THE GAZETTE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 839, 30 March 1888, Page 2

THE GAZETTE.

The following patents have been applied for during the week Herbert Townsend, of Wanganui, plumber and tinsmith, for .an improved filtering and automatic-cleansing water-tank ; Janies Bruce, mining engmedl*, and John Drysdale, engine-fitter, both of Tima.ru, for aii automatic pure hot-air grain-drying and conditioning apparatus ; Thomas Ed-' ward McGauran, of Adelaide, machinist, for improved gate-fittings, to enable drivers to open and close gates without -leaving. their seats ; Thomas Bassett,'-of Christchurch, agricultural machinery importer, for an improved twine, especially adapted -for reapers and binders, to be called u The Jay Twine” (a conimunicatidn- from.... C. H. s McCor-' inick, Chicago, United States, America); Robert Alcorn, of Ashburton, merchant, for aiT improved treadle-motor, called “ The Weaver Foot inot.vr ” (a communication from F. M." Weaver, of Chicago, United States, America) ; John: Harwarcl Hooper, of Auckland, M.D., for the ex.-, tractioii of gold arid'.silver from certain ores ; John Brown, of Redfern, near Sytln ey, carriage builder, ; Thomas : ■ Hodges. Jones,; Of Biuwood, near Sydney, clerk, and Joseph Carter Oak man, of Sydney, merchant, for 'an .'improved', combined railway-bufier and automatic-coupling ; John Edward Hayes, of - Wellington, .plumber, fen-'improvements iii ball-yalyesy to be called “ The improved Noiseless Ball-valve Albert Henry .Pars move Noble, of Christchurch, for improvements in galvanic batteries ; : Joseph -Askwith, : of Wellington, carpenter, for' an - .improved; navigable balloon ; Henry Christian Lobnitz, of Renfrew, North Britain, engineer and shipbuilder, for improvements. in breaking up, excavating or removing rocks,, boulders, stones or eartli .under water or on dry-land, and - in apparatus therefor William McKenzie, of North Carlton, Victoria, manager, for New Zealand: Stone Company {Limited), foltah improved automatic high-pressure water-filter, to be-entitled “ The Niagara Filter .Robert Southwell 'Lawrence, r>f Philadelphia, gentleman, for improve mentis in carburetors or apparatus for enriching or producing gas ; Honier-. Taylor Varya n, of Toledo, County Lucas; United States,, manufacturer,' for inipboyeinents m vacuum evaporating and distilling apparatus ; George Westiiighonse, j un --< of Pittsburg,-Pennsylvania, engineer,: for improvements in .fluid pressure automat iebrak'e “-mechanism ; "Abraham . Colley, .of South jßichmond,- Victoria, -Government Armorer,' for an unproved cartridge magazine for attachment to certain descriptions of rifles. " :'.V'.