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F.—Number and Nature of Letters Patent applied for in New Zealand during the Year 1892.

Note.—As some applications are entered under more than one head, the figures will add up to more than the actual number of applications received, for which see Table G.

Nature of Invention. s I * 1 ■ Nature of Invention. fijl S3 O o Nature of Invention. CD 8 J 1°! * 1 ■4 Advertising Aerated waters Amalgamating Amusements Bale-ties Ballot-box Barbed wire Barrels, emptying Barrow Bass, manufacturing Bicycles and tricycles Blind Blind-roller Blotters Blowers Boilers, steam Bolts and nuts Books Boots and shoes Bottles and bottling Boxes Branding Brewing Brick-and-tile machines Broom's and brushes Building material Buildings, protecting Butter-printers, workers, &e... Calculating Carving-fork Cash-railways Cattle-piercer Caustic soda, manufacturing Cement, manufacturing Chamber Chimney-top Chlorine, obtaining.. Cigarette-machines Cleaning and polishing Clothes-peg Clothing Closets Coal briquettes Coin-freed apparatus Compounds for use as moulds, &c. Concrete-mixer Cooking apparatus Cooling and freezing Copying-presses Cornice Couplings Cradle-rocker Cutting and sawing.. Cyanides, manufacturing Dag-crusber Diving Drains and draining Dredging Drills Eggs, testing Electric machines Engines Explosives.. Extracting coke, &c. Fencing Pibre-dressijig Filters Fire-escape Fire-extinguishing Fire-grate Fire-lighting Fire-screen slide Fish-catching Flax, utilising pulp from Flooring Food Fraud with cheques, &c, prevention of 3 1 11 8 1 1 2 1 1 1 4 1 1 3 3 5 5 1 10 3 7 D 4 2 2 1 4 8 2 1 3 1 1 1 1 4 2 6 7 2 4 2 1 4 1 Friction-clutch Fuel Furnaces Furniture Gaff Gas-eock Gate Gear, driving Gold, obtaining Gorse-cutting Grinding and sharpening Gripper Grubber Guns Hair of animals, cleansing .. Harness Harrows Heating Horse-cover Horse-shoes Horse throat-protector Illuminating Index Indicating apparatus Ironsand, treating Jets Kauri-gum, cleaning Kauri - gum, manufacturing ornaments from Kauri-gum, obtaining Kilns Knee-pads Lamps, ligh ting and extinguishing Land, levelling Leather, manufacturing Levers Life, protecting and saving .. Lifts or elevators Liquids, dispensing Loading vehicles Locks and latches Looms Measuring Medicines Medicine, administering Metal cans, manufacturing .. Metals, separating Milking Milk-cans Milk, condensing Milk-strainer Motors and motive - power mecha,nism Moustache-guard Musical instruments Nails Nozzle Oils, &c, solidifying Ores, treating Paint Paper and envelope Paper boxes, manufacturing. _ Paper machines Pavements Pen Phonograph Photographs, preserving Photography Pipes, tobacco Ploughs Portmanteaux, manufacturing : Potato harvesters Preserving Presses Printing Protractor Pumps 1 2 2 10 1 1 1 3 25 1 2 1 3 2 2 7 3 5 1 2 2 7 2 2 2 2 1 1 Quadrant Babbits, &c, exterminating.. Racing, starting and timing.. Railways Reaping and binding Recording Rivet Ruts, filling Safe Sashes, hanging Scarifiers Screw-conveyor Seed-canister Seed, dressing Seed-hopper Separating materials Sewage, purifying .. Sewing-machir es Shearing and clipping Sheep-dip Sheep-feeding Smoke, prevention or consumption of Solvent Sound, deadening Spark-arrester Spout for teapots Stands for buckets, casks, &c. Steam, generating Stereotype matrices, producing Stones, collecting Stump-extractors Surveyor's staff Syrups, concentrating Tank Tanning extract Target Tea-mixer Telegraphy Telephone Thatch, sewing Threshing Ticket Tins, opening Tomato powder, &c. Tools Totalisator Toys Traps Tree-falling Trough Turnips, cultivating Type-setting Valves Vehicles Vending Ventilating Vessels Vessels for meat, &o. Visiting-cards, receptacle for Washing Water-velocipede Weighing Well-sinking Whales, &c, catching Wheat, treating Wheels Whisks Windmill Wire, coiling and running out Wire strainers Wire-working machines Womb-retainer Wood, decorating .. Wood linoleum Wool, drying, &c. Wreck-raising 1 6 1 9 9 3 1 1 1 3 2 1 3 10 1 6 1 3 13 1 1 1 1 3 8 3 1 8 1 5 1 1 1 2 4 6 1 15 24 2 1 8 11 3 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 4 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 1 5 1 1 5 1 1 40 4 2 1 1 22 1 1 1 1 8 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 6 1 1 1 8 2 1 5 3 1 2 1 3 25 1 9 3 2 1 13 1 1 1 2 1 3 11 1 6 5 1 1 1 5 4 1 3 2 1 1 26 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 1 2 6 4 1 1 6