APRIL 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1011

No. 18064.—21st June, 1904.—HENRY CHARLES BRAUN, of 8, The Avenue, Barnet, Hertford, England, Engineer. Improvements in telegraph apparatus.*

Claims.—(1.) The improved telegraph apparatus constructed and operating substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (2.) In telegraph apparatus, two reciprocating tables in combination with means for actuating such tables synchronously, for the purposes set forth. (3.) In telegraph apparatus, two tables reciprocating in horizontal planes and controlled by pendulums, in combination with means for actuating such pendulums synchronously, for the purposes set forth. (4.) In telegraph apparatus, two tables reciprocating in horizontal planes and controlled by pendulums, in combination with devices for locking the pendulums at the end of the stroke, for the purposes set forth. (5.) In telegraph apparatus, two reciprocating tables, synchronously controlled, in combination with carrying-devices each carrying a stylus, brush, pen, roller, or the like, and means for causing the carrier to travel at right angles to the direction of motion of the table. (6.) In telegraph apparatus of the class described, means for imparting mechanically a fresh impulse to the pendulums at the end of the stroke. (7.) In telegraph apparatus of the class described, the special means specified, and shown on the drawings, for imparting a fresh impulse to the pendulums at the end of the stroke. (8.) In telegraph apparatus of the class described, the means specified, and shown on the drawings, for locking the pendulums at the end of each stroke. (9.) In apparatus of the class described, the mentioned means for switching the current into the motor and writing circuits alternately, for the purpose set forth. (10.) The means described, and shown on the drawing at Figs. 1 and 2, for raising the contact stylus off the paper at the return stroke of the pendulum. (11.) The means described for imparting a transverse motion to the device carrying the stylus, contact roller, or the like. (12.) The modified form of instrument shown at Fig. 5 on the drawings.
(Specification, 17s.; drawings, 4s.)

No. 18065.—21st June, 1904.—WILLIAM YOULTEN, of 159, Victoria Street, Westminster, London, England, Architect. Improvements in ginning, burring, and like fibre-cleaning machines.*

Claims.—(1.) In ginning, burring, and like fibre-cleaning machines, an automatic feed consisting essentially of feed-rakes entering the hopper, such rakes being operated by oscillating mechanism, for the purpose set forth. (2.) In ginning, burring, and like fibre-cleaning machines, an automatic feed consisting essentially of feed-rakes entering the hopper, such rakes being operated by oscillating mechanism, in combination with oscillating feed-combs or other like feed-devices, for the purpose set forth. (3.) In ginning, burring, and like fibre-cleaning machines, the combination of an automatic feed consisting essentially of feed-rakes entering the hopper, such rakes being operated by oscillating mechanism, of oscillating feed-combs or other like feed-devices, of a hollow or other rotating roller with a perforated, granulated, smooth, or other suitable surface upon which to receive the fibre under treatment, with a pneumatic device for directing jets of air upon the fibre when brought into contact with such roller. (4.) In ginning, burring, and like fibre-cleaning machines, the mechanism for actuating the vibrating combs or clearers, substantially as set forth. (5.) In ginning, burring, and like fibre-cleaning machines, a vibrating comb, with curved teeth and rounded points, operated by mechanism such as that described, in order that the said comb may reciprocate in a curved path reaching into the angle formed by the ginning bar and roller. (6.) In ginning, burring, and like fibre-cleaning machines, a ginning-roller constructed of a suitably formed shaft with arbors or the like, carrying a tube with fine-gauge wire or bristle-card, imbedded in any suitable composition which furnishes a hard matrix, such as a compound of glue, whiting, and linseed-oil with or without an admixture of saccharine matter, from which the points of such wires or bristles protrude sufficiently to seize and grip the fibres under treatment. (7.) In ginning, burring, and like fibre-cleaning machines, a device for removing the ginned fibres from a ginning-roller, consisting of a doffing-roller covered with fine-gauge steel-wire card, actuated preferably by gearing from the ginning-roller shaft, and a doffer comb actuated preferably by a crank shaft driven by suitable gearing, the doffer roller and doffer comb being adjustable so as to deliver the ginned fibre in a continuous sheet, substantially as set forth. (8.) In ginning, burring, and like fibre-cleaning machines, a sliding bar moving lengthwise close to the surface of the ginning-roller, with cams and springs for actuating the same, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth. (9.) In ginning, burring, and like fibre-cleaning machines, the mechanisms described for actuating vibrating combs to regulate the interval between the vibrations and adjust the height of the comb-teeth relatively to the sliding bar.
(Specification, 11s.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 18069.—20th June, 1904.—WILLIAM HENRY CLEMENT, of Ealing, New Zealand, Farmer. An improved plough for cleaning or clearing water-races.*
[NOTE.—The title in this case has been altered. (See list of provisional specifications, Gazette No. 59, of the 7th July, 1904.)]

Claims.—(1.) A plough for cleaning water-races, consisting of two legs arranged approximately as a V inverted, and connected together at the apex to form a cutting-edge, one leg being placed in a race parallel to one bank thereof, while the other leg is partly undercut and extends away from the first sufficiently far to project beyond the other bank of the race, for the purposes set forth. (2.) A plough for cleaning water-races, in combination, a frame arranged approximately as a V inverted in a water-race, one leg of the frame lying parallel with one bank of the race, while the other leg, which is partly undercut, extends away from the first and projects beyond the other bank, a cutting foot-plate upon the first-mentioned leg, and means for lifting the plough out of the race or from contact with the ground, as and for the purposes explained.
(Specification, 3s. 6d.; drawing, 2s.)

No. 18073.—17th June, 1904. — JAMES MACALISTER, of Invercargill, New Zealand, Engineer. A combined engine tractor and chaff cutter and bagger.*

Extract from Specification.—B is the frame of the tractor truck on which is mounted chaff cutter and bagger C, suitably placed and allowing of easy manipulation of the bags from the filling-apparatus DD if required. In many cases the bagging-apparatus may be dispensed with and chaff cut only, or if desired the chaff cutter and bagger may be removed altogether from the truck, and in place of same could be set a corn-crusher, root-pulper, seed-cleaner, or any other kind of machine or machinery which it is found advantageous to mount on a carriage in conjunction with an oil, gas, gasolene, or steam engine to be driven and operated by the said engine, and also for handiness for transport from place to place, thus saving the trouble of setting and lining up the machines for long driving-belts, as is necessary when using the ordinary portable or traction engines.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 5s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18074.—23rd June, 1904. — HENRY BEATSON MORRISON, of John Street, Singleton, New South Wales, Australia, Bootmaker. Improvements in the heels of boots and shoes.*

Extract from Specification.—The invention consists essentially of the combination of a stationary bedplate of leather, wood, or compressed paper, hide, or a combination of same, cut away towards the sides and rear to receive a rubber cushion and a revolvable circular plate of leather, hide, compressed paper, wood, or metal, or these materials combined, which last-mentioned plate forms the main wearing-surface.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 3s. 3d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18082.—24th June, 1904.—ROBERT JOHN MCDONALD, of Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand, Bootmaker. Improvement in the manufacture of boots and shoes.*

Extract from Specification.—The invention consists in cutting holes of suitable sizes in the outer leather soles of the boot and inserting in such holes pieces of rubber, or a compound of rubber and other material, in such holes, so as to form with the main leather sole a perfectly uniform surface. These pieces of rubber will be secured to the bottom of the insole by any approved glue or solution. The heel may, if desired, be treated in a similar manner.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 1s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)