Shutter mechanism for telephone directory
CA 2000978 C · Owner: Gad Shaanan Industrial Designs Inc. · Inventors: Smith, Anthony Michael; Buchanan, Ian Douglas; Lenaerts, George Victor
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Abstract of the Disclosure, A shutter mechanism for a telephone directory that stores telephone numbers to be dialled. The directory has physical spaces for the entry of descriptive labels (e.g. names). The shutter mechanism has a first planar surface for providing these physical spaces. It has a second planar surface overlying the first surface. The second surface is divided into alternating opaque and transparent sections such that the surface having the names can be moved underneath the second surface such that the names can be hidden by the opaque sections or revealed by the transparent sections.
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- Filed October 18, 1989 and granted September 14, 1993. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 18, 2009.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 18, 2011.
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