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(43) Date of publication: 15.05.1996 Bulletin 1996/20 (21) Application number: 94922950.0 (22) Date of filing: 01.08.1994

(51) International Patent Classification (IPC):  B65B 31/ 00( . ) B65D 85/ 73( . ) B65D 79/ 00( . ) (86) International application number: PCT/GB1994/001659 (87) International publication number: WO 1995/004688 (16.02.1995 Gazette 1995/08)

(84) Designated Contracting States: AT BE CH DE DK ES FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE (30) Priority: 05.08.1993 GB 19930016197 (71) Applicant: Scottish & Newcastle plc Edinburgh EH8 8YS Scotland (GB)	(72) Inventors: HOUZEGO, Peter, John Cambridge CB4 5AD (GB) WOOD, Timothy, Michael Royston Hertfordshire SG8 6BA (GB) COX, Peter, Erich Cambridge CB1 3LG (GB) (74) Representative: Nash, Keith Wilfrid  KEITH W. NASH & Co. Pearl Assurance House 90-92 Regent Street Cambridge CB2 1DP Cambridge CB2 1DP (GB)