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EP0020362 - WELDING TORCH COOLED BY LIQUID-GAS TRANSITION [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusThe application has been withdrawn
Status updated on  07.09.1981
Database last updated on 14.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip11.07.2008Change - representativepublished on 13.08.2008  [2008/33]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Caterpillar Tractor Co.
100 Northeast Adams Street Peoria
Illinois 61629 / US
[N/P]
Former [1981/01]For all designated states
CATERPILLAR TRACTOR CO.
100 Northeast Adams Street
Peoria, Illinois 61629 / US
Inventor(s)01 / FRANTZREB, John G., Sr.
509 West Forrest Lawn Avenue
Peoria, IL 61614 / US
[1981/01]
Representative(s)Wagner, Karl H.
Wagner & Geyer Partnerschaft mbB
Patent- und Rechtsanwälte
Gewürzmühlstrasse 5
80538 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [2008/33]Wagner, Karl H.
Wagner & Geyer Partnerschaft Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Gewürzmühlstrasse 5
80538 München / DE
Former [1981/01]Wagner, Karl H. (DE)
Wagner & Geyer Patentanwälte Gewürzmühlstrasse 5
D-80538 München / DE
Application number, filing date79900942.807.12.1978
[1981/01]
WO1978US00193
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report
No.:WO8001147
Date:12.06.1980
[1980/13]
Type: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0020362
Date:07.01.1981
Language:EN
The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 12.06.1980 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
[1981/01]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP16.10.1980
ClassificationIPC:B23K9/00
[1981/01]
CPC:
B23K9/285 (EP)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB [1981/13]
Former [1981/01]CH,  DE,  FR,  GB,  SE 
TitleGerman:DURCH FLÜSSIGKEIT-GASÜBERFÜHRUNG GEKÜHLTER SCHWEISSBRENNER[1981/01]
English:WELDING TORCH COOLED BY LIQUID-GAS TRANSITION[1981/01]
French:TORCHE DE SOUDAGE REFROIDIE PAR TRANSITION LIQUIDE-GAZ[1981/01]
File destroyed:12.02.1989
Entry into regional phase09.06.1980National basic fee paid 
09.06.1980Search fee paid 
09.06.1980Designation fee(s) paid 
09.06.1980Examination fee paid 
Examination procedure09.06.1980Examination requested  [1981/01]
09.10.1980Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) CH, SE
20.12.1980Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s)
21.08.1981Application withdrawn by applicant  [1981/45]
Fees paidRenewal fee
20.10.1980Renewal fee patent year 03
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Cited inInternational search[A]US2468807  ;
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 [X]SU603525
 [X]  - AUTOMATIC WELDING, No. 2, issued 1975, V.K. BONDAREV, "A New System for Suprlying Welding Stations with Liquefied Carbon Dioxide"see pages 63-64.
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