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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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No. 22179.—10th December.—R. Beresford, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Eng.
Wheel-rim for inflated tire.* (Date applied for under section 106, 10th February, 1906.)

No. 22180.—10th December.—W. Fricker, South Woodford, Eng.
Paper-bag-making machine.*

Complete Specifications filed after Provisionals.

LIST of complete specifications filed after provisional specifications from the 25th November to the 10th December, 1906, inclusive:—
No. 20791.—H. W. Downing, horse-cover.
No. 20795.—E. Hill, harness-tug.
No. 20798.—J. Hughes, attaching spout to “chaffey” of threshing-machine.
No. 20800.—J. Macalister, turnip or plant thinner.
No. 20804.—A. F. Campbell, wearing-strip of threshing-machine concave.
No. 20808.—C. Harris and C. Todd, protecting fruit-trees from birds.
No. 20821.—G. F. Hutchinson, acetylene generator.
No. 20852.—J. Delehanty, rotary engine.
No. 20853.—A. E. Thomas, rock-drill. (J. Arthur.)
No. 20862.—O. K. Carlson, water-tap.
No. 21166.—F. H. Trevellian, cash-register.

Notice of Acceptance of Complete Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 12th December, 1906.

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. 20659.—30th January, 1906.—HUGH SLOANE, of 151 Hazeldean Road, Christchurch, New Zealand, Engineer. An improved internal tube-cutter.*

Extract from Specification.—An internal tube-cutter which can be worked by power or hand, and is specially adapted for cutting tubes out of boilers. It is placed inside the tube, and fastened by three expanding wedges which are expanded by a ratchet lever; then by applying motion to the spindle which drives the three cutters, and by pressing a lever attached to a cone, expands the cutters sufficiently to cut through any thickness of tubing. This cutter will cut different sizes of tubes by putting shorter or longer cutters in to suit, and can be driven by a flexible shaft or a pneumatic machine or by hand.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 4s. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 20688.—9th February, 1906.—REES WILLIAMS, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Engineer. Improvements relating to hot wells.*

Claim.—In a hot well, a box divided by a partition, a perforated bottom to the box, pieces of pumice within the box for holding back oil, a pipe connecting the box to the air-pump of a condensing-engine, and an overflow pipe for the water from the box, substantially as set forth.
(Specification, 1s. 6d. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 20750.—20th February, 1906.—WILLIAM HENRY, of Wellington, New Zealand, Timber-merchant. An improved method of forming the wooden brackets used in the ornamentation of buildings and for other purposes.*

Claim.—The improved method of forming wooden brackets for building-ornamentation and other purposes, the same consisting in constructing the bracket of two members dovetailed together so as to lie at right angles to each other, such members being cut from moulded lengths of timber, substantially as specified.
(Specification, 3s. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 20757.—22nd February, 1906.—JOHN ROSE, 75 Ghuznee Street, Wellington, New Zealand. An improved device for washing clothes.*

Claims.—(1.) A clothes-washing appliance consisting of a brush attached to a frame or back having rollers journaled thereto on each side of brush, substantially as described in the specification and illustrated in the drawing. (2.) My improved device for washing clothes, substantially as described and illustrated.
(Specification, 1s. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 20791.—27th February, 1906.—HARRY WOOD DOWNING, of 178 Gloucester Street, Christchurch, New Zealand, Saddler. Improvement in horse-cover.*

Claim.—In horse-covers, means for fastening the cover consisting in the combination with an ordinary girth-strap passing through loops upon the inside of each side of the cover, and a fillet-strap adapted to connect the two back edges of the cover together, of extensions upon the girth-strap passing rearwards and fastened to a ring through which the fillet-strap is adapted to be threaded, substantially as specified.
(Specification, 2s. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 20795.—1st March, 1906.—ERNEST HILL, of Westport, New Zealand, Grocer. An improved harness-tug.*

Claims.—(1.) A harness-tug consisting of two members adapted to be respectively connected to the harness and to the vehicle, and having ends formed to overlap and hook together, and a collar surrounding the two members and adapted to encircle and free the lapped ends thereof, substantially as specified. (2.) In harness-tugs constructed in the manner set forth in claim 1, a spring secured upon one of the members and adapted to engage with and retain the collar in the position encircling the lapped ends, substantially as specified. (3.) The improved harness-tug, substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawings.
(Specification, 3s. 3d. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 20800.—28th February, 1906.—JAMES MACALISTER, of Dee Street, Invercargill, New Zealand, Agricultural-implement Maker. An improved turnip or plant thinning attachment.*

Claims.—(1.) In machines for thinning turnips and the like of the classes referred to, the combination with the hoes of sledges supporting them, each sledge being formed of two flat plates arranged one on each side of each hoe, substantially as and for the purposes specified. (2.) In machines for thinning turnips and the like of the classes referred to, the combination with the hoes of sledges such as those described in claim 1, the plates composing which are adapted to be arranged at any desired angle, and have their forward ends curved upwards, substantially as and for the purposes specified. (3.) The improved turnip or plant thinning attachment, substantially as described and explained, as illustrated in the drawings, and for the purposes set forth.
(Specification, 4s. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 20820.—8th March, 1906.—MELVIN LINWOOD SEVERY, of Arlington, Massachusetts, United States of America, Inventor, and GEORGE BAILEY SINCLAIR, of Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America, Piano-maker. Improvements in electrical musical instrument.*

Claims.—(1.) A pulsator for electrically vibrated sonorous bodies comprising a toothed member, a brush contacting therewith, and means for uniformly moving one relative to the other; the majority of which teeth are uniformly spaced, but one or more of which are spaced in non-conformity with the others. (2.) A pulsator for electrically vibrated sonorous bodies comprising a toothed disc uniformly rotated, and a brush contacting therewith, said teeth being equally spaced throughout the periphery of said disc except at one point where it is formed with an elongated space. (3.) In an electrically operated musical instrument, the combination with a string of a pair of pulsatory magnets located at opposite sides of said string, and means for supplying electric pulsations to said magnets alternatively whereby the energized intervals of one magnet occur during the demagnetized intervals of the other. (4.) In a pulsator for electrically vibrated sonorous bodies, the combination of a sonorous