JUNE 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1495

No. 17746.—A. Weaver, wool-scouring apparatus.
No. 17850.—T. Harkins, fixing tops and bottoms on tins.
No. 17923.—United Shoe Machinery Company, skiving-machine (F. L. Alley).
No. 17968.—J. Gray, seed-sower.
No. 17996.—J. Gallagher, temperature-indicator.
No. 18376.—J. S. Raworth, electrically propelled vehicle.
No. 18537.—M. Woods and T. J. Gilbert, dressing rails.
No. 18605.—H. Symes, earth-elevator.
No. 18637.—H. Walters and J. A. Appleton, anti-fouling and anti-corrosive composition.
No. 18680.—G. Finn and A. S. Pike, egg-carrier.
No. 18795.—G. Finn and A. S. Pike, egg-carrier.
No. 19002.—Aktiebolaget Separator, centrifugal separator (A. J. Ericsson).
No. 19027.—D. H. and E. J. Burrell, milking-machine (L. Burrell).
No. 19028.—E. Norton, bottle-stopper.
No. 19052.—J. F. Ohmer, ticket issuing and recording machine.
No. 19053.—J. F. Ohmer, ticket and transfer issuing machine.
No. 19054.—A. G. Meyer, treating creosote.
No. 19074.—J. P. Campbell, distribution of electric energy (B. G. Lamme).
No. 19079.—A. Z. Clark, precipitating gold from cyanide-solutions (T. W. Clark).
No. 19080.—Henry R. Worthington, engine (W. C. Brown and O. H. Mueller).
No. 19083.—N. Hill, wire-mattress retainer (F. Davis).
No. 19091.—R. W. Gallagher, bill-delivery mechanism for meters.
No. 19111.—J. R. Hatmaker, dry milk.
No. 19117.—W. B. Devereux, agitating-apparatus.
No. 19124.—A. Beaton, juger for foot-runners.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.

Letters Patent on which Fees have been paid.

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

SECOND-TERM FEES.

NO. 13535.—G. H. Grapes, hoe, 5th April, 1905.
No. 13693.—F. L. Lorden, tobacco-cutter, 30th May, 1905.
No. 13717.—J. C. Bowring, grate-bar for steam-boiler, 2nd June, 1905.
No. 13786.—The Hall Signal Company, signal apparatus (C. W. Coleman, J. A. Wilson, and C. L. Thomas), 2nd June, 1905.
No. 13797.—J. P. Roe, puddling-machine, 8th June, 1905.
No. 13821.—F. Kuschenitz, support for osmium filament (Oesterreichische Gasgluhlicht and Electricitatsgesellschaft—C. A. von Welsbach), 7th June, 1905.
No. 13850.—Ammonal Explosives, Limited, explosives (J. Führer), 7th June, 1905.
No. 13872.—W. Deering, manufacture of twine (W. E. Hughes—W. Deering—G. H. Ellis), 8th June, 1905.

THIRD-TERM FEES.

No. 10688.—J. Whitefield and F. S. Parker, closet-pan, 8th June, 1905.
No. 10690.—W. Humble and W. Nicholson, baling-press (T. S. Humble), 2nd June, 1905.
No. 10715.—P. and D. Duncan, Limited, plough, 5th June, 1905.
No. 10726.—H. Higgins, treating separated milk, 8th June, 1905.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.

Notice of Request to amend Specification.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 14th June, 1905.

A REQUEST for leave to amend the specification and drawing relating to the undermentioned application for Letters Patent has been received, and is open to public inspection at this office. Any person may, at any time from one month from the date of this Gazette, give me notice in writing of opposition to the amendments. Such notice must set forth the particular grounds of objection, and be in duplicate. A fee of 10s. is payable thereon.

No. 17982.—25th May, 1904.—FREDERICK CAPILL BROWN, Mine-superintendent, and SAMUEL DOUGLAS MCMIKEN, Battery-manager, both of Komata, Auckland, New Zealand.

Improvements relating to apparatus for circulating and mixing crushed ore or other materials in a liquid or semi-liquid state. (Advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 28, of the 23rd March, 1905.)

The nature of the proposed amendments is as follows:—
(1.) To insert the word “material-conducting” before the word “tube,” line 1, page 3 of the specification.
(2.) To alter the word “are” to “is a,” and the word “pipes” to “pipe,” line 3, page 3.
(3.) To alter the word “are” to “is a,” line 6, and the word “pipes” to “pipe,” line 7, page 3.
(4.) To strike out the words “not shown or claimed for,” lines 12 and 13, page 3.
(5.) To insert the sentence, “P denotes a sectional decanting-pipe of any suitable construction, and J² denotes a plurality of stay-rods acting as a suspension-means for the pipe B,” after the word “explained,” line 22, page 3.
(6.) To strike out “at M” after the word “liquid,” line 9, page 4.
(7.) To insert the words “solution or” before the word “liquid,” line 12, page 4.
(8.) To strike out the words “and the solution” down to “central tube or pipe B,” lines 13, 14, 15, 16, page 4, and insert instead the following words: “through the solution-pipe C, supplying the circular pipe G, discharging through jets G¹; the solution is allowed to flow into the said tank until it has risen therein to a height within a short distance from the top of the central tube or pipe B.”
(9.) To strike out the words “The air, sand, and solution,” down to “impinges on the sides or wall,” lines 18 to 26, page 4, and to insert instead “with the result that a mixture of sand, solution, and air rises through and is discharged from the top of the central pipe B. The solution or liquid issuing from the circular pipe G through the small pipes, sprouts, or nozzles, or other devices G¹ impinges on the sides or wall.”
(10.) To alter “discharge” to “charge,” line 29, page 4.
(11.) To strike out the word “clear,” line 6, and to alter “washers” to “washes,” line 8, page 5.
(12.) To insert the words “herein specified” after the word “method,” line 1, claim 1.
(13.) To insert the words “herein specified” after the word “apparatus,” line 1, claim 3; to insert the word “the” before the word “means,” and the words “herein described” after the word “means,” line 2, claim 3.
(14.) To insert the words “herein described” after the word “devices,” line 1, claim 4.
(15.) To alter the drawings by marking the upper part of the tank or vessel shown in Fig. 1 as “A” instead of “A¹.”

The applicants state, “Our reason for making the amendments is that we desire to more clearly and fully explain the nature of and what we claim as our invention.”

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.

Request for Correction of Clerical Error in Application for Letters Patent.

NO. 18150.—B. F. Dunn, wire-mattress tightener. (Advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 42, of the 4th May, 1905.)

To substitute the words “bar” and “bars” in place of the words “roller” and “rollers” respectively wherever such words occur throughout the specification and claim.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.

Applications for Letters Patent abandoned.

LIST of applications for Letters Patent, with which provisional specifications only have been filed, abandoned (i.e., complete specifications not lodged) from the 1st to the 14th June, 1905, inclusive:—

No. 18260.—W. Sneddon, garment-suspender.
No. 18261.—A. and F. J. Nathan, and J. A. Merrett, drying milk, &c.
No. 18262.—A. P. Westbury and F. Lee, sash-bar.
No. 18265.—J. A. Butler, and G. S. Stevenson, rifle wind-gauge.
No. 18266.—A. Crook, fertiliser-press.
No. 18267.—E. Maine, boot or shoe stand.
No. 18269.—P. Lanigan, lifting venetian-blind.
No. 18272.—J. Bennett and J. Friezer, drawing off beer from barrels.
No. 18275.—F. Mitchell, brake.
No. 18276.—A. C. McNeill, cow-leg-roping appliance.
No. 18277.—W. Cochrane, raising sunken vessels.
No. 18279.—W. Borlase, cistern.