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SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1899.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1899.

Notice of Acceptance of Complete Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 22nd November, 1899.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the under-mentioned applications for Letters Patent have been accepted, and are open to public inspection at this office. Any person may, at any time within two months from the date of this Gazette, give me notice in writing of opposition to the grant of any such patent. Such notice must set forth the particular grounds of objection, and be in duplicate. A fee of 10s. is payable thereon.

No. 11203.—1st December, 1898.—THOMAS CLEMENTS, of Launceston, Tasmania, Superintendent of Launceston Benevolent Asylum. An improved potato-moulder, or hiller and cultivator.*

Claims.—(1.) An improved agricultural implement, designed and constructed specially for the purpose of moulding, or hilling-up, rows of growing potatoes, or other plants requiring similar treatment, substantially as described and illustrated. (2.) In such an implement, the application to such special purpose of the ordinary steel concave revolving discs, at present in common use for other purposes, substantially as described and illustrated. (3.) In such an implement, the combination of the transverse slotted beams, bent slotted bracket-plates, clip-headed bolts, and disc-brackets, for the purpose of carrying the discs separately and independently, and adjusting them at any desired angle and distance apart, substantially as described and illustrated. (4.) In such an implement, the combined means employed for adapting it to the purpose of a cultivator or scarifier, for opening and cleaning the ground between the rows of growing potato or other plants—namely, the hanging-brackets, adjustable eye-bolts, gangs of small discs, with their spindles, fixed and movable collars, and locking screw-nuts, substantially as described and illustrated. (5.) The combination in one of the advantages of four complete, distinct, and useful agricultural implements—namely, a moulder, a cultivator, a trench-cutter, a harrow; and in conjunction therewith the methods adopted for altering the implement from one purpose and form to another, substantially as described and illustrated.
(Specification, 10s.; drawings, 10s. 6d.)

No. 11369.—13th February, 1899.—JOHN BENSON CARTSBURN WATTS, of 2, Commercial Chambers, Manse Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, Blacksmith. An improved rack for holding newspapers and the like.

Description.—The rack comprises a bar with spring hooks attached to it. The papers are placed in the hooks, which retain them in position by pressure.

Claim.—An improved rack for holding newspapers and the like, substantially as described and illustrated.
(Specification, 1s.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 11655.—25th May, 1899.—WILLIAM LINGARD, of 54, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand, Insurance Manager. Improvements in boots and shoes.*

Claims.—(1.) In boots and shoes, in combination, a cushion comprising an elastic rim, and a top and bottom joined to the rim and forming an air-space which is airtight, substantially as set forth. (2.) In boots and shoes, in combination, a cushion comprising an elastic rim, a top and bottom joined to the rim and forming an air-space which is airtight, and elastic pillars extending from the top to the bottom of the cushion, substantially as set forth. (3.) In boots and shoes, in combination, a cushion comprising a rim made of soft rubber and thicknesses of cork placed on edge, and a top and bottom joined to the rim and forming an air-space which is airtight, substantially as set forth. (4.) The improvements in boots and shoes consisting of parts constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as set forth.
(Specification, 2s. 6d.; drawings, 5s. 6d.)

No. 11842.—28th July, 1899.—ELIZABETH THOMSON WILLIAMS, of Picton, New Zealand, wife of Charles Henry Williams, of the same place, Road Engineer. Improvements in charts for the making and cutting of dress-patterns, and in the making, cutting, and fitting of dresses.

Extract from Specification.—“The improvements I have made are as follows:—No. 1 Plan (front of bodice): I have introduced ½ in. measurement-lines from Figs. 5 to 11; opposite this I have introduced other lines also