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No. 18483.—22nd September, 1904.—HENRY DOWLING, of Frederick Street, Camperdown, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Mariner, and EDWIN DAVID JAMES BALFOUR, of 22, Ann Street, Balmain, near Sydney aforesaid, Master Mariner. Improvements in electric belts.

Extract from Specification.—With the electric belt which forms the subject of the present application a constant cell or battery is employed, the current from which passes through an induction-coil, and from thence to two pairs of electrodes or flesh-discs, one pair being in front of the belt and the other pair at the rear of the belt. The two flesh-discs in each pair are supplied with an electric current of one denomination, either + or —, and the other pair with electricity of the opposite denomination, either + or —, as the case may be, from the other pair. The conducting wires that convey the current from the coil enter the belt about midway between the two pairs of electrodes, and intermediately between the point of entrance of the wires and the electrodes provision is made whereby the wire may be temporarily broken, and an extension attachment be connected, whereby the current may be conveyed to one or more of the several extremities of the body.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]

(Specification, 3s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18554.—6th October, 1904.—HERBERT JAMES BAKER, of 135, Barbadoes Street, Christchurch, New Zealand, Commission Agent. An improved churn.*

Claims.—(1.) For the purpose indicated, a vessel provided with vertical ribs upon its inner periphery, the faces of said ribs having projections and recesses, a beater within said vessel the edges of which are also shaped with projections and recesses, with means for revolving said beater, substantially as specified. (2.) For the purpose indicated, in combination, a vessel provided with vertical ribs upon its inner periphery, the faces of said ribs having projections and recesses, a beater within said vessel the edges of which are also shaped with projections and recesses, a spindle for said beater, a pinion fixed thereon, a spur wheel gearing with said pinion, a handle for revolving same, and a bracket carrying said spindle, with means for removably attaching said bracket to said vessel, as specified. (3.) For the purpose indicated, the improved churn consisting of the parts arranged, combined, and operating substantially as specified, and as illustrated in the drawing.

(Specification, 2s. 6d.; drawings, 2s.)

No. 18630.—20th October, 1904.—EDWIN PHILLIPS, of 533, Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Patent Attorney and Engineer (nominee of Charles Maus Taylor, of Bourse Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Inventor). Improved cream-products, and apparatus for making the same.

Claims.—(1.) A product derived from cream by placing the latter in contact with absorbitive material permeable by its fluid and impermeable by its solid constituents whereby the fatty globules of the cream with their adhering particles of casein and the like are retained unbroken and unaltered and the fluid constituents are removed. (2.) A substitute for cream consisting of the product described above diffused in water, milk, or other suitable fluid medium. (3.) An apparatus for treating cream comprising a partition impermeable by the fatty constituents and permeable by the other constituents thereof, a receptacle to hold the same, a non-absorbent spacer to support the partition, and means for receiving the excess of constituents permeable through the partition. (4.) An apparatus for treating cream comprising a partition impermeable by the fatty constituents and permeable by the other constituents thereof, a receptacle to hold the same, means for supporting the partition, means, as a vacuum pump, for creating a less pressure on the drainage side of the partition to facilitate the operation, and means for collecting the excess of constituents permeable through the partition, with or without means for excluding the outer air from the apparatus during the operation. (5.) A centrifugal machine inclosed in a vacuum chamber, the basket of the machine being provided with walls comprising material impermeable by the fatty constituents of cream and permeable by its other constituents, means for suitably sealing the chamber against the air, and means for supplying cream to the basket of the machine without allowing the same to come into contact with the outer air.

(Specification, 6s. 3d.; drawings, 2s.)

No. 18636.—19th October, 1904.—CHARLES EDMUND DENMEAD, Plumber, and FRANCIS JOSEPH MAHONEY, Commercial Traveller, both of Christchurch, New Zealand. Improved means for jointing the trap of a water closet, slop-hopper, and suchlike devices to the soil or lead way pipe.

Claims.—(1.) For the purpose specified, a faucet-shaped stout casting, into the larger end of which the end of the trap-pipe of closet-basins, slop-hoppers, or the like, will come, said end being large enough to admit the trap-pipe end, and permit of rope-yarn being tamped down around said pipe-end and hot bitumen poured upon the rope-yarn, the lower part of the casting being reduced so as to adapt it to come into the soil-pipe and be jointed therein, substantially as described. (2.) A faucet-shaped stout casting that is employed to replace a short length of lead piping in the manner and for the purposes specified.

(Specification, 1s. 9d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18698.—3rd November, 1904.—DANVILL WILLIAM STARRETT, of 121, Mission Street, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Engineer. Improvements in compressed-air pumps.

Claim.—The compressed-air pump for pumping water up a pipe whose height exceeds that of a solid column of water balancing the compressed-air pressure, having the branch pipe from the compressed-air pipe to the water-discharge pipe above and near to the check-valve in the latter, said branch pipe having an opening sufficiently large to distribute the air through the water in the discharge-pipe so that the weight of the latter does not overbalance the compressed-air pressure, substantially as described.

(Specification, 2s. 6d.; drawing, 2s.)

No. 18707.—7th November, 1904.—JAMES THOMAS HUNTER, of Queen’s Chambers, Wellington, New Zealand, Registered Patent Agent (nominee of Thomas Rouse, of 7, Old Hill Street, Stamford Hill, London, N.E., England, Gentleman, and Herrmann Cohn, of 7, Brunswick Square, St. Pancras, London, W.C., England, Merchants). Improved method of converting into briquettes or lumps ironsand, whether natural or prepared by reducing to powder iron-ore or iron-wastes.*

Claims.—(1.) The process of agglomerating into briquettes or lumps by means of a weak solution of alum powdered iron-ore or iron-wastes, or natural ironsands, or mixtures thereof, for hardening the same by exposure to the atmosphere or otherwise, substantially as described. (2.) The process of agglomerating into briquettes or lumps by means of a weak solution of alum powdered iron-ore or iron-wastes, or natural ironsands, or mixtures thereof, and hardening the said briquettes or lumps by exposure to a high temperature, substantially as described.

(Specification, 1s. 6d.)

No. 18710.—2nd November, 1904.—ROBERT LOUIS HOWELL MURRAY, of 193, Karangahape Road, Auckland, New Zealand, Electrician. Improvements in acetylene-gas generators.

Claims.—(1.) The general construction of the water-supply pipe, in combination with an independent gas-conduct pipe, being in one piece of mechanism, thus avoiding the necessity of making two or more joints in generating-chamber, and preventing any interference with the free exit of gas into the gas-holder from any other generating-chamber of acetylene-gas generators. (2.) The continuation of the safety pipe from the top of the gas-holder through a suitable support up to any height desired into the open air. (3.) A weighted rod operating a sliding bar with spring, in combination with a levered valve regulating the supply of water to the generating-chambers, as substantially described in specification, and illustrated in drawings.

(Specification, 3s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18853.—13th December, 1904.—CHARLES JOSEPH ALEXANDER, of 60a, Wilson Street, Finsbury, London, Great Britain, Manager and Merchant. Improvements in incandescent gas-burners.

Extract from Specification.—According to the invention, the lower end of the outer telescopic gas-and-air supply tube carrying the burner-head is provided with a supplementary mixing-chamber, preferably dome-shaped, the bottom of which chamber is provided with a central opening through which