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No. 11729.—20th June, 1899.—CHARLES MORRIS NEWSON, of 103, Queen Street, Auckland, New Zealand, Builder. Improved tell-tale and burglar-alarm.

Claims.—(1.) The combination with a bell having a striking-hammer driven by a motor of a slide actuated by the opening of a door or the like to which the apparatus is applied, whereby a mechanical member normally restraining said motor is operated, and an alarm is sounded upon the bell, substantially as set forth and illustrated. (2.) In apparatus for the purpose described, a slide operated by the opening of a door or the like to which the apparatus is applied, a cam upon said slide operating a sliding spindle at right angles thereto, said spindle carrying a cam which normally engages with and retains a motor-driven member by which an alarm is sounded, substantially as specified. (3.) In apparatus for the purpose described, a slide n made of bent wire, a cam q formed thereon, a loop threaded upon the slide forming a lifting-bracket, a sliding spindle operated thereby, and a cam upon said spindle normally engaging with the tail of a hammer, said hammer being caused by clock-work mechanism to strike upon a bell, when slide n is operated, substantially as set forth and illustrated. (4.) In apparatus such as described, the means by which an alarm is continuously sounded upon a bell until the motive-power is exhausted consisting of a motor-driven bell, a sliding spindle carrying a cam engaging with a mechanical member and retaining the motor, a slide operated by the opening of a door or the like to which the apparatus is applied, said slide having a cam actuating said sliding spindle, and a pin adapted to be passed beneath and across the slide, whereby when said slide is operated the motor is released and allowed to run continuously, substantially as set forth and illustrated. (5.) An improved tell-tale and burglar-alarm consisting of the mechanical parts arranged, combined, and operating substantially as and for the purposes described, and illustrated in the drawings.
(Specification, 4s. 9d.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 11732.—22nd June, 1899.—THOMAS HENRY PATCHING, of Strathfield, New South Wales, Tailor. An automatic coupling for use on railway-carriages and the like.

Claims—(1.) In an automatic coupling for use on railway carriages and the like, a pawl revolving on and operated by an eccentric, substantially as described and as illustrated in the drawings. (2.) In an automatic coupling for use on railway carriages and the like, the combination and arrangement of a toothed bar, hinged to a draw-bar, with a pawl revolving on and operated by an eccentric, substantially as described and as illustrated in the drawings. (3.) In an automatic coupling for use on railway carriages and the like, the combination and arrangement of a toothed bar such as d with a pawl, such as k, revolving on an eccentric, such as m; supported by trunnions, such as n n, between the side-bars of a female coupling, substantially as described and as illustrated in the drawings.
(Specification, 3s. 3d.; drawings, 5s. d.

No. 11733.—22nd June, 1899.—ROBERT KERR, of Wellington, New Zealand, Contractor (assignee of Kate Plummer, of Gisborne, New Zealand). An improved composition for cleansing clothes and for other purposes.

Claim.—The improved composition consisting of refined tallow, borax, caustic soda, ammonia, bitter almonds, turpentine, citronelle, in the proportions for the purpose substantially as described.
(Specification, 1s.)

No. 11736.—22nd June, 1899.—STEPHEN JOHN HOLLAND, of 103, Queen Street, Auckland, New Zealand, Tinsmith. Improved apparatus for cooking alimentary substances.

Claims.—(1.) The improved apparatus for cooking alimentary substances constructed, arranged, and operating substantially and for the purposes described, and illustrated in the drawings. (2.) In apparatus for the purpose described, a receptacle mounted upon legs and adapted to be placed within an ordinary saucepan or the like, and provided with lifting handles substantially as specified. (3.) In apparatus for the purpose described, a receptacle mounted upon legs adapted to be placed within a saucepan or similar cooking utensil, said receptacle having a perforated false bottom substantially as specified and illustrated.
(Specification, 1s. 9d.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 11738.—21st June, 1899.—WILLIAM J. McVEIGH, of Berry, New South Wales, Manager of the Berry Central Butter Factory, and GEORGE LYELL, jun., of Aitken Street, Gisborne, Victoria, Manufacturer. Improvements in and

connected with the testing of milk, skim-milk, and cream for butter-fat, and the bottles therefor.

Claims.—(1.) The improved milk, skim-milk, and cream testing bottle having a neck which, in internal diameter and length, bears the proportion described and illustrated to the volume of the bulb beneath it, all as and for the purposes set forth, and as shown in each figure of the drawings. (2.) The improved milk, skim-milk, and cream testing bottle having a neck of small diameter and beneath it a bulb on the shoulders of which bulb is a filling-hole with an outwardly protruding neck, all as and for the purposes described, and as illustrated in the drawings. (3.) In bottles for testing milk, skim-milk, and cream, a rubber or other stopper or piston having a bevelled bottom and an increased taper around its top, by the movement of which in the outwardly projecting neck of a filling-hole the height of the butter-fat column in the neck can be adjusted for reading, all as and for the purposes described, and illustrated in the drawings. (4.) In the bottles used for testing milk, skim-milk, and cream, the combination of a bulb having a filling-hole and an outwardly projecting neck with a rubber or other stopper or piston having a bevelled bottom and an increased taper around its top, all as and for the purposes described and as illustrated in the drawings. (5.) In the testing of milk, skim-milk, and cream, a bottle having a relationship between the bulb volume and the neck diameter and length as described and illustrated, in which bulb is proportionately placed 17·5 c.c.m. of the sample to be tested, 17·5 c.c.m. of sulphuric acid, 2 c.c.m. of amyl alcohol (in the case of cream only 1 c.c.m.), and a filling of hot water, all as and for the purposes described and as illustrated in the drawings. (6.) In the testing of milk, skim-milk, and cream, the combination of a bottle having the proportions and graduations specified, with a mixture of the following proportions: Sample, 17·5; sulphuric acid, 17·5; amyl alcohol, 2, and a filling of hot water, all as and for the purposes described and as illustrated in the drawings. (7.) In the testing of milk, skim milk, and cream, the test completed in one operation by test-bottles having the relative proportions and graduations shown and set forth, the bulbs containing in the proportions given: Sample, 17·5; sulphuric acid, 17·5; amyl alcohol, 2, and a filling of hot water, all as and for the purposes described, and as illustrated in the drawings.
(Specification, 5s. 3d.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 11740.—23rd June, 1899.—CHARLES ADAMS, of Raincliff, Pleasant Point, Canterbury, New Zealand, Shepherd. Improved wire-strainer.

Claims.—(1.) A wire-strainer consisting of a drum mounted in a casing, chains attached to the drum at one end, and having grips upon their outer extremities, and a ratchet-wheel upon the drum-axle engaged by retaining pawls, substantially as specified and illustrated. (2.) With a wire-strainer consisting of a drum journaled in a casing, chains attached to the drum at one end, having grips at their outer extremities, the combination of a dog or clamp received by a notch in the casing for holding the wires while they are being spliced, substantially as described and illustrated. (3.) The improved wire-strainer, constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as described, and illustrated in the drawing.
Specification, 2s. 6d.; drawings, 3s. 6d.

No. 11741.—23rd June, 1899.—THE DOE PORTABLE ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER SYNDICATE, LIMITED, whose registered office is at Broad Street House, New Broad Street, London, England (assignee of Walter Scott Doe, of 222, Monticello Avenue, Jersey City, State of New Jersey, United States of America, Electrician). Improvements in galvanic batteries.

Claims.—(1.) In a galvanic battery the combination with a tubular perforated carbon cathode mounted upon a perforated tubular holder having a conductive wire of platinum stretched across and extending up within it, of an anode of zinc resting merely by its own weight on the said wire and making rubbing contact with the said wire throughout its length substantially as specified. (2.) In a galvanic battery the combination with a tubular perforated carbon cathode mounted upon a perforated tubular holder having a conductive wire of platinum stretched across and extending up within it, of an anode of zinc resting merely by its own weight on the said wire and making rubbing contact with the said wire throughout its length, the anode being in the form of a complete tube open at the ends and exposed to the action of the electrolyte both on its inner and outer surfaces, as specified. (3.) In a galvanic battery the combination with a perforated tubular holder of insulating material suspended from the top cover of the casing of a perforated tubular cylinder of carbon supported exteriorly on