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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 63

No. 16598.—6th July, 1903.—Catherine Mary Brophy, of Upper Manilla, New South Wales, School-teacher. An appliance to assist the accurate measurement of ladies’ skirts.

Claims.—(1.) An appliance to simplify the accurate cutting of ladies’ skirts, consisting of a skirt-gripper provided with a pair of spring arms which fit under the table-edge, and an overlying rod along which slides a carrier secured to a measuring-tape, which tape is in turn fitted with an adjustable grip carrying a lateral guide-rod, substantially as described and as illustrated. (2.) The combination, in an appliance to simplify the accurate cutting of ladies’ skirts, of a skirt-gripper and an overlying rod with a sliding tape-measure carrying an adjustable grip and a lateral guide-rod, substantially as described and as illustrated.
(Specification, 2s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 16599.—7th July, 1903.—Blanche Ada Bell, of Orepuki, Southland, New Zealand. An improved method of colouring pictures or photographs.

Claims.—(1.) The method of colouring pictures or photographs, the same consisting in subjecting the picture or photograph to a bath of melted wax until rendered semi-transparent, and then painting with the desired colours upon the back face thereof, substantially as specified. (2.) The method of colouring pictures or photographs, the same consisting in fixing the picture or photograph face downwards upon a sheet of glass, subjecting it to a bath of melted wax until rendered semi-transparent, and then painting the desired colours upon the back face thereof, substantially as described.
(Specification, 1s. 9d.)

No. 16601.—8th July, 1903.—Arthur Brock, of the firm of C. T. Brock and Co., of Sutton, Surrey, England, Pyrotechnists. Improvements in explosives.

Claims.—(1.) The manufacture of an explosive by mixing aluminium with any of the oxides of lead, or nitrate of lead, baryta, or potash, or chlorate of baryta or potash, the ingredients being in a fine state of division, substantially as described. (2.) An explosive manufactured substantially as described.
(Specification, 1s. 6d.)

No. 16620.—8th July, 1903.—George Edward Fortescue and Albert John Fortescue, both of Tallangatta, Victoria, Mechanics. Improved means for forcing the mixture from rabbit-poison distributors.

Claims.—(1.) Improved means for forcing the mixture from rabbit-poison distributors, consisting in a crown wheel on the false bottom of the hopper provided with bevelled arms and mounted horizontally on a vertical pin, having a fixed bevelled scraper-knife thereon, said wheel being rotated by a pinion mounted on a spindle having an auger or screw on the end thereof operating in a chamber in the bottom of said hopper, substantially as set forth and illustrated. (2.) In means for forcing the mixture from rabbit-poison distributors, a wheel having bevelled arms horizontally revolving in the bottom of the hopper, in combination with a rigid scraper-knife bevelled at an opposite angle to said arms and in close contact therewith, substantially as set forth and illustrated. (3.) In means for forcing the mixture from rabbit-poison distributors, a crown wheel, scraper-knife, and auger, arranged in the bottom of the hopper, in combination with a knife mounted on a rock-shaft and normally covering the exit-hole by means of springs, and a lever on the other end of said rock-shaft adapted to be raised by cams on the spindle of the auger or screw, substantially as set forth. (4.) In means for forcing the mixture from rabbit-poison distributors, a knife adjustably mounted on one end of a rock-shaft, and normally covering the exit-hole by means of springs, and a lever capable of lateral adjustment on the squared end of said shaft, said lever being provided with a groove on its forward end adapted to engage any one of a series of cams mounted on the spindle of the auger or screw, substantially as set forth and illustrated.
(Specification, 4s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 16621.—8th July, 1903.—Thomas Alva Edison, of Llewellyn Park, Orange, New Jersey, United States of America, Inventor. Improvements relating to the dry separation of ores.

Claims.—(1.) An improved dry process for treating gold-bearing sand or gravel, consisting, first, in screening the material so as to subdivide it into a number of sizes, each

composed of particles ranging within desirable variations, and second, in subjecting the separate sizes of particles, in the form of a wide and thin stream, to the action of a properly adjusted and uniform blast of air, through which the particles travel at a very low velocity, whereby the heavier particles of gold, black sand, &c., will fall on one side of a dividing-board, over which the lighter gangue will be carried by the blast. (2.) The supplementary process described, consisting in subjecting the concentrate of the several separators to the action of a magnetic separator, to eliminate the magnetic portion, such as black sand. (3.) The improved separator described and shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, consisting of the separating-chamber 18, the flue 19 leading into the same, the fan 20, the fine and coarse screens 21 and 22, the dividing-board 23, the hopper 24, the roller feed 25, and the angle iron 26. (4.) The general method and apparatus described and shown for treating low-grade placer deposits without the employment of water.
(Specification, 8s.; drawings, 2s.)

No. 16628.—9th July, 1903.—Walter Henry Pearson, Gentleman, and William Peters, Store-manager, of Moray Place, Dunedin, New Zealand. Improved shot-making machinery.

Claims.—(1.) In shot-making machinery, in combination, strip-cutting rolls HH, followed by blank-forming rolls GG, with shot grinding and polishing discs AB, for forming shot out of sheet lead by cold process, all substantially as set forth, and as shown on the drawing. (2.) In shot-making, in combination, strip-cutting knives MM, followed by blank-forming rolls GG, with shot grinding and polishing discs AB, for forming shot by cold process out of sheet lead or scrap lead, substantially as set forth and shown. (3.) Discs revolving in opposite directions as AB, combined with cube-formers HH, MM, GG, all substantially as set forth, and as shown on the drawing. (4.) In combination, in shot-making machinery for rolling shot by cold process from sheet lead, the disc A revolving the same way as the disc B but with different speeds, substantially as set forth. (5.) In shot-making machinery, the discs for grinding and rolling the shot so arranged that one is a fixture while the other revolves, substantially as set forth and shown.
(Specification, 3s.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 16630.—14th July, 1903.—The Toledo Glass Company, of 734, Spitzer Building, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America, Glass-manufacturers (assignees of Michael Joseph Owens, of 2263, Lawrence Avenue, Toledo aforesaid, Glass-worker). Improvements in or relating to receptacles or containers for molten glass.

Claims.—(1.) A receptacle or container for molten glass from which it is to be gathered, so constructed that at the conclusion of the gathering operation the glass is reheated and a new heated surface is brought forward to the gathering-point. (2.) A rotary molten-glass container or tank, and a casing therefor so constructed as to expose a portion of the said tank for the gathering operation, means for heating the portion under the said casing, and means for actuating the tank whereby fresh surfaces of molten glass are exposed, as and for the purpose specified. (3.) A receptacle or container for molten glass of the kind specified, constructed and adapted to operate substantially as described with reference to the drawings.
(Specification, 4s. 6d.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 16633.—13th July, 1903.—Joseph Walsh, of Napier, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, Gardener. Improved tool for clipping hedges, and for similar purposes.

Claims.—(1.) The general construction, arrangement, and combination of parts composing my improved tool for clipping hedges and for similar purposes, all substantially as set forth. (2.) A tool for clipping hedges and for similar purposes comprising two detachable plates, one with two cutting-blades and the other with three cutting-blades, a handle rigidly secured to the two-bladed plate, another handle pivotally secured to the three-bladed plate and working pivotally on a bolt secured to said first handle, a slot in the three-bladed plate, and two flanged studs on the two-bladed plate, one on each side of the first handle, working in said slot, substantially as described.
(Specification, 2s.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 16638.—16th July, 1903.—Alexander Harrison Brownley, of Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand, Jeweller. Improved adjustable tap and gauge for use in connection with metallic receptacles for liquids.