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> When you file a patent for invention like (dishwasher) you have to supply all the design drawings for the project.

Actually, you don't. Look at some patents, such as http://www.google.com/patents?id=TdUkAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&... .

Notice that the drawings for that showshoe binding patent are not "design drawings" for a snowshoe binding. (Those drawings are lacking a lot of dimensions that one would need for such a product.)

You have to provide information that tells someone skilled in the art how to do what you claimed. That's it.

FWIW, "What you claimed" is rarely a complete product. Instead, it's an aspect that can be used in multiple products. (While I don't know where else one might use that snowboard binding mechanism, I'm sure that someone else does.)



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