IP Library Granted Patent US 1,068,446
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US 1,068,446 · App. 29/767,260 · Granted Apr 1, 2025

Cam lock

Inventors: Michael Lee Pyle (Sugar Grove, IL); Steven Patrick McGowan (Perkasie, PA); Matthew Scott Kressin (Allentown, PA); Richard Joseph Ehrhardt (Easton, PA); Robert Terry Coyle, Jr. (Palmer, PA)
Assignee: MCS Industries, Inc.
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Patent No.
US 1,068,446
App. No.
29/767,260
Granted
Apr 1, 2025
Kind
S1
Claims (1)

The ornamental design for a cam lock, as shown and described.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 21, 2021
From: PYLE, MICHAEL LEE; MCGOWAN, STEVEN PATRICK; KRESSIN, MATTHEW SCOTT; EHRHARDT, RICHARD JOSEPH; COYLE, ROBERT TERRY, JR.
To: MCS INDUSTRIES, INC.
Reel/Frame 054985/0395 →
Continuity (1)
Division 29637961 · Feb 23, 2018
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