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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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No. 10793.—19th July, 1898.—ROBERT MAIN HATHAWAY and JOHN ROBERTSON, both of 54, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand, Settlers. An improved device for moistening adhesive and other surfaces.*

Claims.—(1.) A damper, comprising in combination a vessel containing water, a perforated plate covered with absorbent material, and a spring to support the plate and close the top of the vessel, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (2.) A damper, comprising in combination a vessel containing water, a perforated plate covered with absorbent material, a spring to support the plate and close the top of the vessel, and a top to cover the moistened surface, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (3.) The improved damper for moistening adhesive and other surfaces, consisting of parts constructed, arranged, and combined substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
(Specification, 4s. 6d.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 10804.—20th July, 1898.—SYDENHAM OXENHAM, of Makauri, Poverty Bay, New Zealand, Brickmaker. An improved water-strainer to be used in connection with tanks, &c.*

Claims.—The improved strainer for clearing rain and other water from refuse and other impurities, consisting of a receiver, a rectangular pipe having a sediment-chamber connected with it, over which is fixed at an angle a strainer, and a vertical pipe fitted with a movable circular fine-gauge strainer, with a connecting-pipe to the tank, as more particularly described, and illustrated in the drawing, for the purpose set forth.
(Specification, 5s.; drawing, 3s.)

No. 10816.—22nd July, 1898.—SYDENHAM OXENHAM, of Makauri, Poverty Bay, New Zealand, Brickmaker. An improved automatic silt-ejector for tanks and cisterns.*

Claims.—(1.) In combination, a tank or cistern, a float, a ball or other valve, means to connect together the float and the ball or valve, with or without intermediate lever-appliances, and a scour-pipe at the bottom of the tank, as and for the purposes specified. (2.) The general arrangement, construction, and combination of parts in the improved automatic mode of and apparatus for ejecting silt and deposit from tanks and cisterns, as described, and illustrated in the drawings, for the purpose set forth.
(Specification, 7s.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 10817.—21st July, 1898.—SYDENHAM OXENHAM, of Makauri, Poverty Bay, New Zealand, Brickmaker. An improved guard to protect house-spouting from the intrusion of small birds and deposit of refuse matter.*

Claim.—The improved guard for protecting house-guttering, consisting of L-shaped lengths of perforated zinc, or other perforated metal, wire-gauze, or other suitable material, the horizontal limb of such guard being laid in or over the guttering, while the vertical limb shall project upwards beneath the roof, the upper edge of such vertical limb being scalloped or otherwise shaped so as to fit the inequalities on the under-side of the roof, as and for the purpose specified.
(Specification, 4s. 6d.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 11156.—14th November, 1898.—WILLIAM ERNEST HUGHES, of 54, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand, Patent Agent (nominee of Emanuel Jensen, of Copenhagen, Denmark, Architect). Improvements in floors and the like, and in methods of constructing the same.

Claims.—(1.) A floor comprising joists having L, T, or I section, side beams to support the joists, longitudinal bars secured to the joists by wires, and bedding of cement mortar around the joists and bars, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (2.) The method of constructing floors consisting in erecting a temporary structure of joists and boards supported upon the side beams of the building by means of brackets and wedges, placing the permanent joists with their ends resting upon the said beams, bracing the permanent joists together by longitudinal iron rods and wires, and filling in with cement mortar, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
(Specification, 4s. 6d.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 11163.—15th November, 1898.—WILLIAM ERNEST HUGHES, of 54, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand, Patent Agent (nominee of Emanuel Jensen, of Copenhagen, Denmark, Architect). An improved method of and machine for manufacturing concrete pipes and the like.

Claims.—(1.) A pipe, channel, water-tank, or the like, composed of mortar, and wires imbedded longitudinally and spirally in the mortar, substantially as set forth. (2.) A machine for manufacturing pipes, channels, water-tanks, and the like, comprising in combination a cylinder, a hand-roller and frame, a pressure-roller, a roller supplied with canvas guide-rollers for wire, one of which has spiral grooves and drums for holding the wire, the whole mounted in a suitable frame, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (3.) A machine for manufacturing pipes, channels, water-tanks, and the like, comprising in combination a cylinder made to collapse and mounted upon a movable frame or support secured to an inclined bar, a hand-roller and frame adjustable upon a rack, a pressure-roller, a crank lever and weight acting upon the pressure-roller, a roller supplied with canvas guide-rollers for wire, one of which has spiral grooves, drums for holding the wire-brakes operating upon the drums, the whole mounted in a suitable frame, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (4.) The method of manufacturing pipes, channels, water-tanks, or the like, consisting in applying mortar to the surface of a cylinder, imbedding longitudinal wires in the mortar, winding wires spirally upon the mortar and longitudinal wires, compressing the same together, laying a further layer or layers upon the first, and wrapping canvas around the last layer during removal of the work from the machine used for making the articles to a convenient place where the same may be left to set, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
(Specification, 8s.; drawings, 6s.)

No. 11282.—4th January, 1899.—LOUIS ANTOINE GARCHEY, of Demi-Lune, near Lyons, Rhone, France, Moulder. Improvements in the manufacture of ceramic stone.

Claims.—(1.) In the manufacture of ceramic stone as described, reducing the glass or other material to a more or less finely divided state prior to devitrification. (2.) In the manufacture of ceramic stone as described, forming the finely divided material prior to devitrification into a paste by means of a suitable glutinous fluid substantially as described. (3.) In the manufacture of ceramic stone as described, reducing the glass before devitrification to a finely divided state, then mixing the same with a suitable glutinous liquid to a paste, and roughly moulding such paste to about the desired form, substantially as described. (4.) In the manufacture of ceramic stone of the class described, subsequently heating the moulded material obtained in the manner described in a furnace at a temperature of about 1,300° C., whereby the particles of glass are softened and devitrified. (5.) The described process for softening and devitrifying glass for the purpose indicated, consisting in reducing the material, dry, to a finely divided state, and heating the same in moulds in a furnace at a temperature of about 1,300° C., such moulds having previously been raised to about the same temperature in the furnace, and having the sides and bottom sprinkled with sand or other detachable material prior to the introduction of the pulverised mass, substantially as described. (6.) In the manufacture of ceramic stone, compressing to the desired shape the devitrified material whilst heated, substantially as described. (7.) The combination of materials prior to devitrification for certain purposes or decorative effects as described, together with their subsequent treatment in the manner as set forth.
(Specification, 10s.)

No. 11317.—14th January, 1899.—ERNEST SCHMOLL, Bootmaker, and LOUIS SCHMOLL, Carpenter, both of 183, Hereford Street, Christchurch, New Zealand. Improvements in boots and shoes.*

Claims.—(1.) An improvement in boots and the like, substantially as specified and illustrated. (2.) As a new article of manufacture, a sole for a boot, or the like, one portion of which is split or divided longitudinally, substantially as and for the purposes described, and illustrated in the drawings. (3.) An improvement in boots and the like, consisting in forming the sole with a split or divided portion whereby the part which is not split may be sewn to the upper while the latter is inside out, the upper then turned, and the edges of the unsewn part of the upper brought between the parts of the divided sole, and secured by sewing or analogous means substantially as specified.
(Specification, 5s.; drawings, 3s.)