Dec. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2301

No. 13244.—13th December, 1900.—ARTHUR CONSTANT AUCHER, of McDonnell Street, Toowong, Queensland, Bachelor of Arts. Improvements in or relating to gas-lighting.

Claims.—(1.) In gas-lighting, the employment with two or more burners of one or more air-admission valves capable of being regulated, and leading to an air-and-gas chamber or chambers in communication with the gas-supply pipe, substantially as described and explained. (2.) In gas-lighting, the combination with a burner or burners of a cock such as A¹ on the gas-supply pipe, provided with a stop so that it does not completely close, substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawings. (3.) In incandescent gas-lighting, the employment of two or more burners and an incandescing tissue or plume such as H, suspended from a platinum wire such as G, supported on a nickel or other suitable frame such as F, substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawings. (4.) The improvements in gas-lighting consisting of the combination, with two or more burners, of an air-admission valve such as C, air-and-gas chamber such as B, and cock such as A¹, and with or without an incandescing medium, substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawings.

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

No. 13246.—13th December, 1900.—JAMES PETCH SIMON and JOHN SIMON, both of Dunedin, New Zealand, Boot Merchants. An improved boot for deformed and shortened feet.

Claim.—A boot for deformed or shortened feet constructed of soft leather or other suitable material, the bottom of which is filled with gutta-percha, celluloid, or other light material in sufficient quantity and of requisite shape to make up for the deficiencies of the wearer, and whose under-side is provided with a flat spring, such boot being adapted to fit into an ordinary boot or shoe, as specified.

(Specification, 2s. 3d.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 13250.—11th December, 1900.—WILLIAM NEPEAN-HUTCHISON, Commercial Traveller, and HENRY SCOTT HARDEN, Solicitor, both of Sydney, and HUGH COLLEY, Dairy-farmer, of Kiama, all in New South Wales. An improved garbage-and-nightsoil cart.

Claims.—(1.) A garbage-cart the body of which is in the form of a box with an inclined bottom sloping towards the rear, such body being provided with one or two filling-doors and with an emptying-door, all such doors being hermetically sealed and clamped, as specified. (2.) A garbage-cart the body of which is such as that described, in combination with an internal rose and with a superimposed tank charged with disinfectant, and with valves and connections for the admission of the disinfectant, and for water also, in combination with the rose, as set forth. (3.) A garbage-cart the body of which is in the form of a box with an inclined bottom, such body being provided with hermetically-sealed-door entrances and an exit, the exit being controlled by a suitable lever apparatus and connections, in combination with an internal rose that is connected with a disinfectant-tank, and with means for admitting a supply of water to the rose, and with a box seat which may be made hollow so as to contain spare buckets as may be required, as set forth. (4.) The general arrangement, construction, and combination of parts in the improved garbage-and-nightsoil cart as described, as illustrated in the drawings, and for the purposes specified.

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

No. 13251.—11th December, 1900.—GEORGE JOHN HOSKINS, of Sydney, New South Wales, Engineer. An improved mode of and apparatus for making cores for pipes and other cylindrical castings.

Claims.—(1.) The improved mode of constructing the cores for cylindrical castings, consisting of the revolution on a horizontal axis of a cylindrical core-barrel, upon which is fed a viscid mass consisting of a compound of sawdust and mucilage or other suitable combustible material, the surface of such viscid material being rendered uniformly cylindrical by the revolution against its surface of a wire-gauze cylinder, as specified. (2.) In apparatus for the construction of cores for cylindrical castings, in combination, a core-barrel revolving on a horizontal axis, an inclined wire-gauze cylinder revolving with the core-barrel by frictional contact, an overhead travelling frame which carries the wire cylinder, and a trough beneath the horizontal core-barrel and the wire-gauze cylinder, as set forth. (3.) The general arrangement, construction, and combination of parts in the apparatus for making the cores for pipes and other cylindrical castings, as described, and for the several purposes set forth.

(Specification, 4s.; drawings, 1s.)

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.

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The date of acceptance of each application is given after the number.

Provisional Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 19th December, 1900.

APPLICATIONS for Letters Patent, with provisional specifications, have been accepted as under:—

No. 13190.—19th November, 1900.—EDWARD SEQUE and ALBERT E. RAPER, of 378, Great King Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, Labourers. An improved drop-plate for gold-dredges.

No. 13209.—4th December, 1900.—CHARLES WILLIAM ALLEN, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Journalist. “An improvement in envelopes designed to protect the contents against being tampered with, and in sealing-devices to secure the closing-flap.”

No. 13210.—4th December, 1900.—ANDREW HERBERT BYRON, Civil Engineer, and ALEXANDER REID BAIRD, Gentleman, both of 47, Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria. An aerial machine, and improvements in apparatus in connection with suchlike machines.

No. 13215.—4th December, 1900.—WILLIAM GILBERT MOUAT and ROBERT WALES, trading as “Mouat and Wales,” of Princes Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, Consulting Engineers. Improved rope coupling or grip.

No. 13216.—29th November, 1900.—JOSEPH MORGAN, of Greymouth, New Zealand, Mining Engineer. A gold-amalgamator.

No. 13217.—4th December, 1900.—FENTON LAMBERT, of Parkhurst, Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, Sheep-farmer. A weighted tension bridge.

No. 13220.—3rd December, 1900.—THOMAS HAWKE, of Auckland, New Zealand, Farmer. Skeith resisting side-thrust and rotary-tooth digger attachments to ploughs.

No. 13223.—4th December, 1900.—WILLIAM COULSON, of Tokatea, Coromandel, New Zealand, Engine-driver. An improved retort.

No. 13224.—4th December, 1900.—GEORGE FRASER, the Younger, of Auckland, and SAMUEL EDGAR FRASER, of Waikino, Auckland, both in the Colony of New Zealand, Engineers. A revolving vacuum filter for the continuous treatment of slimes, sand, pulps, and suchlike in connection with cyanide or other chemical application.

No. 13225.—7th December, 1900.—HUGH JOSEPH FINN, of Gisborne, New Zealand, Barrister and Solicitor (nominee of Charles de Sarigny, Stockbroker, and Abraham Joseph Onus, Mining Engineer, both of Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa). An improved concentrating-machine.

No. 13227.—8th December, 1900.—ESTHER HART, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Ladies’ Outfitter. Improved means for securing ladies’ hats to the heads of the wearers.

No. 13233.—10th December, 1900.—HENRY DONKIN, of 167, Tinakori Road, Wellington, New Zealand, Tent- and Bag-maker. An improved safety-pocket.

No. 13235.—6th December, 1900.—HENRY HIRST, of Orepuki, New Zealand, Gentleman. Improvements in railway- and road-graders.

No. 13236.—11th December, 1900.—ROBERT DALZIELL, of Tuapeka West, New Zealand, Farmer. An improved hoe.

No. 13237.—8th December, 1900.—WILLIAM EDWARD SPENCER, of New Plymouth, New Zealand, Inspector of Schools. A method of separating gold and other heavy substances from sand, clay, and other loose material.

No. 13247.—13th December, 1900.—WILLIAM ERNEST HUGHES, of Queen’s Chambers, Wellington, New Zealand, Patent Agent (nominee of Walther Glitsch, of No. 1, Rennweg, Zurich, Switzerland, Engineer). Improved burner for vaporised liquid fuel for incandescence lighting and heating purposes.

No. 13248.—13th December, 1900.—WILLIAM ERNEST HUGHES, of Wellington, New Zealand, Patent Agent (nominee of Walther Glitsch, of No. 1, Rennweg, Zurich, Switzerland, Engineer). Improvements in lighting and heating apparatus using liquid combustible.

No. 13252.—14th December, 1900.—GEORGE HENRY MACKENZIE, of Wellington, New Zealand, Dredgemaster and Prospector. An electric gold-saver, for saving gold in iron-sand, black sand, or any magnetic sand.

No. 13253.—14th December, 1900.—GEORGE HENRY MACKENZIE, of Wellington, New Zealand, Dredgemaster. An improved gold-saving table.

No. 13254.—14th December, 1900.—GEORGE HENRY MACKENZIE, of Wellington, New Zealand, Dredgemaster. Improvements in gold-saving tables.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.