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No. 13228.—8th December, 1900.—NICOLAI JENSEN, of Mauriceville, New Zealand, Blacksmith. Improved wire-straining appliances.

Claims.—(1.) In appliances for straining wire, a bow-shaped piece of metal, one arm of which is formed with a curved projection or nose, and provided with a deep groove therein, while the other arm is formed with a ledge and provided with a cam-shaped grip pivoted upon such ledge, in combination with a barrel adapted to fit and rotate against the curved projection of one of the arms, and with means for rotating such barrel, as specified. (2.) The general arrangement, construction, and combination of parts in my improved appliances for straining wire, as described and explained, as illustrated in the drawings, and for the purposes set forth.
(Specification, 3s.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 13229.—6th December, 1900.—ARTHUR MAURICE HENDY, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Hairdresser. Improvements in fire-grates, especially for ranges, coppers, and the like.

Claims.—(1.) In fire-grates, especially for ranges, coppers, and the like, the combination with the range or furnace of a grate made in a basket form, so as to slide up and down by means of a rack and pinion, levers, or the like, substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawing. (2.) In combination, any grate movable to or from its work, as needed, by such means as shown, with the furnace or range, all substantially as set forth. (3.) In combination, a grate A, with a rack movement B, C, D, or a lever movement and slides E, E¹, F, and A¹, A¹, all substantially as set forth, and for the purposes specified.
(Specification, 2s. 6d.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 13231.—8th December, 1900.—RICHARD EDWARD NIGHTINGALE, of 16, Salisbury Street, Christchurch, New Zealand, Builder’s Foreman. Improved bricks for protecting walls from damp and for ventilating buildings.

Claim.—The described improved bricks for protecting walls from damp and for ventilating buildings; those to be used as stretchers having on one side two or more grooves or channels running transversely, and those to be used as headers having on one side one or more grooves or channels running longitudinally, such grooves or channels being either plain as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 7, 8, or each provided with ribs as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, or a perforated rib as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 in the drawings, and substantially as described.
(Specification, 4s. 3d.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 13239.—13th December, 1900.—ARTHUR HENRY BENNETT, of 44, Swan Street, Richmond, Victoria, Gasfitter, and STEPHEN JONES, of 51, Athol Street, Moonee Ponds, Victoria aforesaid, Gasfitter. A system of automatically lighting gas-burners, and novel apparatus for use therein.

Claims.—(1.) A system of gas-lighting comprising a supply-cock provided with an adjustable by-pass, one feed-pipe leading from such cock to a number of burners, each burner being provided with a valve to control the gas-supply to its burner and a valve to control the gas-supply to a pilot ignition-tube, and the whole being so arranged that when the gas-burners are ignited the pilot lights are extinguished, or that when the pilot lights are burning the burners are extinguished, the whole system being so governed that by turning on the said main-supply cock the whole of the burners will automatically light themselves and the corresponding pilot lights be automatically extinguished, or alternatively by turning off the cock all the burners will be automatically extinguished and the corresponding pilot lights be lighted and remain so lighted until the said supply-cock be again operated. (2.) A system of gas-lighting comprising a cock in the gas-supply pipe (said cock being provided with a by-pass), means for automatically controlling the gas-passage to the burner, and means for automatically controlling the gas-passage to the pilot tube, so that the gas is supplied to the burner only when cock is turned on, and to the pilot tube only when cock is turned off, substantially as and for the purposes described. (3.) In combination, a cylinder 8 to be secured to gas-fittings, the top of which forms seating for a valve, a chamber above same having means for carrying burner, a valve in the chamber, a branch pipe from the cylinder, a pipe-section and pipe communicating with branch pipe, a valve in the pipe, a valve-seating on top of pipe-section and top of pipe, and a by-passage from pipe-section beneath the valve to pipe above the valve, substantially as and for the purposes described. (4.) In combination, a cylinder as 8 to be secured to gas-fittings, the top of which forms a seating for a valve, a shouldered tube as 14 fitting on to same and forming a chamber and having means for carrying a burner, a ball valve as 11 in the chamber and means for guiding valve in its movements, a branch pipe as 21 from the cylinder, a pipe-section as 22 entering same and the top of which forms valve-seat, a tube as 25 screwed on to the pipe-section and having valve-seat at top and carrying pilot tube, a valve as 23 with conical top, a casing as 28 to pipe as 25, an opening as 24 in the pipe-section as 22, openings as 26 and 29 in the pipe 25, and means for regulating opening 24, substantially as and for the purposes described. (5.) In combination, cylinder as 8, the top of which forms a seating for a valve, a wire-gauze strip at base of cylinder, and means for securing cylinder to gas-fittings, a shouldered tube as 14 fitting on to the cylinder forming a valve chamber and having a neck internally and externally screw-threaded, a ball valve in the chamber having incisions at top and mounted on rod set in a guide-frame, a branch pipe as 21 from the cylinder, a pipe-section as 22 entering same with top forming valve-seat, a pipe as 25 carrying pilot tube as 34 fitting on to the pipe-section, and having conical top forming valve-seat, a pipe-casing as 28, a valve as 23 within the pipe 25, an opening 24 in the pipe-section, an opening 26 in the pipe 25 in line with same and an opening 29 in the pipe 25 near its top, an adjusting-screw 30 to regulate the opening 24, and an adjusting-screw 32 to regulate the opening from branch pipe 21 to pipe-section 22, substantially as and for the purposes described. (6.) In a system of gas-lighting after the manner described, a cock having by-pass pipe for the maintenance of pilot burners, with means of regulating the gas-flow in the said pipe, substantially as and for the purposes described. (7.) In the described system of gas-lighting, in combination, a cock having by-pass pipe 3, a box 4 which communicates with cock and receives one end of pipe 3, and adjusting screw tap 5 to regulate the passage from box 4 to by-pass 3, substantially as and for the purposes described. (8.) The general combination and arrangement of the several parts forming a complete system of automatic gas-lighting, and apparatus therefor, substantially as illustrated on the drawings.
(Specification, 11s.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 13240.—13th December, 1900.—ARTHUR CONSTANT AUCHER, of McDonnell Street, Toowong, Queensland, Bachelor of Arts. An improved corkscrew.

Claim.—An improved corkscrew, consisting of a screw rigidly secured to a stirrup-shaped handle such as B, the said handle having integral therewith a horizontal ring or shoulder such as D for fitting round the mouth of a bottle, substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated.
(Specification, 1s. 6d.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 13241.—13th December, 1900.—ARTHUR CONSTANT AUCHER, of McDonnell Street, Toowong, Queensland, Bachelor of Arts. An improved vaporised-oil burner for heating purposes.

Claims.—(1.) In a vaporised-oil burner, a reservoir such as A, connecting-pipe such as B, vaporiser or pipes such as C, C¹, perforated ring or rings such as G, trough such as D, and valve such as E, operated by a handle such as F, substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawings. (2.) The improved vaporised-oil burner consisting of the combination and arrangement of parts, all substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawings.
(Specification, 2s. 6d.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 13242.—13th December, 1900.—ARTHUR CONSTANT AUCHER, of McDonnell Street, Toowong, Queensland, Bachelor of Arts. Improvements in automatic gas-igniters.

Claims.—(1.) In an automatic gas-igniter, the employment of a pivoted sheet, or thin mica plate, having a central opening over or through which are suspended threads of platinum or substance of a like nature, substantially as described and explained. (2.) In apparatus for automatically lighting gas, a pivoted mica plate such as A, having a central opening such as B, and carrying a stirrup such as C, from which is suspended a hoop such as D, ball such as D¹, and platinum or other threads such as E, the said plate having a tail-piece such as F provided with adjustable sliding weight such as J, in a slot such as H, substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawings. (3.) The improved automatic gas-igniter consisting of the combination and arrangement of parts all substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawings.
(Specification, 3s.; drawings, 1s.)