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EP 0 857 030 A1

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(43) Date of publication: 12.08.1998 Bulletin 1998/33 (21) Application number: 96934648.0 (22) Date of filing: 11.10.1996

(51) International Patent Classification (IPC):  A47K 5/ 12( . ) (86) International application number: PCT/EP1996/004435 (87) International publication number: WO 1997/015223 (01.05.1997 Gazette 1997/19)

(84) Designated Contracting States: DE ES FR GB IT (30) Priority: 23.10.1995 EP 19950202859 (71) Applicants: UNILEVER N.V. 3013 AL Rotterdam (NL) UNILEVER PLC London EC4P 4BQ (GB)	(72) Inventors: BUNSCHOTEN, Gerrit Klaas NL-3603 AN Maarssen (NL) ELLIS, Simon Richard NL-3603 AN Maarssen (NL) VREEMAN, Jan Arend NL-3603 AN Maarssen (NL) (74) Representative: Rosen Jacobson, Frans Lucas M., et al  Unilever N.V., Patent Division, P.O. Box 137 3130 AC Vlaardingen 3130 AC Vlaardingen (NL)