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(43) Date of publication: 10.11.1999 Bulletin 1999/45 (21) Application number: 97903831.0 (22) Date of filing: 22.01.1997

(51) International Patent Classification (IPC):  F41J 3/ 00( . ) (86) International application number: PCT/US1997/000693 (87) International publication number: WO 1998/031980 (23.07.1998 Gazette 1998/29)

(84) Designated Contracting States: AT BE DE ES FR GB IE IT NL (71) Applicants: Mattern, Gerd 55411 Bingen-am-Rhein (DE) Adams, Douglas W. DeKalb, IL 60115 (US) Lilly, Eugene Brooks Overland Park, KS 66207 (US)	(72) Inventors: Mattern, Gerd 55411 Bingen-am-Rhein (DE) Adams, Douglas W. DeKalb, IL 60115 (US) Lilly, Eugene Brooks Overland Park, KS 66207 (US) (74) Representative: Tetzner, Michael, Dipl.-Ing., et al  Van-Gogh-Strasse 3 81479 München 81479 München (DE)