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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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No. 11082.—20th October, 1898.—JAMES ROBINSON, of “Belle Vue,” Rosedale, Victoria, Surveyor. An improved clothes-peg.*

Claim.—The described clothes-peg, consisting essentially of a short length of wood, metal, or other material, having three projecting lugs as B, C, and D extending from its face, the two end-lugs being approximately hock-shaped, substantially as and for the purposes described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawings.

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

No. 11098.—25th October, 1898.—SAMUEL GEORGE ROSEMAN, of Aramoho, Wanganui, New Zealand, Brush-manufacturer. An improved reversible brush.*

Claims.—(1.) In a brush, a handle capable of being removed from one end of the stock and secured in the other end of the same, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (2.) In a brush, a handle provided with a screw-threaded dowel capable of fitting into either end of the stock, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (3.) The improved reversible brush consisting of parts constructed, arranged, and combined substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

(Specification, 1s. 9d.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 11230.—10th December, 1898.—AUGUSTUS HUTTON SHURY, of Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand, Gentleman. Improved gold-saving ripples.

Claim.—The ripple consists of two parts separated as shown in plan, the upper part marked A or C and the lower part marked B, which allows the water and dirt to pass underneath the part A or C and over the part B, preventing the ripples choking, whilst allowing the gold to settle on bottom D.

(Specification, 1s. 6d.; drawings, 8s. 6d.)

No. 11302.—10th January, 1899.—ALEXANDER ALLISON and JAMES ALLISON, of Wanganui, New Zealand, Settlers. An improved medicinal preparation for sheep and other animals.*

[Note.—The title in this application has been altered. See list, provisional specifications, Gazette No. 6, of the 19th January, 1899.]

Claims.—(1.) A preparation for sheep and other animals consisting of wood-ashes, salt, sulphate of iron, slaked lime, sulphur, gentian, and ginger, dried, reduced to a fine powder, and mixed together in the proportions specified. (2.) In a preparation for sheep and other animals, wood-ashes reduced to a fine powder. (3.) A preparation for sheep and other animals consisting of wood-ashes, salt, sulphate of iron, slaked lime, sulphur, gentian, and ginger, dried, reduced to a fine powder, and mixed together, and a palatable ingredient, such as molasses, substantially as set forth.

(Specification, 1s. 9d.)

No. 11468.—21st March, 1899.—CHARLES FELTON SCOTT, of 6214, Sellers Street, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Electrical Engineer, and BENJAMIN GARVER LAMME, of 230, Stratford Avenue, Pittsburg aforesaid, Electrical Engineer. Improvements relating to the regulation of rotary-transformer direct-current electro-motive force.

Claims.—(1.) A system of electrical distribution wherein a rotary transformer is employed for converting alternating currents of one or more phases into direct currents for operating translating devices, and having an inductance-coil included in the alternating current circuit for the purpose of increasing the variation of the electro-motive force supplied to the rotary transformer when the excitation of its field-magnet is varied. (2.) In a system of electrical distribution of the kind described, the provision of means for varying the excitation of the field-magnet of the rotary transformer as well as for varying the electro-motive force impressed on the alternating-current leads supplying said transformer, whereby a gradual variation of the electro-motive force is obtained, substantially as described. (3.) In a system of electrical distribution of the kind described, the provision of means, such as a motor mechanically coupled to the rotary transformer, for rotating same at starting, and maintaining the same in synchronism. (4.) The various systems of regulating the electro-motive force of the direct current delivered from a rotary transformer substantially as described with reference to the drawing.

(Specification, 7s.; drawings, 8s.)

No. 11484.—27th March, 1899.—WILLIAM STEVENSON, of “Irvine and Stevenson,” Dunedin, New Zealand, Grocer. An improved export crate for carrying the carcases of rabbits or hares and the like.

Claims.—(1.) In a crate for carrying carcases of rabbits or hares, in combination, the body of the crate formed of light battens and solid ends, a tray-lid formed of battens and triangular standards, hanging-bands of iron or other metal, and centre supporting-wires, substantially as described and set forth in specifications and drawings. (2.) In a crate for carrying carcases of rabbits or hares or the like, the improved method of making lid of crate so that when opened it forms a tray, which can be packed independently of the body of the crate, and when closed it forms part of the crate, which can then be safely and firmly secured, substantially as described and set forth in specifications and drawings. (3.) In a crate for carrying carcases of rabbits or hares, in combination, hanging-bands of iron or other metal, and centre supporting-wires, substantially as described and set forth in specifications and drawings.

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

No. 11530.—14th April, 1899.—CHARLES FELTON SCOTT, of 6214, Sellers Street, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Electrical Engineer; HARRY PHILLIPS DAVIS, of 327, Neville Street, Pittsburg aforesaid, Electrical Engineer; and GILBERT WRIGHT, of 409, Ross Avenue, Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania aforesaid, Electrical Engineer. Improvements in switches for electric circuits.*

Claims.—(1.) A switch of the kind described, in which the substitution of an undivided portion of the conductor for a divided portion thereof, or vice versa, is effected by an auxiliary switch which is automatically operated when the main switch-arm passes the last of the set of contacts to which the several sections of the divided portion of the conductor are connected, further changes in the length of the conductor being caused by the switch again traversing the same set of contacts, substantially as described. (2.) A duplicate regulating-switch, of the kind described, for varying the active length of two dependent or independent circuits, both parts of the switch being actuated by the same handle, substantially as described. (3.) In an electric switch, a device for preventing the reversal of the movement of the actuating-lever until said lever has completed its stroke, substantially as described with reference to Fig. 3 of the drawings. (4.) In an electric switch having a contact-arm carried by a ratchet-wheel, the arrangement for varying the direction of movement of said ratchet-wheel by rotating the operating-lever thereof on its longitudinal axis, substantially as described with reference to Figs. 3, 4, 8, 9, and 10 of the drawings. (5.) Regulating-switches, for one or for two circuits, constructed and operating substantially as described with reference to Figs. 1 to 11 or to Fig. 12 of the drawings.

(Specification, 13s. 6d.; drawings, £2 10s.)

No. 11531.—14th April, 1899.—BENJAMIN GARVER LAMME, of 230, Stratford Avenue, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Electrical Engineer. Improvements in induction motors.*

Claims.—(1.) For an electric motor of the kind described, a secondary member in which the rings connecting the ends of the bar conductors are provided with radial blades for the purpose specified. (2.) The modification in which some or all of the blades are provided with shoulders to engage with the outer flanges of the spider supporting the secondary member, and serve to centre the resistance-rings. (3.) An induction motor in which the secondary member has a laminated core provided with ventilating-channels, and the primary member has a laminated core provided with ventilating-channels which are concentric with and in the same plane as those in the secondary member, substantially as described. (4.) Electric motors constructed substantially as described.

(Specification, 2s. 6d.; drawings, 16s.)