This came up on another discussion forum, I thought it'd be interesting to see what folks here think. Reading through it all, it seems that they're trying to patent rather old technology. Perhaps my take on it is wrong, but it's disturbing to me when somebody is trying to benefit off the work of so many others. I expect there are some machines over 100 years old that would be covered by this one. Read it carefully, look over 'description', 'claims' etc...
http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?wo=2005119886&IA=WO2005119886&DISPLAY=STATUS
