JUNE 2. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1663

Subsequent Proprietors of Letters Patent registered.

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

No. 14707.—Charles Ernest Ifwersen, of Auckland, New Zealand, Merchant, registered as proprietor of the one-third interest of George David John Duck. Sprayer. [F. and T. Mercer and G. D. J. Duck.] 17th May, 1910.

No. 14707.—Frederick Mercer, of Marton, Rangitikei, New Zealand, Hairdresser, and Thomas Mercer, of Stratford, Taranaki, New Zealand, Hairdresser, registered as proprietor of the one-third interest of Charles Ernest Ifwersen. Sprayer. [F. and T. Mercer and G. D. J. Duck.] 17th May, 1910.

No. 20719.—Arthur James Billows, of Brisbane, Queensland, Manufacturing Chemist. Method and apparatus for producing aerated drinks. [Billows Carbonating-machine Syndicate.] 24th May, 1910.

No. 20719.—Robert William Berry Mackenzie, of Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Accountant, registered as proprietor of half part or share. Method and apparatus for producing aerated drinks. [A. J. Billows.] 24th May, 1910.

No. 24219.—James Wilson Wallace, of Wellington, New Zealand, Merchant. Spring-bed wire fabric. [A. H. Schmidt.] 16th May, 1910.

No. 24219.—Wilfred Joseph Graham, of Auckland, New Zealand, Warehouse-manager, registered as proprietor for Provincial District of Auckland. Spring-bed wire fabric. [A. H. Schmidt.] 16th May, 1910.

No. 25136.—Jonathan David Iremonger, of Blenheim, New Zealand, Painter, registered as proprietor for the Provincial District of Marlborough. Acetylene-generator. [J. Lewis.] 21st May, 1910.

No. 27103.—Aktiengesellschaft, Brown, Boveri, and Cie of Baden, Switzerland. Steam or gas turbine plant. [E. Brown.] 16th May, 1910.

No. 27104.—Aktiengesellschaft, Brown, Boveri, and Cie, of Baden, Switzerland. Marine-turbine installation. [E. Brown.] 16th May, 1910.

No. 25425.—5th January, 1909.—A. L. J. Tait. Flax-dressing machine. (Advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 106, of the 16th December, 1909.)

The nature of the proposed amendments is as follows:—
(1.) To insert after the word “drawings,” line 13, page 2, the words “and the explanatory details now submitted.”
(2.) To insert after the word “substituted,” line 23, page 2, the following words: “with the auxiliary chute to be used when necessary having fitted thereto any means to drag and regulate the feed of leaves along it to the feed-chute, see Figs. 12 and 12A.”
(3.) To insert after the word “shows,” line 34, page 2, the following words: “a clearer view of Fig. 10 and Fig. 12A is a slight modification of the feeding arrangement by sprocket chains”; and to omit the words “the catcher-arm attached to chain so as to have a rocking action,” lines 34 and 35, page 2.
(4.) To omit the words “with its spindle,” line 14, page 5, and to insert instead the words “by sprocket wheel and chain.”
(5.) After the words “catcher Lx” to insert the following: “Where the auxiliary chute H⁵, Fig. 12 and 12A, is used the leaves would be thrown on to it. The arms at about 120° H7 revolve so that the pawl C⁸ does not always catch the teeth of wheel C⁷ for feed regulation. Intermittent feed arrangement is indicated in Fig. 12, and alternative feed in Fig. 12A.”
(6.) To insert the words “with chain connections,” line 4, claim 1; the words “or chains” after the word “discs,” line 5, claim 1; the words “bar base with arched faced bars” after the word “stationary,” line 7, claim 1; the word “roller” after “stripper,” line 7, claim 1; the words “with convex face” after “bar,” line 7, claim 1; and the words “and the explanatory details now submitted” after “drawings,” line 9, claim 1.
(7.) To insert the words “governed to work intermittently” after the word “pawl,” line 2, claim 3.
(8.) To insert the words “with continuous or intermittent motion” after “chains,” line 2, claim 5.
(9.) To add two additional figures to the drawing, marked “12” and “12A.”

The applicant states, “My reason for amending my specification and drawing is to explain same somewhat more fully. Some small items that were described and shown in my provisional specification have not been adequately so done in the completing papers, and it is chiefly these that I am now elucidating.”

Notices of Requests to amend Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 1st June, 1910.

REQUESTS for leave to amend 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. 23770.—25th November, 1907.—A. Smaill, jun. Milking-machinery. (Advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 25, of the 2nd April, 1908.)

The nature of the proposed amendments is as follows:—
(1.) After the paragraph ending “passing through F²,” line 11, page 4, to insert the following: “The cap over the upper end of the rubber in the sheath G is formed in two pieces. A plain ring, fitting tightly on the rubber and which may be kept from turning by lugs or the like, is furnished with a screw thread to which the cap G¹ is screwed so that G¹ may be unscrewed for cleaning, while the ring G² need not be moved, thus the rubber is saved from being worn by removal of the cap.”
(2.) After the word “cap,” line 33, page 4, to insert the following words: “consisting of a plain screwed ring and screwed cap screwed to same.”
(3.) To add another figure to the drawings.

The applicant states, “My reasons for making this amendment are as follow: In the teat-cups, the upper or outer cap was made to slide over the inflation-rubber and be removed for cleaning, and I find that this wears the said rubber, making it rough and soon useless. The amendment therefore consists in making the said cap in two pieces, the inner one a plain ring fitting tightly over the rubber and not usually needing to be removed in cleaning, as nothing can get between it and the said rubber, and the outer one merely screwed on to this, when it can be removed for cleaning without injuring the rubber, as it does not touch same.”

No. 26229.—G. V. Barton. Improvements in salts or oxides of lead. (Advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 75, of the 9th September, 1909.)

The nature of the proposed amendment is as follows:—
To insert the two following additional claims numbered 8 and 9, after claim 7, page 10 of specification:—
“8. The improvements in the process which consists in siphoning the lead through a heated siphon into the converting pot or chamber, whereby the lead can be continuously or intermittently admitted to the pot without any draught of air, and thus the constant breakages of pots caused by sudden contraction, and the danger to the workmen caused by the dust flying out when the door was open is averted.
“9. The improvement in the process of making finely comminuted oxide of lead direct from liquid lead by means of a blast of air, characterized by causing the cloud of dust and air or gases resulting from the operation to continue in a highly heated space until all the metallic dust is converted into oxide.”

The applicant states, “My reason for making this amendment is as follows: For more clearly defining the scope of the invention.”

No. 27003.—6th December, 1909.—Arthur Reginald Angus. Device for preventing collisions between railway-trains.

The nature of the proposed amendments is as follows:—
(1.) On page 5—to insert the number “182” after “181,” line 2; the words “in boxes” after “switches,” line 13; the number “183” after “182,” line 17; to omit the words from “and the wires not numbered” to “herein described” inclusive, lines 18 to 22; and to insert the words “in box” after “solenoid,” line 30.
(2.) On page 8—after the word “same,” line 1, to insert the following paragraph:—
“As each solenoid, when its plunger is in normal position, renders its relative stop-rails conductors its purpose is to determine whether current is duly flowing from a locomotive upon contact of its rods with relative controller-rails, in which case the plunger being sucked within the solenoid renders the corresponding stop-rails non-conductors, otherwise the locomotive will be stopped as herein described.”