Num. 80.

1725

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1900.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1900.

Notice of Acceptance of Complete Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 12th August, 1900.

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 objection 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. 11962.—5th September, 1899.—Seth Louis Johnson, of 10, Billingsley Terrace, Bradford, England, Commercial Traveller; Ellen Johnson, of 10, Billingsley Terrace, aforesaid, Gentlewoman; and Alfred Horswill Gibbings, of 31, Pemberton Drive, Bradford aforesaid, Electrical Engineer. An improved apparatus for removing the wool and other hair from skins.

Claim.—(1.) Improved apparatus for removing wool or hair from skins, consisting essentially of a suitable wire or its equivalent, supported on a foundation-piece or support of non-conducting material of a rigid character, such as ganister or soapstone, said wire being capable of being heated by electricity, substantially as shown and described. (2.) The combination with a handle of conductors of electricity connected together by a suitable refractory bad conductor supporting a platinum wire or its equivalent, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose specified.

(Specification, 1s. 6d.; drawings, 11s.)

No. 12141.—4th November, 1899.—Edward Waters, Jun., a member of the firm of Edward Waters and Son, of 131, William Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Patent Agents (nominee of the Linotype Company, Limited, of 188, Fleet Street, London, England, assignees of Ottmar Mergenthaler, of Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America). Improvements in linotype machines.

Extract from Specification.—This invention relates to that class of machines which, being actuated by finger-keys representing characters and spaces, produce and assemble, ready for use, linotypes or type-bars each having the type-characters to print an entire line. The type-surfaces or forms thus created as demanded are used in the same manner as forms composed of the usual single-letter type, and, being once used, are returned to the melting-pot. Like those represented in the various patents heretofore granted to me, the present machine consists essentially of a series of matrices and spaces, mechanisms by which they are selected and assembled in line, the line presented against the open side of a mould to close the same, the mould supplied with molten metal to form the linotype bearing the characters of the opposing matrices, and, finally, the linotype delivered and the matrices and spaces returned to the magazines or holders from which they started. The matrices of it are each provided with several independent characters less than the number represented by the keyboard, so that by adjusting the matrix endwise in the composed line one or another of its characters may be brought into operative position. They have a twofold movement: first, that of travelling or being transported successively from the magazine or place of storage bodily to a common assembling- or composing-point, where they are assembled side by side in line; second, that of longitudinal adjustment in relation to each other in the composed line. The first action brings together in line matrices which contain the required characters, while the second brings the special characters demanded, one on each matrix, into a common line for presentation to the mould. The invention has reference to various improvements in the composing, spacing or justifying, casting, and distributing mechanisms, and in the general organization of the machine.

[NOTE.—The number and length of the claims in this case preclude them from being printed, and the foregoing extract from the descriptive part of the specification is inserted instead.]

(Specification, £1 18s.; drawings, £5 5s.)

No. 12142.—4th November, 1899.—Edward Waters, Jun., a member of the firm of Edward Waters and Son, of 131, William Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Patent Agents