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claims to the surfaces or materials or articles by first coating the same therewith, and then pressing it by a hot surface, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth. (Specification, 3s. 6d.)

An asterisk (*) denotes the complete specification of an invention for which a provisional specification has been already lodged.

NOTE.—The cost of copying the specification and drawing has been inserted after the notice of each application. An order for a copy or copies should be accompanied by a post-office order or postal note for the cost of copying.

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

Extracts from the drawings accompanying the foregoing complete specifications appear at the end of this Gazette.

J. C. LEWIS,
Deputy Registrar.

Provisional Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 11th January, 1905.

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

No. 18772.—19th November, 1904.—HARRY ALBERT ATKINSON, of 35, Carlton Street, Christchurch, New Zealand, Life Insurance Agent. An improved fitting for utilising blinds in covering in part or entirely windows, window-openings, doorways, or other places or positions where screens of this nature may be used.

No. 18784.—24th November, 1904.—JAMES KING, of Masterton, New Zealand, Traveller for Massey-Harris Company, Limited. Turnip and rape seed-sower.

No. 18789.—23rd November, 1904.—ALEXANDER JOHN MALCOLM, of Dumbeath Street, Blenheim, New Zealand, Engineer. An improved staple for securing fencing-wire or other wire to fencing or other standards.

No. 18820.—1st December, 1904.—GEORGE BARNES, of 10, Hampden Street, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Inventor. An improved curtain-suspender.

No. 18823.—3rd December, 1904.—WILLIAM Madder, of New Plymouth, New Zealand, Bricklayer. A non-refillable stopper.

No. 18850.—6th December, 1904.—HUGH GUNN, of Cross Street, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand, Locomotive Engineer. An improved smoke-consumer for use with boilers and smoke-stacks in mills and factories.

No. 18879.—20th December, 1904.—EDWARD THOMAS POLLARD, of 9, Hereford Mansions, Hereford Road, Bayswater, London, England, Engineer. Improvements in and relating to fluid-pressure turbines.

No. 18886.—23rd December, 1904.—ARNOLD HARE, of Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand, Engineer. Improved means for automatically operating gas or other valves at predetermined times.

No. 18887.—23rd December, 1904.—ARNOLD HARE, of Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand, Engineer. An improved telemeter.

No. 18889.—23rd December, 1904.—GEORGE STEVENSON, of Regent Street, Woolston, Canterbury, New Zealand, Cycle Engineer. An improved mop-wringer attachment to buckets.

No. 18891.—22nd December, 1904.—GEORGE WILLIAM BASLEY, of Vulcan Chambers, corner Queen Street and Vulcan Lane, Auckland, New Zealand, Patent Agent (nominee of Elias Lemuel Baggstrom, of Parnell, near Auckland aforesaid, Engineer). An improved stair-rod.

No. 18892.—24th December, 1904.—HARRY HARDING, of Hauiti, New Zealand, Carpenter. An improved handle for axes and other implements.

No. 18894.—29th December, 1904.—GEORGE BERRY EDWARDS, ARTHUR EDWARDS, and WILLIAM WETENHALL, all of Barry Lane, off Little Bourke Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Saddle-tree Manufacturers. An improved dray-harness saddle.

No. 18895.—22nd December, 1904.—HARRY ROBERT BUTTERWORTH, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Engineer (nominee of himself and Herbert Park, of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Engineer). Improved dredge-bucket.

No. 18896.—22nd December, 1904.—ANDREW JOHN PARK, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Registered Patent Agent (nominee of William Beamish, of Cromwell, New Zealand, Dredging Industry. Improvements relating to gold-saving appliances.

No. 18898.—23rd December, 1904.—RICE OWEN CLARK, the Younger, of Hobsonville, Auckland, New Zealand, Pipe-manufacturer. Improvements relating to flanging machines for shaping earthenware goods.

No. 18899.—23rd December, 1904.—CHARLES RASK, of Invercargill, New Zealand, Boatbuilder, and EWEN ALEXANDER CAMERON, of Spey Street, Invercargill aforesaid, Civil Engineer and Architect. Improvements in travelling races or alleyways for delivering sheep or other animals into dipping-tanks or baths, loading or delivering sheep or other animals into ships or into trucks at railway sidings, loading or discharging grain or other produce or material, gold-saving, and for all other purposes for which travelling races or alleyways may be required.

No. 18900.—29th December, 1904.—JABEZ ELLEN, of Staveley, New Zealand, Timber-merchant. Means for protecting a child’s feeding-bottle from breakage.

No. 18901.—29th December, 1904.—ERNEST FREDERICK RIDDER, Mechanic, and EDWARD HENRY CHRISTIAN RIDDER, Clerk, both of Christchurch, New Zealand. Improved means for throwing in or out of gear the governor of a traction-engine or other analogous machine.

No. 18902.—29th December, 1904.—JAMES DAWSON JACKSON, of 6, Burns Street, Prahran, Victoria, Australia, Plumber. An improved pneumatic engine for drawing and delivering beer and the like through glass tubes.

No. 18904.—29th December, 1904.—WALTER SYDNEY ROBINSON and PATRICK SOLOMON SWANSON, both of Invercargill, New Zealand, Woodcarvers. Improvements in or relating to air-engines.

No. 18905.—29th December, 1904.—THOMAS ROUSE, of 7, Old Hill Street, Stamford Hill, London, N.E., England, Gentleman, and HERRMANN COHN, of 7, Brunswick Square, St. Pancras, London, W.C., England, Merchant. Improvements in the manufacture of briquettes from powdered iron ore or iron wastes, or from ironsand or mixtures thereof for reduction in furnaces.

No. 18907.—30th December, 1904.—EVAN LEWIS ROBERTSON, of No. 2, Torquay Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand, Storeman. An improved egg-carrier.

No. 18908.—31st December, 1904.—CHARLES THOMAS SIMPSON, of Hillend Station, Pukepito, Balclutha, New Zealand, Cowman. Improvements in cow-bails.

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.

J. C. LEWIS,
Deputy Registrar.

Letters Patent sealed.

LIST of Letters Patent sealed from the 22nd December, 1904, to the 11th January, 1905, inclusive.

Nil.

J. C. LEWIS,
Deputy Registrar.

Letters Patent on which Fees have been paid.

[NOTE.—The dates are those of the payments.]

SECOND-TERM FEES.

No. 13275.—Lanston Monotype Machine Company, preparing perforated record-strips of type-forming machines (D. Lanston). 20th December, 1904.

No. 13296.—A. H. Brownley and W. T. Davidge, serviette-holder. 29th December, 1904.

No. 13300.—C. A. Keller, electric furnace. 20th December, 1904.

No. 13309.—T. Hewton, wire-strainer. 9th January, 1905.

No. 13311.—The Singer Manufacturing Company, sewing-machine. (P. Diehl). 24th December, 1904.

No. 13378.—I. S. and I. McDougall, sheep-dip. 20th December, 1904.

No. 13380.—International Plasmon, Limited, production of alkali compounds of albuminous substances (O. Siebold), 22nd December, 1904.

No. 13667.—J. P. Campbell, draught appliance for railway vehicle (G. Westinghouse). 20th December, 1904.

THIRD-TERM FEES.

No. 10274.—T. C. Wilson, gas-cooking stove. 6th January, 1905.

No. 10283.—C. H. Taylor, air-compressing apparatus. 5th January, 1905.

No. 10302.—A. Jacobi, extracting metals from pulverised ore (J. Rudolphs and J. Landin). 9th January, 1905.

J. C. LEWIS,
Deputy Registrar.