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US 1,118,859 · App. 29/972,018 · Granted Mar 17, 2026

Hot water tank housing

Inventors: James Wurm (Greenfield, WI); Thomas Lefeber (Mount Pleasant, WI); Eric Wolf (Racine, WI); Matthew Whitener (Whitefish Bay, WI); Paul Metaxatos (Swampscott, MA); Benjamin Hines (Cranston, RI); Steffen Koury (Nahant, MA)
Assignee: INSINKERATOR LLC
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Patent No.
US 1,118,859
App. No.
29/972,018
Granted
Mar 17, 2026
Kind
S1
Claims (1)

An ornamental design for a hot water tank housing, as shown and described.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 7, 2024
From: METAXATOS, PAUL; KOURY, STEFFEN; HINES, BENJAMIN
To: THE MOTIV DESIGN LLC
Reel/Frame 069181/0439 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 7, 2024
From: THE MOTIV DESIGN LLC
To: EMERSON ELECTRIC CO.
Reel/Frame 069181/0445 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 7, 2024
From: WURM, JAMES; LEFEBER, THOMAS; WOLF, ERIC; WHITENER, MATTHEW
To: EMERSON ELECTRIC CO.
Reel/Frame 069181/0484 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 7, 2024
From: EMERSON ELECTRIC CO.
To: INSINKERATOR LLC
Reel/Frame 069181/0502 →
Continuity (1)
Division 29762637 · Dec 17, 2020
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