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is adapted to be made into a printing-surface. Guiding means are employed in bringing the primary and secondary surfaces into the exact relation required, and the design of the primary surface is then imparted to the secondary surface, so as to be located on the secondary surface in the required precise predetermined position. In imparting the design of the primary surface to the secondary surface, these two surfaces may be brought directly into contact with each other, or the primary surface may be first brought into contact with a conveying-surface, upon which the design is thereby printed, the conveying-surface being then brought into contact with the secondary surface, to which latter surface the design is thereby imparted. In both cases, however, guiding means will be employed whereby the coating surfaces will be brought into a precise predetermined relation, both longitudinally and circumferentially, before beginning their co-operating contact. In the case of curved or cylindrical surfaces, the guiding means will insure that the peripheries of the coating surfaces are brought together circumferentially in the exact position required. After the secondary surface has received its design, it is then developed so as to be capable of printing, and becomes what is herein termed the “secondary printing-surface.” The secondary surface may be developed so as to be a planographic, relief, or intaglio printing-surface, and the process of developing it will generally include etching. In this way duplicate printing-surfaces may be made, having identical designs identically placed thereon, and which may be interchangeable in a printing-press, and these printing-surfaces may be mounted in the printing-press and made to print immediately in accurate automatic register, and without the laborious and painstaking adjustment heretofore required.

[NOTE.—The length of the claims in this case preclude them from being printed, and the foregoing general description is inserted instead.]

(Specification, £1 7s.; drawings, £9 9s.)

No. 12187.—21st November, 1899.—GEORGE GARIBALDI TURRI, of Salisbury Building, Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Patent Agent (nominee of the American Lithographic Company, of New York, United States of America, the assignees of Edward Hett, of New Dorp, New York aforesaid, Lithographer). Improvements in printing, and mechanisms therefor.

The invention consists of improvements in the art of printing, and in printing apparatus and mechanism, and especially in apparatus and mechanism for planographic or lithographic printing. The invention has particularly in view multicolour printing. In some of its branches it is limited strictly to planographic or lithographic printing, but in others of its branches it includes as well relief or intaglio printing where the relief or intaglio printing surface has been primarily a planographic or lithographic surface to which the design has been applied after the lithographic manner, and which surface has been subsequently developed into a printing-surface for that design of the character desired by suitable deep etching and routing out or otherwise. The object of the invention is to make multicolour printing on the rotary-press principle accurate, and cheap, and rapid.

[NOTE.—The number (125) and length of the claims in this case preclude them from being printed, and the foregoing general description is inserted instead.]

(Specification, £5 15s.; drawings, £40.)

No. 12193.—23rd November, 1899.—RICHMOND GOLD AND SILVER CIGARETTE COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of West Virginia, and having its principal place of business in the Mills Buildings, 15, Broad Street, New York, United States of America (assignee of Cassius Montezuma Richmond, of 44, West Thirty-fifth Street, New York aforesaid, Dentist). Improvements in cigarette-wrappers.

Claims.—(1.) The described article for use as a cigarette-wrapper, composed of a metal and a fibrous film, connected substantially as shown and described. (2.) The described article for use as a cigarette-wrapper, composed of a metal film, and a fibrous film secured to one or both sides of the metal film, substantially as shown and described.

(Specification, 2s. 9d.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 12202.—23rd November, 1899.—EDWARD ROBERTS, of Rattray Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, Consulting Engineer. Improved wheel elevator for dredges.

Claims.—In dredges, especially gold-saving dredges, the method of lifting the wash from a lower level to a higher level by emptying the contents of a lower shoot, such as B, into the fixed buckets of a wheel such as a, a, A, so that the wash is raised to the higher shoot such as B¹, all substantially as set forth and for the purposes specified. (2.) In dredges, a wheel such as A, a, a, C, revolving on a dredge, receiving wash at its lower part, and delivering the said wash at a higher level into another shoot, substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawing.

(Specification, 1s. 6d.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 12218.—30th November, 1899.—RAYMOND PAYNE, of Princes Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, Consulting Engineer. Improved gold-saving tables, and method of gold-saving.

Claims.—(1.) In gold-saving tables, the method of forming shoots that the gold-bearing wash gets a swift run and leaps over certain cross divisions such as B, and C, C, for separating the gold from the wash, and the fine from the coarse gold, by the different weights and specific gravities of the substances, substantially as set forth. (2.) In combination, a shoot having a steep and adjustable slope such as B for giving velocity to the gold-bearing wash and causing it to separate in leaping the divisions, which are adjustable as to distance and height, such as C, c¹, c², and the further separating of the fine gold from any sand by tables such as F, the whole as a combined apparatus, substantially as set forth, and as shown on the drawing.

(Specification, 1s. 6d.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 12221.—5th December, 1899.—WILLIAM STEERE MAUNDER and ROLAND MOORE MAUNDER, of Ashhurst, New Zealand, Carpenters. Improvements in clothes-horses.

Claims.—(1.) In a clothes-horse, pillars pivoted by arms to a central pillar provided with a foot, substantially as set forth. (2.) The improvements in clothes-horses consisting of parts constructed and arranged substantially as set forth.

(Specification, 1s. 3d.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 12224.—7th December, 1899.—AUGUSTINE JOHN MADDEN, of 41, Murray Street, Prahran, Victoria, Clockmaker. Improvements in electrical synchronizing clocks.

Claims.—(1.) In electrical synchronizing clocks, a mercury-contained tube connected with a lever which makes and breaks contact with the armature of an electro-magnet, substantially as and for the purposes described. (2.) In electrical synchronizing clocks, in combination, lever having central arm arranged to make and break contact with the armature of an electro-magnet, an arm connected by a link to mercury-contained tube, and an arm having a pawl engaging with main toothed wheel of clock-mechanism, substantially as and for the purposes described. (3.) In electrical synchronizing clocks, in combination, lever having central arm arranged to make and break contact with the armature of an electro-magnet, an arm connected by a link to mercury-contained tube, and an arm having a pawl engaging with main toothed wheel of clock-mechanism, a pivoted and weighted click 57 engaging with teeth of wheel 1, and supported by arm 56 from staff 53, an arm 58 supported from same staff and having rounded end or roller 59 to operate against central arm of lever, and a weighted arm 54 supported from the said staff, substantially as and for the purposes described. (4.) In electrical synchronizing clocks, in combination, lever having central arm 50 (with spring plate 51) arranged to make and break contact with armature of electro-magnet, arm 36 connected by link 43 to mercury-contained tube 48, otherwise pivoted to frame of clock, arm 35 having adjustable pressure-spring 61 bearing upon same and having pawl 37 to engage with toothed wheel 1, with limiting stop-piece 39 and pressure-spring 41, staff 53 having arm carrying pivoted click 57, weighted arm 54 and arm 58 acting on arm of main lever, substantially as and for the purposes described. (5.) In electrical synchronizing clocks, in combination, lever set on insulated stud 32 having central arm 50 (with spring plate 51) arranged to make and break contact with armature of electro-magnet, arm 36 connected by link 43 to mercury-contained tube 48, which is otherwise pivoted to insulated frame of clock, arm 35 having adjustable pressure-spring 61 bearing upon same, and having pawl 37 engaging with toothed wheel 1 (or ratchet-wheel affixed thereto), with limitation stop-piece 39 and pressure-spring 41, staff 53 having arm carrying pivoted click 57, weighted arm 54 and arm 58 acting on arm of main lever, adjustable stops to limit travel of armature, means of forming electrical circuit from battery by arm 50, armature and electro-magnet back to battery, and a secondary clock or series of clocks in the same circuit, substantially as and for the purposes described. (6.) In electrical synchronizing clocks, in combination, lever having central arm arranged to make and break contact with the armature of an electro-magnet, an arm connected by a link to mercury-contained tube, and an arm having a pawl engaging