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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 86

Provisional Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 26th October, 1904.

APPLICATIONS for Letters Patent, with provisional specifications, have been accepted as under:—

No. 18453.—15th September, 1904.—GEORGE BROUGHAM HUBERT AUSTIN, of Atherton Road, Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia, Architect.—Improved vernier and adjusting and traversing bar attachable to ladders of rifles and guns.

No. 18454.—15th September, 1904.—THOMAS JAMES ARTHUR HICKS, of Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand, Storeman, and ROBERT FREDERICK WAY, of 23, Palmerston Buildings, Queen Street, Auckland aforesaid, Journalist. A convex non-sagging wire woven mattress.

No. 18522.—30th September, 1904.—JAMES SYDNEY PALMER, of Wanganui, Wellington, New Zealand, Hotel Proprietor. An improved account-book.

No. 18526.—1st October, 1904.—SAMUEL FORD, Sanitary-pipe Maker, and JAMES SPIERS FREEMAN, Land Agent, both of Dannevirke, New Zealand. Improved compound and method of manufacturing the same for the production of railway-sleepers, building-blocks, and other articles.

No. 18532.—30th September, 1904.—JOHN CHRISTIE, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Plumber. Method of making union joints in pipes and the like.

No. 18533.—30th September, 1904.—GEORGE SEATOR STEVENSON, of Gore, New Zealand, Contractor. Improvements in furniture drawers.

No. 18534.—30th September, 1904.—GEORGE SEATOR STEVENSON, of Gore, New Zealand, Contractor. Cork seal.

No. 18538.—4th October, 1904.—DONALD CLARK, of Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia, Metallurgist. An improved process for the separation of gold from silver and other metals obtained by precipitation on zinc or other metals or substances.

No. 18540.—4th October, 1904.—WILLIAM HERBERT LUDFORD, of 27, Rolleston Street, Wellington, New Zealand, Electrical Engineer. A device for illuminating the trolley-wheel of electric cars at night, to facilitate the finding of the trolley wire.

No. 18541.—4th October, 1904.—CHARLES EDWARD BAILEY, care of Massey-Harris Company, Limited, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Machinery Expert. Improved spring equalising apparatus for vehicles.

No. 18542.—4th October, 1904.—JAMES DUCKER, Jun., of Warea, Taranaki, New Zealand, Sawmiller. Improved releasable snatch-block.

No. 18546.—4th October, 1904.—GEORGE BROUGHAM HUBERT AUSTIN, of Atherton Road, Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia, Architect. Improvement in adjusting vernier ventometers and traversing ladders and wind-gauges to be used on rifles.

No. 18548.—5th October, 1904.—ROBERT JAMES DICKIE, Postal Clerk, and JOHN HENRY BROWN, Photographer, both of Wellington, New Zealand. An improved machine for vending postage-stamps, tickets, or the like.

No. 18549.—5th October, 1904.—JOHN ECKERSLEY, of Somerset House, 8, Kent Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand, Engineer. An improved apparatus for spraying insecticide and for like purposes.

No. 18550.—5th October, 1904.—EWEN MACKENZIE MCLAUCHLAN, of Invercargill, New Zealand, Flax-miller. An improved method of and means for use in photographing images in order to obtain abnormal pictures.

No. 18551.—5th October, 1904.—ALFRED FALKNER, of Kaiparoro, Wellington, New Zealand, Sawmiller. An improved process of and apparatus for drying milk.

No. 18552.—5th October, 1904.—JEREMIAH MATTHEW TWOMEY, of Temuka, Canterbury, New Zealand, Newspaper Proprietor and General Printer. An improved machine for use in folding newspapers or other printed matter.

No. 18553.—5th October, 1904.—WILLIAM ROBERT JOHNSON TOWNSEND, of Telephone Exchange, Wellington, New Zealand, Lineman. Method of applying electric light to pianos, organs, and the like.

No. 18554.—6th October, 1904.—HERBERT JAMES BAKER, of 135, Barbadoes Street, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, Commission Agent. An improved churn.

No. 18556.—3rd October, 1904.—DAVID MOORE, of Timaru, New Zealand. An improved turnip and rape sower.

No. 18557.—4th October, 1904.—THOMAS CHARLES HEMENT, of Hereford Street, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, Engineer. Improved means for forming sheet iron ridging.

No. 18558.—3rd October, 1904.—DONALD ROBERTSON, of Wellington, New Zealand, Civil Servant. Improvements in envelopes.

No. 18559.—4th October, 1904.—GEORGE FRANCIS MOYLE, of Dunedin, New Zealand. Device for turning leaves of music-pieces and the like.

No. 18560.—5th October, 1904.—HARRY SMITH, Blacksmith, and LAURITZ HOMES, Wheelwright, both of Blenheim, New Zealand. An improved fire-escape.

No. 18561.—7th October, 1904.—GEORGE CRAW, of Linton, New Zealand, Flax-miller. Improved apparatus for washing flax and similar fibres.

No. 18564.—8th October, 1904.—ALEXANDER MCLEAN, of Brae Side, Ti-tree Point, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, Farmer. An improved protector for pneumatic tires for motor-cars and similar vehicles.

No. 18565.—5th October, 1904. JOHN DENNISTON SMITH, of 10, Harbour Terrace, Dunedin, New Zealand, Engineer. An improved process for flax-dressing.

No. 18566.—6th October, 1904.—WILLIAM SHAW GRANT, of Temuka, New Zealand, Wheelwright. An improved adjustable shaft-stop.

No. 18569.—7th October, 1904.—HARRY KITCHIN, of Louden Place, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Mechanical Engineer, and ARTHUR PATTEN, of “Trevallyn,” Mary Street, Hawthorn, near Melbourne aforesaid, Departmental Manager. An improved strap-lock.

No. 18570.—7th October, 1904.—FREDERICK GEORGE NORTON, of Lyttelton, New Zealand, Farmer. An improved egg-carrying device.

No. 18571.—8th October, 1904.—P. AND D. DUNCAN, LIMITED, of Tuam Street, Christchurch, New Zealand, Engineers (assignees of George Vucetich, of Chertsey, New Zealand, Farmer). An improved turnip-puller.

No. 18572.—10th October, 1904.—BERTRAM GEORGE AIKEN HARKNESS, of Stratford, Taranaki, New Zealand, Engineer. An improved double-acting water-pump.

No. 18574.—6th October, 1904.—THOMAS HEMMING and JETHRO LOCK, of Albert Street, Auckland, New Zealand, Sewing-machine Experts. Improvements in curtain-hooks and fastenings or holders.

No. 18580.—13th October, 1904.—JOHN FISHER, jun., of 118–120, a’Beckett Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Sheet-metal Worker. An improved faucet.

No. 18581.—13th October, 1904.—ERNEST JARDINE THWAITES, of 212, Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Manufacturer. An improved pneumatic valve for automatic piano-players.

No. 18582.—13th October, 1904.—FREDERICK JOHN GLASS, of Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia, Farm-assistant, and ARTHUR EDWARD WOODHEAD, of Upper Ferntree Gully aforesaid, Locomotive-fireman. Improvements in diggers’ boot-shields and the like.

No. 18587.—13th October, 1904.—FRANCIS THOMAS PATEN, of 60, Queen Street, Melbourne, Bourke, Victoria, Australia, Agent. Improvements in producing slags for the making of mineral wool.

No. 18588.—10th October, 1904.—ROBERT MCGREGOR, of Selwyn, New Zealand, Farmer. A machine for cutting twitch and harrowing the ploughed land.

No. 18591.—14th October, 1904.—FREDERICK HAROLD ANDREWS, of 20, Queen Street, Canterbury, New Zealand, Fitter. An improved pithing spear for slaughtering purposes.

No. 18601.—17th October, 1904.—ALFRED LAUNCELOT JAMES TAIT, of 1, Balmain Street, Richmond, Victoria, Australia, Inventor. A method or process of and improved apparatus for treating and dressing flax and other fibres.

No. 18603.—17th October, 1904.—JOHN RUSSELL, of 12, Antigua Street, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, Cooper. Improved machine for rounding, chamfering, and trueing the heads of casks, kegs, or barrels.

NOTE.—Provisional specifications cannot be inspected, or their contents made known by this office in any way, until the complete specifications in connection therewith have been accepted.

The date of acceptance of each application is given after the number.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.

Letters Patent sealed.

LIST of Letters Patent sealed from the 12th to the 24th October, 1904, inclusive:—

No. 16605.—P. Kahlenberg, umbrella-tip retainer.

No. 16606.—G. Osborne, combined drill, horse-hoe, and ridger.

No. 16614.—A. J. Ross, securing corrugated-iron roofing upon stacks.

No. 16977.—C. Soulas, wave motor.

No. 17074.—P. A. M. Arnberg, liner for centrifugal separator.

No. 17093.—E. Edwards, harness-saddle.

No. 17451.—C. Soulas, swing-bed for use on board ship.

No. 17516.—J. P. Lajoie, carbonic-acid motor.

No. 17521.—C. Simmons, lifting and turning rock-drill.

No. 17574.—E. Waters, jun., typographic machine. (National Typographic Company—O. Mergenthaler and E. Lawrenz.)

No. 17845.—T. M. North, printing-machine.