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EP 0 687 138 A1

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(43) Date of publication: 20.12.1995 Bulletin 1995/51 (21) Application number: 94908478.0 (22) Date of filing: 07.03.1994

(51) International Patent Classification (IPC):  A01G 1/ 00( . ) (86) International application number: PCT/IE1994/000013 (87) International publication number: WO 1994/019926 (15.09.1994 Gazette 1994/21)

(84) Designated Contracting States: AT BE CH DE DK ES FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE (30) Priority: 05.03.1993 IE 19930000165 (71) Applicant: YEWLANDS LIMITED Kilkishen, County Clare (IE)	(72) Inventor: MOONEY, William Patrick Askeaton, County Limerick (IE) (74) Representative: Gorman, Francis Fergus  F. F. Gorman & Co. 54, Merrion Square Dublin 2 Dublin 2 (IE)