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SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1901.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1901.

CONTENTS.

Complete Specifications accepted .. .. .. 855
Provisional Specifications accepted .. .. .. 860
Letters Patent sealed .. .. .. .. 861
Letters Patent on which Fees have been paid .. .. 861
Subsequent Proprietors of Letters Patent .. .. 861
Request to Correct Clerical Error allowed .. .. 861
Requests to amend Specifications allowed .. .. 861
Requests to amend Specifications .. .. .. 861
Applications for Letters Patent abandoned .. .. 861
Applications for Letters Patent lapsed .. .. 862
Letters Patent void .. .. .. .. 862
Applications for Registration of Trade Marks .. .. 862
Trade Marks registered .. .. .. .. 866
Subsequent Proprietors of Trade Mark .. .. 866

Notice of Acceptance of Complete Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1901.

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. 12323.—17th January, 1900.—ABRAHAM SKILLICORN, of Gisborne, New Zealand, Settler. An improved wool-press.*

Claim.—An improved wool-press, having a double iron windlass made in spiral form, placed at the side of the press, to which are attached steel ropes working direct from the cones to the pressure-plate without the intervention of pulleys or the necessity for fastening the ropes to any other part of the press. I disclaim any novelty in the use of a spiral windlass for my purpose, apart from the manner in which it is applied, and described in the specifications, and illustrated in the drawing.
(Specification, 1s. 6d.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 12685.—15th June, 1900.—CHARLES DIXON, of Masterton, New Zealand, Contractor. An improved grip for securing clothes to lines.*

Claim.—A grip for securing clothes to lines, consisting of a piece of wire bent into a loop at its middle, and with a pair of semicircular spring arms at right angles thereto, the extremities of which are each turned down and formed into loops, as and for the purposes set forth.
(Specification, 1s. 6d.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 12689.—15th June, 1900.—JAMES FORSYTH, of Monor Terrace, Dunedin, New Zealand, Clerk, Railway Department. The treatment of New Zealand flax or other leaf-bearing fibres combining the twofold operations of separating the fibres from the leaf and spinning the fibre in the one process.*

Claims.—(1.) The original conception of the combination constituting this invention, subject to modifications, for converting the flax-leaf or other fibre-bearing leaves and the spinning them in one process. (2.) The invention of the corrugated rollers in combination with the needles or hacklers for dividing the fibre of all leaf plants, and steaming of such prior to spinning for twine. (3.) The invention, in combination with the machine specified, of the callander rollers, working in water and oil, with the machine for the purpose of rendering the thread or twine more plastic, and also for other purposes the treatment of the fibre in water without oil. (4.) In combination with the machine specified of the automatic differential motion in combination with the escapement or ratchet-wheel for adjusting the bells on the cone motion, giving motion to the heart cam, which governs the traverse of the plate and bobbins.
(Specification, 4s. 6d.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 12711.—21st June, 1900.—ROBERT PATRICK GRANT, of Swannanoa, Canterbury, New Zealand, Farmer. Improved machine for cleaning water-races.*

Claims.—(1.) The improved machine for cleaning water-races consisting of the parts arranged, combined, and operating substantially as and for the purposes described and illustrated. (2.) In a machine for cleaning water-races, the combination of a share connected to a sole-plate designed to run upon the bed of the race, and mould-boards mounted