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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 18

Claims.—(1.) In an apparatus for filling bottles or other vessels with liquid and stoppering them, the combination with a head of a number of filling and stoppering devices of different construction for engaging and filling and stoppering different types of vessels, whereby a number of types of vessels may be filled with a single apparatus, substantially as described. (2.) In apparatus for filling bottles or other vessels with liquid and stoppering them, the combination with a head, a number of filling and stoppering devices of different construction mounted thereon, for engaging and filling and stoppering different types of vessels, a single bottle-stand for supporting a bottle in connection with one of said filling and stoppering devices, said head and said bottle-stand being the one rotatable in respect to the other to bring any one of said filling and stoppering devices into operative relation with the bottle-stand, substantially as described. (3.) In apparatus for filling bottles or other vessels with liquid and stoppering them, the combination with a rotatable head of a number of filling and stoppering devices of different construction carried thereby and constructed to engage and fill and stopper different types of vessels, a permanently located bottle-stand adapted to co-operate with any one of said filling and stoppering devices, and a locking-device for said head for locking it in position when one of said filling and stoppering devices is in operative relation with said head, substantially as described. (4.) In apparatus for filling bottles or other vessels with liquids and stoppering them, the combination of a disc or head carrying a number of filling and stoppering devices, of a hollow shaft upon which the said disc is mounted, of passages provided in the disc connecting the hollow shaft with each of the filling and stoppering devices, of a column in which the shaft is rotatably mounted, of a support for the bottles or other vessels, of means for locking the rotatable shaft in position for enabling any one of the filling nozzles to be employed, of a syruping-device, and of a common shaft for operating the bottle-support and the syruting-device, substantially as described. (5.) In apparatus for filling bottles or vessels with liquids and stoppering them, the combination of a disc or head carrying a number of filling and stoppering devices, of a hollow shaft upon which the said disc is mounted, of passages provided in the disc connecting the hollow shaft with each of the filling and stoppering devices, of a column in which the shaft is rotatably mounted, of a support for the bottles or other vessels, of means for locking the rotatable shaft in position for enabling any one of the filling nozzles to be employed, of a syruping-device, of a common shaft for operating the bottle-support and the syruting-device, and of means for adjusting the stroke of the piston of the syruting-device, substantially as described. (6.) Apparatus for filling bottles or other vessels with liquids and stoppering them, comprising a disc or head carrying a number of filling and stoppering devices, a hollow shaft on which the disc is mounted, a column in which the shaft is rotatably held, an adjustable bottle-holder, a syruting-device and an aerator, a discharge-pipe from the aerator in connection with the hollow shaft, and a common shaft for operating the bottle-support, syruting-device, and aerator, substantially as described and illustrated.
(Specification, 7s. 6d. ; drawings, 2s.)

No. 15998.—16th February, 1903.—GEORGE WILLIAM BASLEY, of Vulcan Chambers, corner of Queen Street and Vulcan Lane, Auckland, New Zealand, Patent Agent (nominee of John Henry Foster, of 69, Pelton Road, East Greenwich, Kent, England, Boilermaker). Apparatus for economizing fuel and minimising smoke in steam-boiler furnaces and the like.

Claims.—(1.) In combination, an injector-nozzle adapted to inject steam and induce a current of air, such injector-nozzle being enclosed within a chamber that is adapted to heat the air which is induced, as specified. (2.) In combination, an injector-nozzle adapted to inject steam and induce a current of air, such injector-nozzle being enclosed within a chamber internally provided with baffle-plates, such chamber being adapted to heat the air which is induced, as and for the purposes set forth. (3.) In combination, a steam-boiler furnace, the inside of the door opening of which is surrounded on three sides by an arched chamber provided with apertures for the ingress and egress of air, such chamber being internally provided with baffle-plates adapted to cause the air to take a serpentine course between the point of ingress and the point of egress, as and for the purposes specified. (4.) A steam-boiler furnace, the door-opening of which is surrounded on three sides by an arched chamber provided with apertures for the ingress and egress of air, such chamber being internally provided with baffle-plates adapted to cause the air to take a serpentine course between the point of ingress and the point of egress, in combination with an injector-nozzle adapted to inject steam and induce a current of air, such injector-nozzle being enclosed within the arched air-chamber, and with a director-tube concentric or thereabouts with the injector-nozzle, and adapted to project the mixture of steam and induced air upon the bridge at the rear of the furnace, above the layer of fuel on the grate-bars, as and for the purposes set forth. (5.) The general arrangement, construction, and combination of parts in the apparatus for economizing fuel and minimising smoke in steam-boiler furnaces and the like, as described and for the purposes specified.
(Specification, 4s. ; drawings, 2s.)

No. 15999.—16th February, 1903.—EDWIN HENRY BERTRAM LAING, of 321, High Holborn, London, England, Lieutenant, Imperial Yeomanry, and GEORGE WARRIE CLARKE, of Buckingham Palace Hotel, Buckingham Gate, London aforesaid, Gentleman. A combined bandolier and waist-belt rifle-carrier.

Claim.—A combined bandolier and waist-belt adapted to carry a rifle, and consisting of a waist-belt to which a front bandolier and a back band are attached in such positions that when the belt is secured around the body the bandolier and back band can be passed around crosswise of the body and secured together over the shoulder, the belt having a hook adapted to receive a ring strapped to the stock of a rifle and a hip-guard, and the back band having a socket adapted to embrace the barrel of a rifle, so as, jointly with the hook, to support the rifle flatwise against the back-band belt and hip-guard in a position enabling it to be removed by raising the rifle-stock ring from the belt-hook and withdrawing the rifle-barrel from the back-band socket, as set forth.
(Specification, 4s. 6d. ; drawings, 1s.)

No. 16000.—19th February, 1903.—HAROLD ALEXANDER DANNE, Chemist, and RICHARD VALLANCEY DANNE, Engineer, both of Poonarree, Victoria Street, Richmond, Victoria, and JOHN DONALDSON, of 454, Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria aforesaid, Secretary. Weighing-machine.

Claims.—(1.) A weighing-machine comprising, in combination, a number of pans or buckets set on framing supported by rotatable axle having bearings in a fixed support, a pressure-plate arranged to bear upon a projection of an empty pan whilst an oppositely arranged pan is being filled, and means for supplying material to be weighed to bucket, substantially as and for the purposes described. (2.) A weighing-machine comprising, in combination, a number of pans or buckets pivoted between discs or frames supported by rotatable axle, a pressure-plate arranged to bear upon a projection of an empty pan whilst an oppositely arranged pan is being filled, and means for supplying material to be weighed to bucket, substantially as and for the purposes described. (3.) In a weighing-machine, in combination, a number of pans or buckets supported from an axle and arranged to rotate in bearings on a fixed support, a large and small feed-hopper arranged over a pan, and having flexible extension and means for supplying to and shutting off feed from a pan, substantially as and for the purposes described. (4.) In a weighing-machine, in combination, a number of pans or buckets supported from an axle and arranged to rotate, a metallic strip supported by the axle, a pin or stop operated by mechanism from an electrical connection with the strip to stop or release the pans, substantially as and for the purposes described. (5.) A weighing-machine comprising, in combination, a number of pans or buckets set on framing supported by rotatable axle, a pressure-plate arranged to bear upon a projection of an empty pan whilst an oppositely arranged pan is being filled, a metallic strip supported from the axle, a feed-hopper over the pan to be filled, an electrical circuit with brushes to make and break contact with the metallic strip, and arranged to operate mechanism to control the shutter of feed-hopper, substantially as and for the purposes described. (6.) In a weighing-machine of the kind described, a brush in electrical circuit operating feed mechanism, and arranged so that its pressure will be relieved from the rotary frame at the final drip of material into the pan, substantially as and for the purposes described. (7.) A weighing-machine comprising a number of pans pivoted between discs set upon a rotating centre, a pressure-plate having levers with adjustable weights and arranged to bear upon a projection of an empty bucket while the oppositely arranged one is in position to be filled, a metallic strip supported from the axle and having gaps and strips planted on and being in an electrical circuit in which are contact brushes arranged to make and to break the circuit, a solenoid in the circuit of each contact strip having a core which will rise or fall with the make and break of contact to operate intermediate mechanism to control the outlets of main and small feed-hoppers, substantially as and for the purposes described. (8.) The combination and arrangement of the whole of the parts for the purposes described, and substantially as illustrated on the drawings.
(Specification, 6s. ; drawings, 2s.)