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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 91

BERLAIN, Master Mariner, of Room 3, Fairfield Block, Granville Street, Vancouver, and JOHN WILLIAM ABERNETHY, Millwright, of Port Moody, all of British Columbia, Dominion of Canada. Improvement in apparatus for passing lines under the hulls of submerged vessels.

Claims.—(1.) In a wrecking device of the class described, a rigid fluid-conveying tube having a curved lower end, a series of independent block tackles connecting the upper and lower ends of the tube to anchors suitably located around the tube, means for connecting such tackle to the tube comprising at the upper end a segmental band bolted on the tube and having eyes or rings to which the tackle is connected, and at the lower end a similar band keyed or otherwise secured against rotation and having a tiller-arm hinged opposite to the band so as to be susceptible of movement in a vertical plane and to which tackle may be connected, and a ring or rings toward the other side for a similar purpose. (2.) As a device for the conveyance of a line under a submerged vessel, the combination with a fluid-conveying tube, of a light reel rotatable in a chamber surmounting the same and in connection with it, a light line wound on the reel and having a float at the free end, means for sustaining the float out of the fluid current through the pipe, and means for releasing the same. (3.) In a device of the class described, a rigid tube having a curved lower end and provided with means for supporting and moving it, an enclosed chamber surmounting the tube, means for conveying a fluid under pressure to within the tube and chamber from a reservoir adjacent, a light reel rotatable within the chamber and having means exterior to the chamber for rotating the reel, a light line coiled on the reel and having a float on its free end, means for sustaining the float out of the fluid current comprising a cylinder exterior to the chamber and in axial alignment with the tube, a piston slidable therein and having a rod passing through a gland into the chamber, a holder at the end of the rod within the chamber adapted to retain the float, means for admitting fluid under pressure from the chamber to either end of the cylinder as desired, and a means for automatically releasing the float from the casing when such is pressed down by the piston and rod into the current of the fluid down the tube.
(Specification, 6s. 6d.; drawings, 2s.)

No. 17192.—4th November, 1903.—JOSEPH CASEMIRE BONNEAU, of Room 3, Fairfield Block, Granville Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Machinist. Improvements in frames for use in the production of stereotype matrices.

Claims.—(1.) In a frame for producing a stereotype matrix from a wet pulp-sheet, the combination with a heated drying-press of a type-holding frame having grooves across the underside of the frame-members and its wedges and bevelled lower edges on the movable wedge and the adjacent edges of the fixed wedge and side member of the frame, a cover-plate having a recessed space over the type-matter in the frame and a border seating on the pulp of the matrix-sheet, and means for conveying a fluid pressure to within the recess. (2.) In a device of the class described, the combination with a heated press of a frame holding the type-matter to be stereotyped of a thin flexible sheet over the pulp-sheet of the matrix, a recessed cover seated airtight on such flexible and pulp sheets, and means for admitting a dry fluid pressure to the recess of the cover whereby the pulp-sheet may be held to the type and the moisture expressed. (3.) In a device of the class described, the combination with a heated drying-press and a chase frame of type on which is a matrix-sheet, of a matrix cover-plate removably secured to the upper plate of the press and having a recessed space corresponding to the type-matter in the chase and a border round such space adapted to form an airtight joint on the matrix-sheet, means for conveying a dry fluid pressure to the recess space, and means for the escape of the moisture expressed from the pulp. (4.) In a device of the class described, the combination with a type-holding frame and a heated press of a plate seating airtight on a matrix pulp-sheet on the type, and having a recess space over and next to the type-matter, means for admitting a dry fluid pressure to the recess, and means for the egress of the expressed moisture from the matrix-sheet.
(Specification, 6s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 17201.—2nd November, 1903.—PERCY ROLFE SARGOOD, Merchant, and JOSEPH BERNARD HOLT, Presser, both of Dunedin, New Zealand. Steam-box for pressing garments.

Claims.—(1.) In pressing garments by the use of a hot iron and damp cloth, the furnishing of the pressing-table with a steam-box, preferably in compartments, into which steam is admitted, said steam rising through the garment, which has its under side heated and pressed by the perforated cover, while the upper side is being pressed by the iron, all substantially as set forth and as shown on the drawing. (2.) In pressing garments by steam and pressure of hot metal, in combination, a metal perforated top or cover of a steam-box, through the perforations of which steam issues, with the usual pressing-iron, so that both surfaces of the garment are pressed at the same time, all substantially as shown on the drawing and as described and explained. (3.) In pressing garments by heat, damp, and pressure, in combination, a blind or guard for confining the steam issuing from the steam-chest below to the garment, with the usual pressing-iron, thus damping and pressing and heating both top and bottom surfaces of the garment at the same time and by the one operation, all substantially as set forth.
(Specification, 2s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 17206.—2nd November, 1903.—WILLIAM HENRY MANNING, of Auckland, New Zealand, Agent, EDWIN EDWARDS, of Paeroa, New Zealand, Journalist, and PERCY HERBERT BASLEY, of Auckland aforesaid, Solicitor’s Clerk. An improved door-check.

Claim.—The combination in the improved door-check specified of the check, shaped and eccentrically fitted to the plate as shown, and the said plate made to be secured to a door at a convenient distance from the floor for the purpose set forth, substantially as described and illustrated.
(Specification, 1s. 9d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 17207.—2nd November, 1903.—ROBERT WHITE, of Auckland, New Zealand, Gentleman. An improved tumbling and revolving earth-scoop.

Claims.—(1.) In the improved tumbling and revolving earth-scoop specified, the fitting wheels thereto between inner and outer skins and journalled to said skins, providing shares in front of said wheels, and fixing skids beneath the under part of the scoop, all for the purpose set forth, substantially as described and illustrated. (2.) The arrangement and combination of the wheels, outer skins, shares, and skids with the other parts of the earth-scoop specified, for the purpose set forth, substantially as described and illustrated.
(Specification, 2s.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 17247.—3rd November, 1903.—JOHN WRIGHT, of St. Helier’s Bay, near Auckland, New Zealand, Builder. Improvements in iron fencing-standards.

Claims.—(1.) In the improvements in iron fencing-standards specified, the standard, made of iron, shaped in a more or less hollow form the whole of its length, and made to be sunk into the ground, and the iron rod or pin made to rest over the ground for holding the fencing-wire to the said standard in slits made therein for the purpose set forth, substantially as described and illustrated. (2.) In the improvements in iron fencing-standards specified, the standard, made of iron, shaped in a more or less hollow form the greater part of its length from its top downwards, and with its lower part widened out, made to be sunk into the ground, and the iron rod or pin made to rest over the ground for holding the fencing-wire to the said standard in slits made therein for the purpose set forth, substantially as described and illustrated. (3.) In combination, the standards specified with slits therein, the iron rods or pins and the fencing-wires held in said slits by said rods or pins for the purpose set forth, substantially as described and illustrated.
(Specification, 3s. 9d.; drawing, 1s.)

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F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.