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Device and method for monitoring the amount of a fluid sprayed across the width of moving material webs for the moistening thereof

EP 0868305 B1 · Applicant: Weitmann & Konrad GmbH & Co. KG

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  • Filed November 16, 1996 and granted March 29, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 16, 2016.
  • 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 May 16, 2022.
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FiledNovember 16, 1996
PublishedOctober 7, 1998
GrantedMarch 29, 2000
Term endedNovember 16, 2016
Application numberEP 96939828
Classification (CPC)B05B12/082 +2 more

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