SEPT. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1897

To insert “part” before “section,” and “and elevation” after “section,” and to omit “their” and insert the word “covering” before “shed”—line 6, page 2.

To insert, instead of the words “city or house sewage,” the word “nightsoil”—line 13, page 2; and, instead of the words “placed in the,” the words “tipped or removed from the carts into”—line 14, page 2.

To omit the word “receiving”—line 16—the words “or nails”—line 17—and the word “hinged”—line 23, page 2.

To insert the word “open” before “septic,” and “bacterial treatment or” instead of “bacteric”—line 25, page 2.

To insert the words “a portion of” before “the floor”—line 27—“porous blocks or blocks” instead of “blocks”—line 28—and “septic” before “chamber”—line 30, page 2.

To insert the words “when necessary” after “chamber” and “or sluice-valve” after “trap”—line 35, page 2.

To insert the words “a key” and “key” instead of the words “the hand” and “hand”—line 1, page 3. After line 1, page 3, to insert the following words: “Apertures 19a are provided in the partition-wall 19.”

To insert the word “the” after the word “conducts,” and the words “through an alternating valve or shutter 19b, Fig. 4, operated by a tipping tank 19c, thence on perforated metal distributing-trays 20a, resting on supports 21 at a suitable height above” after the word “liquid”—line 3, page 3.

To alter “filtering” to “filter,” and to omit the words “to” and “placed within”—line 3, page 3.

To omit lines 4 and 5, page 3.

To insert the figures “20” after the word “beds”—line 6—the words “coke, gravel, or” after the word “charcoal”—line 7—and to omit the word “and”—line 7, page 3.

To insert the word “fine” after “layer,” and “or coke” after “charcoal”—line 8, page 3.

To omit the following words: “These filter-beds rest upon perforated metal plates 26, beneath which are air-spaces (or air-pipes) 28, fitted with a pivoted hood 29”—lines 10, 11, 12, page 3—and to insert instead, “The above beds rest on metal plates or other material 26, suitably perforated, which rest on concrete pedestals beneath which is an air-space 28, to which air is supplied down an air-pipe 29a, having a pivoted hood 29.”

To insert the words “upon a concrete floor 30a” after the word “and”—line 14—to omit the word “large”—line 15—to insert the words “which rest on the concrete floor 30a and” before the word “disposed”—line 15—to insert, instead of the word “walls,” the words “the concrete pedestals”—line 15—and to insert the words “or other perforated material” after the word “plates”—line 16, page 3.

To omit the words from “undergoes” down to “bacteria and”—lines 17 to 23, page 3—and insert instead the following words: “to be treated is introduced into the septic tank, where it is treated anaerobically and the solids hydrolised; the liquid passes on to and through the filter-beds, where it is subjected to the action of aerobic bacteria and thus purified, it.”

To insert, instead of the words “covered or septic chambers,” the words “filter-beds”—line 24, page 3—and, instead of the words “being cleaned and refilled,” the words “resting and becoming aerated. The intermittent use of the beds is performed automatically by means of the tipping tank 19c, operating an alternating valve or shutter 19b”—line 26, page 3.

To omit the whole of lines 27, 28, and 29, page 3.

To omit claims 1 and 2, and to insert instead the three following claims: “(1.) In apparatus such as described herein, a nightsoil-receptacle, a race provided with spikes for breaking up solids passing through the race to the septic tank, substantially as and for the purposes set forth herein. (2.) In apparatus such as described herein, a tank or intake-chamber provided with a pipe or offtake to septic chamber for treatment of sewage, substantially as and for the purposes set forth herein. (3.) In apparatus such as described herein, a septic chamber provided with a partition-wall, and forming a grit-chamber behind which the material to be treated is delivered before passing into the main part of the chamber, substantially as and for the purposes set forth herein.”

To insert the words “perforated distributing-trays” after the word “having,” the word “coke” after the word “sand,” and the words “or coke” after the word “charcoal”—line 2, claim 5.

To insert the word “coke” after the word “sand,” and the words “or coke” after the word “charcoal”—line 2, claim 6—and to omit the words “partition-walls dividing the chamber”—lines 4 and 5, claim 6.

To insert the words “coke and” before the word “charcoal,” and “or coke” after “charcoal”—line 4, claim 7.

To insert the words “perforated distributing-trays” after the word “having”—line 5—the word “coke” after “sand,” and “or coke” after “charcoal”—line 6, claim 8.

To insert the word “coke” after “sand,” and “or coke” after “charcoal”—lines 7 and 8, claim 10.

B

To insert the word “nightsoil” after the word “sewage”—line 2, claim 14.

To alter the numbers of claims 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, to 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.

To add further figures of reference to the drawings.

The applicant states, “My reasons for making the amendment are as follow: That the explanation of the invention may be more clearly set out, and the features of novelty more strictly defined.”

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.

Requests for Correction of Clerical Errors.

NO. 14933.—G. W. Berry, joining seams of can-bodies. (Advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 45, of the 12th June, 1902.)

To insert stops 41, referred to in the last line of page 4 of the specification, in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

No. 15124.—The Flameless Gaslight Company, Limited, incandescence gas-lighting. (Advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 63, of the 7th August, 1902.)

To alter “³⁄₂nds” to “³⁄₂nds,” line 23, page 2, of the specification.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.

Clerical Errors corrected.

THE requests for correction of clerical errors in the following cases have been allowed:—

No. 13845.—J. Dunn, root cutter and slicer. (Advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 45, of the 12th June, 1902.)

No. 15007.—W. A. Land, seed and manure sower. (Advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 57, of the 10th July, 1902.)

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.

Applications for Letters Patent abandoned.

LIST of Applications for Letters Patent (with which provisional specifications only have been received) abandoned from the 21st August to the 3rd September, 1902, inclusive:—

No. 14139.—F. Cook and J. Symons, fire-escape.

No. 14140.—F. Cook and J. Symons, preventing horse running away with vehicle.

No. 14142.—M. Brown, egg-beater, &c.

No. 14144.—H. H. Rayward, metallic bouncing-ball.

No. 14148.—G. Pulman, manufacturing hats.

No. 14149.—T. Rees and H. Jamieson, nail.

No. 14152.—J. Foster, candle-extinguisher.

No. 14153.—J. Aitchison, trolly-switch.

No. 14154.—F. A. Alcock, standardising bowls.

No. 14159.—A. C. Bicknell and R. T. Saunders, windows.

No. 14161.—E. C. E. Seque, gold-saver.

No. 14162.—W. B. Brain, accumulator or secondary battery.

No. 14163.—A. W. Elder, solid welt for boots.

No. 14164.—E. G. Rawnsley, coulter for drill.

No. 14165.—A. Scheib, trap.

No. 14167.—J. J. Hayman, wool-press.

No. 14172.—J. Upchurch, angle cramp.

No. 14173.—T. O. Moran, floor-cramp.

No. 14174.—T. O. Moran, broom-protector.

No. 14176.—T. E. Loach, watering-pot rose.

No. 14178.—C. M. Newson and M. Coulson, applying tar, &c., to paving-blocks, &c.

No. 14179.—S. C. R. Trevor, producing gas from kauri.

No. 14180.—J. Strettie, rotary quartz-mill.

No. 14185.—J. McFarlane, cradle-sluice.

No. 14186.—P. Trelove, fencing-tool.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.

Letters Patent lapsed.

LIST of applications for Letters Patent (with which complete specifications have been lodged) lapsed from the 21st August, 1902, to the 3rd September, 1902, inclusive:—

No. 13417.—J. Herbert, attachment to plough.

No. 13424.—A. Smith, measure and cost-indicator.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.