Num. 87.

2405

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1902.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1902.

CONTENTS.

Complete Specifications accepted .. .. .. 2405
Provisional Specifications accepted .. .. .. 2410
Letters Patent sealed .. .. .. 2411
Letters Patent on which Fees have been paid .. .. 2411
Applications for Letters Patent abandoned .. .. 2412
Applications for Letters Patent lapsed .. .. 2412
Letters Patent void .. .. .. 2412
Subsequent Proprietors of Letters Patent registered .. 2412
Request to amend Specification allowed .. .. 2412
Designs registered .. .. .. 2412
Applications for Registration of Trade Marks .. .. 2412
Trade Marks registered .. .. .. 2415

Notice of Acceptance of Complete Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 29th October, 1902.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the undermentioned 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. 14401.—6th January, 1902.—HECTOR NORMAN MCLEOD, of General Post Office, Wellington, New Zealand, Civil Servant, and GEORGE ALFRED HURLEY, of National Chambers, Wellington, New Zealand, Land-broker. Improvements in and relating to gold-dredging.*

Claims.—(1.) The combination in dredging-apparatus of a pump the suction-pipe of which is fixed to the ladder, a swivel joint being provided upon the pipe whereby it assumes the angle of the ladder when the ladder is raised and lowered, substantially as set forth. (2.) The combination in dredging-apparatus of a suction-pump, settling-tanks interposed between said pump and the main suction-pipe, which is carried upon the bucket-ladder, substantially as set forth. (3.) In dredging-apparatus, the employment of a suction-pipe having its internal suction-passage in spiral form longitudinally within the pipe, substantially as and for the purposes described and illustrated. (4.) In dredging-apparatus, the employment of a suction-pipe bent into spiral form. (5.) In dredging-apparatus, the employment of a suction-pipe composed of a plurality of pipes each bent to a spiral form, the pipes being intertwined. (6.) In dredging-apparatus, the employment of a suction-nozzle within which is a plate having projecting spikes corresponding with the suction-openings, with means for operating said plate whereby the spikes pass into the said openings for the purpose of clearing same, substantially as and for the purposes described and illustrated. (7.) In suction dredging-apparatus, the employment of settling-tanks for heavy material between the suction-pump and the main suction-pipe, substantially as specified. (8.) In suction dredging-apparatus, means for varying the angle of the lower part of the suction-pipe, substantially as specified. (9.) In dredging-apparatus, the combination and arrangement of parts substantially as and for the purposes described, and illustrated in the several figures of the drawings.

(Specification, 5s.; drawings, 2s.)

No. 14405.—8th January, 1902.—JOHN HYLARD, of 20, Acland Street, St. Kilda, near Melbourne, Victoria, Gentleman, and EDMUND GEORGE HENRY BINGHAM, of Bromwood, Sevenoaks, Kent, England, Colonel, Royal Artillery. Improvements in magazine and like guns.

Claims.—(1.) In the breech-mechanism of rifles or guns, a pivoted or oscillating block adapted to be actuated by the initial opening movement of the breech-bolt or block so as to cock the hammer (or i's equivalent) and automatically lock the gun at safety until the final part of the movement of the breech-bolt to the locked position takes place, substantially as set forth. (2.) In rifles or guns, breech-mechanism consisting of a magazine and breech or under body-frame for carrying the mechanism formed as one part, an upright

ERRATUM.—In Supplement to New Zealand Gazette No. 83, of the 16th October, 1902, under the heading “Notice of Acceptance of Complete Specifications,” the application, No. 14454, of Allan Douglas, of Otahuhu, N.Z., for Letters Patent for “an improved buckle-attachment to spring-hooks,” was inadvertently inserted.

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