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porting the ends of the second pair of rocking levers, and
through the connecting shaft and first pair of levers the
inner ends of the supporting levers, substantially as de-
scribed. (5.) In a wheeled vehicle, the combination with
supporting levers connected at their outer ends to a support-
ing part such as the axle, rocking levers connected to the
inner ends of the supporting levers and fixed on a common
rocking shaft mounted on bearings on the underframe, and
springs supporting the rocking levers, of means for indicat-
ing the weight of the load, comprising a lever fixed on the
rocking shaft and a cross shaft operated by the lever and
operating pointers on the sides of the vehicle, substantially
as described.
(Specification, 4s. 3d.; drawings, 4s.)

No. 17033.—29th September, 1903.—DONALD CHARLES
MACDONALD, of Campbelltown, New Zealand, Storeman. A
process for the treatment of oats and other grain.

Claim.—A process for the treatment of oats and other
grain, the same consisting in subjecting the grain to the
action of the fumes given off from burning sulphur, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose specified.
(Specification, 1s.)

No. 17039.—30th September, 1903.—WILLIAM HENRY
WYERS, of 14, Northwold Road, Stoke Newington, Middlesex,
England, Manager. Improvements in preserving yeast and
in apparatus therefor.

Claims.—(1.) The method of treating yeast consisting in
removing the greater part of the moisture from the yeast,
crumbling the yeast into small pieces, spreading the yeast in
a thin layer, and subjecting it to a current of air, substantially
as described. (2.) The method of treating yeast consisting in
washing it, removing the major part of the moisture from the
yeast, crumbling the yeast into small pieces, spreading the
yeast in a thin layer, and subjecting it to a current of dry
air, substantially as described. (3.) The method of treating
yeast consisting in removing the major part of the moisture
from the yeast, crumbling the yeast into small pieces,
spreading the yeast in a thin layer, subjecting it to a current
of dry air, and packing it in air-tight receptacles, substantially
as described. (4.) The method of treating yeast consisting
in removing the major part of the moisture from the yeast
by means such as a filter press, crumbling the yeast into
small pieces, spreading the yeast in a thin layer, subjecting
it to a current of dry heated air, and packing it in air-tight
receptacles, substantially as and for the purpose described.
(5.) The method of treating yeast consisting in washing it,
removing the major part of the moisture from the same by
means such as a filter press, crumbling it into small pieces,
spreading the yeast in a thin layer, subjecting it to a current
of dry heated air, and packing it in air-tight receptacles,
substantially as and for the purpose described. (6.) Mixing
brewers’ and distillers’ yeasts together so as to produce a
yeast of a desired working strength and flavour when prepared
substantially in the manner described. (7.) Apparatus for
treating yeast in order to preserve it, comprising a drying-
chamber, a fan or fans for delivering to and passing through
the said chamber a current of air, and a number of trays
each adapted to receive a thin layer of yeast, substantially as
and for the purpose described. (8.) Apparatus for treating
yeast in order to preserve it, comprising a drying-chamber,
a fan or fans for delivering to and passing through the said
chamber a current of dry air, a trolley provided with a
skeleton framework, and a number of trays each adapted to
receive a thin layer of yeast, substantially as and for the
purpose described. (9.) Apparatus for treating yeast in order
to preserve it, comprising means for heating and drying air,
a drying-chamber, a fan or fans for delivering to and passing
through the said chamber a current of heated and dried air,
a trolley provided with a skeleton framework, and a number
of trays each adapted to receive a thin layer of yeast, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose described. (10.) Apparatus
for treating yeast in order to preserve it, consisting of a filter
press, a furnace, pipes or flues passing through the furnace,
open at one end to the outer air and at the other end to a
drying-chamber, the said drying-chamber, a fan or fans for
delivering to and passing through the said chamber a current
of dried air, means for driving the said fans, a trolley provided
with a skeleton framework and a plurality of trays each
adapted to receive a thin layer of yeast, substantially as and
for the purpose described. (11.) Apparatus for treating yeast
in order to preserve it, consisting of means for washing the
yeast, a filter press, means for forcing the yeast into the
filter press, means for crumbling the yeast into small pieces,
a drying-chamber, a furnace, pipes or flues passing through
the furnace, open at one end to a filter through which the
outer air is drawn and at the other end to the drying-
chamber, the said filter, a fan or fans for delivering to and

passing through the said chambers a current of dried air,
means for driving the said fans, a trolley provided with a
skeleton framework and a number of trays each adapted to
receive a thin layer of yeast, substantially as described.
(12.) The construction of apparatus as shown on the draw-
ings.
(Specification, 11s. 6d.; drawing, 3s.)

No. 17040.—30th September, 1903.—THE NEW INVERTED
INCANDESCENT GAS-LAMP COMPANY, LIMITED, whose regis-
tered office is at 23, Farrington Avenue, London, England
(assignees of Armand Farkas, of 19, Rue Auber, Paris,
in the French Republic, Engineer). Improvements in
incandescent gas-burners.

Claims.—(1.) In downwardly burning incandescent gas-
burners, a device for keeping cool the burner-tubes thereof,
said device consisting of a protecting tube k insulated from
the burner-tube g by a layer of air, substantially as described.
(2.) In a burner as under claim 1, the provision on the
burner-tube, when required, of heat-radiating surfaces of
comparatively large area, for the purpose set forth. (3.) In
a burner as under claim 1, the burner-tube so constructed as
to extend for a greater or less distance into the incandescence
body, for the purpose set forth.
(Specification, 2s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 17042.—28th September, 1903.—JOHN WHITELAW, of
Burke Road, Camberwell, Victoria, Gentleman. An im-
proved non-refillable bottle.

Claims.—(1.) An improved non-refillable bottle having a
non-return valve situated just below winding outlet-passages
in the neck, substantially as set forth and illustrated.
(2.) An improved non-refillable bottle having a winding
outlet-passage in the neck, an irremovable plug in said neck,
a finger on the end of the plug, and a hollow non-return
valve fitting a seating in the base of the neck, substantially
as set forth and illustrated. (3.) In a non-refillable bottle, a
plug formed with a winding outlet-passage, and fitting into
the neck, at the base of which is a non-return valve, sub-
stantially as set forth and illustrated.
(Specification, 1s. 9d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 17044.—1st October, 1903.—AUGUSTUS CARDIGAN
FREDERICK DANN, of 54, St. Augustine Road, Southsea,
Hants, England, Engine-fitter. Improvements in continously
variable speed gear, and in clutches and link motions con-
nected therewith, partly applicable to other purposes.

Claims.—(1.) In a continuously variable speed gear com-
prising a driving-crank imparting a rocking motion to a
pivoted link, a sliding block on which imparts motion to the
driven shaft, the arrangement wherein the sliding block is
coupled by a connecting-rod to a crank on an intermediate
shaft connected by a double-acting free clutch with the shaft
to be driven, so as to convert the reciprocating motion of the
former into unidirectional motion of the latter, means being
provided for altering the position of the said sliding block in
a continuous manner, substantially as described. (2.) Appa-
ratus for moving a sliding block on a rocking link by means
of the motion of the latter, comprising a screwed rod co-
operating with the block and connected through gearing
with a shaft mounted on the link, a pair of free clutches
mounted on the shaft, a pair of curved arms concentric with
the axis of the rocking link, and means for bringing the
curbed arms into and out of engagement with the free
clutches, substantially as described. (3.) A roller friction-
clutch in which the rollers in their movement between the
free and clutched positions are compelled to roll by means of
teeth formed on the rollers engaging with corresponding teeth
formed on one of the members of the clutch, substantially as
described. (4.) A double-acting clutch comprising a pair of
bevel pinions mounted loosely on the shaft to be driven and
arranged to be oppositely reciprocated by a bevel wheel
gearing with them, each of the said pinions being fixed to
one member of a clutch, the other member of which is fixed
on the shaft to be driven, and pawls or rollers co-operating
with the members of each clutch, substantially as described.
(Specification, 7s.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 17046.—1st October, 1903.—JAMES JOHN MILLER and
JAMES ARTHUR MILLER, both of Caledonian Lane, off Post
Office Place, Melbourne, Victoria, Printers and Publishers.
A combined phonographic and stereoscopic apparatus, with
attachments therefor.

Claims.—(1.) In an apparatus such as described, and
as illustrated in our drawings, the combination and
arrangement of the various parts and attachments lettered