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SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1899.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1899.

Notice of Acceptance of Complete Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 13th September, 1899.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the under-mentioned applications for Letters Patent have been accepted, and are open to public inspection at this office. Any person may, at any time within two months from the date of this Gazette, give me notice in writing of opposition to the grant of any such patent. Such notice must set forth the particular grounds of objection, and be in duplicate. A fee of 10s. is payable thereon.

No. 11149.—10th November, 1898.—WILLIAM ANDREWS and ARTHUR WARD BEAVEN (trading as “Andrews and Beaven”), of Christchurch, New Zealand, Agricultural Engineers. Improvements in and relating to seed-cleaning machinery.*

Claims.—(1.) The improved means for adjusting and operating cleaning-brushes beneath the riddles of a seed-cleaning machine consisting of the parts arranged, combined, and operating substantially as and for the purposes described, and illustrated in the drawings. (2.) In seed-cleaning machinery, the combination of carrying-bars upon opposite sides of the machine carrying slide-bars arranged across the machine beneath each riddle, riddle-cleaning brushes at right angles to said slide-bars, and guided thereon, and means for imparting reciprocating motion to said brushes, substantially as and for the purposes described, and illustrated in the drawings. (3.) In seed-cleaning machinery, the combination of a vertical spindle revolved by worm-wheel gearing, a crank upon said spindle connected by a connecting-rod with a crank upon a vertical rocking-shaft, and lever-arms fixed upon said rocking-shaft connected by connecting-rods with and reciprocating cleaning-brushes arranged beneath the riddles, substantially as and for the purposes described, and illustrated in the drawings. (4.) In seed-cleaning machinery, the combination of carrying-bars upon opposite sides of the machine carrying slide-bars arranged across the machine beneath each riddle, rocking-shafts extending across the machine and connected by levers with said carrying-bars, a hand-lever upon one rocking-shaft connected by a connecting-rod with a lever upon the other rocking-shaft, whereby the whole of said carrying-bars may be simultaneously operated, substantially as and for the purposes described, and illustrated in the drawings. (5.) In seed-cleaning machinery, the device for enabling one riddle-cleaning brush to be adjusted independently of the others, substantially as described, and illustrated in the drawings. (6.) In seed-cleaning machinery, the combination with the polishing-cylinder of an adjustable valve provided with a balance-weight, whereby the pressure upon material within the polishing-box may be regulated, substantially as and for the purposes described, and illustrated in the drawings. (7.) The combination and arrangement of parts comprising our improvements in seed-cleaning machinery substantially as and for the purposes described, and illustrated in the drawings.
(Specification, 6s. 6d.; drawings, 16s.)

No. 11204.—1st December, 1898.—ANDREW JOHN PARK, of 2, Commercial Chambers, Manse Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, Patent Agent. Improvements in gold-saving apparatus.*

Claims.—(1.) In gold-saving apparatus, a conveyer for separating large particles from the material to be treated, the said conveyer comprising battens spaced apart and mounted upon endless bands made to revolve around pulleys, substantially as set forth. (2.) In gold-saving apparatus, a conveyer for separating large particles from the material to be treated, the said conveyer comprising battens of triangular section spaced apart and mounted upon endless bands made to revolve around pulleys, in combination with a water-pipe, a hopper, and a sluice-box, substantially as set forth. (3.) The improvements in gold-saving apparatus consisting of parts constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as set forth, and illustrated in the drawing.
(Specification, 2s. 3d.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 11216.—5th December, 1898.—JOHN GREENSLADE, of Prebbleton, Canterbury, New Zealand, Engineer. A new or improved continuous crank, or eccentric lubricator-conductor.*

Claims.—(1.) The lubricating apparatus consisting of the combination and arrangement of parts constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as and for the purposes described, and illustrated in the drawings. (2.) In apparatus for lubricating a crank or other bearing when in motion, the employment of a tube pivotally connected to said bearing at one end, and receiving telescopically another tube, one end of which is pivoted in a fixed support, substantially as and for the purposes described, and illustrated in the drawings. (3.) In apparatus for the purpose described, a tube for conducting lubricant connected by a ball-and-socket joint to a bearing, and a second tube working telescopically within it, fixed at its upper end to a trunnion bearing upon a fixed support, substantially as and for the purposes described, and illustrated in the drawings.
(Specification, 2s. 3d.; drawings, 3s.)

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