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EP 0 932 438 A1

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(43) Date of publication: 04.08.1999 Bulletin 1999/31 (21) Application number: 96935016.0 (22) Date of filing: 15.10.1996

(51) International Patent Classification (IPC):  B07B 1/ 42( . ) B07B 1/ 46( . ) (86) International application number: PCT/GB1996/002539 (87) International publication number: WO 1998/016295 (23.04.1998 Gazette 1998/16)

(84) Designated Contracting States: DE DK ES FR IT NL (71) Applicant: RIG TECHNOLOGY LIMITED Aberdeen AB1 2LP (GB)	(72) Inventors: BAILEY, Marshall Graham, Larachmor Banchory, Kincardineshire AB31 3PY (GB) BAILEY, Arthur Robert Sutton Coalfield, West Midlands B75 6SJ (GB) BURNETT, George, Alexander Aberdeen AB1 7JR (GB) (74) Representative: Nash, Keith Wilfrid  KEITH W. NASH & Co. Pearl Assurance House 90-92 Regent Street Cambridge CB2 1DP Cambridge CB2 1DP (GB)