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nail, and may be in the form of a tube with an axial hole
conforming to the contour of the head of the nail, and within
which the nail is received through a suitable opening in the
side of said tube ; this tube may serve as a pivot or bearing
on which the rotary or oscillatory turret may turn. In order
that the nails may be fixed in the work with the contiguous
sides of the heads of adjoining nails in angularly varying
positions relatively to each other, but with their points in
one direction, the guide-throat can be made capable of
oscillation and the hole therein of a cross-section similar to
that of the nail-head, so that the latter cannot turn therein,
and means are provided to oscillate the throat so that the
nail shall be twisted thereby through an angle of, say, 45° from
its normal delivered position prior to the descent of the nail-
driver bar. . . . Preferably an ejector may be em-
ployed and operated intermittently to force each nail out of
its passage in the turret and into the guide-throat, or the
passages may be inclined so that the nails may issue there-
from under the action of gravity. This ejector may be used
as a turret-positioner by making it so as to engage with suit-
able index openings or notches in the said turret.

[NOTE.—The above extracts from the specification are inserted
in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 17s. 6d. ; drawing, 5s.)

No. 18628.—20th October, 1904.—WILLIAM FRANCIS
DUGINS, of Peel Street, Kew, Victoria, Australia, Mechanic.
Improvements in tobacco-pipes.

Claims.—(1.) In tobacco-pipes, a cap-piece provided with
knives and rollers and so arranged that when the same is
firmly drawn across a plug of tobacco said tobacco will be
cut or shaved by the knives and fall through the cap-piece
into the bowl of the pipe, substantially as and for the pur-
poses set forth. (2.) In tobacco-pipes, a cap-piece provided
with a knife and a roller and so arranged that when the
same is firmly drawn across a plug of tobacco said tobacco
will be cut or shaved by the knife and roller and fall through
the cap-piece into the bowl of the pipe, substantially as and
for the purposes set forth. (3.) In tobacco-pipes, in com-
bination, a strap or band as F having cheeks or lugs upon
same, means for fastening the band or strap to a pipe, a
roller as D¹ and a knife as E⁴ set in said lugs and so arranged
that when the knife is drawn across a plug of tobacco it will
cut or shave the tobacco so that it may may fall where de-
sired, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (4.) In
tobacco-pipes, in combination, a cap-piece as A, on which is
surmounted one or more knives as E and rollers as D, said
cap-piece being provided with slots through which the cut
tobacco may fall, means such as C for holding the knives
and rollers, and means for securing such cap-piece upon such
pipe, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (5.) In
tobacco-pipes, in combination, lugged plates having perfora-
tions therein and a withdrawable U-shape double knife
as E arranged to fit and be held in such perforations, sub-
stantially as and for the purposes set forth.
(Specification, 3s. 3d. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18629.—20th October, 1904.—WILLIAM FRANCIS
DUGINS, of Peel Street, Kew, Victoria, Australia, Mechanic.
Combination match-box and tobacco-cutter.

Claims.—(1.) A combination match-box and tobacco-
cutter, embodying at one end a cap-piece provided with
knives and rollers, and so arranged that when the same are
firmly drawn across a piece of tobacco said tobacco will be
cut or shaved by the knives and fall through the cap-piece
into a chamber beneath, and having at its other portion
a box for matches, substantially as and for the purposes set
forth. (2.) In a combination match-box and tobacco-cutter,
a cap-piece provided with a knife and a roller, and so arranged
that when the same is drawn across a piece of tobacco said
tobacco will be cut or shaved by the knife and roller and fall
through the cap-piece into a chamber beneath, substantially
as and for the purposes set forth. (3.) In a combination
match-box and tobacco-cutter, in combination, a cap-piece as
D on which is surmounted one or more knives as G and
rollers as F, said cap-piece being provided with slots through
which the cut tobacco may fall, means such as E for holding
the knives and rollers, and means for securing such cap-piece
upon such combination match-box and tobacco-cutter,
substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (4.) In
a combination match-box and tobacco-cutter, in combina-
tion, lug-plates as E having perforations therein and a with-
drawable U-shaped double knife as G arranged to fit and be
held in such perforations, substantially as and for the pur-
poses set forth. (5.) In a combination match box and
tobacco-cutter, in combination, a cap-piece as D on which
is surmounted one or more knives and rollers, a stopper-
plate as K for filling the opening between the box and slotted
cap-piece and preventing the cut tobacco from escaping out
of such slots from the box, substantially as and for the pur-
poses set forth. (6.) In a combination match-box and
tobacco-cutter, in combination, a storage receptacle as A¹, a
small plate loosely filling in the bottom of same as I, said
plate being provided with a wire staple or frame as J to form
a lifting-handle, and a cap-piece as D provided with a cutting-
knife or knives, substantially as and for the purposes set
forth.
(Specification, 4s. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18631.—20th October, 1904.—PHILIP MAGNUS, of 27,
Harper Street, Northcote, Bourke, Victoria, Australia,
Collector. An improvement in pneumatic tires.

Claims.—(1.) In pneumatic tires, a circumferential
“flesh”-leather segment, said leather having been subjected
to a process of pricking and impregnating, all as and for the
purposes described. (2.) In pneumatic tires, a circumferen-
tial “flesh”-leather segment having at one end an upper
wedge point and at the other a lower wedge point, said seg-
ment having its side edges reduced, all as and for the pur-
poses described, and as illustrated in the drawings. (3.) In
pneumatic tires, a series of circumferential “flesh”-leather
segments having their side edges reduced, and at one end an
upper wedge point and at the other a lower wedge point, said
portions being united by an adhesive, said series forming a
circle, all as and for the purposes described. (4.) In pneu-
matic tires, a series of circumferential “flesh”-leather seg-
ments, said segments having been pricked and impregnated
with a solution, reduced side edges, an upper wedge point at
one end, a lower wedge point at the other, said segments
forming a circle placed around a fabric, all as and for the pur-
poses described. (5.) In pneumatic tires, a series of segments
formed of “flesh” leather, said segments being immersed in
a solution approximately of seventy (70) per cent. of naphtha
and thirty (30) per cent. indiarubber, then passing between
rollers having prickers and solution thereon, then immersed
in a solution approximately of seventy (70) per cent. naphtha
and thirty (30) per cent. indiarubber, each segment then
having its sides reduced and its edges, all as and for the
purposes described.
(Specification, 4s. 3d. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18632.—20th October, 1904.—JOSEPH GARRATT
GRIMSLEY, of Halford Street, Leicester, England, Engineer.
Improvements relating to fire-extinguishers.

Extract from Specification.—To carry out my invention I
preferably use two tubular bodies affected to different degrees
of expansion by the action of heat. For instance, I may
locate an iron pipe within a copper or brass pipe, and fix on
the end of the iron pipe a suitable valve to close down on a
seating on the end of the copper or brass pipe, and the oppo-
site end of said copper or brass pipe would be connected to
the opposite end of the iron pipe. The arrangement of the
two pipes is such that the action of the fire on the copper or
brass pipe expands it to a greater degree than the iron pipe,
thus opening the valve, and as the fire dies down the con-
traction of the said copper pipe closes the valve. As the
water passes from the valve it may be spread over a large
surface by passing through a perforated disc. The said pipes,
with the valve thereon, may be fixed vertically or horizon-
tally at any desired point in a building ; also, the expansion
and contraction of the copper or brass pipe may operate
directly upon the valve or through the medium of any con-
venient form of levers. The invention also combines means
by which an alarm is sounded automatically inside a building
as soon as the water starts to flow through a sprinkler ; also
means outside a building for sounding an alarm, working
either on the wet-pipe system, or on the dry-pipe system, or
by means adapted to operate on both systems.

[NOTE.—The above extracts from the specification are inserted
in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 9s. 6d. ; drawing, 3s.)

No. 18633.—20th October, 1904.—DAVID ROBERTS, CHARLES
JAMES, and JOHN WILLIAM YOUNG, all of Spittlegate Iron-
works, Grantham, Lincoln, England, Engineers. Improve-
ments in internal-combustion engines.

Extract from Specification.—According to this invention
we place the air inlet and exhaust valves in the end or back
cover of the cylinder, and the vaporiser at the side of the
cylinder or on the end. The axes of the valves may be
parallel with the axis of the cylinder, or inclined thereto,
and the said valves are actuated from the engine by any of
the usual mechanisms. The vaporiser can be placed at the