G07F 17/20
Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles: for washing or drying articles
Official title: for washing or drying articles, e.g. clothes, motor cars
G07F17/20 (Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles: for washing or drying articles) appears on 124 US grants and 133 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07F- Granted patents
- 124
- Published applications
- 133
- Assignees
- 71
- Inventors
- 306
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 8 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 1 |
| 2002 | 6 | 5 |
| 2003 | 2 | 4 |
| 2004 | 5 | 2 |
| 2005 | 2 | 6 |
| 2006 | 1 | 5 |
| 2007 | 2 | 3 |
| 2008 | 0 | 4 |
| 2009 | 2 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 4 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4 |
| 2013 | 1 | 5 |
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| 2015 | 9 | 9 |
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| 2017 | 2 | 3 |
| 2018 | 8 | 11 |
| 2019 | 9 | 6 |
| 2020 | 10 | 8 |
| 2021 | 5 | 10 |
| 2022 | 2 | 6 |
| 2023 | 6 | 5 |
| 2024 | 8 | 11 |
| 2025 | 1 | 5 |
| 2026 | 2 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
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