H.—l2.

F. —Number and Nature of Letters Patent applied for in New Zealand during the Year 1890 — continued.

Note.—As some applications are entered under more than one head, the figures will add up to more than th« actual number of applications received.

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Nature of Invention. en s I Nature of Invention. 'S I I I < Nature of Invention. ED a o o Electricity Electric drills Electric lighting Electric machines Elevator Engines Evaporating Excluding dust and draught.. Exercising-machine Extinguishing fire Exterminating rabbits Explosives.. Extracting fat, &c. Feeding animals Fencing Filters Fire-bars Fire-escapes Fire-extinguishers Fire-grates Fire-resisting composition .. Fish, &c, curing Flax-dressing, &c. Flooring, &c. Flour Flue Flushing drains Food Fuel Funnels and liquid measure.. Furnaces Furnaces, smelting.. Furniture Games, &c. Gas Gas-burners Gas-regulators Gates Glass, working, &c.. Gold, &c, saving, &c. Goods, delivering Grinding Grubber Gum treating Hammer-drop Harness Harpoon Harrows Harvesting Hats Hooks Horse-clippers Horse-shoes, &c. Horses bolting, preventing .. Indicators Ink Insulator Ironsand, treating Iron, smelting, &c. Jack, lifting Judging races Keys Kiln Knives, cleaning Labels Ladders Lamps Lettering, &c. Life-buoy .. Lifting .. Lining-package Loading trucks, carts, &c. Loading and unloading vessels Lock nuts 6 1 3 9 3 12 1 2 1 2 8 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 35 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 1 1 S 7 2 1 1 1 81 1 9 1 1 1 12 1 1 4 2 2 1 4 1 2 1 1 6 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 5 2 1 9 1 1 1 2 Malt-house floor Manures Matches Mattresses Measuring.. Mechanical motion Medicines Message register Metal articles, making Metals, separating Milk and cream, separating .. Milk-strainer Milking cows Motors Music-stand Music-stools Musical instruments Neckties Nightsoil, treating Number-boards Nursing Oil Opening tins Ores, treating Ornamental plates Ovens Packing butter, eggs, &e. Paint Pans Paper-stand Phonographs and phonograms Photography Piles, driving Pipes, driving Pipes, tobacco Plastering, &c. Ploughs Poison Polishing Pontoon Potato-bagger Potato-digger Potato-planter Preserving.. Presses Printing Projectiles Propellers Pulverising Pumps Punching-machine Quartz-crushing Rabbits, exterminating Rails Railway-carriages Railway safety apparatus Raising ships, &c. Ranges ■ .. Reaping Refrigerating Rifle-sights Roofing Rowlock Sap-extractor Sashes, fasteners, &c. Saving life Saws Screws Seed-sower Separating dust from air, &c. Separating metals Sewage, treating, &c. Sewing-machines 1 2 1 2 1 1 5 1 1 8 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 19 1 1 2 3 1 1 1 2 4 2 1 1 U 1 1 1 2 7 3 4 5 6 1 1 2 6 1 1 8 2 5 1 3 1 2 7 1 2 2 1 2 1 3 1 6 1 3 1 2 Sharpening Sheaf-carriers Shearing Shears Ships and boats, &o. Shoes and boots, &c. Sifting Signalling Skate Smelting Smoke, consuming Soap Sowing seeds Spade Spouting cover Stamps, rubber, &c. Stone-gatherer Stones (machinery) Stopper Stores Straining-wire Street-sweeper Stump-extractor Sugar Sulphates Sulphur Tables Tailors' tweed-rack Tape-case Targets Telegraphy Theodolites Threshing Ticket-register Timber Time-keepers Tin-opener Tins Tires Tobacco, &c. Tools Totalisators Tram-cars Traps for animals Tubing Twine Type-writers Urinals Valves Varnish Vats Vehicles Ventilators Vessels Washing-machines Water displacement, &c. Water-heaters Water-proofing Water-tanks Water-regulator Wax. chewing Weeding Well-sinking ., Whisks .. Window-fastener3 Window-sashes Wire-fencing Wheels Wool-cutting machine Wool-preparing Wool-washing Wreck-recovery machinery .. Writing 1 1 7 2 1 5 1 2 1 2 1 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 5 6 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 5 1 i 1 1 1 1 2 8 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 G 2 1 12 1 4 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 2 1 2 5 8 e i 2 4 1 1