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I. —Table showing Number of Applications for the Different Classes of Inventions for each of the Years 1909, 1910, and 1911.

On the pages referred to in the above table will be found lists of the inventions which are included in the various classes for the year 1911.

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Class. 1909. i 1910. 1911. Page. Class. 1909. 1910. 1911. Page. Advertising and displaying, signs, &c. Aeronautics Amusements, music, exer- ■ oisers, games, &c. Attaching and securing (inoluding bolts, ties, &c.) 23 17 29 38 Harvesting and grading Heating and fuel-manufacture 11 28 7 31 13 36 48 48 27 34 20 39 10 44 38 38 Illuminating (except gasmanufacture) Indicating, calculating, and measuring (including mois-ture-testers) 26 29 29 48 14 18 23 38 83 35 27 49 Boilers (steam) Boots and shoes Bottles, bottling, and glassworking Boxes, cans, and casks (inoluding buckets) Brewing, distilling, &c. Brooms and brushes (including mops) Building, construction „ (brick and cement, compositions and moulding) „ (windows and doors 14 79 26 14 74 30 9 59 23 39 39 39 Kitchen utensils and cooking appliances (including ovens) 56 41 52 49 29 40 53 40 Lifting, hauling, and loading Locks, latches, and hinges .. 29 23 21 27 23 28 49 50 ■ 1 13 6 13 2 19 40 40 Marine and submarine (including lake and river engineering) Marking (tiokets, labels, &o.) Medicines and surgical appliances (including ear instruments, dental work, &c.) Metal-working (including welding, stamping, and plating) Milking-machines * Minerals (inoluding filtration, lixiviation, screens, &o.) Ditto (magnetic separators).. „ (stampers and pulverizers) 35 27 32 50 43 22 39 25 41 27 40 41 14 18 27 13 12 34 50 50 27 28 33 41 14 19 15 Chemicals Cleaning, polishing, &c. Closets and urinals Coin-freed mechanism Cooling and freezing Cultivating and tilling Cutting and sawing, and tools 5 4 84 3 5 22 48 8 13 20 4 18 32 38 33 29 25 2 10 33 83 42 42 42 42 42 43 43 51 46 40 69 31 51 52 : 'e 1 4 1 1 52 52 Dairying* Drains and sewers Dredging and excavating (including rock-drills) Drying f>7 2 16 110 1 19 43 5 11 43 44 44 Oils and lubricators 5 17 19 52 Electricity and magnetism .. Engines (air, gas, and oil) .. „ (steam), including rotary pumps „ (miscellaneous and engine-accessories) including— Current motors, Solar motors, Tide motors, Wave motors, Windmills, Miscellaneous motors Explosives, firearms, and targets Exterminating and trapping animals 14 17 16 28 10 35 18 39 15 27 31 25 44 44 44 45 Paints and painting Pipes, tubes, and hose Preserving Presses Printing and photography .. Pumps and sprayers (except rotary pumps) 3 7 2 2 32 24 8 20 9 4 14 25 .11 18 8 1 20 21 52 52 52 53 53 53 28 59 47 45 48 5 52 7 58 4 53 54 Railways and tramways Roads and ways, road-water-ing Seed-dressing, chaff-cutting, and threshing Seed-sowers Sewing and knitting Sheep and cattle (including veterinary appliances) Sheep shearing and clipping Shop and hotel fittings Stationery and paper 18 18 16 54 9 7 17 13 7 26 2 14 31 54 54 54 23 17 16 45 9 11 27 10 14 48 7 25 57 54 54 55 13 21 18 45 Fencing .. „ (strainers) Pibre-dressing (including ropemaking) Filters Fire alarms, escapes, ladders, and extinguishers Food Furnaces and kilns (including smoke-consumers) Furniture and upholstery, desks, blinds, curtains, &c. 21 16 59 16 18 70 32 17 63 45 46 46 Telephony and telegraphy (including phonographs) Tobacco 15 23 31 55 7 5 7 5G 11 15 6 19 6 1! 46 46 Valves and cocks Vehicles „ (velocipedes) Ventilating 19 53 45 9 13 43 45 6 8 47 46 1 56 56 56 56 15 22 I 6 25 12 42 46 47 56 54 50 47 Washing and cleansing Water-supplying Wearing-apparel Wools and hides 24 9 ! 44 12 20 7 57 9 25 8 75 8 56 57 57 57 Gas-manufacture for lighting, heating, or power purposes 37 29 40 47 Miscellaneous inventions not in other classes, as indiarubber manufacture, fishing appliances, &o. 13 10 11 57 Harness (including horse, &c, covers) 29 30 15 48 Note.—Owing to some invei actual number of applications rec * Prior to 1911 milking-maci ations 1 ;eived. lines wi jeing cli Lssified ided in mder i Ilass Di iore than one heading, the figures \ till total a separi rather .te clasi more than the jre inclt trying; milking-machines are now