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the posts, two reciprocating gripper-actuators carried by the clamping-strip, and means for operating the actuators. (8.) In a binder, the combination of a strip provided with a pair of fixed posts, a clamping-strip, a pair of grippers separate and distinct from each other fixed on said clamping-strip, each gripper consisting of two spring jaws arranged to move to and from each other in the same plane and adapted to engage one of said posts, two gripper-actuators carried by the clamping-strip and sliding thereon, said grippers being so arranged as to resist the pressure of the actuators and having a tendency to retract the actuators and release themselves therefrom, each gripper having an aperture formed in its jaws through which the post passes and tending normally to disengage its post, and means carried by the clamping-strip for operating the actuators whereby the posts may be engaged or disengaged by said grippers. (9.) In a binder, the combination of a strip provided with fixed posts, a clamping-strip, a gripper carried on the clamping-strip for at least one of said posts and consisting of two jaws arranged to move to and from each other in the same plane to engage and disengage said post, and reciprocating means carried by the clamping-strip for operating the gripper-jaws. (10.) In a binder, the combination of a strip provided with fixed posts, a clamping-strip, a gripper carried on the clamping-strip for at least one of said posts and consisting of two spring jaws arranged to move to and from each other in the same plane to engage and disengage said post, and reciprocating means carried by the clamping-strip for operating the gripper-jaws. (11.) In a binder, the combination of a strip provided with a pair of fixed posts, a clamping-strip, sheets secured on the posts and between the strips, a pair of grippers separate and distinct from each other on said clamping-strip, each gripper consisting of two spring jaws arranged to move to and from each other in the same plane and adapted to engage one of said posts, each gripper having an aperture formed in its jaws through which the post passes, said grippers tending normally to disengage the posts, and reciprocating means carried by the clamping-strip for controlling the gripper-jaws whereby the posts may be engaged or disengaged by said grippers. (12.) In a binder, the combination of a strip provided with a pair of fixed posts, a clamping-strip, sheets secured on the posts and between the strips, a pair of grippers separate and distinct from each other fixed on said clamping-strip, each gripper consisting of two jaws arranged to move to and from each other in the same plane and adapted to engage one of said posts, and means for controlling the gripper-jaws whereby the posts may be engaged or disengaged by said grippers. (13.) In a binder, the combination of a strip provided with fixed posts, a clamping-strip, a gripper carried on the clamping-strip for at least one of said posts and consisting of two tapering spring jaws apertured to receive the post and arranged to move to and from each other to engage and disengage said post, said jaws tending normally to disengage the post, a reciprocating actuator carried by the clamping-strip having a recess to receive and operate the jaws of the gripper, and means to operate the actuator.
(Specification, 10s.; drawings, 2s.)

No. 15270. — 18th August, 1902. — FRANCES ROSS, of Mohaka, New Zealand, wife of D. M. Ross. A cough mixture.

Description. — 3½ oz. honey, ½ oz. golden syrup, 4 oz. cod-liver oil, juice of two large lemons, one dessert-spoonful best vinegar. Warm and mix the honey, cod-liver oil, and golden syrup thoroughly. Add the vinegar and lemon-juice (previously boiled, strained, and allowed to cool). Shake the mixture well, and bottle. Dose for an adult, one tablespoonful three times a day, between meals; children’s doses in proportion. The mixture to be well shaken before taken.
Claim. — A new and improved curative mixture for coughs, colds, &c., consisting of the ingredients mentioned in the specification, and composed in the manner described and in the proportions stated.
(Specification, 1s.)

No. 15313. — 27th August, 1902. — WILLIAM HERBERT METCALFE, of Livingstone Road, Marrickville, Sydney, New South Wales, Gentleman. Improvements in and connected with the manufacture of manures from waste animal materials.

Extract from Specification. — This invention has for its object the treatment of the soup produced from the boiling or steaming of flesh, bones, and all animal matter contained in the dead bodies of animals, including the blood from abattoirs; also the treatment of the by-products of manufactories, which contain gelatinous and other animal matters, to obtain a portion or the whole of the valuable contents as manures. To carry my invention into practice I employ a series of tanks, of wood or other suitable material or materials, of shape or form most suitable for the premises upon which they may be erected, which tanks may be connected with each other in such a manner as to enable the workmen to have complete control of the contents, suitable siphons or discharge-pipes being provided for drawing off the liquor. The material under treatment is placed in the tanks, and I obtain the precipitation of the gelatinous contents, and deodorise the animal matter, by means of tannic acid or any carbonaceous material containing a sufficiency of tannic acid, thereby eliminating all smell, the amount of tannic acid required for the purpose being that quantity which is sufficient to effect the above result. I retain the matter contained in the material under treatment (other than the gelatinous) by absorption by mixing the same with any suitable carbonaceous absorbent, such as sawdust, vegetable charcoal, spent tan, or animal charcoal, or with siliceous absorbents, such as gypsum, burnt clay, or the like, which absorbents may mean any suitable carbonaceous or siliceous material which may be most readily obtained in the locality, and the cost of which is nominal. I effect the removal of a portion of the water and the reduction of the carbonaceous contents to a true humus by a process of fermentation, carried out in heaps preferably not exceeding 6 ft. in height, and enclosed by partitions of wood or other suitable material in a covered shed, the quantity in each compartment being regulated by the heat produced by the fermentation, ascertained by thermometric tests, the temperature to be maintained at approximately 100° Fahr. The principle underlying the fermentation of nitrogenous matter to fix the nitrogen is that at a temperature of about 100° Fahr. a bacillus “nitromines” is formed which feeds on phosphates and fixes the nitrogen in the carbons. By this process humic acid is produced, which releases the carbonic acid and superfluous water, reduces the carbonaceous material to a true humus, and fixes the nitrogen contained in the animal matter. If volatile ammonia is being lost, which is ascertained by the odour, it is arrested by the addition of dilute sulphuric acid in the proportion of approximately 1 of acid to 10 of water, or by the addition of sulphate of lime, or any such suitable substance containing sulphuric acid as may be deemed expedient, the quantity required being determined by the odour of the ammonia. The chief features of my invention are: (1.) The deodorisation of animal matter, and the precipitation and absorption of all valuable properties contained therein. (2.) The converting of offensive animal matter produced from abattoirs, boiling-down works, and the like factories into a valuable product by a simple and cheap process, the residue being absolutely innocuous. (3.) The manures manufactured by this process possess a mechanical value not existing in most artificial manures. (4.) The whole process being free from offensive odours, works may be erected in any place without becoming a nuisance.
Claim. — The described process for the manufacture of manures.
(Specification, 2s. 3d.)

No. 15316. — 28th August, 1902. — WILLIAM ROWE, of Mayville, Victoria Road, Marrickville, near Sydney, New South Wales, Signal-fitter. Improvements in railway-traffic-control systems.

Claims. — (1.) In railway-traffic-control systems and in a block or section thereof, the combination with the instrument circuit of an outdoor signal circuit adapted to render operative normally inoperative outdoor signal devices, and a controller or relay in said instrument circuit for breaking and making said outdoor signal circuit, substantially as described and explained. (2.) In railway-traffic-control systems and in a block or section thereof, the combination with the instrument circuit and an outdoor signal circuit of an alternative constant relay circuit for making and breaking said instrument circuit, substantially as described and explained. (3.) In railway-traffic-control systems and in a block or section thereof, the combination with the telegraph block instrument the “long” circuit and insulated rails of an electro-magnet energised by said “long” circuit and adapted to hold its armature and said instrument in “Line clear” position until its battery is short-circuited across said insulated rails, substantially as described and explained. (4.) In railway-traffic-control systems and in a block or section thereof, in combination with insulated rails, the instrument circuit, the telegraph block instrument, and an electro-magnet (on said block instrument) adapted to hold said instrument in “Line clear” position, and to be energised when in series with other magnets of said instrument circuit, substantially as described and explained. (5.) In railway-traffic-control systems and in a block or section thereof, the combination with the instrument circuit, the outdoor signal circuit, an electro-magnet (for controlling the outdoor signal devices) in said outdoor signal circuit, and an electrically operated audible signal in circuit with said electro-