THE GAZETTE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 852, 29 June 1888, Page 2

THE GAZETTE.

The followingpatents have beenappKcd for during file week :—Thomas Edward Merritt, of- Wellington , artist, for improvements'iii machinery fer loadingarid';; discharging ships, arid which are api>licable to some other purposes ; James , .Palmer Black, of Nelson, for improved. ; ventilation in steamships, Ac., entitled; “ Black’s Patent Automatic Exhaust 'VentilatorFrank -.Maher, of Christchurch, carpenter,' for an improved automatic cigarette machine, styled' *‘ Maher’s '' Eclipse Automatic Cigarette Machine Charles ; ll;irvcir, of ,Wellington, conmier-".. cial traveller, for.; ari improved bin for ; coal ancl ashes : Joseph Cawto.Butler, .<>f Wellington, for iniprovenients in flushing cisterns for water-closets, to be called “ Butler’s . Simplex Syphon Cistern • Stuart Reid, of Auckland, for preventing . -rattling of- doors,- hooks, or fastenings, to "V be called “ Reid’s Patent ;” Henry Gray, of Auckland, engineer, for a mechanical. self-scting earth-sprinkler and-closet deodoriser and purifier, to be called ‘ ‘ Gray’s Acme :Closet-purider ”.; ' John Young, of Auckland, mining agent; for an amalgamating pan, to be called “-Young’s Amalgamating Pan' ” ; ' Walter Booth, of Oainaru, for an improved filter ; Albert - Henry Parsmore Noble, of Christchurch, for an improvement in roller skates; Alfred Andrew Lockwood, of Ohinenmri, Auckland; for the;- treatment .of gold and silver ores, to be -known, as , ‘‘Lockwoo:l’s Eureka Roasting Furnace;” . Walter Whitfield Bostwick, of London, engineer, for improvements in folding or collapsiblo;/gates, shutters, or windowguards, and the like ; Hugh , Reid, of Derby, England, signal-fitter, for improvements in interlocking apparatus for „- / railway-points and signal-levers,; ' John Clark Lascelles, joiner, and, . William '' Charles Cruinp,' medical electrician- and ' herbalist, both; of Sydney,; for improve-. ’ ments in-rinks or floors for exercise;and amusement ;r John Martin, of Daylesford, Victoria, cordial -manufacturer, for improvements in and. relating to ships’ - . mattresses,"- to enable them :f to be converted into a collapsible, beat; Leonard Stowe, of Wellington, for brand- . ing bales and other soft goods. and sacks,; - to : be called “ Stowe’s' Quick-branding ;; Machine ”; ‘ Francis Antonio Burdetfc Stuart, of Ashburton Forks, Canterbury, for Stuart’s patent knife for the cutting of flax and general pruning purposes ; William James Pallaat, of Wellington, for ‘jin' improved toe • and half- heelplate, to lie called * ‘ The Featheredged Silent Toe and Heel-plates’’ ; Richard Middleton Simps'on, of-Welling-ton, for_ an ; improved rotary pump; Charles Jeffs, of Dairy Flat, Auckland; .for healing wounds,' sores,. <fcc., to be called-“Jeffs Patent Purificative OiutmentCharles Robertson; of Sydney, engineer,, . for improvements in. the method of and- apparatus for dredg- . . ing, excavating, and raising mud, sand, gravelj and other . matters of , a viscous or granular nature, for use in sinking caissons and in gold-sluicing ope- ... rations, and for analogous purposes. ... Josiali. Clifton Firth, of Auckland, miller, / .for" A hew ; kind of: food; • to;-'be'-called. “ Germinal ” Charles Henry Murray, of Auckland, stationer, for converting an ordinary trunk or box into a chest of drawers, to bo called Murray’s Combination Trunk ; ” William James Dalton, ' of Auckland, civil engineer, for improved clothes pegs or fasteners, to bo called. “ Ci umpe’s Duplex Safety Clothos-pegs.”’