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EP 0 929 472 A2

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(43) Date of publication: 21.07.1999 Bulletin 1999/29 (21) Application number: 97942123.0 (22) Date of filing: 26.09.1997

(51) International Patent Classification (IPC):  B65D 43/ 16( . ) B65D 83/ 04( . ) (86) International application number: PCT/GB1997/002633 (87) International publication number: WO 1998/013275 (02.04.1998 Gazette 1998/13)

(84) Designated Contracting States: AT BE CH DE ES FR IE IT LI NL SE (30) Priority: 27.09.1996 GB 19960020231 27.05.1997 GB 19970010874 (71) Applicant: RPC CONTAINERS LIMITED Raunds, Northamptonshire NN9 6ED (GB)	(72) Inventor: DALE, James Patrick Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE18 6UH (GB) (74) Representative: Stevens, Jason Paul  Frank B. Dehn & Co. 179 Queen Victoria Street London EC4V 4EL London EC4V 4EL (GB)