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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 46

Notice of Acceptance of Complete Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 17th May, 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. 17657.—15th March, 1904.—ALFRED JOHN HILBURY BURT, of Hornby, Canterbury, New Zealand, Fellmonger. Improvements in the treatment of trimmed pieces from sheepskins.*

Claims.—(1.) Improvements in the treatment of trimmed pieces from sheep-skins, consisting in first washing the trimmings and then soaking them in a mixture of caustic and water in the proportions approximately mentioned, then draining off the caustic liquor and washing the pieces in fresh water, substantially as specified. (2.) Improvements in the treatment of trimmed pieces from sheep-skins, consisting of the succession of steps and operations and the employment of a depilatory, substantially as set forth.
(Specification, 2s.)

No. 17961.—26th May, 1904.—ERNEST SMITH BALDWIN and HENRIE HAMPTON RAYWARD, trading under the style of “Baldwin and Rayward,” of 71, Lambton Quay, late of Grey Street, Wellington, New Zealand, Patent Agents (nominees of Power and Mining Machinery Company, of 52–54, William Street, New York, United States of America, Engineers, the assignees of Burdett Loomis, of Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America, and Hawley Pettibone, of New Rochelle, New York, United States of America). Improved apparatus for making producer and water gas.*

Extract from Specification.—This invention relates to apparatus for making and delivering gas of any desired calorific value, or the desired proportion of heat-units, adapted for heating purposes and for motive power in high-power gas-engines. The object of our invention is to provide for generating producer-gas and water-gas, drawing them off from the generator by an exhaustor, and, during the manufacture, and the operation of the exhaustor, mixing the two kinds of gas in any desired proportion for giving the most effective and economical results as a motive power in explosion engines of several hundred horse-power or as a fuel in metallurgical operations. In the usual method of making producer-gas, air and steam are together forced up through a body of incandescent fuel, generating a mixed gas of variable quality. It is difficult with the varying output of gas from a gas-producer to maintain the proper and uniform proportions of air and steam admitted to the fuel or decomposed therein. It is also difficult to decompose all of the steam into hydrogen and carbon-monoxide. When the proportions of air and steam change, the quality of the gas varies both in its component parts and in calorific value or power. By passing air and steam alternately through a body of incandescent fuel in a cupola generator, each kind of gas, producer and water gas, is made of uniform quality, and by mixing these gases in fixed proportions the product is a more constant and uniform quality of gas, well adapted for operating high-power gas-engines. We have therefore devised apparatus particularly adapted for making and delivering such a mixed gas to a holder or directly to the place of use.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 8s. ; drawings, 2s.)

No. 17962.—20th May, 1904.—STANLEY FAWKNER CLARE, formerly of Campbelltown, now of Gisborne, New Zealand, Sheep-farmer. Improvements in axes.*

Extract from Specification.—The essential features consist in the upper edge or back of the portion of the handle let into the tool-head eye being made with an outward slope, its under or opposite edge being made substantially parallel with the body of the handle, the sides of the handle, and concaved, the axe-head having a tapering eye provided with inwardly convexed sides, the convexity running parallel with the length of the eye, a main wedge used along the said upper edge for holding the handle in its place, a pin passed through the tool-head to fasten the main wedge, and a minor wedge giving lateral pressure is or may be used also.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claim.]
(Specification, 3s. 6d. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18111.—30th June, 1904.—WILLIAM DALL, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Merchant. An improved voting-register.

Claims.—(1.) In a machine for registering and recording votes, in combination, a number of stops each supplied with the name and photograph of one of the candidates to be voted for, said stop on being pushed in recording by direct action one to the individual and also one to the total registers, and by a part of its mechanism passing through slanting plates, thus advancing the body of the machine to the stop which is regulated to the number of the said candidates, the said stops being retained in till released by the attendant pressing another controlling-lever, all substantially as set forth, and as illustrated in the drawing. (2.) In a machine for registering and recording the number of individual and total number of votes, in combination, a number of stops capable of being pressed in and there retained, registering as pressed in, with torpedo-like projections passing a swinging bridge, no two openings of which are in the same relative position to any torpedo-shaped projection so that no two stops can be actuated at the same time, the said stops ringing one bell as each is pressed, and the pressed-in stops being released in rotation, not all at once, all substantially as set forth, and as illustrated in the drawing. (3.) In combination in a machine for registering votes, a number of stops that pass through slanting plates to advance the machine to a stop adjusted to the number of candidates, with projections that pass a swinging bridge only one at a time, said bridge being automatically removed for their return, said stops actuating registers and a bell, said registers being detachable as needed, and the whole being capable of being brought to normal position for the next voter by the attendant, all substantially as shown and as set forth.
(Specification, 4s. 6d. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18142.—9th July, 1904.—SAMUEL DECIMUS CURRIE, of Te Aroha, Auckland, New Zealand, Farmer. An improved device for use in converting kerosene and other tins into buckets.*

Claim.—A device for use in converting kerosene or other tins into buckets, consisting of a band of metal provided with a handle, and adapted to encircle the top edge of the tin and be fastened thereto, substantially as described and illustrated.
(Specification, 1s. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18186.—21st July, 1904.—ALFRED JAMES GILSENAN, of Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia, Butter-factor. An improved acetylene-gas generator.*

Claims.—(1.) In an improved acetylene-gas generator, an outer cylinder such as a, in combination with an inner cylinder such as b, which answers the purposes of a carbide chamber and gas-holder, substantially as described and illustrated. (2.) In an improved acetylene-gas generator, a receptacle for carbide, such as c5, with a ring or hoop c1, vertical rods c2, and flat strips of iron c3, together with the vertical wires c4, and wire-netting substantially as described and illustrated. (3.) In an improved acetylene-gas generator, consisting of the combination and arrangement of parts illustrated in the drawing as and for the purposes set forth.
(Specification, 2s. 6d. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18234.—28th July, 1904.—EDMUND FRANCIS BEDFORD KENYON, of Hove, Brighton, Sussex, England, Gentleman. Improvements in peelers for potatoes and like articles.*

Claims.—(1.) A peeler for the purposes stated, constructed and operating as described. (2.) In a peeler of the character described, dividing the interior of the barrel by a fixed partition, preferably formed with rasp teeth.
(Specification, 2s. 6d. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 19252.—29th July, 1904.—GEORGE EDWARD BAILEY, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Agent. An improved mode or method of advertising.*

Claim.—As a method of advertising, the combination, with a packet of tea or other analogous article, of a playing-card upon the surface of which is clearly expressed the fortunate value of such card, as specified.
(Specification, 1s. 3d.)