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smooth pulleys and belt for discharge of seed. (5.) In an implement such as described, having wheels adjustable for width and steered by means of a steering-rod, substantially as described.
(Specification, 1s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 16608.—9th July, 1903.—PEARSON JACQUES JACKSON, of Coatham House, Whitley Bay, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, Engineer. Improvements in advertising appliances.

Claims.—(1.) An advertising or display appliance, consisting of a mirror provided with transparencies or clear-glass spaces, and combined with mechanically actuated moving carriers bearing advertisements, announcements, pictures, light merchandise, patterns, or the like, said carriers being so arranged at the back of the mirror that by their movement the advertisements or the like are presented and displayed in succession behind the transparent parts of the mirror-glass, substantially as and for the purpose described. (2.) In an advertising or display appliance characterized as in claim 1, the arrangement in which the clear-glass spaces or transparencies in the mirror are arranged in straight rows or in series one above another, and in which the advertisements or the like are mounted upon endless traversing bands, carried by guides and driving-drums, rollers, frames, or the like arranged at the back of the mirror, and intermittently or continuously rotated by suitable mechanism whereby the said advertisements or the like are presented and displayed in succession behind the transparent parts of the said mirror, substantially as and for the purpose described and set forth in Figs. 1 to 3. (3.) In an advertisement display or appliance characterized as in claim 1, the modification in which the clear-glass spaces or transparencies in the mirror are arranged in a ring or circle, and in which the advertisements or the like are mounted upon a corresponding number of rotating discs actuated intermittently or otherwise by suitable driving means whereby the advertisements or the like on each individual disc are presented and displayed in succession behind the corresponding transparency of the mirror, substantially as and for the purpose described, and set forth in Figs. 4, 5, and 6. (4.) The particular construction, arrangement, and combination of parts constituting the novel and improved advertising or display appliance as described, and illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. (5.) The particular construction, arrangement, and combination of parts constituting the novel and improved advertising or display appliance as described, and illustrated in Figs. 4, 5, and 6.
(Specification, 7s.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 16737.—31st July, 1903.—WILLIAM HENRY EDWARDS, of Onehunga, New Zealand, Builder. An improved cold-storage safe.*

[NOTE.—The title in this case has been altered. See list of provisional specifications, Gazette No. 66 of the 20th August, 1903.]

Claims.—(1.) For the purpose indicated, in combination, a casing, a chamber arranged therein with space between the walls of said chamber and the casing, an air-cooling vessel upon the casing and communicating with said space, means for injecting water into said air-cooling vessel, a trap for outlet of water at the bottom of the casing, perforations in the bottom of the chamber, and an outlet for air at the top thereof. (2.) For the purpose indicated, in combination, a casing, a chamber arranged therein with a space between the walls of said chamber and the casing, superposed reticular partitions between the casing and the chamber, an air-cooling vessel upon the casing and in communication with said space, means for injecting water into said air-cooling vessel, a trap for outlet of water at the bottom of the casing, perforations in the bottom of the chamber and an outlet for air at the top thereof. (3.) For the purpose indicated, an air-cooling vessel in the form of two truncated cones joined at their bases, in combination with a water-nozzle designed to deliver fine spray with a whirling motion to the interior of said vessel.
(Specification, 4s. 6d.; drawing, 2s.)

No. 16864.—21st August, 1903.—HORACE WILLIAM GEORGE ROBINSON, of Dunedin, New Zealand. Improved method of and means for drain-inspection.

Claims.—(1.) In the inspection of waste-pipes and drain-pipes, the combination of such pipes with branches placed at convenient distances at a suitable angle with said pipes for cleaning the pipes, all substantially as shown, and as described and explained. (2.) In the inspection and cleaning of drain and waste pipes, the combination of covers with branch pipes for the convenience of cleaning out said pipes, substantially as shown in the drawing, and as described.
(Specification, 2s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 16892.—29th August, 1903.—EDWARD SHAW, of Broad Street House, London, England, Engineer. Improvements in vending-machines.

Extract from Specification.—This invention relates to improvements in vending-machines, more particularly of the kind described in the specifications of my British Letters Patents Nos. 18748 of 1898, 10375 of 1901, and 25479 of 1901, and, by way of example, I will describe the same as applied to a machine such as described in the said specifications, and designed to supply goods in exchange for either of two coins of different diameters—for example, a halfpenny or a farthing. For the purpose of preventing the mechanism being damaged by the insertion of counterfeit coins or discs there is provided a device (hereinafter referred to as a “coin-receiver”) which receives coins or discs from the slots and passes them to the coin-holder if they be of the proper nature, whilst if they be of less weight or of softer material than the proper coin it returns them to the exterior of the machine. To insure that the scale-pan shall have returned to the proper position to receive goods when they are delivered, the scale-pan is normally held in an inverted position, and is positively moved into its goods-receiving position upon each operation of the machine. In a machine according to my present invention paper is stored in a continuous length, and a given length is cut off at each operation, the goods are deposited upon this cut-off length, which then falls through a passage shaped so as to more or less cause the paper to enclose the weighed goods, and is delivered to the exterior of the machine. In an improved construction of coin-chain according to this invention one side of each link is dispensed with, and the trough upon which rest the coins carried forward by the chain has one edge of its lower side arranged so as to bear against the inner surface of the machine-front, and the glass window comprising a portion of such front, so that the whole of any coin within the chain-links that for the time being are behind the glass window are visible.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, £1 10s.; drawings, 8s.)

No. 16898.—2nd September, 1903.—THOMAS BURRELL, of 193, Abbotsford Street, North Melbourne, Victoria, Mechanic. Improved auxiliary adjustable sole and heel for boots and shoes.

Claims.—(1.) An improved auxiliary adjustable sole and heel for boots and shoes having a series of elongated slots punched or cut out of the body approximately in line with its contour, but some distance from the edge, substantially as set forth, and as illustrated. (2.) An improved auxiliary adjustable sole and heel for boots and shoes having a double row of elongated slots punched out of the body so that said slots overlap each other at the joints, substantially as set forth, and as illustrated.
(Specification, 2s.; drawing, 3s.)

No. 16899.—2nd September, 1903.—THOMAS DANIELLS MERTON, of the Spottiswoode Refinery and Metallurgical Works, Spottiswoode, near Melbourne, Victoria, Metallurgist. Improvements in rotary-rabbled ore-roasting furnaces.

Claims.—(1.) In an ore-roasting furnace, a rotary rabbling-arm mounted on the boss of a hollow spindle, in combination with a hollow arm similarly mounted and adapted to supply air to the fresh surfaces of ore presented by said rabble-arm, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (2.) In an ore-roasting furnace and in combination, a rotatable hollow spindle supported in a footstep formed in a stuffing-box and having a hole within said stuffing-box, an air-supply pipe in communication with said stuffing-box, a boss on said spindle into which is fitted a rabble-arm with shoes, and a hollow air-discharge arm with inclined apertures, said arms being held in position by rods engaging lugs on the boss, a passage-way in said boss communicating said air-discharge arm with said hollow spindle, substantially as set forth. (3.) In an ore-roasting furnace of the class described, a firebox at the discharge end, and a feed-tube and flue adjacent to each other at the charging end, the latter being situate in advance of the former, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
(Specification, 3s. 6d.; drawings, 2s.)

No. 16904.—3rd September, 1903.—ROBERT NORRIE, of Dallas Dockyard, care of Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, Limited, Rangoon, British Burmah, Boiler-maker. Improvements in machines for punching or shearing metal.