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EP 0 595 905 A1

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(43) Date of publication: 11.05.1994 Bulletin 1994/19 (21) Application number: 92915712.0 (22) Date of filing: 20.07.1992

(51) International Patent Classification (IPC):  B65B 9/ 13( . ) B65B 43/ 36( . ) (86) International application number: PCT/EP1992/001624 (87) International publication number: WO 1993/002924 (18.02.1993 Gazette 1993/05)

(84) Designated Contracting States: AT BE CH DE DK ES FR GB GR IT LI LU MC NL SE (30) Priority: 26.07.1991 NZ 19530002391 (71) Applicants: MACHINERY DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED Newmarket, Auckland 1001 (NZ) WHITEHEAD, John Antony Bailie Torbay, Auckland (NZ)	(72) Inventors: MELVILLE, Richard, Archer Auckland (NZ) KELLY, Leonard, Stephen Coromandel (NZ) (74) Representative: Dearing-Lambert, Peter Richard  P.O. Box 8 Ibstock, Leicestershire LE67 6PQ Ibstock, Leicestershire LE67 6PQ (GB)