3294

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 106

Subsequent Proprietor of Letters Patent registered.

[NOTE.—The name of the former proprietor is given in
brackets; the new or present proprietor.]

O. 31970.—Taylor’s Patent Safety Shunting Lever,
Ltd., Liverpool, S.W., England, safety shunting lever.
[Holland, Engineers, Thorstay railway-points. (W.
Taylor)] 3rd December, 1909.

NOTICES of Requests to amend Specifications.

Patent Office,

Wellington, 7th December, 1909.

REQUESTS for leave to amend the undermentioned
specifications have been received, and all documents
and are open to public inspection at this office. Any person
desiring to oppose any such request must, by notice to the
Gazette, give me notice in writing of opposition to the amend-
ment, with a statement of the grounds thereof, on or
before publication, and in duplicate. A fee of 10s. is payable
thereon.

No. 26866.—D. Murchie, of Dunedin, Otago, electrical
Haste, Acetylene generators. (G. L. Burton.) [Advertised in
Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 97, of the 11th
November, 1907.]

The amendment to the proposed amendments is as follows:

(1) To strike out, in the preamble, the preamble, instead of
“valve-holder,” line 7, page 2, the words “instead of “cylinder,"
lines 9, 10 and 11, “cylinder,” lines 11 and 12, and the valve-
holder “instead of “cylinder,” line 19, page 2.

(2) To strike out, line 10, instead of “top,” of page 13, line
page 13, 1, and upwards “instead of “downwards,” line 13,
page 13.

(3) To strike out the words “general construction,” instead
of “generators,” line 14, page 13, to strike out the words
in of the second “one of said,” line 3, page 2, to strike out
“with “instead of “to cover the top end of,” lines 10 and 11,
page 2.

(4) To insert the following additional claim:— “3. An
acetylene generator comprising an air-valve communicating
with the gas-chamber and the air-chamber, and adapted to be lifted
from the top end of its gas holder, and communicating at
the bottom with the water and the air-chamber, substantially
as and for the purposes set forth.”

*The applicant states, “The reasons for making this amend-
ment are as follows: It is now desired to make clearer the
plaintaining the invention and defining the scope of the claims.”

No. 25749.—E. Arnold, Ventilating system. (Advertised
in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 71, of the 23rd
August, 1906.)

The nature of the proposed amendments is as follows:

(1) To strike out, in the first “one of said,” of claim 1, the
following: “a curtain 5 to raise or drop inside space 3 made
in an opening through,” to strike out the words “to open
outside air from the air or close itself to inspect windows, or
other material if desired, to work from the inside in a casing
with.”

(2) After the words “if desired,” line 16, page 2, insert the
following: “When it is desired to close the window-way 2
the walls to be stopped and held when high enough by
means of a strip above casing, the window-way is made by
providing an escape 2, and in claim 4, line 2, and in
Division 13 to be made where desired in space 3, or to be a
ventilating-space through the casing 8.”

(3) In the claim 5, to insert the words “of ventilation”
instead of “openable,” line 6, to insert “to be provided”
“openable,” line 6, and to insert, after “desired,” line 11,
the following: “curtain to be placed inside openwork, to
allow an open, or opening in a casing 8 of casing, or to be
extended all round and throughout a room or building, or as
otherwise desired.”

*The applicant states, “My reasons for making this amend-
ment are as follows: It is now desired to make clearer the
main invention, and to make it more practicable.”

No. 26115.—W. Keastor and F. Pomona, Gas-oven boiler.
(Advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 71,
of the 23th August, 1906.)

The proposed amendments are for the for the specification
and specification “George Henry Clymo, of the City of
Christchurch, New Zealand.”

The applicant states, “The reason for amendment is so
as to include the name of George Henry Clymo in the
application.”

J. C. LEWIS,

Registrar.

LIST of applications for Letters Patent abandoned, 106.

IST of applications, with which provisional specifica-
Itions only have been filed, abandoned (i.e., complete
specifications not lodged), for the period 10th November to the
10th December, 1909, inclusive:—

No. 25493.—W. W. Bores, ship-propeller.
No. 25501.—G. Maxton, re-usable bottle.
No. 25502.—T. and H. Vivian, hair-curler.
No. 25503.—J. W. Morrison, spring-device.
No. 25506.—A. Lyell, non-refillable bottle.
No. 25514.—J. E. Wilson, washing-liquid machine.
No. 25516.—W. P. G. Wood, device for preventing.
No. 25520.—G. Craig, recovering valuables from sunken
vessels.
No. 25580.—J. G. Grace, power-device.
No. 25587.—E. R. Purrott, tiling-machine.
No. 25603.—E. K. Duckling, A. H. Herbert, and E. Page,
lubbing-mechanism.
No. 25605.—F. G. McMillan, steel and iron protecting in
reinforced concrete.
No. 25606.—J. Liddell, anti-joint.
No. 25612.—F. M. Morris, non-refillable bottle.
No. 25633.—L. F. Fox, shirt-cutter.

Applications for Letters Patent void.

APPLICATIONS for Letters Patent, with which com-
plete specifications have been lodged, but which, owing to
non-acceptance of such complete specifications, from the
period 10th November to 10th December, 1909, inclusive:—

No. 24576.—T. Pennal, plough.
No. 24806.—J. C. Martin, sheep-dipping apparatus.
No. 24888.—T. R. Bond, hoe.

Applications for Letters Patent lapsed.

APPLICATIONS for Letters Patent lapsed, owing to
non-payment of renewal fees, from the 10th
November to the 10th December, 1909, inclusive:—

No. 24419.—F. A. M. Hane, acetylene-lamp burning.
No. 24465.—J. M. Willette, chaff-cutter and bagger.
No. 24657.—S. Adams, fruit-preserving jar.

Letters Patent void through non-payment of
renewal fees, and through expiry of term of fourteen
years, from the 10th November to the 10th December, 1909,
inclusive:—

THROUGH NON-PAYMENT OF SECOND-TERM FEES.
No. 19946.—D. Heiple, thermal storage.
No. 19950.—J. G. McGregor and F. C. Andrews, package
for food-stuffs.
No. 19958.—V. J. Kness, soap manufacture.
No. 19962.—J. L. King, motor-engine.
No. 19963.—J. G. Laynor, rock drill engine.
No. 19964.—W. H. S. Morrison and L. E. Hogbacks,
saw-bench and planing-machine.
No. 19965.—H. Jane, power-wheat.
No. 19973.—C. K. Jones, road-rail.
No. 19977.—A. M. Grainger, weed-plough.
No. 19978.—W. McGregor, saw-bench.
No. 19980.—E. Smith, shoe.
No. 19981.—F. K. Smith and G. J. Vader, piano-door.
No. 19986.—Industrial Electric Company, Limited,
cigarette-machine. (E. L. Behrmann.)
No. 19987.—M. Phelan, ventilating-equipment.
No. 19988.—J. Macdougall and R. Southouse, manufactur-
ing-hill-machine.
No. 19996.—D. Charleston, compound for sealing punc-
tures.
No. 20000.—J. Page, self-indicator-device. (H. Williams.)
No. 20014.—Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co.’s New Zealand
Drug Company, Limited, manufacturing-fertilizer-machine.
No. 2115.—C. F. Mudge, wheel-tire.

THROUGH NON-PAYMENT OF THIRD-TERM FEES.

No. 15316.—W. Rowe, railway-traffic-control system.
No. 15322.—E. Davis, wheel.
No. 15326.—D. H. Dodds, chamber-bimus.
No. 15352.—T. H. P. Wilkin, oil fuel-tank.

THROUGH EXPIRY OF TERM.

No. 9289.—Garrard and Chapman, insulator. (T. Guilliams.)
No. 9290.—F. G. R. S. H. D. E. T. S. H. Guilliams, )
No. 3194.—J. and H. M. Copeland, bicycle.