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Means and technique for direct cooling an emerging ingot with gas-laden coolant

EP 0487579 A1 · Applicant: Wagstaff, Frank Everton

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  • Filed July 19, 1990 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended July 19, 2010.
  • 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 January 19, 2016.
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FiledJuly 19, 1990
PublishedJune 3, 1992
GrantedNever granted
Term endedJuly 19, 2010
Application numberEP 90912300
Classification (CPC)B22D11/049 +1 more

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