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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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paths without turning corners, cutting alternately right hand
and left hand. I place the motor upon the framework of the
machine entirely outside the line of travel of the canvas,
and I take the main travelling-wheel also out of the line of
this travel, and out from underneath the canvases. I am
enabled to do this the more readily in my machine because
this travelling-wheel is no longer in the chain of trans-
mission of power to the operating mechanism. But, as a
result of this, the “binder” end of my machine may be
made much lower than all the analogous parts in present
machines, and in consequence, the crop can be conveyed to
the packers and needle at a much lesser height. This
circumstance enables me to employ only one canvas for
conveying the cut crop through the machine, instead of
several canvases as required in the present machines. This
reduces the number of rollers for canvas, and effects a great
economy of power. Furthermore, by having the main
wheel outside of the reaper-and-binder frame, I can employ a
much larger wheel, and so reduce the tractive force re-
quired. . . . The remaining features of my invention
are consequential upon the adoption of the foregoing leading
features. I provide two sets of reaping mechanism, com-
prising knives, knife-bars, fingers, pitmans, and operating-
parts, one such set upon each face of the reaping-table. Of
these two sets, one only is in use at one time. The other
set would then run idle; but I prefer to employ means, in
the nature of clutches, by which one set of knives may be
thrown in and the other set thrown out of operation when-
ever required.
[NOTE.—The above extracts from the specification are inserted
in place of the claims.]
(Specification, £1 1s. ; drawing, 6s.)

No. 18330.—17th August, 1904.—ARTHUR PERCY RICH-
MOND, of “Kelvin,” Enmore Road, Marrickville, near Sydney,
New South Wales, Australia, Commercial Traveller. An ap-
paratus for treating diseases.

Extract from Specification.—The apparatus consists of a
cell or cylinder in which there is a partial vacuum, and sus-
pended by mechanical means in partial vacuum is a dia-
magnetic element, which shall form a loose fit with the
interior of the cell or cylinder. The bottom and top of the
cell or cylinder will be closed by male-thread caps or other
equivalent means, and in the upper male-thread cap pro-
vision is made for a wire connection, but not such as shall be
in absolute contact with the diamagnetic element in the cell.
The wire is connected to a flesh-disc that is mounted on a
belt or strap that may be made fast round that portion of
the body of the patient to which the therapeutic effect of
the apparatus is to be applied. In using the apparatus the
cell or cylinder is to be placed in contact with or immersed
in some cooling or heating medium, the temperature of
which shall be below or above the temperature of the body
of the patient as required.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted
in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 3s. 9d. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18339.—19th August, 1904.—EARL GEORGE DUNCAN
MCMASTER, of Matawhero Station, Martinborough, Waira-
apa, New Zealand, Sheep-farmer. An appliance for use in
trimming turnips, mangolds, and the like for cattle-food.

Claim.—An appliance for use in trimming turnips, man-
golds, and the like for cattle-food, such appliance consisting
of a metal rod secured at one end to a handle and turned
downwards at right angles at the other end, such turned-
down portion being bifurcated or forked, substantially as
described.
(Specification, 1s. 3d. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18345.—20th August, 1904.—FRANCIS WILLIAM
STOKOE, of Auckland, New Zealand, Signwriter. Improved
attachment for ladders.

Claims.—The device of jaws or hooks fixed at the end of
dwarf ladders for the purpose of engaging the rungs of a
standing ladder, and become a strut or platform to suit
staging at any required height, removable by releasing the
jaws, and may be used separately or in combination with
other ladders. The required angle of the strut to be de-
termined by the regulating cords at base of the device, and
controlled by a cam-like or fiddle adjustment, as used in con-
nection of the tightening of the ropes to a tent, as substanti-
ally set forth in specification and drawings.
(Specification, 1s. 3s. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18346.—15th August, 1904.—JOHN MITCHELL, of
Arthur Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand, Archi-
tect. An improved cock for low pressures.

Claim.—In cocks for controlling low-pressure water and
[or] other liquids, in combination, a gravity plug-valve
having a cylindrical top part and a continuing conical,
conoidal, partispherical, partispheroidal, paraboloidal, or other
analogous shaped under-part gradually diminishing in sec-
tional area and of similar section in all diametrical vertical
planes, a cock-body having a valve-seating corresponding
with the under-part of the valve, and an upper cylindrical
chamber corresponding with the upper part of the valve,
and inlet and outlet ports leading into and from the valve-
seating, and a screw top adapted to close the cock-body
cylindrical chamber to guide the valve-stem and to deter-
mine the highest rising of the valve, as set forth.
(Specification, 2s. 6d. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18361.—22nd August, 1904.—EDWIN CATON MAHONY,
of Room 3, Fairfield Block, Granville Street, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada, Sawmill-manager. Portable wall-
sections for house-building.

Extract from Specification.—I construct the house-walls in
sections of convenient size and weight for portability, each
section being made of posts and rails, having on the outer
side weatherboard siding on ship-lap with tar-paper between,
and on the inner side tongue-and-groove V-joint lining on
ship-lap with paper between, so that an ample air-space is
locked between the outer and the inner wall to afford protec-
tion against the most severe weather. The styles or posts of
contiguous sections are joined by bolts in any manner that
will afford a strong and weathertight joint, and the lower
ends of these posts are stepped into mortised sills extending
the length and breadth of the house, on suitable foundations,
and provided at their outer side with a water-table and on
the inner side with a rest for the flooring-joists. The wall-
sections are of sufficient height to afford the necessary head-
space in the room within, and their top rails are provided
with a stout tongue to receive a corresponding groove in the
roof-sill, or, if a double story is desired, a groove in a bonding
sill which extends the length and breadth of the house, and
on which the ceiling-joists rest and are nailed, thus tying the
whole wall-structure strongly together.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted
in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 8s. 6d. ; drawings, 4s.)

No. 18362.—25th August, 1904.—JAMES CHARLES HINTON,
of Wickham Street, Arncliffe, New South Wales, Australia,
Railway-carriage Builder. Means for controlling the spread
of wheels of railway or tramway vehicles.

Extract from Specification.—To effect this purpose a
special form of divided axle is so constructed as to allow the
wheels to run independently of each other. The axles are
supported by traversing bearings or axle-boxes having outer
and inner guards, and are associated with automatically
operated transverse framing and combined locking safety
appliances, which alike control both the minimum and
maximum spread of the wheels. The general arrangement
and disposition of the parts comprising such improvements
would necessarily vary according to the type of truck,
carriage, or car to which they were to be adapted, the
framing being altered or modified as may be required. To
assist in the operation of releasing and securing the
traversing bearings, specially shaped mid-rails are fixed
between a suitable length of grooved rails situated at the
junction of the two gauges. The grooves are used to confine
the wheel-flanges until each vehicle has passed over.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in
place of the claims.]
(Specification, 6s. 6d. ; drawings, 3s.)

No. 18366.—25th August, 1904.—HENRY R. WORTHINGTON,
a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the
State of New Jersey, and having its principal place of busi-
ness at 114, Liberty Street, City, County, and State of New
York, United States of America (assignees of Frederick Ray,
of East Orange, United States of America, Mechanical Engi-
neer). Improvements in multistage centrifugal, turbine, and
similar pumps.

Extract from Specification.—This invention relates to an
improved centrifugal, turbine, or like pump of that class,
having a plurality of enclosed impellers arranged in series,
and known as compound or multistage pumps, and the in-
vention consists in an improved construction by which effi-
cient balancing of the pump-pressures is secured. In accord-