Dec. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3043

No. 17667.—16th March, 1904.—WILLIAM TREMBATH, of Gore, Otago, New Zealand, Livery stable keeper. An improved cover for horses and other animals.*

Claim.—A horse cover, in which the straps are fixed—first, behind the shoulder; and, secondly, pass through the loop where marked 2 on the drawing, and thence pass under the belly where shown by dotted lines, and finally clip on to the outside of cover at No. 3.
(Specification, 1s. 3d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 17965.—26th May, 1904.—ALFRED GEORGE BAKER, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Mechanical Engineer. Improved lock for doors and the like.*

Extract from Specification.—It will be seen that when the handle turns the handle-piece 25, one of the pins on the handle being engaged in one of the holes in the connecting-link 19, the bolt 9 may be retracted and released independently of the key and tumbler locking apparatus. When it is desired to lock the bolt the key 49 is inserted in the keyhole 32, and is turned to engage the horn 43, passing the horn 42, which is so arranged in relation to the horn 43 to permit of this being done.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 6s. 3d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 17996.—4th June, 1904.—JAMES GALLAGHER, of Argyle Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand, Gentleman. Improved means for indicating a rise in temperature applied by ordinary means for fire-alarm purposes.

Claim.—A combination of metals constituting an improved means of indicating a rise in temperature, and applied for fire-alarm purposes.
(Specification, 1s.; drawings, 2s.)

No. 18251.—28th July, 1904.—ROBERT WALES, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Engineer. Improvements in coin-controlled machines.*

Extract from Specification.—The object is effected by mechanism, some of which is similar to the mechanism of a rebounding-lock—that is to say, when the coin is inserted a push-bar must be pushed home so as to discharge the coin, whereupon a lever carrying a stamp is released, giving the desired impression on the mail-matter, the stamp lever immediately returning to its normal position of half-cock. If the push-bar is not pushed home the stamp lever will not reach the full-cock position, and on releasing the push-bar or allowing it to return it will only descend to half-cock and no impression can be obtained. Another feature is the application of a roller-inking mechanism to automatically ink the stamp or die; and a further feature is a bag to contain the coins, which is automatically unlocked on being placed in position and automatically locked on being withdrawn from that position. Another feature is a crescent-shaped knife adapted to move underneath the coin-slot and close same against the insertion of a smaller coin, and to cut any means of suspending a smaller coin.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 8s.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 18303.—11th August, 1904.—JOHN HARTNETT, of Yerrin Street, Balwyn, Victoria, Australia, Engineer, and DAVID MOFFATT ROBISON, of “Lauriston,” Church Square, Auckland Street, St. Kilda, Victoria aforesaid, Engineer. Improvements in cow-milking apparatus.

Extract from Specification.—This invention relates to improvements in cow-milking apparatus, wherein a differential vacuum is employed, that having the higher degree acting intermittently in the annular space between a rubber lining or sleeve and the rigid casing of a teat-cup in order to expand the said lining to allow the teat to fill with milk, while the lower-degree vacuum acts constantly (while the cow is being milked) within the said rubber lining and in the milk receptacle or pail in order to hold the cup upon the teat, to assist the lining to crush or squeeze the teat, and to assist the flow of the milk. The intermittent or pulsating action of the high-degree or superior vacuum is controlled by a novel pulsator appliance, which alternately opens communication between the high-degree-vacuum main and said annular space in teat-cup, and between the atmosphere and said annular space, in order to first expand the lining to relieve its pressure from about the teat, and then allow the lining while returning to its normal state to crush or squeeze the teat. Also, an improved automatic cut-off appliance is preferably employed, and which is designed to release the teat cups when the cow is sufficiently milked. Further, two vacuum reservoirs are provided, one for the high-degree or superior vacuum, and the other for the low-degree vacuum, and which latter is produced by employing a reducing-valve between the said high-vacuum reservoir or its main and the low-vacuum reservoir, which is in constant communication with the milk receptacle or pail.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 13s.; drawings, 4s.)

No. 18388.—26th March, 1904.—ROBERT ALFRED COWLEY RUSSELL, of 63, Wednesbury Road, Walsall, Stafford, England, Farm-overseer. Improvements in riding and driving saddle trees.*

Claim.—The employment, in the head of a riding-saddle tree or of a driving-saddle tree, of an arch-shaped metal plate or strip fixed in a vertical or practically vertical slot therein, between what is known as the top plate of the tree and the gullet-plate of the same, so as to form a practically vertical enclosed strengthening web round or partly round the arch constructed, and arranged and combined with the top plate and gullet-plate in any of the several ways, substantially as set forth.
[NOTE.—This is an application under section 106 of the Act, the date given being the official date of the application in the United Kingdom.]
(Specification, 6s.; drawing, 3s.)

No. 18452.—12th September, 1904.—JAMES HOLMS, Jun., of Waimahaka, Southland, New Zealand, Farmer. Improved end for spreaders of draught traces or chains.*

Claim.—For the purpose indicated, in combination, a pair of metal plates, each having an integrally formed eye, said eyes being adapted to receive the opposing sides of a link in a chain, and bolts securing said plates to the end of a spreader-bar as specified.
[NOTE.—The title in this case has been altered. (See list of provisional specifications, Gazette No. 8), of the 29th September, 1904.)]
(Specification, 1s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18516.—24th September, 1904.—JOSIAS HANCOCK, of Ernest Street, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, timber-merchant, and EDWIN GARLAND ABELL, of 159, Queen Street, Brisbane, Queensland aforesaid, Registered Patent Agent (assignees of Stephen James Collins, of Cairns Street, East Brisbane, Queensland aforesaid, Packing-case Maker). An improved butter-box.

Claims.—(1.) In an improved butter-box, in the construction of which the boards are recessed on the face and the grain of the wood of each board runs in transverse direction to the adjacent ones, as described, and illustrated by drawings. (2.) In an improved butter-box, in the construction of which the boards are plain on the face and the grain of the wood of each board runs in transverse direction to the adjacent ones, as described. (3.) An improved butter-box, in the construction of which the ends of the boards are rabbeted, the sides of the contiguous boards fitting into the rabbet and the grain of the wood of each board running in transverse direction to the adjacent ones, as described, and illustrated by drawings.
(Specification, 2s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18525.—1st October, 1904.—HENRY UPTON ALCOCK (trading as “Alcock and Co.”), of Wellington, New Zealand, Billiard-table Manufacturer (nominee of Frederick Arthur Alcock, of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Billiard-table Manufacturer). An improved method of preparing the surfaces of bowl-testing tables.

Claim.—The improved method of preparing the surfaces of bowl-testing tables, the same consisting in stretching a baize or other similar cloth over the face of a marble or slate slab, and covering the cloth with a sheet of linoleum, which is stretched tightly thereon, and is then washed and ironed, substantially as specified.
(Specification, 1s.)

No. 18545.—14th November, 1904.—EDMUND ELLIOTT, of Eldon Street, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand, Ropemaker, and ADOLPHUS JAMES PARK, of St. Mary’s Road, Ponsonby, Auckland aforesaid, Engineer. An improved method for cleaning and sorting tow.