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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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No. 23605.—G. H. Fraser, crushing-machine. 13th September.
No. 23709.—E. J. Wood and G. Carson, axle-box. 13th September.
No. 23837.—Linotype and Machinery, Limited, typographic composing, &c., machine. (J. T. Hunter—C. A. Albrecht, F. Gantz-r, C. W. Grasnick, F. J. Wich, J. E. Billington, C. Holliwell, J. H. Joy, and H. Pearce.) 13th September.

THIRD-TERM FEES.

No. 18463. — F. Casey and E. W. Hubbard, suction dredge, &c. 13th September.
No. 18503.—General Electric Company, filament. (W. R. Whitnev.) 12th September.
No. 18548.—E. C. E. Mills, P. Heyes, and W. J. Napier, postage-stamp vending-machine. (R. J. Dickie and J. H. Brown.) 2nd September.
No. 18878.—T. Edwards, ore-roaster. 7th September.

Subsequent Proprietors of Letters Patent registered.

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

NO. 16874.—George William Hudson, of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Timber-merchant. Mast, &c., turning machine. (W. H. Dunk.) 4th September, 1911.
No. 22741.—The Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Auckland, New Zealand, lid for sanitary pans. (C. T. Haynes) 8th September, 1911.
No. 28222.—Ernest John Patrick Brooks, Harry Wilkinson Brooks, and John McLachlan, carrying on business under the style or firm of “Henry Brooks and Co.,” of 70 Bishopsgate Street Within, London, England, Merchants. Reinforced leaded lights. (G. R. Barham and J. H. Williams.) 13th September, 1911.

Notice of Request to amend Specification.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 14th September, 1911.

REQUEST for leave to amend the undermentioned application for Letters Patent has been received, and is 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. 28053. — T. Miller, steam-engine. (Advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 77, of the 11th August, 1910.)

The nature of the proposed amendments is as follows:—

On page 2,—
To alter “seven” to “six,” line 3.
To alter “a detail” to “an enlarged view,” line 6.
To omit “Figure 1 showing,” and insert instead “one of the,” line 6.
To alter “valve” to “valves,” and insert after “valve,” “shown in Figure 1, the hand-wheel being omitted,” line 6.
To omit “as an enlarged view,” lines 6 and 7.
To omit from “Figure 3” to “Figure 1,” lines 8 and 9.
To alter “4” to “3,” line 10; “5” to “4,” line 11; “6” to “5,” line 13; and “7” to “6,” line 15.
To insert after “ball,” line 11, the following: “and valve-chest, and shows the toucher attached to piston-ring for operating the valve-ball,” and to omit “over and in contact with the ball-chest and toucher.”
To insert “actuating” instead of “by which action,” line 18, and “and one of the spindles D¹ which opens” instead of “is lifted whereby,” line 18.
To omit “will open,” and to insert “allow” instead of “allows,” line 19.
To alter “this” to “The,” line 20.
To alter “flange” to “inlet-pipe,” line 21.
To alter “these” to “the,” “valves” to “valve,” and “are” to “is,” line 23.
To omit the words “Because the free space” down to “condenser spaces K,” lines 26 to 32.
To insert after “H,” line 34, “which is in communication with the space a above the steam space F, by means of the three-way cock M² and horizontal passage J.”

On page 3,—
To insert after “H,” line 1, “the three-way cock M².”
To omit “free,” and alter “a” to “F,” line 1.
To insert “allowing” after “same,” line 3.
To insert after “valve,” line 4, “spring L to assert itself and push the,” and to omit “before being pressed in by the lifted,” line 4.

To omit “will release itself and push the valve,” line 5.
To omit “and close,” and insert instead “on to its seat and shut off the steam,” line 6.
To insert “this expansion” instead of “which,” line 8.
To insert “operating a pair” instead of “turning two,” line 9.
To omit “M” and “besides,” line 9, and to insert “M¹, M², M³” before “which,” and “with the exception of” after “which,” line 9.
To insert “N may be” instead of “two and two are,” and “in pairs such as” after “together,” line 10.
To alter “M” to “M²,” lines 10 and 11.
To omit “can be used for both cylinder halves, these cocks M and N are to be turned by hand,” lines 11, 12, and 13, and to insert instead “being adapted for use with either cylinder half.”
To alter “6” to “5” and “7” to “6,” line 17.
To insert “is of the same width” instead of “has the same surface;” lines 18 and 19.
To omit “many,” line 19.
To omit “steam,” line 22.
To insert “has mounted at” instead of “it ends in,” and “which gears with” instead of “which wheels R work on,” line 23.
To insert “rings” instead of “springs,” line 28.
To omit “through which its pressure arises,” lines 30 and 31.
To insert “being” instead of “will be,” line 31.

On page 4,—
To insert “in Figure 2” after “Z,” line 3.
To insert after “valve C,” line 5, “against the face b and shuts off the steam from the space a when the valve C is open.”
To insert “are” instead of “is,” and “rings” instead of “spring,” line 6.
To insert “G” after “piston,” and “hollow” before “spindle,” and to omit “spring T,” line 10.
To insert after “screwed down,” line 11, the following paragraph: “the ports or spaces K shown in the drawing have no function in the working of the engine, being merely for the purpose of saving metal and weight in the casting.”
To omit from “reversing the direction” down to “with this engine,” lines 15, 16, 17.
To insert after “charge,” line 19, “and can stop or start the engine almost instantaneously.”
To insert after “Figure 2,” line 24, “may be cast separate or in conjunction with the cylinder E, and may be placed at any angle or in any position found most convenient.”
To omit from “being one piece” down to “Figure 2,” lines 24 to 27.
To alter “springs” to “rings,” line 33.

On page 5,—
To insert “inlet-pipe” instead of “flange,” line 3.
To insert “vertical” after “valves,” line 5.
To omit “condenser spaces,” lines 5 and 6, and lines 24 and 25.
To substitute fresh drawings.

The applicant states, “My reason for making the amendments is to more clearly describe the invention.”

J. C. LEWIS,
Registrar.

Application for Letters Patent withdrawn.

THE following application for Letters Patent has been withdrawn:—

No. 28885.—J. Howcroft, road-vehicle axle-cap. (Advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 2, of the 12th January, 1911.)

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 1st to the 14th September, 1911, inclusive:—

No. 28657.—L. G. Grace, power device.
No. 28658.—R. Burn, mail-bag, &c., seal.
No. 28665.—W. H. Carter, jun., water-colour painting, &c., process.
No. 28668.—W. Gower, aperture foresight.
No. 28669.—C. Re mann, door-check, &c.
No. 28670.—C. J. Sanderson, sash-raising, &c.
No. 28671.—W. F. Lietz, utilizing waste flax.
No. 28674.—G. Cruickshank, rabbit-trap chain.
No. 28678.—A. Mutch, horse attaching.
No. 28680.—W. B. Cameron and T. Yardley, milking-machine.
No. 28684.—F. R. McLean, turbine.