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No. 18390.—Svenska Centrifug Aktiebolaget, rotating-churn. (S. A. Ekehorn.) 29th July, 1908.
No. 18392.—United Shoe Machinery Company, sewing-machine thread holder and cutter. (F. A. Kern.) 23rd July, 1908.
No. 18625.—United Shoe Machinery Company, nailing-machine. (J. H. Brown.) 23rd July, 1908.
No. 18626.—United Shoe Machinery Company, pounding-up machine. (R. F. McFeely.) 23rd July, 1908.
No. 18710.—R. L. H. Murray, acetylene-gas generator. 28th July, 1908.

THIRD-TERM FEES.

No. 13604.—British and Foreign Inventions, Limited, ice-manufacture. (E. Waters, jun.—L. Engelhorn—J. Patten.) 21st July, 1908.
No. 13845.—J. Dunn, root cutter and slicer. 25th July, 1908.
No. 13872.—W. Deering, twine-manufacture. (W. E. Hughes—W. Deering—G. H. Ellis.) 23rd July, 1908.
No. 13950.—Hon. C. A. Parsons, turbo-compressor and pump. 29th July, 1908.
No. 14135—United Shoe Machinery Company, shoe sewing-machine. (H. Briggs.) 23rd July, 1908.
No. 14157.—United Shoe Machinery Company, shoe sewing-machine. (H. Briggs.) 23rd July, 1908.)
No. 14158.—United Shoe Machinery Company, lasting-machine. (S. W. Ladd and E. A. Stiggins.) 23rd July, 1908.

Subsequent Proprietors of Letters Patent registered.

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

No. 20508.—Robert William Chapman, of Sumner, near Christchurch, New Zealand, Gentleman. Sleeve of waterproof-coat. (W. A. Hopkins—R. A. Bradbury.) 31st July, 1908.
No. 21807.—Wolfram (Tungsten) Metal Filament Lamps, Limited, of 31 Copthall Avenue, London, England, Manufacturers. Incandescing filament manufacture. (A. Just—F. Hanaman—Vereinigte Gluhlampen and Electricitats-Aktien-Gesellschaft.) 27th July, 1908.
No. 22566.—Printing Machinery Company, Limited, of 188 Fleet Street, London, England. Stereotype finisher and cooler. (W. E. Hughes—Printing Machinery Company, Limited—H. A. W. Wood.) 23rd July, 1908.
No. 23820.—Huntley and Palmers Limited, of Reading, in the County of Berks, England. Compressing and amalgamating plastic substances. (Sir W. Palmer, Bt.) 24th July, 1908.

Notice of Request to amend Specification.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 5th August, 1908.

A REQUEST for leave to amend the specification relating to the undermentioned application for Letters Patent has been received, and is open to public inspection at this office. Any person may at any time within 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. 23338.—C. J. Hemery and G. Fitzgerald (H. Lewis).—An improved method of regenerating waste or scrap leather (advertised in the Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 91, of the 17th October, 1907).

The nature of the proposed amendment is as follows:—
(1.) To strike out the words “with the exception of the crude or para rubber,” lines 1 and 2, page 3, of specification.
(2.) To strike out the following paragraph—“The crude or para rubber is fed into rollers and crushed or ground. The rollers may be at any distance apart according to the thickness of the regenerated leather required”—lines 5 to 8 inclusive, page 3.
(3.) To strike out the words “the same rollers to which the crushed or ground rubber on account of its nature is clinging,” lines 11, 12, and 13, page 3, and insert instead the following: “rollers that are arranged at any desired distance apart according to the thickness of sheet of regenerated leather required.”
(4.) To strike out the whole of the second claim, lines 9 to 12 inclusive, of specification, and to insert instead the following: “Second, in the regeneration of scrap or waste leather, as described in claim 1, the method of preparing the leather herein set forth and described.”

The proprietors state: “Our reasons for desiring to make the amendments are to make the description of the process uniform throughout the specification, and to more strictly define the scope of the second claim.”

J. C. LEWIS,
Registrar.

Requests for Correction of Clerical Errors in Applications for Letters Patent.

No. 24409.—J. B. Davies and H. Bell, machine for manufacturing nails (advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 54, of the 9th July, 1908):—
To strike out the numerals 173 and 174, lines 27 and 28, page 16 of the specification.
To insert the words “this lever thereby” instead of the words “the lever 173,” line 30, page 16.
To add certain numerals, &c., to the drawings.

No. 24482.—A. E. Luttrell and E. P. Hosch, rotary pump (advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 58, of the 23rd July, 1908):—
To alter the word “outlet” to “inlet,” line 2 of claim 2, on page 4 of specification.

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 21st July to the 3rd August, 1908, inclusive:—

No. 23498.—W. S. Clark, fire-kindler. (J. Cuthbert.)
No. 23500.—A. P. Bond, spark-arrester.
No. 23502.—W. Walkerden, boot or shoe.
No. 23508.—B. Ward, fastening ends of fencing-wire.
No. 23510.—C. Loomes, coin-freed apparatus for selling stamps.
No. 23511.—A. K. W. Rissel and W. H. Hennah, ship’s-course indicator.
No. 23523.—J. C. Drewet, fibre-bleaching method.
No. 23524.—L. F. J. N. de Farelle, screw-propeller.
No. 23526.—L. R. Tingey, metallic letters for signs.
No. 23531.—H. W. Mears, feed-gear for chaffcutter.
No. 23534.—G. E. Partridge, device for tying flax bundles.
No. 23539.—H. A. Fry, acetylene-generator.
No. 23541.—P. Magnus, scaffold and framing fittings.
No. 23545.—P. Rafferty, trolley-head.
No. 23548.—O. Coates, safety-guard for trams.
No. 23558.—A. M. Webster, self-lubricating loose pulley.
No. 23559.—C. C. Moffett, minnow and tackle case.

Application for Letters Patent void.

APPLICATION for Letters Patent, with which complete specification has been lodged, void owing to non-acceptance of such complete specification, from the 21st July to the 3rd August, 1908, inclusive:—

No. 22740.—W. Cook, cheese-crate.

Applications for Letters Patent lapsed.

APPLICATIONS for Letters Patent lapsed, owing to Letters Patent not being sealed, from the 21st July to the 3rd August, 1908, inclusive:—

No. 22340.—W. George, milking-pail.
No. 22362.—W. Evans and D. Y. Cunningham, weather-board-joint.

Letters Patent void.

LIST of Letters Patent void through non-payment of renewal fees, and through expiry of term of fourteen years, from the 21st July to the 3rd August, 1908, inclusive:—

THROUGH NON-PAYMENT OF SECOND-TERM FEES.

No. 17807.—J. H. Hodge and I. Zlotkowski, fire-extinguisher.
No. 17810.—O. L. Olden and P. V. Barnard, extracting gold from ores.
No. 17815.—F. R. Dennison, separating wild oats from good oats.
No. 17816.—G. H. Fowler, bird-trap.
No. 17821.—T. Kendrick, spring hand-truck.
No. 17824.—A. Battaglia-Guerrieri, transmitting printing telegraphic message.
No. 17828.—C. J. Rusher and G. W. Baudinet, explosive.
No. 17831.—T. M. Dean and J. Harris, flooring-crimp.
No. 17832.—G. McMullen, collapsible shutter.
No. 17836.—The Wolesley Sheep-shearing Machine Company, Limited, machine shears. (J. Howard.)
No. 17838.—C. Peterson, mouthpiece for tobacco-pipe.
No. 17846.—W. H. Sauvage, air-brake. (W. J. Spruson.)
No. 17847.—G. S. Jones, envelope.
No. 17850.—T. Harkins, fixing tops and bottoms on tins.
No. 17851.—T. E. Litherland and J. J. Evans, cleaning kauri, &c., gum. (H. Carter and J. J. Evans.)