Patents

This series consists of patents covered by the 1860 Patents Act and authority vested in the office of the Registrar General.
From 1881 until 1895 the Patent Office Library was housed in the Colonial Museum and it is assumed that these early patents remained at the Museum when the other collections were moved.
The reason for their staying with the museum is unknown although it is possible that Hector expressed interest in these files.
It may be worth noting that some of the patent files retained were of scientific interest.

Files in this series are:

• E Gibbons and Co. patent; 1869 - 1870
• John Mason's quartz crushing machine; 02.1868
• Benjamin Rogers Brown and Edward Stanfield's machinery for the purpose of separating ores of the precious or other metals from their matrices or from each other; circa 1868
• Benjamin Smith's improved method of sluicing for gold; 10.1864
• John Reid's application to be sole licensee for an imported fire-extinguisher (L'extincteur); 07.1866
• Henry Lever's patent for a machine to propel a paddle boat; 04.1866
• AF McKay's patent; 04.1870 - 06.1870
• James MacKay's tertius tubular lamp; 05.1869
• Abraham Lowenthal's improvement in the manufacture of boots; 01.1864
• Joseph Gibbs' invention for separating extraneous vegetable matter and preparing fibre obtained from Endogenous plants like Phormium Tenax or Exogenous plants as the hemp and flax families; 09.1863
• Edward Greaves' patent; 1869 - 1870
• James Hughes' perpetual lever power; 08.1866
• George Element's apparatus for the purpose of extracting and saving gold from quartz by chemicals and fluxes; 01.1869
• Christopher Edward Dampier's patent for an improved screw propeller; 12.1864
• William Roberts, Robert Dalton and George E Greenfield's discovery of a solvent for gold and also to reproduce fluid gold in a solid state; 11.1864 - 02.1866
• Edmond Thomas Brown and Joseph Philip Klein's current wheel; 08.1864
• Richard B Shalders' quartz mill on an improved method; 03.1868
• Spridion Rikys' invention for cleaning Phorium Tenax and other fibres by chemical appliances; 03.1870
• William Roberts, Robert Dalton and George E Greenfield's discovery of a solvent for gold and also to reproduce fluid gold in a solid state; 09.1864
• Evan Prichard's patent for composition powder for prevention and cure of Scab in sheep; 10.1863
• Joseph Gibbs' invention for separating extraneous vegetable matter and preparing fibre obtained from Endogenous plants like Phormium Tenax or Exogenous plants as the hemp and flax families; 09.1863
• Dugald Carmichael's Fern cutting machine; 03.1866
• Frederick Arthur Wilson's improved method of separating gold and silver from quartz and other waste; 08.1869 - 12.1869
• William Joseph Edward Sutton's "Sutton Quinine Wine"; 12.1864
• AG Rowlands' patent application; 10.1868 - 01.1869
• Andrew Ross and others' application for patent protection for smelting iron sand by means of petroleum; 07.1866