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lateral or transverse adjustment of the box to secure the desired side inclination, and also serving as a seal for the blast-chamber underlying the box.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]

(Specification, 15s.; drawing, 2s.)

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, 10th June, 1908.

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

No. 23934.—H. August, wool-pack.
No. 24065.—F. R. Hall, composite pile or pillar.
No. 24159.—A. H. Wright, advertising-apparatus.
No. 24340.—R. H. Wilson, lamp-nipple.
No 24369.—J. Hazard and H. Fairclough, bicycle-saddle cover.
No. 24371.—W. H. Palmer, explosive.
No. 24373.—A. Ramsay, tire-inflater.
No. 24375.—R. M. Simpson, metal-separation.
No. 24377.—G. A. Pearson, hose-coupling for automatic brake.
No. 24381.—J. and M. May, bath.
No. 24389.—N. H. Throsby, milk cooler and attemperator.
No. 24392.—W. I. Davis, building-tile.
No. 24395.—W. H. Langdown, truss.
No. 24396.—R. B. Ross, fire-screen.
No. 24397.—R. M. Aitken, vacuum filter.
No. 24399.—D. Robertson, post-marking machine.
No. 24400.—T. D. Heenan, knife-adjuster for chaff-cutter.
No. 24407.—W. Aston, fuel-economizer.
No. 24411.—L. W. Grayson, connecting-rod, lubricator, &c. (W. P. Evans and D. L. Schultz.)
No. 24412.—L. W. Grayson, lubricating shafting. (D. L. Schultz.)
No. 24414.—H. Hadida, machine for affixing stamps, &c.
No. 24417.—H. A. E. Kelly, cog-wheel.
No. 24422.—R. Maunsell, invalid-table.
No. 24423.—A. Jack, hydrocarbon-gas generator.
No. 24426.—L. Doran, advertising-sign.
No. 24428.—C. H. Schulte and J. Hancock, dancing-doll.
No. 24429.—J. F. Smith, railway bicycle-ticket clip.
No. 24430.—W. J. Blair, acetylene-gas generator.
No. 24432.—R. H. Knox, harvester-reel.
No. 24433.—F. M. Allan, rotary kiln.
No. 24441.—F. Coulthard, saw-bench.
No. 24444.—F. R. Bust, means for slaughtering cattle.
No. 24446.—P. R. Robb and G. A. Birch, candle case and sconce.
No. 24451.—United Shoe Machinery Company, welt-slitting mechanism. (E. E. Winkley and J. T. McIsaac.)
No. 24457.—C. Whitburn, rabbit-trap.
No. 24459.—P. J. Shanks, bicycle-pump connection.
No. 24460.—G. P. Brown, bicycle-inflater.

[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 27th May to the 6th June, 1908, inclusive:—
Nil.

Letters Patent on which Fees have been paid.

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

SECOND-TERM FEES.

No. 16813.—C. C. Kidd and P. Kilkelly, ditch-plough. 3rd August, 1907.*
No. 17572.—C. Wiley, knife-cleaner. 26th May, 1908.
No. 17971.—C. F. F. Allan, portable baker’s oven. 27th May, 1908.
No. 17999.—D. P. Davidson, milk-weighing machine, &c. 5th June, 1908.
No. 18050.—H. Tee, salt-manufacture. 4th June, 1908.
No. 18224.—United Shoe Machinery Company, brush. (C. E. Graham.) 4th June, 1908.
No. 18298.—United Shoe Machinery Company, heel-compressing-machine mould. (C. L. Whiting.) 4th June, 1908.
No. 18299.—United Shoe Machinery Company, heel-compressing-machine mould. (B. F. Mayo.) 4th June, 1908.
No. 18300.—United Shoe Machinery Company, heel-compressing-machine mould. (T. Lund.) 4th June, 1908.
No. 18363.—United Shoe Machinery Company, welt-attaching apparatus. (G. Goddu.) 4th June, 1908.
No. 18885.—E. R. Smith, shaft-bearing. 28th May, 1908.

THIRD-TERM FEES.

No. 13703.—F. W. Bursill, swinger for wire fence. 5th June, 1908.
No. 13949.—United Shoe Machinery Company, lasting-machine. (E. A. Stiggins.) 4th June, 1908.

• NOTE.—Owing to the applicant failing to notify this office that the fee in this case had been paid to the Public Account at the Bank these Letters Patent were inadvertently advertised as void in Supplement to Gazette, No. 102, of the 28th November, 1907.

Subsequent Proprietors of Letters Patent registered.

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

No. 21105.—George Miller, of Hobart, Jeweller, Horace Crosby Walch, of Hobart, Solicitor, and Philip Oakley Fysh, of Launceston, Merchant, all of Tasmania, Australia, registered as proprietors as tenants in common in equal shares. Safety spring catch. 6th June, 1908.

Request to amend Specification allowed.

THE request to amend Specification No. 20583—Phillips, treating ores (advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 65, of the 25th July, 1907)—has been allowed.

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 27th May to the 9th June, 1908, inclusive:—

No. 23215.—J. Smart, composition for alloying dust and spraying trees.
No. 23220.—J. S. Douglas, window, door, &c., locking device.
No. 23228.—C. W. Graham, coiling and uncoiling wire.
No. 23229.—W. J. Bullock, “casting” horses, &c.
No. 23230.—J. H. Hutchinson, transporting merchandise.
No. 23236.—G. Bertram, calculation of weights, &c.
No. 23239.—F. H. Hull, F. C. Randell, and W. H. Moore, trolly-pole.
No. 23244.—E. H. Browne, wire-strainer.
No. 23245.—M. S. Benjamin, indexing telephone directories.
No. 23247.—W. Jamieson, water, &c., turbine.
No. 23249.—W. Whyte, tramway-rail cleaner.
No. 23250.—J. C. D. Dow, knife-cleaner.
No. 23251.—J. Jolly, clothes-peg.
No. 23252.—F. Wilkins, raising mattress head-piece.
No. 23253.—J. Thomson, spring tire for vehicle.
No. 23254.—D. Whitburn, rabbit-trap.
No. 23255.—C. Henry, safe-door.
No. 23259.—A. Burt, jun., trolly-head.
No. 23263.—H. Metcalfe, spirit-level.
No. 23266.—F. M. Owen, travelling T-square.
No. 23270.—J. A. Belk, railway fish-plate.
No. 23272.—G. G. Holmes, jun., tap for drawing off liquid from tins.

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