for improvements in apparatus for sealing cans or other containing-vessels. (Specification, £1; drawings, £2 5s.)
No. 6300.—17th July, 1893.—JOHN HENRY HILL DUNCAN, of 39, Coleman Street, London, England, Chartered Accountant. An invention for improvements in the manufacture of butter, and in churns or apparatus therefor. (Specification, 16s.; drawings, £1 12s. 6d.)

C. J. A. HASELDEN,

Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

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.

Provisional Specifications accepted.

Patent Office,

Wellington, 20th July, 1893.

No. 6270.—1st July, 1893.—JOHN FEATON, of Haslett Street, Eden Terrace, Auckland, New Zealand, Miner. An invention for the automatic mine-ventilator.

No. 6275.—5th July, 1893.—HENRY WILLIAM POTTER, Architect, and EDWIN GEORGE HOLLOWAY, Manager of the Happy Valley Meat Company, both of Wellington, New Zealand. An invention for a new or improved method of and apparatus for marking the carcases of sheep and other animals.

No. 6282.—10th July, 1893.—DAVID HARTLEY, of Masterton, New Zealand, Veterinary Surgeon. An invention for adjusting the weight in dog-carts on hills or inclines.

No. 6283.—10th July, 1893.—THOMAS ALLAN BRYCE, of Kiwitea, near Feilding, New Zealand, Station Manager. An invention for an improved drench for sheep, to be called “The Perfect Sheep-drench.”

No. 6287.—8th July, 1893.—REUBEN NICHOLLS, of 344, Queen Street, Auckland, New Zealand, Cooking-range Manufacturer. An invention for an improved boot-protector for use when digging with a spade and some other implements.

No. 6288.—11th July, 1893.—GEORGE CARBER, WALTER CARBER, and EDWARD OWEN, trading as “Carber Bros. and Co.,” of Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand, Pottery Manufacturers. An invention for an improvement in kerb- and channel-tiles, to be called “Carber’s Kerb- and Channel-tiles.”

No. 6290.—12th July, 1893.—ALFRED EVANS, of Masterton, New Zealand, Carpenter. An invention for “Evans’s Combination Windmill.”

No. 6291.—11th July, 1893.—ALEXANDER McLACHLAN, of Doyleston, Canterbury, New Zealand, Farmer. An invention for a machine for cleaning clover and other seeds.

No. 6294.—15th July, 1893.—ISAAC SHONE, of Great George Street Chambers, Parliament Square, Westminster, England, Civil Engineer. An invention for improvements in and connected with draining and sewerage towns, villages, districts, and other places.

No. 6295.—10th July, 1893.—JOSEPH JAMES MACKY, of Auckland, New Zealand, Commission Agent. An invention for improvements in door-handles and their fastenings on spindles.

No. 6299.—19th July, 1893.—JOHN ALVES, of 17, Market Buildings, Melbourne, Victoria, Gentleman. An invention for an improved contrivance for ventilating and preventing the entrance of draughts into the windows, doors, and other openings in vehicles and ships.

No. 6301.—19th July, 1893.—EDWARD THUNDERBOLT, of Drummond Street, Carlton, Victoria, Engineer. An invention for an automatic quick-acting governor for controlling the supply of actuating fluids to motors.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,

Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

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.

Letters Patent sealed.

LIST of Letters Patent sealed from the 7th July, 1893, to the 20th July, 1893, inclusive:—

No. 5486.—J. J. Weicher, extracting fibre.

No. 5619.—W. van der Heyden, houses.

No. 5652.—R. W. Rutherford, tanning-extract.

No. 5673.—J. M. Rishworth, S. Ingham, and J. Vickers, separating substances.

No. 6116.—E. S. McGill, raising and lowering sashes.

No. 6121.—Massey Harris Company (Limited), seed-sower. (L. M. Jones and J. Wedlake.)

No. 6122.—Massey Harris Company (Limited), cultivator. (L. M. Jones and J. Wedlake.)

No. 6173.—A. R. Hislop, advertising ruler.

No. 6174.—A. Vecht, preserving pork.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,

Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Subsequent Proprietors of Trade-mark registered.

SUBSEQUENT proprietors of Trade-mark registered (the names of the original proprietors are given in brackets, and the date of registration at the end):—

No. 413/313.—Lattey, Livermore, and Company (Limited). [Lattey, Livermore, and Co.] 10th July, 1893.

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 7th July, 1893, to the 20th July, 1893, inclusive:—

No. 2908.—R. Withell, churns.

No. 2911.—W. J. Blake, filters.

No. 2914.—A. Parkes, extraction of gold, &c.

No. 2915.—F. Proctor, cultivating land.

No. 2916.—G. Fraser, amalgamating-pan.

No. 2921.—W. E. Chapman, paint.

No. 2922.—T. Maguire, refrigerating.

No. 2924.—J. B. Blaikie, plaster.

No. 2926.—R. Sjöberg, explosive.

No. 2928.—E. Worms and J. Balé, tanning.

No. 2929.—J. G. Martin, binding crops.

No. 2930.—E. Waters (the International Electric Company), signalling by electricity.

No. 2933.—A. A. North, voice-producing apparatus.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,

Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Applications for Letters Patent lapsed.

LIST of applications for Letters Patent (with which complete specifications have been lodged) lapsed from the 7th July, 1893, to the 20th July, 1893, inclusive:—

No. 5386.—R. Austin, valve-motion.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,

Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Renewal Fees paid.

LETTERS Patent on which the renewal fees (under “The Patents Act, 1883”) have been paid (the dates of payment are noted at the end):—

No. 3160.—C. A. Johansson, making butter. 7th July, 1893.

No. 3161.—J. M. Bryan, quartz roller-mills. 7th July, 1893.

No. 3181.—W. Siemens, extraction of gold. 8th July, 1893.

No. 3269.—Edison United Phonograph Company, phonographs and phonograms (T. A. Edison). 17th July, 1893.

No. 3270.—Edison United Phonograph Company, phonogram blanks and phonograms (T. A. Edison). 17th July, 1893.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,

Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Application for Registration of a Trade-mark.

(No. 828.)

Patent Office,

Wellington, 20th July, 1893.

NOTICE is hereby given that HENRY CAMPBELL AND Co., of Mossley, Belfast, Ireland, Linen-thread Manufacturers, have applied to register, under “The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1889,” the trade-mark of which the following is a description:—

The words

CAMPBELL'S THREAD

The applicants claim to have used this trade-mark in respect of the under-mentioned articles for at least five years before 1889.

Nature of the Articles to which it is intended such Trade-mark shall apply.

Linen and hemp yarn and thread.

Class of Goods in connection with which the Applicants desire the Trade-mark to be registered.

Class No. 26.