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loosely jointed to said lower end at the centre of its top with
a cross-piece connected to bottom end of said lower piece,
said upper piece having an angular formation and swung at
angle at or about its centre to a double angle iron or frame,
with other end of said angular upper piece hinged to a
transverse rod with attachment to a cock or cover on air-
brake pipe, and said double angle iron or frame having an
overlap thereon for said upright rod to work in, for the pur-
pose set forth, substantially as described. (2.) In combina-
tion, an upright rod loosely jointed at its lower end to the
centre of the top of a lower piece having a T formation, said
lower piece having a cross-bar connected to its bottom and
adapted to project over rail of way, and having either end of
its top swung to a transverse beam connected to under-car-
riage of railway carriage or engine, said upright rod loosely
jointed to an angular upper piece swung at the angle at or
about its centre to a double angle iron or frame, with other
end of said angular upper piece hinged to a transverse rod
over lap on said double angle iron or frame for said upright
rod to work in, said double angle iron or frame fastened to
carriage or engine, said transverse rod attached to cock or
cover on air-brake pipe, and said air-brake pipe attached to
said carriage or engine, with port or hole therein and cock
or cover therein or thereover, all for the purposes set forth,
substantially as described.
(Specification, 3s. 9d.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 15984.—16th February, 1903.—GEORGE ALDOUS, of
Wellington, New Zealand, Tobacconist. An improved clip
for holding smoking-pipes and the like.

Claim.—A holding-clip for pipes and the like, such clip
consisting of a flat piece of springy material, adapted to be
secured to a wall or the like, formed with a bowed, down-
wardly depending arm or finger whose springy tendency is for
its bottom end to impinge against the face of the wall, as
specified.
(Specification, 1s. 6d.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 15990. —13th February, 1903. —CHARLES WALDREN
STANTON, a citizen of the United States of America, and
resident of 350, St. Anthony Street, City and County of
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America aforesaid, Mer-
chant. Improvement in condensing-apparatus.

Claim.—In an apparatus of the character described, a con-
denser provided with an outlet, a closed receptacle com-
municating at its bottom with said outlet and provided with
a liquid seal, a discharge-pipe communicating with said re-
ceptacle and connected to its side near the top thereof, a dis-
charge-pipe communicating with said receptacle and con-
nected to its side near the bottom thereof, a filling-pipe
communicating with said receptacle and connected to the top
thereof, a discharge-pipe communicating with said receptacle
and connected to the top thereof, and a suitable valve for
each of said pipes.
(Specification, 2s. 6d.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 15994.—18th February, 1903.—ALFRED JACKAMAN
ELLIS, of 65, Moorgate Street, London, E.C., England,
Gentleman (assignee of Herman Casler and Harry Norton
Marvin, both of Canastota, Madison, State of New York,
United States of America, Manufacturers). Improvements
in tape embossing and feeding machines.

Extract from Specification.—My invention relates to an
improved machine for stamping, embossing, or punching
letters or other characters in a strip of metal, paper, or like
material to produce labels or name-plates. The machine
comprises a means for feeding the strip of metal or other
material which is to receive the impressions; a device for
bringing successively to a fixed point the types or dies for
producing the impressions; means for operating the same to
emboss, stamp, or perforate the strip; means for regulating
the amount of tape fed to the machine from the source of
supply; and means for severing the embossed sections of
the strips from the main body of the same. In the pro-
duction of my machine I have followed the ordinary and
well-known principles upon which embossing, check punch-
ing, and similar machines have heretofore been designed,
but have improved the construction and mode of opera-
tion of the mechanisms employed for the production of
metallic labels or name-plates in order to render the
same more practicable and useful by providing a machine
which may be readily manipulated by unskilled persons
without liability of derangement, injury, or improper
operation. My invention consists in a new form of two-
part embossing-punch or perforating die-ring, one part of
which is capable of rotation on its axis only, while the
other is geared to the first so as to partake of its rotational
movement, and yet is so supported as to have, when required,

a transversal movement on its own axis against the first
part for punching or embossing a tape passing into the
machine in a direction substantially radial to the die-ring;
an independent strip cut off and name-plate finishing die
arranged in proximity to the punching or embossing dies;
an automatically operated die-centring device; a positive
strip-feed device operated directly from the traversing die-
head, and adapted to feed the strip always through a constant
distance; an auxiliary strip-feeding mechanism operated
from the cut-off die mechanism, adapted to feed the strip
into position for starting a new name-plate; employing as a
tape-measuring-out means a clamping-device which clamps
on to the tape, and when operated causes or permits only a
predetermined length of tape to be fed out; a coin-freed
device for operating the tape-clamping device; a spring-
driven tape-feed device adapted to measure out predetermined
lengths and provided with strip-clamps preventing the possi-
bility of drawing out further tape.

[NOTE.—The number and length of the claims in this case pre-
clude them from being printed, and the foregoing extract from the
specification is inserted instead.]
(Specification, £1 2s.; drawings, 4s.)

No. 15996. —18th February, 1903. —FRANCIS JAMES
FLETCHER, of 11, Filey Avenue, Upper Clapton, London, Eng-
land, Engineer. Improvements in apparatus for aerating or
carbonating liquids.

Claims.—(1.) In apparatus for aerating or carbonating
liquids, the combination with a closed vessel of a cylinder
secured inside the said vessel adjacent to the lower part
thereof, a perforated piston in the cylinder, a hollow piston-
rod communicating with the aperture in the piston and
extending outside the vessel, the said piston-rod being
provided within the vessel with perforations above
the cylinder, means for supplying liquid to the cylinder,
and an inlet for admitting gas to the vessel, substan-
tially as described. (2.) In apparatus for aerating or
carbonating liquids, the combination with a closed vessel
of a cylinder secured inside the vessel adjacent to the lower
part thereof, a perforated piston in the cylinder, a hollow
piston-rod communicating with the aperture in the piston
and extending outside the vessel, the said piston-rod being
provided within the vessel with perforations above the
cylinder, an annular perforated tray secured to the piston-
rod below the said perforations, means for supplying liquid
to the cylinder, and an inlet for admitting gas to the vessel,
substantially as described. (3.) In apparatus for aerating or
carbonating liquids, the combination with a closed vessel of
a cylinder secured inside the vessel adjacent to the lower part
thereof, a perforated piston in the cylinder, a hollow piston-
rod communicating with the aperture in the piston and extend-
ing outside the vessel, the said piston-rod being provided with-
in the vessel with perforations above the cylinder, a number of
superimposed annular perforated trays secured to the hollow
piston-rod below the said perforations, the said trays being
connected by vertically disposed perforated tubes, means for
supplying liquid to the cylinder, and an inlet for admitting
gas to the vessel, substantially as described. (4.) In appa-
ratus for aerating or carbonating liquids, the combination with
a closed vessel of a cylinder secured inside the said vessel
adjacent to the lower part thereof, a perforated piston in the
said cylinder, a hollow piston-rod communicating with the
aperture in the piston and extending outside the vessel, the
said piston-rod being provided within the vessel with perfora-
tions above the cylinder, means for supplying liquid to the
cylinder from outside the vessel, a by-pass connecting the
cylinder with the interior of the vessel, a valve for controlling
the by-pass, operating means for the valve extending outside
the vessel, and an inlet for admitting gas to said vessel,
substantially as described. (5.) In apparatus for aerating or
carbonating liquids, the combination with a closed vessel of
a cylinder secured inside the vessel adjacent to the lower part
thereof, a perforated piston in the cylinder, a hollow piston-
rod communicating with the aperture in the piston and ex-
tending outside the vessel, the said piston-rod being provided
within the vessel with perforations above the cylinder, means
for supplying liquid to the cylinder, an inlet for admitting
gas to the vessel, and a draught-arm for withdrawing the
aerated liquid directly mounted on the said vessel, substan-
tially as described. (6.) The combination and arrangement
of parts forming the improved apparatus for aerating and car-
bonating liquids, substantially as described and illustrated.
(Specification, 6s. 6d.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 15997. —18th February, 1903. —FRANCIS JAMES
FLETCHER, of 11, Filey Avenue, Upper Clapton, London,
England, Engineer. Improvements in and connected with
apparatus for filling bottles or other vessels with liquid and
stoppering them.