COLONIAL INVENTIONS.

Evening Post, Volume LXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1903, Page 5

COLONIAL INVENTIONS.

Tho New Zealand Patent Office notiflcß that applications for letters patent, jwitU provisional specifications, have been accepted as follo«« — B. Crawford, Auckland, an improved device to render gas or oil engines noiselcbs, applicable also as a trnoko or spark arrester ; O. Frasor, j Auckland, and L. Lo B. Mount, Auckland, glass-maker, improvement in heat • economising and mnoko - abate-* meat arrangement ; B. Parker, Victoria, improved method of and means for destroying rabbits, wild dogs, foxes, rats, and other liko vermin ; 11. I* 1 . Mandor and V. Lowiu, both of Newman, an improved attachment to bicycle and other airpumps, also improved mo(in» for securing the ends of machinery belting together ; W. S. Lawson, Victoria, aai improved coriaceous material ; S. Q. Plucknott, Sydney, improved contrivances to reflect views of their vehicles to front facing drivers of tramcars and thb like ; H. Ashworth, Wellington, improvements in utl* Using the waste light from lumps in shops, streets, etc., for advertising and other purposes ; W. Staples, Wellington, an improved boot ; K. W. England, jun., Cluitttchurch, improved artificial-stone-block ; J. Find lay, Clutha, composition for destroying noxious plants, -weeds, and tho like ; W. Lyons, Auckland (nominee of John O. Deeblo, Sydney, blacksmith), a ballot-box for indicating tho position to be taken in lino by racehorses and their ridortt in starting for a rnco ; E. M. M'Lnuehlan, SpringhiUg, Southland, improvements in cycling-machines j J. Coventry, Duncdiu, improved eliding fer-rule-for umbrellas ; R. \V. England, jun., Christchurch, manufacture of blocks of artificial stone ; S. E. Denniston, Invercargill, improved apparatus {or dipping iiheep ; Artistic Woodwork Proprietary, Ltd., Melbourne, improved pr«ecsa of and combination of materials to bo used in decorating woodwork ; O. Corr, Cilpe Foulwind, improvement* in gold-having apparatus; D. Clark, Drummond, Southlaud, improved device for thinning plants sown in ridgw ; W. Thomns, Oeraldino, a new or improved combined portable apparatus for changing photographic plates or films, and for developing tho same: W. I. Aston, Ashburton, an improved feed-water heater for engine* ; A. Gillies, Victoria, uu improvement in pneumatic milking-apparatus ; T. Wilkins, Lawrence, an improved knife-clean-er; D. W. Macdonaftl, Ilavelock North, farmer, improvements in drawing-coin-pns«Mj R. J Moore, Rangitikei, un imnrnved ralik-ftoiutork