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a separate air-chamber, a communicating-pipe, and a controlling-valve, arranged substantially as described and illustrated, and for the purposes set forth. (3.) In improvements in sprayers for perfume, antiseptics, and the like, the combination of a container-cylinder provided with an atomiser, and a separate air-chamber provided with an air-pump together with a communicating air-pipe and valve, substantially as described and illustrated. (4.) In improvements in sprayers for perfume, antiseptics, and the like, characterized by the combination of a containing-cylinder and atomiser, and a separate air-chamber and air-pump, a valve-plate of springy nature, the upper portion of which is fastened to the barrel of the pump, whilst the lower portion or free end is set at right angles thereto, and is provided with a plate of india-rubber or other pliable material, arranged substantially as described and illustrated. (5.) The specified invention comprising the portions above claimed in detail, constructed and arranged substantially as described and illustrated, as and for the purposes set forth, as a combination of parts.
(Specification, 5s.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 13639.—23rd May, 1901.—JAMES CARTER, of 24, Mount Charles, Belfast, Ireland, Manufacturer. Improvements connected with the fastening of the detachable collars and cuffs of boys’ and girls’ blouses.

Claims.—(1.) The detachable collar of a blouse having a neckband such as b or b¹, b², b³, made all in one piece or in portions or divisions, and provided with buttons, hooks, or equivalent means for fastening, secured underneath the neckband so as to be out of sight, the buttons, hooks, or equivalent being secured in holes, eyes, or other devices in or on the blouse itself, substantially as described. (2.) A neckband of a detachable collar for a blouse, provided with double buttons, so that the collar can be reversed whenever desired, said buttons fastening into button-holes made in the blouse, substantially as described. (3.) The methods of fastening detachable cuffs in place substantially as described with reference to Figs. 3, 4, and 16 and 17, 18 and 19, of the drawings. (4.) A blouse made so that different styles of collars can be detachably secured to it, said collars being fastened in position substantially as described with reference to Figs. 20, 21, and 22 of the drawings.
(Specification, 8s.; drawings, 2s.)

No. 13728.—17th June, 1901.—CHARLES BOWTELL SMITH, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Printer. An improved fire-escape.*

Claims.—(1.) In a fire-escape, two ropes passing through a tube or casing, and reaching from a window to the ground, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (2.) In a fire-escape, a rope, doubled and intertwined inside a casing, and reaching from a window to the ground, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (3.) In a fire-escape, a rope, doubled and intertwined inside a casing, made in two parts hinged together, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (4.) In a fire-escape, a rope, doubled and intertwined inside a casing, made in two parts hinged together, provided with a bolt working in a slot for holding the two parts together, and grooves in the casing for the rope to lie in, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (5.) In a fire-escape, arms projecting from bottom of the casing, and provided with eyes through which the rope is threaded, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (6.) A fire-escape comprising in combination a rope secured upon a support, doubled and intertwined inside a casing and passing through the same, bolts for holding the two parts of the casing together, and a stirrup attached to the bottom of the casing, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (7.) The combination and arrangement of parts comprising my fire-escape, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
(Specification, 2s. 9d.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 13812.—9th July, 1901.—JOHN CHRISTIE, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Sanitary Engineer, Plumber, &c. Improvements in skylights, especially for ventilation.

Claims.—(1.) In skylights, the combination of the frame of the skylight A bent inwards to the innermost support on three sides and bent inwards on the bottom side to catch and deliver outside any condensed water through D, with the glass allowed to project on the bottom side, thus forming a drip, substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawing. (2.) In lifting-skylights, the combination of the body A¹ with the top frame formed so that all water is conveyed to the outside by the formation of the metal of the frames, substantially as set forth. (3.) In combination, the bars formed as set forth in the drawing, with the glass projecting beyond the lower edge of the frame, substantially as shown and as described. (4.) In skylights, the combination with the main frame A of a ledge running all

round the inner lower edges for supporting a frame in case of breakage of the glass and for also collecting and disposing of any moisture that may accumulate on the combing or inner sides of the skylight, substantially as set forth and as shown on the drawing.
(Specification, 4s.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 13864.—30th July, 1901.—EDWARD WATERS, Jun., a member of the firm of Edward Waters and Son, Patent Agents, of 414 to 418, Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, nominee of the Linotype Company, Limited, of 188, Fleet Street, London, England, assignees of the Safe Deposit and Trust Company, of Baltimore, United States of America, and Abner Greenleaf, of Baltimore aforesaid, the executors of Ottmar Mergenthaler, deceased, late of Baltimore aforesaid. Improvements in linotype machines.

Extract from Specification.—This invention relates to what are known in the art as linotype machines, designed to produce printing-forms composed of linotypes, each bearing on its face, properly justified, the characters to print an entire line. It relates more particularly to that class of machines originated by Ottmar Mergenthaler, in which a series of disconnecting matrices representing individual characters are, through the instrumentality of escapement mechanism controlled by finger-keys, delivered from a magazine, assembled in line, justified, and presented to the face of the mould, which is then filled with molten type-metal to produce the required bar of linotype, having on its face a counterpart in relief of the assembled matrices. After these operations the matrices are returned by a distributing-mechanism to the magazine from which they started. The present machine is of the same general character as the one described in the specification of Letters Patent 7001, 26th July, 1894. The present invention is designed to simplify and to reduce the cost of manufacture of the machine, and to this end it consists in various improvements in construction and operation which are hereafter to be described in the specification and finally pointed out in the claims.

The general organization of the machine is as follows: The improved machine is intended to handle matrices such as are shown in Fig. 33 in connection with the space-bars such as are shown in Fig. 32. The matrices Y, properly assorted, are contained in the elevated magazine B, having a series of channels through which the matrices descend to the escapement-devices at the bottom thereof, and which are actuated through the escapement-rods E, operated in turn by the finger-keys D. (See Fig. 5.) Similarly, the space-bars Z are contained in the space-bar magazine K, as shown in Figs. 2, 26 to 28, and are released therefrom by an escapement-device hereafter to be described and which is operated from a suitable finger-key. The discharged matrices, which are released in the desired order and one at a time, descend through the guiding-channels G formed in the assembling-plate, and are received on the upper surface of the travelling belt H, by which they are delivered successively into and assembled in line in the slotted assembling-box I. The space-bars Z are released one at a time, when desired, in such manner that they descend into the assembling-box I to be added to the line of matrices. As the line of matrices and space-bars is assembled it is held in compact form by the yielding resistant J, which is moved to the left step by step as the matrices and space-bars are delivered into the assembling-box by means of the rotating assembling-tar or cam H 13. When the line is completed the operator shifts it manually to the left through the guide M until it is introduced and contained within the elevator N. (See Fig. 1.) The elevator N is then manually released by the operator, and descends by its own weight until the line of matrices and space-bars is brought into proper position in front of the mould. This descent of the elevator (through mechanism hereafter to be described) automatically starts the further operation of the machine, which effects the proper movements of the pot S and mould O1, and the justification of the line through the justifying-plate Q, the proper locking and clamping of the line longitudinally through the sliding jaw R, and the ejection by means of the pump-plunger S8 of the molten metal from the pot S into the mould and against the faces of the matrices in front thereof. The parts are then released from their casting positions, and the mould turned through an angle 270° in such manner that the base of the linotype is trimmed by reason of its passage against and by a stationary knife S 21. When the mould comes to rest again the ejector starts forward through the mould and forces the linotype out of the mould a distance of about ¼ in. (see Figs. 9 to 19), when the knife S22 starts to descend and trims one of the sides of the linotype close to the printing-edge throughout its entire length. After this trimming of that side of the linotype, the ejector acts further to force the linotype completely from the mould and into the knife-box S34, which contains the knife for trimming the other side of the linotype. In this position the linotype is engaged and