1948
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 88

No. 14023. — 20th September, 1901. — Dow Composing Company, of New Jersey, and doing business at Park Row Building, New York City, United States of America, Manufacturers (assignees of Alexander Dow, of Park Row Building, New York City, State of New York, U.S.A., Mechanical Engineer). Type setting and justifying machine.

Extract from Specification.—Our invention relates to a machine for setting and justifying movable printers’ types for use in all branches of the art of printing. While it is in the broadest sense a single organism, controlled by the manipulation of selecting-keys alone, and mechanism set thereby to perform harmoniously and automatically all those operations necessary to the perfect composition and justification of lines of type of any desired length, yet there are many parts of our justifying apparatus which we consider broadly new, and which are capable of use either by themselves or in connection with other mechanisms for setting or justifying type. Our machine embraces means for selecting and assembling individual types into lines, automatically justifying the lines to a uniform length, and composing these justified lines into columns and pages; the only manual act performed being the manipulation of the keyboard. The type-setting machine which is described in this application is the subject of United States Patent No. 637858, granted to me 28th November, 1899. The type-setter, however, will be described in this application to some extent, because its operations control the operations of the justifier, and the line must first be set before it is justified, and the operations are continuous and the combinations are correlative. The justifying-mechanism which is the subject of this application may, however, be adapted for use and may be used to justify lines of type set by any type-assembling mechanism in which the lines of type can be delivered from the setter into a suitable raceway arranged in operative relation to the justifier.

[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, £8 10s.; drawings, £1 16s.)

No. 14025.—20th September, 1901.—Hugh Laing Mainland, of Burke’s, New Zealand, Mechanical Engineer. An improved method of preparing wooden hulls of dredges for transportation overland and re-erection.

Claims.—(1.) In dredges that have wooden hulls that are to be removed overland and re-erected, the method of cutting straight joints through the hull, and so dividing the said hull into as few parts as are conveniently transported, and joining them by screw bolts and covering-plates, substantially as shown and as explained. (2.) In dredges having wooden hulls that have to be removed and transported overland to another claim, in combination, the hull A, A², or A, A¹, and A², with the joining-pieces and plates B, B¹, C, C¹ (and when needed, A⁵ and A⁷), all substantially as set forth, and for the purposes as set forth. (3.) In lengthening or shortening dredges, plates B, B¹, and bolts C¹ and C, in combination with the hull of the dredge, whether composed of one or two wooden skins, all substantially as set forth, and for the purposes specified.
(Specification, 1s. 6d.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 14038.—24th September, 1901.—Laverux Nelson Dyhrberg, Brickmaker, and George Kidd Askin, Machinist, both of Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand. Improved apparatus for use as belt or braces.

Claims.—(1.) Apparatus for use either as belt or braces, consisting of the parts arranged, combined, and operating as specified and illustrated. (2.) In apparatus for use as either belt or braces, the combination of parts consisting of the webbings 1 and 2, the ring 4, the button-tabs 5 and 6, and the keeps 8 and 9, as specified and illustrated. (3.) In apparatus for the purpose specified, in combination, means for connecting the ends of two pieces of webbing whereby said webbings may be brought into alignment when the apparatus is used as a belt, and free to assume an angle when the apparatus is used as braces; means for connecting button-tabs to the connected ends of the webbing, and means for retaining said button-tabs in alignment with the webbings when the apparatus is used as a belt, substantially as set forth and illustrated. (4.) In apparatus for the purpose specified, in combination, a metal loop in two parts 13 and 18, and having a cross-bar 14, tabs 10 and 11, webbing threaded through the loop passed over the cross-bar and returned upon itself, and means for holding the tabs in approximate alignment with the webbing when the apparatus is used as a belt, as specified and illustrated. (5.) In apparatus for the purpose specified, in combination, a metal loop having a hook 19 formed upon it, and having a cross-bar 14, tabs 10 and 11, webbing threaded through the loop passed over the cross-bar and returned upon itself, and means for holding the tabs in approximate alignment with the webbing when the apparatus is used as a belt, as specified and illustrated. (6.) In apparatus for the purpose specified, the bridle 15, having a bar 16, and the tabs 10 and 11, passing through divisions in said bridle, as and for the purposes specified and illustrated. (7.) The sub-combination and arrangement of parts as described in reference to and illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 5 of the drawings. (8.) The sub-combination and arrangement of parts as described in reference to and illustrated in Figs. 3, 4, and 6 of the drawings.
(Specification, 2s. 9d.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 14040.—24th September, 1901.—Thomas Darlington, of 261 and 263, Moray Street, South Melbourne, Victoria, Builder. Improved means for ventilating buildings.

Claims.—(1.) Improved means for ventilating buildings comprising blocks such as A, of brick or other material, having part of their upper surface inclined and fitted with projections as D at intervals, in combination with rolled-iron or other bars as E having their adjacent surfaces formed with projections as F, the whole being constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purposes specified, and as illustrated in the drawings. (2.) In means for ventilating buildings, oblong blocks of brick or other material having part of their upper surface inclined and formed with projections as D along one side, substantially as and for the purposes specified, and as illustrated in the drawings. (3.) In means for ventilating buildings, rolled iron or other bars having projections as F at intervals, substantially as and for the purposes specified, and as illustrated in the drawings.
(Specification, 3s.; drawings, 2s.)

No. 14041.—24th September, 1901.—Universal Seal and Stopper Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New Jersey, doing business at Camden, New Jersey, United States of America (assignees of Edward Daniel Schmitt, of 2444, Woodbrook Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Constructing Engineer). Improvements in and relating to bottle-sealing device.

Extract from Specification.—The bottle consists of, 1, the bottle-neck, having a chamber 2 formed therein with a preferably inclined shoulder 3, side walls 4, and a shoulder or sealing-seat 5 below the first-mentioned shoulder. The numeral 6 designates the securing-member, formed preferably of spring metal, stamped or otherwise shaped to form spring arms 7, a horizontal cross-piece 8, and shoulders 9 near its terminals, which terminals are preferably extended a suitable distance above the mouth of the bottle, forming arms 10 and 11, by the aid of which the spring arms are pressed toward each other when it is desired to unseal the bottle. Secured in any suitable manner to the cross-piece 8 is the sealing member or disc 12, which may be of cork, suitably faced tin, wood, or the like, and which is adapted to make sealing-contact with the seat or shoulder 5. This disc is preferably permanently secured to the securing-member—that is to say, it is secured in such a manner that the securing- and sealing-member are taken from the bottle together, and the mode of attachment is preferably one that will permit the replacement of a worn disc by a new one when desired. The locking-means is constituted by a tongue 13, having a narrow portion 14 extending through a rectangular opening 15 in the arm 10, and its free end is adapted to enter a depression 16 in the opposite arm 11, and its withdrawal from said opening 15 is prevented by an eye 17, formed by bending the narrowed portion upon itself. In the modification shown in Fig. 4, the upper shoulder in the bottle-neck is square as shown at 31, and in the form shown in Fig. 7 the construction is reversed, the square shoulder being upon the securing-member, as at 19. Instead of securing the tongue as in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, the arm of the securing-member may be bent to form a tongue, as indicated by the numeral 18. In the sealing operation, the securing-member in entering the mouth of the bottle will have its arms pressed together until it has passed far enough to permit the arms to expand into the chamber 4, thus bringing the shoulder 9 into engagement with the upper shoulder in the bottle-neck. The inherent resilience of the spring arms, causing them to expand against the upper shoulder, seats the sealing-member and effects a seal; but to prevent the arms 10 and 11 from being accidentally forced towards each other the tongue 13 is pressed downward with considerable force, separating said arms until the end of the tongue enters the depression 16, locking the securing-member firmly in place. It will be observed that the tongue, in being brought to its final position with a positive pressure, will cause the arms 10 and 11 to further separate, and in so doing will,