COLONIAL INVENTIONS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 96, 20 October 1904, Page 6

COLONIAL INVENTIONS.

Applications for Letters Patent, with provisional specifications, have been accepted as unaer .- — : > George Brougham Hubert Austin, of (hkieigh, Victoua: Improvement in adjusting vernier ventonietors and travers-mg-lailders and wind-gauges to be used on rifles. Robert Frederick Way, of Auckland: A window-fastener. John Watt, of Balclutha : An improved portable gas-fire ball-heater, for attaching to auy ordinary pendant-bracket or odier gab-attachment. Edward Albert George Haiuini, ol Damievirke: Book covers. John Samuel Nicholson, of Okaihu, Bay of Islands : Improvements in nails tor special purposes. Peter Evan Thompson, of Remuera : A speedy fire-lighter. Alfred Owen -Grundy and William John Grundy, of Onehunga: An impioved clinch for fixing handles to buckets, tins, saucepans, and othed like requirements. Hlnry George BLickie, of Aucklaud : An improved hygienic teapot. Patrick Cody, jun., of Riversdale : (Southland : An improvement relating to pneumatic tires. Thomas Horby Broivn, of Wellington: An improved fastening for bridles. Edward Cubhbert, of Christoluuch: A deUichable sink-guard for fc«imtaij- purposes. Frederick Richard) Hj de, of Ashburton : An improved acetylene-gas generator. Stanley Wynne Jameson, of (Jhristchurch : A matchstriking attachment for pipes, cigarette, and cigar lioldeis. Raphael Pajaciini, of New town, Wellington: improved apparatus for flushing the pans ot water-closets. Alexander M'Leod, of Brisbane, Queensland : Improvements in tripod-stands for cameras and suchlike articles. Daniel Hyde Kingston M'Guinness, of Wangaratta, Victoria: An improved elevating hand-truck. Edward Hope Kirkby, of Melbourne, Victoria : Improvements in and relating to closed circuit fire-alarms. Oswald Thomas Madeley, of Corindhap, Grenville, Victoria : An improved tool for pruning fruit and other trees. George William Berby and John Joseph Sneesby, South Melbourne, Victoria : Improved revolving-roller mechanism for crimping can bodies over their ends ; same, an improvement in the method of securing the ends oi tin canisters ; same, an improved rotary can seaming machine. Charles Howe Bissaker, of Cootamundra, New South Wales : Improved acetylenegas generator. James Oavies, of Auckland : Improvements in waggons and the like. Robert Whiley, jun., of Ohau, Wellington : Improved station-indicator. Herbert James Baker, of Christchurch : Impioved creajn separator. Henry Joseph Gaidiner, of Christchurch : A bicycleattachment to carry a child or parcel. ' Henry Englebert Johnson, of Dunedin: Improvements in and relating to crutches. Arthur John Henry Lange, of Christchurch: A domestic washing-boaid. Andrew Gordon French, of Newton, Auckland : An improvement in obtaining ammonium chlorido from coal and other mineral and organic substances containing nitrogen. William Shaw Diedreich< Schmidt, Ponsonby Auckland : An invention for protecting the soles of boots and shoes. James Gray of Dunedin, Otago : Improved device for sowing mangold and the like seeds. Henry Wifeon, of Stratford : A contrivance for killing small birds by means of an electric current. Robert Weston, of Sydenham, Canterbury : Cycle shoe or boot. Thomas Charles Hement, of Christchurch : Improved ridging. Alexander Parker, of Dannevirke : An improved four-check bal-lot-box. Richard Cleghorn and George Maker Nelson, of Warragul, Victoria : Improvements in disc and other ploughs. Thomas Ward, Gilbert St. John Sanders, and John Edwin Ridgway, all in South Australia: New or improved apparatus and gas for use in the destruction of rabbits and other animals. Albert Edward Langford, of Melbourne : An improvement in callipers and dividers. Charles Johaneon, of Dillmanstown ; A potato-planting and hilling machine. Samuel Nicolson, of Gore: An improved method of preparing leather to make it watei -proof. Donald Robertson, of Wellington : Improvements in envelopes, wrappers, and the like. Walter Henry liavey, of Timaru : An improved creamseparator. Thomas Ritchie, of Grasmere: Improvements in stop-cocks. John Stevenson, of Waimate, Canterbury : An improved tent suitable for use by persons under treatment by the open-air cure. Thomas Charles Hement, of Christchurch : Improved means of forming O.G. epout'ng. George Seator Stevenson, of Gore: Clay-remover for dredges and the