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whereupon the desired number of stampings are effected in the usual manner in cellulose containing from 35 per cent. to 50 per cent. of camphor.
(Specification, 3s. 3d.)

No. 12391.—16th February, 1900.—CHARLES LEWIS BENEDICT, of Brockville, Ontario, Canada. Inventor. Improvements in books or tablets.

Claims.—(1.) A book or tablet having a series of copy-receiving leaves, and a series of removable leaves alternating therewith, each of said removable leaves having an address-receiving portion, sealing-flaps extending laterally thereof, and a portion to receive the body of the letter, substantially as described. (2.) A book or tablet having a series of permanent copy-receiving leaves, and a series of removable leaves alternating therewith, each of said removable leaves having a central address-receiving portion, sealing-flaps extending laterally thereof, and portions above and below said address-receiving portion adapted to be folded between the said address-receiving portion and said flaps, substantially as described. (3.) A book or tablet having a series of permanent copy-receiving leaves, and a series of removable leaves alternating therewith, each of said removable leaves being provided with lateral sealing-flaps, and having upon its upper face an address-receiving portion located between said flaps and a letter-receiving portion, whereby by inserting a sheet of transfer-paper between one of the removable leaves and the sheet beneath it, said lower sheet will receive an exact copy of the letter and the envelope-address, substantially as described. (4.) A book or tablet having a series of copy-receiving leaves, and a series of removable letter-sheet-envelope leaves alternating therewith, substantially as described. (5.) A book or tablet having a series of copy-receiving leaves, and a series of removable letter-sheet-envelope leaves alternating therewith, said removable leaves having lateral sealing-flaps adapted to overlap each other, one of said flaps having portions adapted to lie beneath the other flap cut away to enable the overlapping flap to be sealed to a part beneath the underlying flap, substantially as described. (6.) A book or tablet having a series of copy-receiving leaves, and a series of removable letter-sheet-envelope leaves alternating therewith, said removable leaves having lateral sealing-flaps adapted to overlap each other, one of said flaps having portions adapted to lie beneath the other flap cut away at each side, forming a central tongue, whereby the overlapping flap may be sealed to parts beneath the underlying flap on each side of said tongue, substantially as described. (7.) A book or tablet having a series of copy-receiving leaves, and a series of removable letter-sheet-envelope leaves alternating therewith, each of said removable leaves having a substantially central address receiving portion, sealed flaps extending laterally thereof, a part below the address-receiving portion adapted to fold in rear thereof, a part above the address-receiving portion of less width longitudinally of the sheet than the flaps, adapted to fold upon the other folded part of the sheet, one of said flaps having cut-away portions on each side at its end, forming a central tongue, whereby the other flap may be sealed upon the said tongue and upon the upper and lower folded portions on opposite sides of the tongue, substantially as described. (8.) A letter-sheet provided with a substantially central address-receiving portion, sealed flaps extending laterally thereof, a part below the address-receiving portion adapted to fold in rear thereof, a part above the address-receiving portion of less width longitudinally of the sheet than the flaps, adapted to fold upon the other folded part of the sheet, one of said flaps having cut-away portions on each side at its end, forming a central tongue, whereby the other flap may be sealed upon the said tongue and upon the upper and lower folded portions on opposite sides of the tongue, substantially as described.
(Specification, 8s. 6d.; drawings, 8s.)

No. 12392.—16th February, 1900.—HENRY BOWEN HAIGH, of 265, McDonough Street, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, President. Improvements in elastic heels for shoes.

Claims.—(1.) A heel for shoes made of leather, provided with a recess in the lower surface of the heel, and a rubber piece fitting in said recess but not completely filling the same, with the upper surface extending only slightly above the outer surface of the heel, with means for holding said rubber piece in place, substantially as described. (2.) A heel for shoes provided with a recess in the lower surface of the heel, and a rubber piece fitting in said recess but not completely filling the same, with the upper surface of the rubber extending only slightly above the outer surface of the heel, and a tongue on the rubber piece extending between the top lift and heel for holding the said rubber piece in place, substantially as described. (3.) In a heel for shoes a top lift therefor, made of leather, provided with a slot wider within than at the surface, and a rubber strip fitting in said slot but not completely filling the same, and means for retaining said strip within the slot, substantially as described. (4.) In a heel for shoes made of leather, the combination, with the heel, of the top lift therefor provided with a slot having walls flaring inwardly, and a rubber strip fitting in said slot but not completely filling the same, with the upper surface of the rubber extending only slightly above the outer surface of the top lift, and a tongue on the strip extending between the top lift and the heel for retaining the strip in place, substantially as described.
(Specification, 4s. 9d.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 12393.—16th February, 1900.—WILLIAM KINGSLAND, of 8, Bream’s Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, England, Electrical Engineer. Improvements in and connected with electrical traction on a sectional-conductor system.

Claims.—(1.) In the surface-contact system of electrical traction wherein the electric current is transmitted from a main conductor to the moving vehicle through sectional conductors successively connected and disconnected to and from the main by the passing vehicle, the latter making electrical contact with the successive sections as it passes along the track, the combination with a horizontally arranged shaft mounted in stationary bearings, a four or more armed tappet-lever fixed on the shaft, and a front and rear tappet-piece on each motor-vehicle, which tappet-pieces act consecutively upon the arms of the tappet-lever to give step-by-step rotative movements to the shaft, of a cylinder fixed upon the tappet-lever shaft and rotated therewith about its central longitudinal axis with a step-by-step motion, insulating- and conducting-surfaces upon the periphery of the cylinder, two conducting-brushes carried upon a stationary frame and in frictional contact with the periphery of the cylinder upon opposite sides thereof, an electrical connection from one brush to the main conductor, and a similar connection from the other brush to the corresponding sectional conductor, the conducting- and insulating-surfaces on the cylinder being arranged so that the sectional conductors are connected to the main at one partial rotation of the cylinder, and are disconnected at the next partial rotation, and so on, substantially as described. (2.) In the surface-contact system of electrical traction wherein the electric current is transmitted from a main conductor to the moving vehicle through sectional conductors successively connected and disconnected to and from the main by the passing vehicle, the latter making electrical contact with the successive sections as it passes along the track, the combination with a horizontally arranged countershaft, a four or more armed tappet-lever fixed thereon, and a front and rear tappet-piece on each motor-vehicle, which tappet-pieces act consecutively upon the arms of the tappet-lever to give step-by-step rotative movements to the said countershaft, of a cylinder fixed upon the second shaft and toothed gearing to connect the countershaft and the second shaft, and thereby to rotate the cylinder about its central longitudinal axis with a step-by-step motion, insulating- and conducting-surfaces upon the periphery of the cylinder, two conducting-brushes carried on a stationary frame and in frictional contact with the periphery of the cylinder upon opposite sides thereof, an electrical connection from one brush to the main conductor, and a similar connection from the other brush to the corresponding sectional conductor, the conducting- and insulating-surfaces of one cylinder being arranged so that the sectional conductors are connected to the main at one partial rotation of the cylinder, and are disconnected at the next partial rotation, and so on, substantially as described. (3.) In the surface-contact system of electric traction wherein the electric current is transmitted from a main conductor to the moving vehicle through sectional conductors successively connected and disconnected to and from the main by the passing vehicle which is in electrical contact with the sections as it passes along the track, the combination with a box formed with two compartments, the first compartment being made watertight, to contain an axially revolvable switch-cylinder C, with conducting- and insulating-surfaces on its circular periphery, and a frame carrying brushes A, B, in contact with the cylinder, one brush being in connection with the electrical main and the other with the sectional conductor, a revolvable shaft carrying the cylinder and passing through the partition to the second compartment, and a four or more armed tappet-lever fixed on the cylinder-shaft in the second compartment, the upper part of the walls of the latter being cut away above the tappet-lever, of track-rails having an open channel between same passing over the cut-away part of the second compartment, the arms of the tappet-lever extending into such channel between the rails, and a front and rear tappet-piece on each motor-vehicle, which tappet-pieces act consecutively upon the arms of the tappet-lever to give step-by-step rotative motions to the shaft and thereby to the