JULY 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1707

the conductor adapted to be received by brackets fixed to the implement, a pin upon the back of the conductor, a bar having holes to engage the pins on the back of a number of conductors, a lever pivoted to the said bar and fulcrumed upon the implement, and pins upon the sides and near the bottom of the legs, substantially as set forth. (3.) The combination and arrangement of parts comprising the improved fertiliser-conductor, substantially as and for the purposes set forth, and illustrated on the drawing.
(Specification, 2s. 6d. ; drawings, 1s.)

No. 18465.—20th September, 1904.—ARCHIBALD GEORGE LAND, of 12, Rastrick Street, St. Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand. An improved adjustable seat for vehicles.*

Extract from Specification.—According to this invention, an angle iron is fixed upon the top rail upon each side of the vehicle and provided with slots to form a rack. Corresponding angle brackets are fixed to the seat of the vehicle and rest upon the angle iron. A shaft journalled in the angle brackets is provided with a sprocket wheel upon each end. A lever having a bifurcated end is slotted to pass upon the end of the said shaft and receives one of the sprocket wheels. A pin through the bifurcated end of the lever is capable of engaging with the teeth of the said sprocket wheel. The outer end of the lower is T-shaped, so that it may engage with the slots of one of the angle irons.
[NOTE.—The above extracts from the specification are inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 4s. ; drawings, 1s.)

No. 18475.—22nd September, 1904.—DANIEL HYDE KINGSTON MCGUINNESS, of Mackay Street, Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia, Commission Merchant. An improved elevating hand-truck.*

Claims.—(1.) In combination, a hand-truck, a lever-frame pivoted to same, and a platform supported at one end by the truck and at the other end by the lever-frame, substantially as and for the purposes described. (2.) In combination, a hand-truck, a lever-frame pivoted to same, a platform supported at one end by the truck and at the other end by the lever-frame, a quadrant-rack on the lever-frame, and a spring pawl to engage with same for holding the lever-frame in different positions relative to the truck, substantially as and for the purposes specified. (3.) In combination, a hand-truck, a lever-frame pivoted to the truck about its centre, a platform pivoted at one end to the truck and supported at the other end by the lever-frame, and means for holding the lever-frame in different positions relative to the truck, substantially as and for the purposes specified. (4.) In combination, a hand-truck having roller c, a lever-frame pivoted to the truck about its centre and carrying roller d at one end, a platform connected at one end by guide-bars b² to the roller c and at other end by guide-bars b³ to the roller d, and means for holding the lever-frame in different positions relative to the truck, substantially as and for the purposes specified. (5.) In combination, a hand-truck having roller, a lever-frame pivoted to the truck about its centre and carrying roller d at one end and at the other end supporting wheels f, a platform connected at one end by guide-bars b² to the roller c and at other end by guide-bars b³ to the roller d, and means for holding the lever-frame in different positions relative to the truck, substantially as and for the purposes described. (6.) The combination and arrangement of the whole of the parts for the purposes described, and substantially as illustrated in the drawings.
(Specification, 4s. 6d. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18522. — 30th September, 1904. — JAMES SYDNEY PALMER, of Wanganui, Wellington, New Zealand, Hotel-proprietor. In improved account-book.*

Claim.—In account-books, dividing the pages into main divisions for the entry therein of the receipts, the bankings, and the payments, and then subdividing such main divisions into a number of money-columns divisions, each one under the heading of a source of receipt and expenditure, each main division also being provided with a money column for the entry therein of the aggregate totals of the amounts in the subdivisions for each day, substantially as described, and as illustrated in the drawings.
(Specification, 2s. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18857.—14th December, 1904.—FREDERICK RICHARDSON, Salesman, and FRANK MARKEY, Machinist, both of St. Mary’s, Ontario, Canada. Improvements in or relating to combined churns and butter-workers.

Extract from Specification.—This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in that class of combined churns and butter-workers in which the cylinder is rotatably supported in a suitable frame and actuated by a suitable mechanism, such cylinder being fitted with a series of removable butter-working rollers arranged to be inserted into the cylinder through a central aperture at one side thereof, such butter-working rollers being rotated by the mechanism actuating or causing the rotation of the cylinder. In carrying out the invention I journal the butter-working rollers in a movable frame supported by a swinging arm hinged at one end to the main frame of the apparatus, and I provide this movable frame with a gear-case in which is journalled a shaft arranged transversely to the mandrels of the butter-working rollers, such shaft and mandrels being fitted with intermeshing bevel-gear wheels whereby the butter-working rollers can be rotated during the rotation of the transverse shaft, as more fully set forth and more particularly pointed out in the claims.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 6s. ; drawings, 2s.)

No. 18888.—23rd December,1904.—JOHN WILLIAM FOWLER, of Whangarei Heads, Auckland, New Zealand, Engineer. Improvements in the construction of electric belts, bands, or other wearing devices.

Claim.—In electric bands, belts, or other body-wearing articles, discs or plates of two different metals arranged with the pieces of one metal alternating with and connected to those of the other and secured upon a strip of insulated material provided with means for fastening it upon the body, so arranged that when thus fastened an unbroken line of the alternating metals will be formed, and arranged so as to come into contact with the wearer’s body, substantially as specified.
(Specification, 3s. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18905.—29th December, 1904.—THOMAS ROUSE, of 7, Old Hill Street, Stamford Hill, London, N.E., Gentleman, and HERRMANN COHN, of 7, Brunswick Square, St. Pancras, London, W.C., Merchant, both in Middlesex, England. Improvements in the manufacture of briquettes from powdered iron-ore or iron-wastes, or from ironsand, or mixtures thereof, for reduction in furnaces.*

Claims.—(1.) The process of agglomerating into briquettes or lumps ready for hardening by any known means, by means of a 2-per-cent. solution of water-glass, powdered iron ore, powdered iron-wastes, natural ironsand, or mixtures thereof, with which a small quantity, about 0·025 per cent. by weight, of powdered alum has been thoroughly mixed. (2.) The process of agglomerating into briquettes or lumps ready for hardening by any known means, powdered iron-ore, powdered iron-wastes, natural ironsands, or mixtures thereof, by means of a solution of 0·5 per cent. alum in water to which 2 per cent. by measure of commercial water-glass has been added.
(Specification, 2s.)

No. 18961.—9th February, 1904.—JOSEF FUHRER, of Muhlgasse, 24, Vienna IV., Austria, Manufacturer. Improvements in explosives.

[NOTE.—This is an application under section 106 of the Act, the date given being the official date of the application in Great Britain.]

Claims.—(1.) An explosive consisting of ammonium-nitrate, a light metal such as aluminium, and a nitro-hydrocarbon of the nature specified. (2.) An explosive consisting of ammonium-nitrate, aluminium in grains, carbon, and a nitro-hydrocarbon of the nature specified. (3.) An explosive consisting of ammonium-nitrate, aluminium, and a di- or tri-nitrotoluene of the nature specified.
(Specification, 1s. 6d.)