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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Patent Agent registered.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 11th May, 1904.

IT is hereby notified that
HOWARD PARRIS RICHMOND,
of Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand, Solicitor, has
been registered as a Patent Agent.
F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.

Notice of Acceptance of Complete Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 12th October, 1904.

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. 16975.—5th August, 1903.—CHARLES FREDERICK LUNGELEY, of No. 2, Evile Place, Albert Park, near Melbourne, Australia, Engineer. An improved method for the manufacture of malleable iron, steel, cast iron, and other alloys of iron from the ironsand of New Zealand.*

Claim.—The described method for the manufacture of malleable iron, steel, cast iron, and other alloys of iron from the ironsand of New Zealand, consisting essentially in first progressively heating the ironsand in a reverberatory furnace until it is raised to the required temperature, and then subjecting it to the action of carbon-monoxide or other reducing gas so that the balance of oxygen remaining in the ironsand may be released and the full proportion of metallic iron obtained, substantially as and for the purposes specified.
[NOTE.—This is an application under section 106 of the Act, the date given being the official date of the application in Victoria.]
(Specification, 2s. 9d.)

No. 17273.—19th November, 1903.—ARTHUR LAWRENCE and FRANCIS JOSEPH LAWRENCE, both of Christchurch, New Zealand, Egg-graders. Improved means for packing eggs for transport purposes.*

Claims.—(1.) In means for packing eggs for transport, the employment of a number of platforms or plates, having short legs, that are placed in a case one upon another in a tier so as to conveniently fill the same, and perforations in the plates wherein the eggs repose, substantially as shown and specified. (2.) In means for packing eggs for transport, the employment of a number of platforms or plates, short legs attached to the plates, the perforations therein having a downwardly projecting flange around their edges, the platforms being placed in a case one upon another so as to conveniently fill the same, substantially as described and illustrated.
(Specification, 2s. 3d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 17371.—15th December, 1903.—GERALD IRVIN LOWE, of Palmerston North, Wellington, New Zealand, Flax-mill Hand. Improved apparatus for scutching flax and the like.*

Extract from Specification.—The machine designed is composed of two sets of rotating radial beaters, mounted on parallel axes, one vertically above the other, those of each set being so arranged with regard to those of the other as to overlap and alternate with them as they are revolved.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 2s. 3d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 17378.—16th December, 1903.—THOMAS HEATH, of Pokororo, Nelson, New Zealand, Farmer. Improved instrument for use in castrating lambs.*

Claim.—A castrating-appliance composed of a pair of jaws of arched form secured upon pivoted arms, such jaws being each provided with teeth upon their adjacent faces, such teeth being arranged in rows along both edges of the jaws, and a depression in each jaw between the rows of teeth, substantially as specified.
(Specification, 2s.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 17422.—30th December, 1903.—HANS SCHNITZER, of 8, Pfarr Gasse, Dresden, Saxony, German Empire, Gentleman. Improvements in methods of and apparatus for warming food and other material.*

Claims.—(1.) A method of utilising the heat arising from chemical action for warming food and other materials, consisting in inserting a vessel in which chemical action is taking place into the vessel containing the food or other material, or, vice versâ, wholly or partly surrounding the vessel containing the food or the like with a vessel in which chemical action is effected, substantially as described. (2.) Apparatus for applying the method claimed in claim 1, substantially as described. (3.) Apparatus for applying the method claimed in claim 1, in which a vessel containing the chemicals is inserted into the vessel containing the food or the like, substantially as described. (4.) In apparatus, as claimed in claim 3, the combination of a stopper containing the chemicals or part thereof, substantially as described.
(Specification, 4s. 3d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 17442.—7th December, 1903.—WILLIAM PETER DALY, of Blackball, Greymouth, New Zealand, Inventor. Improved adjusting bolsters.*

Claims.—(1.) In wagons or suchlike for the conveyance of long material as loads, in combination, a framed bolster having internal screws working sliding-chocks for cramping up the load, all substantially as described and as explained, and as illustrated in the drawing. (2.) In combination, in bolsters for carrying loads suitable for them, the bolsters hollow, framed, provided with reversible and sliding-chocks actuated by screws and handles, the whole swivelled in the usual manner for cramping the load, substantially as set forth, and as illustrated in the drawing.
(Specification, 2s.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 17639.—9th March, 1904.—ALEXANDER GILLIES, of Terang, Victoria, Australia, Dairyman. Improvements in pneumatic teat-cups.*

Extract from Specification.—Teat-cups according to this invention are provided with an inflatable tongue within the cup, conforming as nearly as possible to the shape of a calf's tongue, and are formed with a pair of lips inside the mouth of said cup which correspond in their action to the gums of the calf, whilst around the body is fitted an adjustable collar to suit the cup to different-sized teats.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 5s.; drawings, 2s.)

No. 17819.—20th April, 1904.—HERMAN SEIFERT, of Wallacetown, Invercargill, New Zealand, Flax-miller. An improved water scutching-attachment.*

Extract from Specification.—The improvement in my device consists of an upright frame JJ on each side of machine in which a bar C is free to move up and down.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 1s. 9d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18204.—20th July, 1904.—AMERICAN SEEDING-MACHINE COMPANY, a corporation of New Jersey, with its office at 15, Exchange Place, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States of America (assignees of Frank R. Packham and George P. Oates, both of Springfield, Ohio, United States of America, Manufacturers). Improvements in distributors for grain-drills.

Claims.—(1.) In seeding-devices, the combination of hopper and spout, a central support, flanges projecting from said support, seed-feeding flanges formed with serrations above said support-flanges, forming cells, for the purpose specified. (2.) In a seeding-device, the combination of hopper and spout, a central support between said hopper and spout, flanges formed on said support, and seed-feeding flanges formed with notches adapted to be moved over said support-flanges and forming with said last-mentioned flanges cells for seed, for the purpose specified. (3.) In seeding-devices, the combination of hopper and spout, a central support, flanges projecting from said support, seed-feeding wheels with flanges formed with serrations above said support-flanges, forming cells, for the purpose specified. (4.) In seeding-devices, a hopper and spout, a support, flanges projecting from said support, seed-feeding flanges, notches along the periphery of said seed-feeding flanges formed at the