No. 81. 2215

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1903.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1903.

CONTENTS.

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Provisional Specifications accepted .. .. .. 2220
Letters Patent sealed .. .. .. 2221
Letters Patent on which Fees have been paid .. 2221
Subsequent Proprietors of Letters Patent registered .. 2221
Request for Correction of Clerical Error in Specification 2221
Applications for Letters Patent abandoned .. .. 2221
Applications for Letters Patent lapsed .. .. 2222
Letters Patent void .. .. .. 2222
Designs registered .. .. .. 2222
Applications for Registration of Trade Marks .. 2222
Trade Marks registered .. .. .. 2224
Trade Mark Renewal Fees paid .. .. .. 2225
Illustrations of Inventions.. .. .. At end

Notice of Acceptance of Complete Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 14th October, 1903.

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. 15550.—16th October, 1902.—PETER FREDERICK ARNOT ROBERTSON and JAMES ROBERTSON, both of Lawrence, Otago, New Zealand, Farmers. Improved device for sowing seed with fertiliser in drills.*

Extract from Specification.—1 represents the fertiliser-boxes, 2 the seed-boxes. The fertiliser-distributer consists of a feed-roller 3, Figs. 2 and 3, having grooves 4 cut out of the solid longitudinally and so pitched that when the roller revolves only one of the grooves 4 is exposed inside the fertiliser-hopper 5 at one time. As the roller 3 revolves the grooves 4 become full of fertiliser, and at the point 6 begin to be cut off. By means of a scraper 7 the fertiliser is scraped flush with the cylinder at 8. A funnel 9, Fig. 1, is attached to the fertiliser-box 1 immediately below the feed-roller 3. A tube 10 is attached to the funnel 9. To prevent the fertiliser becoming caked inside the box 1 a spring 11 is secured to an end or a division of the box 1. The point 12 of the spring extends downwards of sufficient length to be operated upon by the grooves 4. A slide 13 inserted in a slot 14 is adapted to move forward to completely cover the feed-roller when so desired, the said slide being operated by means of a lever 15 pivoted to a bracket 16 secured to the sides of the box 1. The ridging attachment consists of ridging mouldboards 17, 18, and 19, and independent sections 20 to which the mouldboards are secured. The sections 20 are pivoted to an angle iron frame 21, and are hung by chains 22 from a shaft 23, the said shaft being operated by a lever 24. The ridging mouldboards thus mounted form independent spring ridgers, so that if any one of the mouldboards were to strike against a stone, stump, or other obstacle while working it would not throw the other mouldboards out of working, as happens at present with the fixed ridgers generally used.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]

(Specification, 1s. 9d.; drawing, 2s.)

No. 15661.—18th November, 1902.—DAVID RANKEN SHIRREFF GALBRAITH, of Ladies Mile, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand, Analytical Chemist, and WILLIAM STEUART, of “Herald Buildings,” Queen Street, Auckland aforesaid, Electrical Engineer. A new method and apparatus for the reduction of ironsand, iron-oxides, and other suitable substances.*

Claims.—(1.) The electric furnace specified, and in combination therein the casement, the furnace-body set within said casement, shaped and fitted to hold the incandescents and interceptors in the required positions, said incandescents and interceptors fitted and shaped as specified, the casement chambered with carbon blocks projected through casement into said chambers, cap with feed-hole therein covering said furnace-body, for the purposes set forth, substantially as described and illustrated. (2.) In combination with the electric furnace specified, the base beneath it forming a lower