Dec. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3249

No. 25227.—18th November, 1908.—KARL HEINRICH WIMMER, of Holzhafen, Bremen, Germany, Manufacturer. Process for preparing coffee free from caffeine.

Claim.—(1.) The process for obtaining coffee-beans free from caffeine, which consists in treating the green coffee-beans with moist heat until the external layer down to the dark central line existing in green coffee-beans has assumed a dark colour, then subjecting the beans to extraction with solvents for caffeine, and finally treating them with steam and drying them, substantially as described.

[NOTE.—Here follow four other claims.]

(Specification, 4s.)

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,
Registrar.

Provisional Specifications accepted.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1908.

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

No. 24114.—R. A. Fonseca, window-sash.
No. 24575.—V. G. Oldham, bee-hive.
No. 24967.—A. H. Wright, advertising-device.
No. 25186.—R. N. Adams, window-fastener.
No. 25241.—J. G. Bentley, window-lock.
No. 25262.—F. H. Jackson, soythe-handle grip.
No. 25265.—C., J. H., and J. Laut, and T. Mitchell, folding candlestick.
No. 25275.—R. N. Adams, holding doors open.
No. 25276.—D. M. Brooks, compressing air by tide-action.
No. 25278.—R. A. Fonseca, bicycle mud-guard.
No. 25279.—W. J. F. Hayter, brick-manufacture.
No. 25281.—H. D. Schmidt, artificial eye.
No. 25282.—A. H. Wright and A. Thornton, camera-support.
No. 25287.—W. Beamish, animal-trap.
No. 25304.—E. T. Wood, draught, &c., excluder.
No. 25305.—United Shoe Machinery Company, machine for skiving leather. (A. E. Jerram, A. Bates, and J. Gouldbourn.)
No. 25317.—United Shoe Machinery Company, boot-machine. (F. E. Bertrand.)
No. 25318.—United Shoe Machinery Company, heel-finishing machine. (A. Bates.)
No. 25320.—P. J. Lewis, wire-strainer.

[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 16th December, 1908, inclusive:—

No. 22834.—T. R. Hogg, plough-attachment.
No. 23027.—T. Parker, fuel.
No. 23066.—H. Frew, bird-trap.
No. 23110.—T. West, estimating-instrument.
No. 23225.—P. Bock, supporting cartons, &c.
No. 23273.—G. E. Forward and W. J. Bird, apparatus for teaching the use of the rifle.
No. 23345.—United Shoe Machinery Company, sole-leveling machine. (A. Eppler.)
No. 23346.—United Shoe Machinery Company, welt-preparing machine. (A. Eppler.)
No. 23413.—F. A. Alcock, billiard-cushion rail.
No. 23455.—T. R. Christie, hot-water cylinder.
No. 23460.—C. G. Whitaker, egg-carrier.
No. 23482.—J. H. Beamish, glass roofing.
No. 23492.—United States Automatic Box Machinery Company, paper-box machine.
No. 23566.—W. A. Cooke, sea-sickness remedy.
No. 23656.—E. J. Gee, sun-blind.

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No. 23881.—Houlder Brothers and Co., Limited, storing chilled meat, &c.
No. 23897.—F. W. Payne, water-lift.
No. 24013.—Auto-Hydraulic, Limited, water-elevator. (A. E. Hodder.)
No. 24135.—T. L. Mullally, sack, stack, &c., cover.
No. 24230.—W. H. Fletcher, ore-mill.
No. 24302.—G. E. Ohrn, ore-separation.
No. 24351.—C. Harrison, manufacture of fertilisers, &c.
No. 24386.—W. Snee, motor.
No. 24413.—C. W. Nance, tanning.
No. 24553.—C. G. C. Whyte and A. Rau, manifold copying-book.
No. 24555.—S. F. Crocker, rifle-carrying attachment.
No. 24563.—H. Cockerill, draught-preventer for doors.
No. 24599.—C. N. Chandler and G. Dow, smoke-consumer.
No. 24636.—J. Blau, scent, &c., spray.
No. 24693.—J. Fenton, drying clothes.
No. 24765.—F. Hursthouse, lamp-extinguisher.
No. 24777.—F. Basham, roadway.
No. 24823.—E. S. Baldwin, wheel. (W. T. Smith.)

Letters Patent on which Fees have been paid.

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

SECOND-TERM FEES.

No. 18861.—The Lamp Manufacturing Company, Limited, signal oil-lamp, &c. (W. H. J. Welch.) 12th December, 1908.
No. 18916.—The Grondal Kjellin Company, Limited, magnetic ore-separator. (G. Grondal.) 15th December, 1908.
No. 18917.—C. Suttie and M. H. Wynyrd, flax-treatment. 16th December, 1908.
No. 18925.—United Shoe Machinery Company, eyelet, &c., deliverer. (M. H. Pearson and A. E. Jerram.) 16th December, 1908.
No. 18926.—United Shoe Machinery Company, fastening-machine. (F. H. Perry.) 16th December, 1908.
No. 19050.—United Shoe Machinery Company, paste-presenting machine. (O. Ashton.) 16th December, 1908.
No. 19051.—United Shoe Machinery Company, trimming-machine. (O. Ashton.) 16th December, 1908.

THIRD-TERM FEES.

No. 14358.—Svenska Centrifug Aktiebolaget, centrifugal churn. (C. F. Berghmark.) 9th December, 1908.
No. 14547.—United Shoe Machinery Company, lasting-machine. (R. F. McFeeley.) 16th December, 1908.
No. 14548.—United Shoe Machinery Company, lasting-machine. (E. A. Stiggins.) 16th December, 1908.

Subsequent Proprietors, &c., of Letters Patent registered.

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

Nos. 21841, 22114, 22907.—The New Zealand Hemp Process By-products Company, Limited, a private company incorporated under “The Companies Act, 1908,” and having its registered office in Emerson Street, Napier, New Zealand, registered as proprietor. [W. G. Richardson.] 18th December, 1908.

No. 21707.—The Parker Patent Stamp and Ticket Vending Machine Company, Limited, of Palmerston North, New Zealand. An improved machine for vending postage-stamps and the like. [A. Parker.] 10th December, 1908.

No. 22181.—The Parker Patent Stamp and Ticket Vending Machine Company, Limited, of Palmerston North, New Zealand. An improved machine for issuing tickets. [A. Parker.] 10th December, 1908.

No. 23668.—William Cyril Higinbotham, of Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, Grazier. [C. Gerber and E. Michaut.] 17th December, 1908.

Applications for Letters Patent abandoned.

LIST of applications, with which provisional specifications only have been filed, abandoned (i.e., complete specifications not lodged) from the 8th to the 21st December, 1908, inclusive:—

No. 23821.—F. Delsie, bicycle.
No. 23987.—K. Young, fire-alarm and check.
No. 23992.—P. Pearce, shoe used in tree-felling.
No. 23994.—W. C. Watson, H. Bolton, and D. Mulcahy, railway lever brake.
No. 23996.—H. E. Lindsay, correspondence-arranger.