COLONIAL INVENTIONS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 80, 1 October 1904, Page 14

COLONIAL INVENTIONS.

A Gazette issued last Wednesday notifies that the following applications for letters patent have been accepted by the New Zealand Registrar of Patents : —Hugh Mowlem, Palmerston North, improved means for opening envelopes and the like. W. G. Coker, Timaru, an improved solution for removing the wool from sheepskins. F. R. Field, Aramoho, improvements in appliances for the reclamation of land and the alteration of river beds and currents. A. Anderson, Romohapa, improvements relating to flax stripping apparatus. Albert Kilborn, Sydney, improvements in milking machines. _ Charles Henry Schultz, Christchurch, an improved glove for laurjdry purposes. John Joseph Daily, Christchurch, an improved puncture-re-

sistiag lining for pneumatic vulcanised and other rubber tires for cycles, motor cycles, motor cars, war-carriages, and _ other wheel conveyances. Robert Leslie ' Orbell, Timaru, an improved turnip* puller. Cnthbert Edward Lamont, Oamaru, improvements in nasal inhalers; John O'Neil, Christchurch, improvements in windmills. Robert Hesleden Binney, Perth, improved appliance for dressing grain prior to sowing. Thomas Timmins and "Richard Taylor, Melbourne, an improved flooring for bridges, buildings, or other floored structures. Thomas Sanmel, Westport, an apparatus for elevating auriferous gravels or sand. Alfred Arbuthnot Turner and John Joseph Gleeson, Tikitapu, improved means for. use in separating dirt and other impurities from milk 'or other liquids.' Frederick Arthur Alcock, Melbourne, an improvement in the cushion rails of billiard tables. Alexander Reid, Whangamomona, improved hook for reips, traces, plough-chains, and other similar purposes. Robert M'Ewan, Wyndham, improved apparatus for washing flax and other similar fibres. Daniel Kitchen, Feilding, an improved bridle-fastening. James Shepherd, of Te Kinga, Greymouth, thief -proof lock, for doors and safes, and water-gauge for steam boilers. Henry Gray and George Archibald M'Lean, Wellington, improvements in or relating to partitions for rooms and the like. United Shoe Machinery Company, New Jersey,'improvements in or relating to thread holding and cutting attachments for wax-thread sewing machines. George- Alfred Abbott, Melbourne, improvements in or connected with filters for water and other liquids. George Thomas Bates and Patrick Sarsfield O'Neill, Greymouth, improvements in and relating to couplings for railway vehicles. Thomas Falvey, Wellington, an improved steam, turbine. , Jane Stewart, Dunedin, a machine for spreading polish on floors and the lfke. Niels Rasmussen, Mauricevilla West, an improved fastener for ma* chinery belting. William Medlin Rich« ards, Brisbane, Charles Judah Cohen, Rockhampton, and Robert Thomas, 1 Rockhampton, automatic dry-earth closet. James Purkiss, Halcombe, an appliance for use in affixing postage and other adhesive stamps or wafers. Edward Green, Masterton, a reflecting bird trap.' Ernest Charles Perdriau, Melbourne, improvements in or relating to robber heels, soles, and tips for boots and shoes. Enoch Richardson, Victoria, a new compound free wheel for cycles, motor cycles, and the like. Thomas Foster and Thomas Thomson Paul, Dunedin, improvements in extensible binders for loose sheets of paper and the like. John Henry Hickman, Christchurch, ah improved adjustable mitring machine," or mitre and angle-cutting machine, for use in conjunction* with saw and for wood-working. James Charles Parke Kirkwood, Wellington, improved regulating apparatus for, electric arc lamps. Thomas Norman Brocas, Auckland, an improvement in oil and hot air engines. John St. Clair Gunn, Kaikoura, an apparatus for intercepting and automatic, ally rejecting contaminated rain-water. James Grant Dawson, Woodbury, improved egg-carrier. . Francis-Henry, Invercargill, an improved process of and apparatus for dressing flax.. Walter Henry Connelly, Tologa Bay, improved means for securing rowels to spurs. Walter Henry Connelly, Tologa Bay, improvements in or relating to spurs. Cornelius Murnane, Sydney, improvements in attachments for chaffcutters and other machines, for feeding and other purposes. Robert Alfred Cowley Russell, England, improvements in riding and driving saddle trees.