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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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No. 14310. — 3rd December, 1901. — FRANCIS WILLIAM PAYNE, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Consulting Engineer. Improved telodynamic system for driving dredges or other machinery afloat.

Claims.—(1.) In driving machinery afloat from fixed power ashore, the combination of a pulley on the dredge or pontoon A, with guide-drums B and guide-sheaves C having stops D or sheaves D¹ for preventing loss of the rope, mounted respectively on frames F and E, and the main driving-sheave G combined with the tightening-sheave G¹ and weight G³, substantially as set forth and for the purposes indicated. (2.) In combination, for driving dredge or similar machinery afloat from fixed power ashore, sheaves A, A³, G, G¹, C, C¹, D¹, H, H, and drums D D, with a truck G⁵ or weight G³, or both, for taking up the necessary movements of the dredge and maintaining an even tension on the rope as needed to drive the machinery, substantially as set forth and for the purposes indicated. (3.) In combination, a fixed revolving sheave driving an endless rope driving a movable revolving sheave on a floating pontoon, with the intermediate sheaves and tightening-devices for allowing for the free movements of the pontoons, all substantially as set forth and for the purposes indicated.
(Specification, 4s. 6d.; drawings, 4s.)

No. 14311.—6th December, 1901.—JOHN FELIX MARTIN, of Gawler, South Australia, Engineer. Improvements in cocks and taps.

Claims.—(1.) A cock or tap having a main body with full central passage and a hinged lid adjacent to and adapted to close the mouth of said central passage, the lid being provided with an operating handle sliding upon a cam on the cock-body whereby it is adapted to raise the lid and tighten the same against the mouth of the passage, substantially as described and illustrated. (2.) A cock or tap having a main body with full central passage, a lid hinged to the body and adapted to close the mouth of the said passage, and an operative handle hinged to the lid and sliding over a cam on the cock-body whereby it is adapted to raise the lid and tighten the same against the mouth of the passage, substantially as described and illustrated. (3). A cock or tap having a main body with full central passage, a lid hinged to the body and adapted to close the mouth of the said passage, the hinge-pin being held in elongated eyes, and a bifurcated operative handle hinged at its lower end to the lid, said handle having near its upper end a crotch impinging upon and sliding over a cam formed on the body of the cock and having also a pin engaging the under-side of the said cam, substantially as described and illustrated. (4.) A cock or tap having a main body with full central passage, a lid hinged to the body and adapted to close the mouth of said passage a flexible pad secured to the face of the lid, and an operative handle adapted to raise and tighten the same against the mouth of the passage, substantially as described and illustrated. (5.) A cock or tap having a main body with full central passage, a hinged lid adapted to close the mouth of the central passage, and an operative handle formed in two parts screwably connected together, the point of the screw impinging upon and sliding over a cam formed upon the cock-body, substantially as described, and as illustrated in Fig. 4. (6.) The combination of parts forming the improved cock or tap, substantially as described, and as illustrated in the drawings.
(Specification, 3s.; drawings, 1s.)

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.

An asterisk (*) denotes the complete specification of an invention for which a provisional specification has been already lodged.

NOTE.—The cost of copying the specification and drawings has been inserted after the notice of each application. An order for a copy or copies should be accompanied by a post-office order or postal note for the cost of copying.

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

Provisional Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 11th December, 1901.

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

No. 13278.—28th December, 1900.—THOMAS AWDRY, of 99, Cannon Street, London, E.C., England, Gentleman. Improvements in or relating to label- and ticket-holders.

No. 14162.—22nd October, 1901.—WILLIAM BLANCH BRAIN, of Mizpah, Eldon Street, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand, Mining, Electric and Consulting Engineer. An accumulator or secondary battery and method of making the same.

No. 14213.—12th November, 1901.—EBENEZER HENRY SLATER, of Auckland, New Zealand, Farmer. Improvements in and relating to the cutting-tools of planing-machines.

No. 14284.—27th November, 1901.—CHARLES JOSEPH COOZE, of Carterton, New Zealand, Carriage-trimmer. An improved spile for beer and other casks.

No. 14285.—28th November, 1901.—EDWARD LAURIS WICKINS, of 535, Punt Road, South Yarra, near Melbourne, Victoria, Engineer. Improvements relating to steam-propelled road vehicles.

No. 14288.—28th November, 1901.—SAMUEL SMYTH COBURN, of 38, Maningtree Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Medical Student. An improved field-gate.

No. 14289.—26th November, 1901.—ROBERT HAWCRIDGE, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Lithographic Artist. Improved clothes-peg.

No. 14290.—28th November, 1901.—WILLIAM ANDREWS and ARTHUR WARD BEAVEN, trading as “Andrews and Beaven,” of South Belt, Christchurch, New Zealand, Agricultural Engineers. Improved crushing, cleaning, separating, and elevating apparatus for employment in connection with chaff-cutters.

No. 14294.—28th November, 1901.—CHARLES LLEWELLYN WATT, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Consulting Engineer. Improved brand for carcases.

No. 14295.—28th November, 1901.—ISAAC PEARSON, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Blacksmith. Improved animal-trap.

No. 14297.—2nd December, 1901.—JAMES COTTERILL, of Wallace Street, Wellington, New Zealand, Settler, and CHARLES MCINTYRE, Junior, of Pirie Street, Wellington aforesaid, Engineer. Improved danger-signal for railways.

No. 14301.—3rd December, 1901.—JOHN ATKINSON, of Cuba Street, Wellington, New Zealand, Butcher, and HENRY ASHWORTH, of Petone, Wellington aforesaid, Engineer. A new or improved system of advertising.

No. 14302.—28th November, 1901.—ANDREW McLEOD, of Arch Hill, Auckland, New Zealand, Commission Agent. A combination game.

No. 14303.—29th November, 1901.—THOMAS FARRER, of Mount Eden Road, Auckland, New Zealand, Watchmaker. An improved window-fastener.

No. 14305.—4th December, 1901.—GEORGE TOM LANGLEY, of Petone, Wellington, New Zealand, Farmer. A combined strainer, aerator, and cooler for milk and other liquids.

No. 14307.—4th December, 1901.—JOSEPH NEAL, of Costerfield North, Victoria, Mining Engineer. Method of and apparatus for expelling foul air and introducing fresh air in the ventilation of mines and the like places.

No. 14308.—4th December, 1901.—ERNEST GEORGE RAWNSLEY, of No. 11, St. James Street, Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand, Accountant. Sowing agricultural seeds and the like.

No. 14312.—6th December, 1901.—THOMAS BALLINGER, of Wellington, New Zealand, Plumber. Improvements in skylights.

No. 14313.—4th December, 1901.—CHARLES ADOLPHUS LOADER, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Carpenter. Improved spraying-machine.

No. 14314.—4th December, 1901.—RALPH DUNNE, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Picture-framer. Improved device for use in cutting mitre-joints.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.

NOTE.—Provisional specifications cannot be inspected, or their contents made known by this office in any way, until the complete specifications in connection therewith have been accepted.

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

Letters Patent sealed.

LIST of Letters Patent sealed from the 24th November, 1901, to the 11th December, 1901, inclusive:—

No. 12784.—F. H. Tucker, brush.

No. 12888.—J. E. Watkins, traction-engine crane and hoist.

No. 12891.—W. Bromiley, insecticide.

No. 12892.—W. Bromiley, vessel for insecticide.

No. 13080.—J. S. Maxwell, silt-punt.

No. 13081.—A. G. Thompson, harness-saddle.

No. 13172.—J. Clarke, preservation and purification.

No. 13250.—W. Nepean-Hutchison, H. S. Harden, and H. Colley, garbage-cart.

No. 13251.—G. J. Hoskins, cores for pipe-castings.

No. 13715.—G. A. H. Pietsch, propelling cycles.

No. 13716.—L. L. B. Mount, forming glass articles. (J. Haley and H. H. Bridgwater.)

No. 13862.—H. O. Brown, securing pins to clothing, bags, &c.