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having a mount permanently secured thereto and forming
flanges projecting beyond the plate both in front and rear,
and an attaching-device secured to said mount and project-
ing therefrom to a less extent than the rear flange, substan-
tially as specified. (5.) A photographic sensitive plate
having a mount permanently secured thereto and consist-
ing of a sunken back plate with edge flange overlapping the
edge of the sensitive plate, and an attaching-device secured
to said back plate and contained within the sunken portion
of the same, substantially as specified.
(Specification, 5s.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 15570.—30th October, 1902.—ALEXANDER HARRISON
BROWNLEY, of Onehunga, New Zealand, Watchmaker and
Jeweller. An improved advertising parcel-grip.

Claim.—An improved advertising parcel-grip having a
grip or handle divided into two parts, in one of which is a
recess for holding an advertisement, each half of the handle
having sides or legs provided with hooks at their ends, the
said sides or legs being jointed so as to move around the rivet
by which they are joined, substantially as described and illus-
trated.
(Specification, 1s. 3d.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 15595.—4th November, 1902.—FRANCIS ANTONIO
BURDETT-STUART, of Chertsey, Canterbury, New Zealand,
Water Ranger. An improved trap for small birds and the
like.*

Claims.—(1.) In traps for small birds and the like, the
general arrangement, construction, and combination of parts
as specified and illustrated. (2.) The combination with a
shallow rectangular frame of cross and distance pieces to
form openings in its roof when the frame is covered with
wire netting save over the openings so formed, as described,
and for the purposes specified. (3.) In a receiving-chamber
as described, in combination with a trap having external
openings, a funnel tapering into said chamber and connect-
ing the trap with the same, and a sleeve upon the outside of
the chamber, for the purposes set forth. (4.) In a receiving-
chamber as described, in combination with a trap having
external openings, a loosely mounted screen of wire adapted
to open into the chamber, and a sleeve upon the outside of
the chamber, as specified, and for the purposes set forth.
(Specification, 3s.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 15681.—26th November, 1902.—ERNEST SMITH BALD-
WIN and HENRIE HAMPTON RAYWARD, carrying on business
as Baldwin and Rayward, Patent Agents, of National Cham-
bers, Grey Street, Wellington, New Zealand (nominees of
Guillaume Daniel Delprat, of Broken Hill, New South Wales,
Australia, Miner). Improved process for extracting zinc and
other sulphides from their ores.*

Claims.—(1.) In extracting zinc and other sulphides from
their ores, subjecting such ores to the action of a heated
bath consisting of a solution of salt-cake, substantially as
described and explained. (2.) In extracting zinc and other
sulphides from their ores, subjecting such ores to the action
of a heated bath consisting of a solution of sodium-sul-
phate and sulphuric acid, substantially as described and
explained.
(Specification, 1s. 6d.)

No. 15694.—27th November, 1902.—THOMAS SMITH, of 20,
Great Davis Street, South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria,
Engineer, and GEORGE BOARDMAN, of Redfern Coffee Palace,
Elizabeth Street, Redfern, Sydney, New South Wales. A
new or improved flushing-cistern.

Claims.—(1.) The combination and arrangement of a double
trap, tube e, valve g, and mouth c¹ of supply-pipe c, when used
in conjunction with a flushing-cistern, for the purpose of re-
supplying air to air-lock should the air in said air-lock have
been allowed to escape too slowly to start and maintain
siphonic action. (2.) The combination and arrangement of
a double trap, with pipe d, tube e, valve g, and orifice l,
for the purpose of starting, maintaining, and stopping
siphonic action in a flushing-cistern. (3.) The combina-
tion and arrangement of supply-pipe c, tube e, valve g,
pipe d, and double trap d¹, d¹, d², d³, with orifice l, for
the purpose of filling the cistern, and starting and main-
taining and stopping siphonic action. (4.) The combination
and arrangement of a double trap, mouth c¹, supply-
pipe c, with orifice c², orifice l, tube e, valves g and h, with
cistern a, substantially as and for the purposes described.
(Specification, 5s.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 15711.—29th November, 1902.—IDA JACOB (geborene
Kohl), of 1, Anger, Rudolstadt, Fürstentum Schwarzburg-
Rudolstadt, Germany, Married Woman, and WILHELM
PRITZKOW, of Rathsgasse, Salzungen, Sachsen-Meiningen,
Germany aforesaid, Chemist. Manufacture of fibre suitable
for spinning from New Zealand flax.

Claim.—The described manufacture of fibre for spinning
from New Zealand flax, by first boiling the fresh green
leaves, from which the brown edges have been removed, in a
solution of an alkaline salt, such as borax, soda, or sodium-
bicarbonate, then beating the leaves while warm and moist,
then washing in warm soap-and-water, and finally heckling
the fibre thus obtained.
(Specification, 1s. 6d.)

No. 15724.—1st December, 1902.—GEORGE WILLIAM
BASLEY, of Vulcan Chambers, Queen Street, Auckland, New
Zealand, Patent Agent (nominee of Harry Smith, of Meteor
Works, Garfield Road, Coventry, Warwickshire, England,
General Manager of the Rover Cycle Company, Limited).
Improvements in or relating to motion-transmitting mechan-
ism of the kind known as the Bowden mechanism.

Claims.—(1.) In flexible shafts for operating the brakes of
cycles, severing the flexible cables and then uniting the
severed ends in such a way that a direct pull may be trans-
mitted from the source of power, such as the brake-lever, to
the brake, as set forth. (2.) In flexible shafts for operating
the brakes of cycles, severing the flexible cables and then
uniting the severed ends together by hooks, blocks, or other
suitable appliances, so that the cable (notwithstanding that
it has been severed) shall exert a direct pull when operated
upon the brake-mechanism, as specified. (3.) In flexible
shafts for operating the brakes of cycles, severing the flexible
cables and then uniting the severed ends in any suitable
manner, such as by means of hooks or blocks, whereby a
direct pull may be transmitted through the cable to the
brake-mechanism, in combination with a covering-sleeve
which shall cover the severed and reunited ends of the cables,
as and for the purposes set forth. (4.) The general arrange-
ment, construction, and combination of parts in the appli-
ances relating to motion-transmitting mechanism of the
kind known as the Bowden mechanism, as set forth, and for
the purposes specified.
(Specification, 5s.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 15728.—5th June, 1902.—EVAN HENRY HOPKINS,
of 32, Redcliffe Square, South Kensington, Middlesex,
England, Clerk in Holy Orders. An improved process for
obtaining zinc.

[NOTE.—This is an application under section 106 of the Act,
the date given being the official date of the application in Great
Britain.]

Claim. — Obtaining zinc from zinc - compounds by
heating the zinc-compounds in a retort or other vessel
from which air is excluded, and condensing the zinc-
vapours in a receptacle filled with heated carbon from
which air is excluded, substantially as described.
(Specification, 3s.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 15731.—13th December, 1901.—GEORGE NICHOLAS
Piper, of 94, Lindus Street, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
of America, Photographer. Coin-controlled machines for
automatically producing a photographic likeness.*

[NOTE.—This is an application under section 106 of the Act, the
date given being the official date of the application in the United
States of America.]

Claims.—(1.) Automatic photographic apparatus in which
a spring or gravity motor is energized by a toothed segment
operated by an external handle, said segment also operating
directly through a crank and connecting-rod a plate-feeding
slide so that a plate is brought into the focal position by the
energizing stroke, substantially as described. (2.) In auto-
matic photographic apparatus in which a motor is energized
and a sensitised plate simultaneously fed from a magazine to
be focussed in the camera by mechanism operatively con-
ected, plate exposing and finishing mechanism controlled by
an electric circuit, one or more gaps in which are adapted to
be closed by the operating lever which energizes the motor
and effects the feeding of the plate from the magazine, sub-
stantially as described. (3.) In an automatic photographic
apparatus as claimed in claim 2, an electric circuit controlled
by the operating lever and adapted to electro-magnetically
release the motor, substantially as described. (4.) In an