Initially, the Appellant relied upon the previous main request and filed a number of further subsidiary requests, the previous sole subsidiary request becoming the second subsidiary request.

Consideration of the subsidiary request is therefore redundant.

The first subsidiary request can therefore be taken into account.

5.2 The second subsidiary request concerns a matter which does not arise in the present case.

This subsidiary request is directed at inserting a single word*) in Claim 1 as per the main request and was made just before the end of the oral proceedings.

Extended subject-matter: yes (main request) - no (first auxiliary request)

Claims 1 to 6 ("auxiliary request") filed on 4 August 1992 (second auxiliary request),

The decision was based on a main request and a first auxiliary request.

The main request and the first auxiliary request are rejected.

Therefore, the reasons stated above for auxiliary request 2 apply mutatis mutandis to auxiliary request 3.