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Device for automatically adjusting the knives of a meat-mincing machine

EP 0249840 B1 · Applicant: Karl Schnell GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik

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  • Filed June 6, 1987 and granted September 26, 1990. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 6, 2007.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by December 6, 2012.
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FiledJune 6, 1987
PublishedDecember 23, 1987
GrantedSeptember 26, 1990
Term endedJune 6, 2007
Application numberEP 87108228
Classification (CPC)B02C18/36

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1988199019921994199619982000200220042006Application filedJune 6, 1987PublishedDec 23, 1987Patent grantedSep 26, 1990Term endedJune 6, 2007

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