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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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No. 18395.—1st September, 1904.—THOMAS BURRELL, of 193, Abbotsford Street, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Mechanic. Improved elastic attachment for soles and heels.

Claim.—Improved elastic attachment for soles and heels, consisting of fillets of rubber fitted into slots and provided with canvas or fabric bases fitting tightly up against the inner surface of said soles or heels, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
(Specification, 1s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18406.—6th September, 1904.—CLIFFORD ROBERT STEPHEN JOHN HALLÉ, of 204, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, England, Engineer. Improved construction of wheel for vehicles.

Extracts from Specification.—The object of my invention is to provide a cheap and durable wheel for any kind of vehicle, which will in itself have spring against shocks and jars. . . . My invention entirely does away with the possibility of any side play, while leaving the wheel proper free to spring on the axle, the action of the main springs being at right angles to the plane of the wheel, the object being to provide a serviceable spring hub or wheel and to do away with side play and also with the necessity of driving-through springs, and further relying for my resilience either entirely or principally on springs that have a tension in a lateral direction to the plane of the wheel, and not in the plane of the wheel, as is usual.
[NOTE.—The above extracts from the specification are inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 10s.; drawing, 4s.)

No. 18407.—6th September, 1904.—FRITZ EISENBEIS and FERDINAND GARELLY, both of Saarbrucken, Germany, Engineers. Improvements in and relating to cutters or tools for coal cutting, channelling, and like machines.

Claims.—(1.) A cutter or tool for coal cutting, channelling, and like machines, consisting essentially of a crown-shaped cutter having three or other odd number of radially arranged cutting-edges and a centrally arranged cutter. (2.) A cutter or tool for coal cutting, channelling, and like machines, comprising a shank adapted to be secured to the drill shaft of the machine, and having on the free end of such shank a series of outwardly projecting teeth with radially arranged cutting-edges of such number or so arranged as to keep the diameter of the operative end of the cutter across such edges practically constant and a centrally arranged cutter. (3.) The improved cutter or tool for coal cutting, channelling, and like machines, constructed and arranged substantially as described, and shown on the drawing.
(Specification, 2s. 3d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18415.—7th September, 1904.—MORIZ WEINRICH, of 76, Ashburton Avenue, Yonkers, New York, United States of America, Manufacturer. Improvements in apparatus for drying, revivifying, and decarbonising filtering-media, such as boneblack, and for drying other granular or finely divided materials.

Claims.—(1.) In apparatus of the character described, a revolvable drum having its circumference corrugated to form an annular series of troughs communicating with the interior of the drum. (2.) Apparatus for drying, revivifying, and decarbonising boneblack and other material, comprising in its construction a revolvable drum and end heads therefor, and means for connecting said heads, said drum having an annular series of approximately U-shaped troughs communicating with the interior of the drum, and imparting to the exterior thereof a corrugated form. (3.) In apparatus for drying, revivifying, and decarbonising boneblack and other material, a revolvable drum consisting of two head-pieces, an angle-iron framework connecting the same, and a series of independent, approximately U-shaped troughs fixed to said framework, and forming, with said head-pieces, a closed drum of corrugated shape, substantially as described. (4.) Apparatus for drying, revivifying, and decarbonising boneblack and other material, comprising in its construction a revolvable drum composed of two head-pieces, a connecting framework, a series of independent approximately U-shaped troughs, a hood enclosing the feed end of the drum and provided with an air-pipe, a hood enclosing the discharge end of said drum and provided with an air-vent, and a furnace located beneath the feed end of the drum, substantially as described. (5.) The general construction and arrangement of parts constituting an air drying apparatus with revolving drum, substantially as described and shown by the drawings, and the application of such an apparatus for drying, revivifying, and decarbonising carbonaceous filtering-media.
(Specification, 7s. 6d.; drawing, 4s.)

No. 18416.—7th September, 1904.—THOMAS COOK, of Petone, New Zealand, Cooper. An improved crozing and chining machine.

Extract from Specification.—The casks or barrels are placed on the semicircular tracks E and M, with the ends intended to be operated upon bearing against the sliding portions C of the fixed frame; the motive power is then brought into operation, and on the lever A being inserted and depressed the end of the cask or barrel next to the frame with the sliding-block C is raised, and comes into contact with the feed-rolls H and the knives or cutters fixed on the cutter or shaper head G, and are given the desired shape. The feed-rolls H are kept in contact with the inside of the cask by the weight of the swinging-frame I. When the croze and chime have been formed on one end of the cask, the lever is elevated and the ends of the casks or barrels reversed and formed in the like manner as above. In order to accommodate casks and barrels of varying diameter the outer semicircular tracks may be made adjustable.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 3s. 9d.; drawings, 2s.)

No. 18418.—7th September, 1904.—STANDARD MOUTHPIECE-MACHINE COMPANY, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, United States of America, Manufacturers, and doing business at 128, West Thirty-third Street, New York, State of New York aforesaid (assignees of George Pierce Butler, of 9, West Twenty-ninth Street, New York aforesaid, Manufacturer). Improvements in mouthpieces for cigarettes or cigars, applying the said mouthpieces to cigarettes or cigars, and in apparatus therefor.

Claims.—(1.) A cigarette-mouthpiece or cigar-mouthpiece, comprising a strip of flexible material wound or adapted to be wound so that its internal portion serves as a shoulder or stop for the end of the cigarette or cigar in conjunction with which it is to be used for the purpose specified. (2.) In a mouthpiece as aforesaid for a cigarette or cigar, the narrow portion adapted when the mouthpiece is wound to extend transversely of the interior of the wider portion, substantially as and for the purpose specified. (3.) A cigarette or cigar provided with a piece of paper or equivalent material wound around and projecting from its end so as to constitute a mouthpiece, and having the inner end of said piece of paper or equivalent material extending partially or entirely across the interior of the mouthpiece for the purpose specified. (4.) A machine for forming and attaching cigarette-mouthpieces or cigar-mouthpieces, and comprising a holding-device for the cigarette or cigar, in conjunction with a relatively reciprocatory and rotary spindle or its equivalent, adapted to enter the holding-device so as to convey thereto a strip of flexible material or incomplete mouthpiece, and to wind said strip or mouthpiece upon the cigarette or cigar, substantially as described. (5.) The said holding-device, comprising a rotary cylinder or its equivalent, having one or more receptacles or containers adapted at intervals to register with the mouthpiece-winding device, so as to permit said winding-device to enter and be withdrawn from the holding-device, substantially as and for the purpose specified. (6.) In a machine for the manufacture of mouthpieces, the intermittent food mechanism, comprising a travelling pivoted pawl or its equivalent, adapted to supply the strips or pieces of flexible material to the mouthpiece-forming devices, substantially as and for the purpose specified. (7.) In a machine for forming or attaching the mouthpieces of cigarettes or cigars, the reciprocating rods or bars adapted to register at intervals with the receptacles or containers in the movable holding-device, so as to insert or remove the cigarettes or cigars into or from said receptacles or containers, or to remove the completed mouthpiece from said receptacles or containers, substantially as and for the purpose specified. (8.) In a machine for attaching mouthpieces to cigarettes or cigars, a magazine adapted to hold a number of superposed cigarettes or cigars in conjunction with a device for removing said cigarettes or cigars therefrom and arranging them one at a time in a position from which they can be advanced into the holding-device, substantially as and for the purpose specified. (9.) The aforesaid magazine in combination with a feed-hopper, or the like, adapted to receive a rocking or shaking movement whereby said hopper is caused to deliver the cigarettes or