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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 11

Notice of Acceptance of Complete Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 8th February, 1905.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the undermentioned applications for Letters Patent have been accepted, and are open to public inspection at this office. Any person may, at any time within two months from the date of this Gazette, give me notice in writing of opposition to the grant of any such patent. Such notice must set forth the particular grounds of objection, and be in duplicate. A fee of 10s. is payable thereon.

No. 17663.—18th March, 1904.—UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, of Paterson, State of New Jersey, United States of America, a corporation duly organized under the laws of said State of New Jersey, and having a place of business at 205, Lincoln Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America (assignees of Erastus Edwin Winkley, of Lynn, Massachusetts aforesaid, Mechanical Engineer). Improvements in or relating to sole-laying, sole-levelling, or other sole-pressing or like machines used in the manufacture of boots or shoes.*

Extracts from Specification.—Mechanism is provided for relatively actuating the jack and form to press the sole of a shoe, and means is provided acting automatically to stop said mechanism with the jack and form in a position of pressure, and there is also means acting automatically to thereafter start the mechanism for relatively actuating the jack and form into operation, said last-mentioned means having provision for adjustment whereby the time during which the mechanism for relatively actuating the jack and form is stopped with the jack and form in a position of pressure may be varied. So far as we are advised we are the first to provide a direct-pressure sole-pressing machine with means for automatically stopping the mechanism for relatively actuating the jack and form with the jack and form in a position of pressure and for thereafter automatically starting said mechanism into operation, and we accordingly consider a feature of this invention to consist broadly in providing a direct-pressure sole-pressing machine with such means, whether or not provision is made for varying the time during which the jack and form remain in a position of pressure. Direct-pressure sole-pressing machines of the prior art have been provided with two sole-pressing forms and two co-operating jacks arranged to act alternately in pressing the soles of shoes supported on the jacks, the arrangement being such that while one jack is in a position of pressure the other jack is in a position of presentation. . . . Another object of the present invention is to provide a machine of the type referred to in which the jacks and forms shall be actuated in such order and at such rate that an operator need never be required to wait for the presentation of the jacks, one of which he will always find in readiness for him when or before he is in readiness for it. Another object of this invention is to provide a machine of the type referred to in which the jacks and forms shall be so actuated that the operator will be obliged to keep pace with the machine in placing the shoes on the jacks and removing them therefrom, whereby the machine will be operated at its normal rate of speed and a maximum amount of work produced. With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the devices and combinations of devices and arrangements described and claimed.

[NOTE.—The above extracts from the specification are inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, £1 16s.; drawings, 11s.)

No. 17782.—14th April, 1904.—JOSEPH PATRICK FRENGLEY, of Auckland, New Zealand, Medical Practitioner. Improved means for distributing sewage over filter beds.*

Claims.—(1.) In means for distributing sewage over filter beds, a pipe or system of pipes connected to the sewage outflow and arranged in a horizontal plane within or above the filter bed, each of such pipes being formed with apertures in its wall arranged longitudinally at intervals along it in horizontal lines, substantially as specified. (2.) The improved means for distributing sewage over filter beds, substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawings.
(Specification, 3s.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 17806.—19th April, 1904.—ADAM WERNER, WILLIAM GEORGE BREACH, and JOHN FUSSELL (trading as A. Werner and Co.), all of Doyleston, Canterbury, New Zealand, Engineers. Improved apparatus for regulating the tension of the belts of elevators and the like.*

Claims.—(1.) In an elevator for raising straw and the like, means for regulating the tension of the driving belt, consisting of the general arrangement, construction, and combination of parts, substantially as described. (2.) For the purpose indicated, a forked bar mounted upon the cross beams of an elevator and adapted to a longitudinal movement therein, said bar carrying in its fork the lower driving pulley upon which the elevator belt runs; a lever, fulcrumed upon the elevator, imparting motion to the bar, and a slotted plate on the elevator frame having upwardly cast teeth in which the lever is adapted to engage, substantially as specified, and as illustrated.
(Specification, 2s.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 17831.—25th April, 1904.—THOMAS MARK DEAN, Carpenter, and JOHN HARRIS, Plasterer, both of Purau, Canterbury, New Zealand. An improved flooring-cramp.*

Claims.—(1.) In flooring-cramps, the general arrangement, construction, and combination of parts, substantially as described and operating in the manner set forth. (2.) In a flooring-cramp, in combination, a flanged plate and means for holding it securely upon a joist, a lever pivotally mounted thereon, and a disc on the lever end having peripheral ratchet teeth and a pawl adapted to engage with the teeth, a pressure-plate that is adapted to slide upon the flanged plate, and a rod, loosely articulated to the lever at one end and to said pressure-plate at the other end, substantially as specified and for the purposes set forth.
(Specification, 2s.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 17835.—27th April, 1904.—UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, of Paterson, State of New Jersey, United States of America, a corporation duly organized under the laws of said State of New Jersey, and having a place of business at 205, Lincoln Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America (assignees of Warren Frasier, of Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts aforesaid, Inventor). Improvements in or relating to sole-laying, sole-levelling, or other sole-pressing or like machines used in the manufacture of boots or shoes.*

Extract from Specification.—With this object in view the present invention contemplates providing a sole-pressing machine, comprising a shoe-supporting jack and a co-operating form arranged to subject the sole of a shoe supported upon the jack to a rolling pressure, with a clamp arranged to bear upon the sole at the heel of the shoe and to hold the shoe upon the last or follower while pressure is being applied to the forepart of the sole.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, £1 10s.; drawings, 5s.)

No. 17839.—27th April, 1904.—UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, of Paterson, State of New Jersey, United States of America, a corporation duly organized under the laws of the said State of New Jersey, and having a place of business at 205, Lincoln Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America (assignees of Benjamin Franklin Mayo, of Salem, Essex, Massachusetts aforesaid, Inventor). Improvements in or relating to sole-laying, sole-levelling, or other sole-pressing or like machines used in the manufacture of boots or shoes.*

Extracts from Specification.—The present invention contemplates providing a sole-pressing machine, comprising a pivotally mounted last-carrier, a pivotally mounted form-carrier, and a crank shaft, with link connections between the crank shaft and each of said carriers whereby the relative movements imparted to the last and form are certain and accurate, and the sole of a shoe supported upon the last is pressed in a satisfactory manner without any liability of injury to the shoe. Another feature of the invention contemplates providing a sole-pressing machine, comprising a last-carrier and form-carrier, a crank shaft or equivalent mechanism, and suitable connections between the mechanism and the carriers, with means under the control of the operator for throwing the mechanism out of operation when the last reaches a position of presentation. . . . A feature of the invention contemplates providing a sole-pressing machine, comprising a form-carrier and last-carrier, with mechanism for actuating said carriers which acts to draw the form over the sole while in contact therewith in the opposite direction to that in which the pressure is proceeding. . . . A feature of the present invention contemplates providing an actuating mechanism for each last-carrier and its co-operating form-carrier, which acts to move the carriers to subject the sole of a shoe supported upon the last to a plurality of rolling pressures, and means under the control of the operator for throwing one of said actuating mechanisms into operation and for throwing the