Aug. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1207

No. 5712.—15th August, 1892.—GEORGE McCAUL, of Auckland, New Zealand, Plumber. An invention for a revolving cowl, to be known as “McCaul’s Self-adjusting Syphon Ventilator or Chimney-top.” (Specification, 2s. 6d.; drawings, 5s.)

NOTE.—The cost of transcribing the specification and an estimate of the amount required for copying the drawings have been inserted after the notice of each application. Any order for a copy or copies should be accompanied by a post-office order or postal notes for the cost of copying.

An asterisk (*) denotes the complete specification of an invention for which a provisional specification has been already lodged.

The date of acceptance of each application is given after the number.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Provisional Specifications accepted.

No. 5691.—5th August, 1892.—JAMES MOORE, of City Road, South Melbourne, Victoria, Timber Merchant (Assignee of Francis Irving Campbell, of 47, Leopold Street, South Yarra, Victoria, Foreman Joiner). An invention for an improved nailless butter-box.

No. 5693.—6th August, 1892.—GEORGE WALTER BLANKS and BERNARD LEFEBURE, of Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales, Engineers. An invention for an improved brick-making machine.

No. 5698.—9th August, 1892.—HARRIETTE ALLEN, Wife of Frank Allen, of Wellington, New Zealand, Insurance Manager. An invention for an improved receptacle for visiting-cards.

No. 5699.—3rd August, 1892.—JOHN CAMERON FRASER, of Coromandel, Auckland, New Zealand, Saw-mill Proprietor. An invention entitled “Fraser’s Eureka Battery-grating Superseder and Gold-retainer.”

No. 5701.—10th August, 1892.—JAMES GARTON BOWER the younger, of Earham House, Norwich, England, a Manager Director of the firm of Barnard, Bishop, and Barnards (Limited). An invention for improvements in machinery for the manufacture of wire-netting.

No. 5706.—9th August, 1892.—GEORGE WILLIAM HESLOP, of Albert Street, Auckland, New Zealand, Engineer. An invention entitled “Heslop’s Improved Positive Motion Counter for Totalisators.”

No. 5709.—12th August, 1892.—CHARLES SCOTT GALLOWAY, of Port Napier, New Zealand, Engineer. An invention for improvements in water-tube steam-boilers.

No. 5710.—12th August, 1892.—JOB OSBORNE, of Doyleston, Canterbury, New Zealand, Farmer. An invention for improvements in and mode of attaching clover-threshing or drawing apparatus to combines.

NOTE.—Provisional specifications cannot be inspected, or their contents made known by this office in any way, until the complete specifications in connection therewith have been accepted.

The date of acceptance of each application is given after the number.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Notice of Request to amend Specification.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 18th August, 1892.

A REQUEST to be allowed to amend the specification relating to the under-mentioned application for letters patent has been received, and is open to public inspection at this office. Any person may, at any time within one month from the date of this Gazette, give me notice, in writing, in duplicate, of opposition to the amendment, stating in such notice the particular grounds of his objection. A fee of 10s. is payable with such notice:—

No. 4320.—GEORGE GETTINGS, of Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand, Engineer and Ironworker. An invention for an improved heating and annealing furnace by the use of atmospheric gas, with an improved bottom or bed for sheet-furnace, and for combining both operations in one furnace; to be termed “An Atmospheric-gas Combination Heating and Close-annealing Furnace.”

The nature of the proposed amendments is as follows, viz.:—

1. By striking out all the words in the title, where it occurs, from and including the words “by use of atmospheric gas” to the end.

2. By striking out the words “under door-plate of heating-chamber front,” in lines 39 and 40.

3. By striking out the words, &c., “across the mouth of heating-chamber C C, down the flue D, under flue-bridge E, through aperture I in the wall of flue F, Figs. I. and II., up side of heating-chamber,” in lines 62 to 66, and inserting, in place thereof, the words “along the top and down the sides of the Chamber C.”

4. By striking out all the words in brackets in lines 69, 70, and 71.

5. By striking out the first two claims, and substituting the following therefor, viz.:—

(a.) The general arrangement and construction of the several flues and dampers, and the manner of adopting the same to the operations of sheet-heating or annealing, substantially as described herein and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.

(b.) In a close-annealing and sheet-heating furnace such as described herein the removable flue E and cinder-bed plate g, as and for the purposes substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.

The applicant states that “the reasons for the amendment are, of course, the same as before, as this fresh application is in consequence of a clerical error caused by leaving out the matter intended to be inserted.”

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

NOTE.—The above takes the place of “Notice to amend Specification” No. 4320, published in the Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette No. 60, of 21st ultimo, page 1097.

Notice of Request to amend Specification.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 18th August, 1892.

A REQUEST to be allowed to amend the specification relating to the under-mentioned application for letters patent has been received, and is open to public inspection at this office. Any person may, at any time within one month from the date of this Gazette, give me notice in writing, in duplicate, of opposition to the amendment, stating in such notice the particular grounds of his objection. A fee of 10s. is payable with such notice:—

No. 5634.—ROBERT LATTA, of Catlin’s River, Otago, New Zealand, Butcher. An invention for stuffing riding-saddles, to be called “Latta’s Air-stuffing for Riding-saddles.”

The nature of the proposed amendments is as follows, viz.:—

1. By inserting the words “or more” between the words “two” and “air,” in lines 13 and 14, and between the words “one” and “on,” in line 16.

2. By inserting the words “or part substitution” immediately after the word “substitution,” in line 19.

3. By inserting the words “or any part” immediately after the word “seat,” in line 22.

4. By inserting the words “or other suitable means may be adopted for this object” immediately after the word “escaping,” in line 38.

5. By striking out the word “two,” in line 3 of the claim.

6. By adding the words “or other suitable means for the same object,” at the end of the claim.

The applicant states as his reasons for the amendments, “I do not require any enlargement, but only more security from piracy.”

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Letters Patent sealed.

LIST of Letters Patent sealed, from the 6th August, 1892, to the 18th August, 1892, inclusive:—

No. 4986.—J. W. Oliver, governor-valve.

No. 4987.—W. W. Mansfield, hose-reels.

No. 4992.—C. Ewen, potato-raiser and scarifier.

No. 5011.—B. Williams, engines.

No. 5020.—J. W. Oliver, threshing-machines.

No. 5031.—T. Weare, winery.

No. 5049.—R. and C. A. Peace, gas-cooking apparatus.

No. 5145.—W. F. C. Fail, lubricators.

No. 5253.—A. Bartlett, racing-clock.

No. 5485.—T. Fletcher and A. Clare, gas ovens and ranges.

No. 5490.—C. and H. Burgon, sheepshears.

No. 5491.—C. and H. Burgon, sharpening sheepshears.

No. 5493.—T. R. Jordan, extraction of gold and silver.

No. 5494.—T. R. Jordan, crushing ores.

No. 5513.—C. Raleigh, screens for stamp batteries.

No. 5522.—C. Raleigh, stamp batteries.

No. 5529.—E. B. Cutten, manufacture of chlorine and caustic soda.

No. 5536.—J. T. Sandell, sensitive plates, &c.

No. 5547.—J. A. Bonsack, making cigarettes.

No. 5548.—P. C. Choate, producing metallic zinc.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Letters Patent lapsed.

LIST of Letters Patent lapsed through non-payment of renewal-fee, from the 6th August, 1892, to the 18th August, 1892, inclusive:—