APRIL 19.]

THIRD-TERM FEES.

No. 11530.—The British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Limited, switch for electric circuit. (C. F. Scott, H. P. Davis, and G. Wright.) 11th April, 1906.

No. 11536.—The British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Limited, electric collector and conductor. (G. Westinghouse, C. A. Terry, and H. P. Davis.) 11th April, 1906.

No. 11583.—S. R. Dresser, insulated-pipe coupling. 11th April, 1906.

Subsequent Proprietors of Letters Patent registered.

[NOTE.—The name of the patentee is given in brackets; the date is that of registration.]

NO. 13590.—The Powter Company, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of New York, and having a place of business in the City of New York, in said State. Extraction of grease and oil. [N. B. Powter.] 11th April, 1906.

No. 18237.—Arnold Richard Wallis, of Carterton, in New Zealand, Builder and Contractor, registered as licensee of the exclusive right and license to use and exercise the invention within the Counties of Featherston, Wairarapa South, Masterton, Mauriceville, Castle Point, Akitio, and Eketahuna only during the residue of the term of the patent window-sash. [G. E. Humphries.] 11th April, 1906.

No. 19446.—John Guimaraes, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Agriculturist. Sterilising and preserving meat. [E. N. Waters—J. Guimaraes.] 11th April, 1906.

Notices of Requests to amend Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 18th April, 1906.

REQUESTS for leave to amend the specifications relating to the undermentioned applications for Letters Patent have been received, and are 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. 17797.—18th April, 1904.—John Buchanan Hay and Albert John Daniel, both of Petone, Wellington, New Zealand, Engineers. “Improved means for treating the offal of animal carcases” (advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 6, of the 26th January, 1905).

The nature of the proposed amendments is as follows :—

1. To insert the words “by boiling under steam pressure” after the word “collected,” line 5, page 2.

2. To strike out the words “tallow and other fatty matters from the stuff, which tallow may then be collected in settling-tanks of ordinary type. And,” lines 20, 21, 22, page 5, and insert instead the words “offal clean, and.”

3. To strike out the words “liquid and fatty matters,” line 23, page 5, and insert instead the word “contents.”

4. To insert after the word “rollers,” line 34, page 5, the following sentence: “In some cases [the squeezing-rollers may also be dispensed with.”

The applicant states that his reasons for the amendment are to better describe the invention and to rectify some errors in the specification.

No. 19757.—19th July, 1905.—The Honourable Charles Algernon Parsons, of Heaton Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland, England, Engineer. Improvements in the production of high vacua and in cooling by evaporation (advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 85, of the 21st September, 1905).

The nature of the proposed amendments is as follows:—

1. To insert the words “with a cooler or condenser between each intensifier and the next” after the word “series,” line 9, page 2.

2. To insert the words “with intermediate coolers” after the word “intensifiers,” line 13, page 2.

3. To omit the words “or without intermediate coolers,” and insert instead “a cooler,” lines 11 and 12, page 3.

4. To insert the word “towards” instead of the word “into,” line 2, page 6.

5. To omit the words “Generally, however, I prefer to make the first intensifier discharge into a,” and insert instead the words “for a,” lines 4 and 5, page 6.

6. To insert the words “a cooler being provided between each and the next” after the word “purposes,” line 31, page 10.

7. To omit the words “I may also use a number of intensifiers in combination with an equal or less number of coolers in series for the purpose of condensing or exhausting air or gas or vapour,” lines 7 to 11, page 11.

8. To omit the whole of claims numbered “1” and “4.”

9. To alter the numbers of claims 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

10. To insert the words “with an intermediate cooler between each intensifier and the next” after the word “series,” line 1 of claim 2.

11. To omit the word “artificially” before the word “cooled,” line 4, claim 3.

12. To omit the following number and words: “5. In high vacua, cooling or condensing plant, cooling the circulating fluid,” lines 1 and 2, claim 5, and to insert the rest of claim 5, from the words “in an evaporator” down to “substantially as described,” after the word “cooled,” line 4, claim 3.

13. To alter the figure “8” to “5,” line 2, claim 9, and the figure “5” to “2,” line 3, claim 13.

The applicant states, “My reasons for making this amendment are as follows: For the purpose of more clearly describing the invention and defining the novel feature thereof.”

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 5th to the 18th April, 1906, inclusive:—

No. 19554.—L. E. Papworth, necktie-holder.

No. 19555.—F. W. Rowlands, lamp-chimney cleaner.

No. 19556.—W. J. Fryer, ironing-board and shirt-clamp.

No. 19562.—L. Cerchi, bicycle-motor.

No. 19565.—R. F. Barker, recovering fat from water used for washing wool.

No. 19568.—G. Chewings, wire-strainer.

No. 19570.—E. Richardson, fuel-combustion and smoke consumption.

No. 19572.—W. S. Trayes, tape-measure.

No. 19575.—C. R. Massey, zinc holder for boilers.

No. 19576.—T. W. Mayson, speed-recorder.

No. 19577.—A. H. Simpson, brooch-fastening.

No. 19581.—F. Lindback, oil-can.

No. 19582.—S. White, game.

No. 19588.—W. J. Robertson, swing.

No. 19590.—T. J. Heskett, zinc-production.

No. 19591.—T. J. Heskett, zinc-production.

No. 19592.—H. Berry, knife-cleaner.

No. 19595.—F. W. Smith, ticket holder and punch.

No. 19596.—J. Sprott, bird-trap.

No. 19597.—W. W. Shelmerdine, starch-manufacture.

No. 19599.—J. F. Farra, skylight.

No. 19602.—W. Y. H. Hall and J. E. Jones, door-stop and burglar-alarm.

No. 19605.—E. T. C. Firth, brick-press.

No. 19608.—P. Lanigan, taking timber out of swamps.

No. 19609.—F. E. Robertshaw, venetian blind.

Applications for Letters Patent void.

APPLICATIONS for Letters Patent, with which complete specifications have been lodged, void owing to non-acceptance of such complete specification, from the 5th to the 18th April, 1906, inclusive:—

No. 18937.—P. Mullins, playing-cards.

No. 18963.—E. V. Jones, advertising-device.

Applications for Letters Patent lapsed.

LIST of applications for Letters Patent lapsed, owing to Letters Patent not being sealed, from the 5th to the 18th April, 1906, inclusive:—

No. 18554.—H. J. Baker, churn.

No. 18562.—J. Grant, horse-shoe.

No. 18578.—W. Edwards and T. Larsen, window.

No. 18594.—H. Droutlege, number register and recorder,