cooktop burner control for a glass ceramic cooktop panel shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a bottom view showing that the bottom of the cooktop burner control for a glass ceramic cooktop is unadorned;

FIG. 4 is a front view of a cooktop burner control shown in FIGS. 1-2 and is typical of a front view for each of the embodiments of my ornamental design shown in FIGS. 8-11;

FIG. 5 is a rear view of a cooktop burner control shown in FIGS. 1-4 and is typical of a rear view for each of the embodiments of my ornamental design shown in FIGS. 8-11.

FIG. 6 is a left side view of a cooktop burner control shown in FIG. 1 that is typical of the left side view of each of the embodiments of my ornamental design shown in FIGS. 8-11;

FIG. 7 is a right side view of a cooktop burner control shown in FIGS. 1-3 and is typical of the right side view for each of the embodiments of my ornamental design shown in FIGS. 8-11;

FIG. 8 is an enlarged, fragmentary plan view of the cooktop burner control for a glass ceramic cooktop panel shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 9 is an enlarged fragmentary top plan view of a second embodiment;

FIG. 10 is an enlarged fragmentary top plan view of a third embodiment; and,

FIG. 11 is an enlarged fragmentary top plan view of a fourth embodiment.

The broken line showing is for illustrative purposes only, and forms no part of the claimed design.

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