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Steam and fuel oil supply and purge valve with cooling steam feature

EP 0472691 B1 · Applicant: ITT INDUSTRIES, INC. (a Delaware corporation)

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  • Filed March 4, 1991 and granted December 1, 1993. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 4, 2011.
  • 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 September 4, 2016.
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FiledMarch 4, 1991
PublishedMarch 4, 1992
GrantedDecember 1, 1993
Term endedMarch 4, 2011
Application numberEP 91905741
Classification (CPC)F23K5/18

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1992199419961998200020022004200620082010Application filedMarch 4, 1991PublishedMarch 4, 1992Patent grantedDec 1, 1993Term endedMarch 4, 2011

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