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G. —Number of Applications for Patents for the Different Classes of Inventions in each of the Years 1939 and 1940, together with the Average for the Years 1931-38 (inclusive).

2—H. 10.

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Class. 1934-38 1939. 1940. | Class. 1934-38 1939. 1940. Advertising and displaying signs, 18-4 8 3 Illuminating (except gas-manufac- 87-4 86 81 &c. tnre) Aeronautics .. .. .. 11'8 15 19 Indicating, calculating, and measur- 48'8 39 35 Amusements, music, exercisers, 39'4 47 27 ing (including moisture-testers) games, &c. Attaching and securing (including 18-0 19 14 Kitchen utensils and cooking appli- 42'4 25 19 bolts, ties, &c.) ances (including ovens) Boilers (steam) .. .. .. 3-0 .. 4 Lifting, hauling, and loading .. 20-4 20 14 Boots and shoes .. 17'8 17 12 Locks, latches, and hinges .. 20'6 20 11 Bottles, bottling, and glass-working 34-0 30 16 Boxes, cans, and casks .. ..55-4 45 34 Marine and sub-marine (including 15-4 21 12 Brewing, distilling, &c. .. 10'4 1 2 lake and river engineering) Brooms and brushes (including 11'0 8 6 Marking (tickots, labels, &c.) .. 6'2 6 4 mops) Medicines and surgical appliances 30'8 26 30 Building-construction .. ,.28-8 25 15 (including ear-instruments, dental Building - construction (brick and 27-6 32 28 work, &c.) cement compositions and mould- Metal-working (including welding, 27-8 28 21 ing) stamping, and plating) Building-construction (windows and 14-2 20 8 Milking-machines* .. 43 • 8 83 59 doors) Minerals (includingfiltration, lixivia- 16-0 12 7 tion, screens, &c.) Chemicals .. .. .. 13-0 19 13 Minerals (magnetic separators) .. 0-4 Cleaning, polishing, &c. .. ..20-2 9 8 Minerals (stampers and pulverizers) 3-0 3 1 Closets and urinals .. .. 18-8 19 18 Coin-freed mechanism .. .. 8-8 5 2 Oils and lubricators .. 25'0 23 14 Cooling and freezing .. ..18-6 19 9 Cultivating and tilling .. ..36-0 21 27 Paints and painting (includng 8-8 5 5 Cutting and sawing, and tools .. 41 • 8 28 26 kauri-gum) Pipes, tubes, and hose .. ..20-2 21 10 Dairying* .. .. ..35-8 31 22 Preserving .. .. ..13-0 10 9 Drains and sewers .. .. 3-8 5 5 Presses .. .. .. 5-2 5 11 Dredging and excavating (including 6-6 8 11 Printing and photography .. 20-0 10 16 rock drills) Pumps and sprayers (except rotary 19-4 18 17 Drying .. .. .. 14-0 15 20 pumps) Klectricity and magnetism .. 75-2 106 64 Railways and tramways .. 15-6 17 6 Engines (air, gas, and oil) .. 40-6 22 58 Roads and ways (including road 15-2 II 8 Engines (steam), including rotary 10-8 6 3 watering) pumps Engines (miscellaneous and engine 26-2 21 15 Seed - dressing, chaff - cutting, and 4-4 4 4 accessories), including current threshing motors, solar motors, tide motors, i Seed-sowers .. .. .. 15-4 13 12 wave motors, windmills, miscel- Sewing and knitting .. 21'4 27 30 laneous motors Sheep and cattle (including veteri- 25-6 II 11 Explosives, firearms, and targets .. 6-2 17 26 nary appliances) Exterminating (including trapping 21-4 16 12 Sheep shearing and clipping .. 3-8 4 1 animals) Shop and hotel fittings .. 21'6 11 11 Stationery and paper .. 33 • 2 28 26 Fencing .. .. ..14-0 20 12 Fencing (strainers) .. .. 2-2 2 .. Telephony and telegraphy (including 444 • 2 512 223 Fibre - dressing (including rope- 18-8 5 11 phonographs, &c.) making) Tobacco .. .. .. 12'0 4 2 Filters .. . . . . 4 • 2 ,9 5 Fire alarms, escapes, ladders, and 10-8 14 2 Valves and cocks .. ..17-8 12 10 extinguishers Vehicles .. .. 58'8 52 27 Food .. .. .. .. 15-0 23 11 Vehicles (velocipedes) .. .. 16-6 12 II Furnaces and kilns (including smoke- 18\2 20 9 Ventilating .. .. .. 8-6 5 6 consumers) Furniture and upholstery, desks, 34-8 46 44 Washing and cleansing .. ..23-6 29 32 blinds, curtains, &c. Water-supplying .. .. 6-0 5 2 Wearing-apparel .. ..49-8 42 25 Gas-manufacture for lighting, heat- 8'0 9 60 Wools and hides .. .. 8-6 2 10 ing, or power purposes Miscellaneous inventions not in 18-0 18 19 Harness (includinghorse, &c., covers) 4'4 3 2 other classes, as indiarubberHarvesting and grading .. .. 21-4 29 23 manufacture, fishing - appliances, Heating, and fuel-manufacture .. 42-8 28 19 &c. « Prior to 1911 milking-machines were included in class " Dairying," but are now a separate class. Note. —Owing to some inventions being classified under more than one heading, the figures will total more than the number of applications received.