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EP 0 815 046 A1

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(43) Date of publication: 07.01.1998 Bulletin 1998/02 (21) Application number: 96942479.0 (22) Date of filing: 18.12.1996

(51) International Patent Classification (IPC):  B65H 3/ 02( . ) B65H 3/ 52( . ) B65H 3/ 10( . ) (86) International application number: PCT/GB1996/003123 (87) International publication number: WO 1997/024282 (10.07.1997 Gazette 1997/30)

(84) Designated Contracting States: DE ES FR GB (30) Priority: 27.12.1995 GB 19950026554 (71) Applicant: DE LA RUE SYSTEMS LIMITED London WC2N 4DE (GB)	(72) Inventor: BROTHERSTON, Colin, Peter Hants PO10 7TP (GB) (74) Representative: Skone James, Robert Edmund  GILL JENNINGS & EVERY Broadgate House 7 Eldon Street London EC2M 7LH London EC2M 7LH (GB)