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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 88

Provisional Specifications accepted.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 17th October, 1906.

APPLICATIONS for Letters Patent, with provisional specifications, have been accepted as under:—
No. 21225.—R. V. Danne, valve and connection for tire.
No. 21543.—T. Mitchell, ship’s hull.
No. 21655.—F. T. F. Evans, tripod harrow.
No. 21681.—G. Turner, tomato forcing-house.
No. 21689.—W. Dall, equilibrium bias adjustment for bowls.
No. 21690.—J. M. Crabbe, door and gate closing apparatus.
No. 21694.—E. Hayes, wire-coiler.
No. 21702.—J. A. Steele, apron of harvester-binders.
No. 21703.—W. Tait, lifting-jack.
No. 21706.—F. T. Page, kerosene-pump retainer.
No. 21708.—E. Kinzett, pump.
No. 21709.—J. P. Maloney and H. Chisholm, station or street indicator.
No. 21714.—J. Parker, rabbit-trap.
No. 21718.—F. Peters, milk cooler or heater.
No. 21720.—T. Grainger, mechanical stock-feeder.
No. 21726.—F. C. Brown, using products of combustion to drive turbine.
No. 21732.—D. J. Malone, non-refillable bottle.
No. 21735.—N. I. Gooder, trolley-head.
No. 21741.—F. W. Smith, ascertaining temperature of baled goods.
No. 21743.—T. J. Whelan, knife cleaner and sharpener.
No. 21778.—E. P. Blake, power-generator.
No. 21791.—W. Whyte, temperature-indicator and fire-alarm.
No. 21805.—G. T. Girdler, explosive engine and air-compressor.
No. 21811.—R. W. E. MacIvor, treating ores containing gold.
No. 21814.—K. Matthews, ink, &c., bottle.
No. 21817.—C. B. and G. W. Plummer, fibre-ressing process.
No. 21841.—W. G. Richardson, utilising waste flax as cattle food.
No. 21863.—C. L. K. H. Foot, gas-lighter.

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.

Letters Patent sealed.

LIST of Letters Patent sealed from the 4th to the 17th October, 1906, inclusive:—
No. 19262.—H. Reid, advertising signs.
No. 19272.—United Shoe Machinery Company, machine for inserting fastenings. (L. A. Casgrain,)
No. 19627.—F. W. Parker, rabbit exterminating combination.
No. 19747.—W. Maddison, ear-marking stock.
No. 19842.—R. W. Lawrence, securing lamp-burner socket.
No. 19852.—E. J. Rigby, rock-drill.
No. 20046.—H. J. Mallabar, printing photographs on silver chloride paper.
No. 20927.—C. A. F. Ramström, liquid-separator.
No. 21023.—A. G. Jackson, cash-register.
No. 21037.—H. H. Reimers, portable boiler.
No. 21140.—F. H. Mingay, golf-ball.
No. 21218.—C. J. McMaster, wheel.

Letters Patent on which Fees have been paid.

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

SECOND-TERM FEES.

NO. 15841.—R. Tudehope, ventilator. 2nd October, 1906.
No. 15491.—G. S. Duncan, can body-making machine. (R. D. Hume.) 2nd October, 1906.
No. 15536.—R. L. H. Murray, water-heater. 8th October, 1906.
No. 15540.—A. Godfrey, cigarette wrapper and packer. 11th October, 1906.
No. 15547.—Lamson Store Service Company, Limited, cash railway system. (G. W. Basley—M. S. Giles.) 11th October, 1906.

Subsequent Proprietors of Letters Patent registered.

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

THE British Empire Trading Company, Limited, having its registered office at Hunter Street, Wellington, New Zealand. (The American Tobacco Company of New Zealand, Limited.)
No. 7537.—Mouthpiece for cigarettes. [J. S. Beeman.]
No. 7940.—Cigarette-machine. [A. L. Munson.]
No. 8189.—Removing superfluous molten paraffin from articles dipped therein. [J. S. Beeman.]
No. 8306.—Cigarette-machine. [H. Bilgram.]
No. 8307.—Cigarette-machine. [J. A. Bonsack.]
No. 8308.—Cigarette-tube machine. [J. A. Bonsack.]
No. 8309.—Cigarette-machine. [M. Kirshner.]
No. 8492.—Securing cigarette-wrappers. [D. B. Strouse.]
No. 8493.—Cigarette-machine filler. [K. H. Carper.]
No. 8494.—Cigarette-machine. [D. B. Strouse.]

No. 16287.—Walter William Goldner, of 25 Evelyn Gardens, Kensington, in the County of London, England, Esquire, and Edgar Nathan Richard Kahn, of 53 Gresham House, Old Broad Street, in the City of London, England, Esquire. Registered as proprietors by way of mortgage. Drying and preserving milk. [The Imperial Dry Milk Company, Limited—J. R. Hatmaker—J. A. Just.] 3rd October, 1906.

No. 19552.—Thomas Driffield, of 9 Douglas Wallace Street, Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, Photographer. Registered as proprietor of the interest of Peter Thomas Johns. Chimney-top. [T. Driffield and P. T. Johns.] 11th October, 1906.

No. 19584.—William Rogers, of Rotorua, in the Colony of New Zealand, Gentleman. Fencing standard and picket. [A. T. W. Allan.] 3rd October, 1906.

Notices of Request to amend Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 17th October, 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. 17425.—30th December, 1903.—Montague Moore, of 408, Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Mining Agent, and Thomas James Heskett, of 86 Donald Street, Brunswick, Victoria aforesaid, Engineer. Improvements in apparatus for treating ferruginous ore for the manufacture of iron and steel therefrom. (Advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 77, of the 15th September, 1904.)
The nature of the proposed amendment is as follows:—
To omit the whole of claim No. 10, pages 14 and 15 of the specification.
The applicants state, “Our reasons for making this amendment are as follows: That claim 10, which is sought to be deleted, is not novel.”

No. 20616.—23rd January, 1906.—Thomas Driffield, of 9 Douglas Wallace Street, Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, Photographer, and Peter Thomas Johns, of Rona Bay, in the Colony of New Zealand, Engineer. An improvement in chimney-tops. (Advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 88 of the 18th October, 1906.)
The nature of the proposed amendment is as follows:—
To omit from the application and specification the name and address of Peter Thomas Johns, of Rona Bay, New Zealand, Engineer.
The applicant for the amendment—i.e., the said Thomas Driffield—states, “My reason for making this amendment is that the said Peter Thomas Johns has assigned to me absolutely the whole of his interest in the said invention.”

Requests to correct Clerical Errors allowed.

THE requests to correct the following clerical errors have been allowed:—
No. 21222.—W. Reid, railway-signalling mechanism; and
No. 21370.—W. M. Jamieson, pneumatic centre for bicycle-wheel. (Advertised in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 74, of the 23rd August, 1906.)