Sept. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1797

No. 13940.—26th August, 1901.—JOSEPH MILBURN and RICHARD HOWSE MILBURN, both of Hastings, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, Apiarists. An improved machine or apparatus for dusting or distributing sulphur or other fungicides or insecticides upon vines, fruit-trees, plants, and crops, and for fumigating vines and plants, and for smoking bees.

Claims.—(1.) The improved machine or apparatus described, and illustrated in Figs. 1 to 7 (both inclusive) of the drawing, for distributing fungicides or insecticides upon vines, fruit-trees, plants, and crops: that is to say, a bellows either strapped in front of the operator and buckled to his waist by means of a buckle-strap or carried in his hands, such bellows being pierced with inlet and outlet air-holes (the outlet-hole being covered by a valve), and furnished with a valve-block having inlet- and outlet-holes for the admission and emission of air (the inlet-hole being covered by a valve), a reservoir furnished with a perforated false bottom and an adjustable sliding valve, an oscillating cylindrical stirrer (or its equivalent) worked from the bellows by means of a crank and levers, and a discharge-pipe, the said reservoir being affixed to the said bellows by means of tubes fitting respectively into the outlet-hole and into a socket in the said valve-block, all these parts being constructed and combined and co-operating essentially as and for the purpose described. (2.) The combination with the bellows described of a fumigator, so as to constitute a machine or apparatus for fumigating vines and plants and for smoking bees: that is to say, affixing either to the rear end or to the side of the fumigator an inlet-tube which fits into the discharge-hole in the valve-block of the said bellows, the said tube having air-ports therein, and a shorter tube being fixed within the said inlet-tube, or the bore of the said inlet-tube being narrowed at its rear end, all essentially as and for the purpose described.
(Specification, 9s. 6d.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 13947.—29th August, 1901.—JESSE HOPSON, of Bristol Street, West End, Brisbane, Queensland, Principal Messenger Queensland State Legislative Assembly, and HENRY HAYWARD PRIEST, of Overend Street, Wooloongabba, Brisbane aforesaid, Electrical Engineer. Improvements in hand signal-lamps.

Claims.—(1.) In hand signal-lamps, a light metal frame (carrying the red and green screens) suspended from a central fixed post in the roof of the lamp and operated by a pinion, segmental rack on an arbor, and a small lever in the front of the handle, as described, and illustrated in the drawings. (2.) In hand signal-lamps, coloured screens formed by interposing between two thin sheets of talc or mica coloured gelatine or other films, cementing same together, or securing them in a metal framework, as described, and illustrated in the drawings.
(Specification, 2s. 3d.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 13949.—29th August, 1901.—UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, of Paterson, New Jersey, United States of America, a corporation duly organized under the laws of the said State of New Jersey, and having their principal place of business at 205, Lincoln Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America (assignees of Edward Allin Stiggins, of Beverly, Massachusetts aforesaid, Inventor). Improvements in lasting-machines.

Extract from Specification.—This invention is represented and described as employed in connection with the machine of Letters Patent of the Colony of New Zealand No. 9854, whereto reference is made for matters not herein set forth. By referring to the patent above cited, it will be observed that the boot- or shoe-upper, lining, &c., are assembled on to the last, and drawn over at the toe, and at each side at or near the ball of the last, and fastened by a tack or other suitable fastening in each of said places, all this preparatory for the lasting operation by said machine. A single pair of grippers is employed, and the boot or shoe is held, moved about, and advanced step by step by the workman for repeated operations of the machine on different parts of the upper at different times. Tack supplying and driving mechanisms are employed to secure each lasted section of the upper to the inner sole, preliminary for the next operation of the machine. In the machine here represented, mechanism is also employed, at times, for placing wire or like continuous material in position for binding the overworked upper, particularly about the toe portion of the shoe. In this connection a wire 20 is made to pass from reel 2 around the wire-supporting guide 40 to the shoe held against the machine presser 36, as shown in Fig. 8. In use, said presser 36 is made to bear upon a portion of the upper overlaid, while in the next operation of said machine the presser 38 is moved forwardly to press into place the next adjacent part of said upper. The wire 20, having its end attached by the workman to a tack a, is fed forward guided and held by the support 40, in position for bearing upon and binding the parts of said upper operated upon by said pressers. The support 40, being attached to the presser 38, is carried forwardly thereby to automatically feed said wire, as further described hereinafter. The shoe is held, turned, and moved by the workman for causing the upper to be thus overworked and tied in by wire 20 from tack a to tack e. The wire is then fastened to tack e, and cut from the line of wire-supply. It then serves for holding the upper against displacement until the same is otherwise secured to the inner sole.
[NOTE.—The number and length of the claims in this case preclude them from being printed, and the foregoing extract from the specification is inserted instead.]
(Specification, 17s.; drawings, 5s.)

No. 13950.—29th August, 1901.—The Honourable CHARLES ALGERNON PARSONS, of Heaton Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland, England, Engineer. Improvements in turbo-compressors and -pumps.

Claims.—(1.) In turbo-compressors and -pumps, constructing the fixed guide-vanes and movable blades of substantially plano-convex section, and tapering in thickness more rapidly towards their suction edges than towards their delivery edges, and spacing the movable vanes with wider pitch than the guide-vanes, substantially as described. (2.) An improved turbo-compressor, comprising a casing having groups of guide-vanes projecting from its inner surface, said guide-vanes being of substantially plano-convex section, and tapering in thickness more rapidly towards the suction edges of the vanes than towards their delivery edges, and a rotatable shaft within this casing carrying groups of blades of similar cross-section to, but with wider pitch than, the guide-vanes with which they alternate, the capacity of the compressor decreasing from the suction to the delivery end, substantially as described. (3.) The improved turbo-pump described with reference to Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings. (4.) The improved turbo-pump described with reference to Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings.
(Specification, 6s. 6d.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 13957.—31st August, 1901.—ALBERT HENRY LIGHT, of Auckland, New Zealand, Piano-importer. Improvements in sewing and other treadle-actuated machines.

Claim.—In sewing and other treadle-actuated machines, a treadle pivoted and acting in the ordinary manner, in combination with a helical spring, one end of which is secured to a side of the treadle and the other to any convenient fixed point above, as and for the purposes set forth.
Specification, 1s. 3d.; drawings, 1s.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.

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Provisional Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 4th September, 1901.

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

No. 13892.—7th August, 1901.—ERSKINE BOWMAR, of Nottingham Meadows, Gore, New Zealand, Farmer. An improved canister for sowing turnip, rape, and other seeds.

No. 13921.—19th August, 1901.—EWEN ALEXANDER CAMERON, of Queenstown, Otago, New Zealand, Civil Engineer and Architect. An improved spark-arrester and fuel-economizer.

No. 13927.—23rd August, 1901.—JAMES SHEPHERD, of Intercargill, New Zealand, Engineer. Improved fire escape.

No. 13928.—23rd August, 1901.—SYDNEY EVELYN WRIGHT, of 39, Featherston Street, Wellington, New Zealand, Cycle Engineer. Improved mechanism for propelling cycles and the like.

No. 13931.—26th August, 1901.—MARY ANNE JOHNSON, of 3, Cambridge Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand, Married Woman. Improvements in trucks and other vehicles for the transporting of cattle and other animals.