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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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adapts the device for use in buffing the shank of a shoe in the
angle formed with the breast of the heel without the edges of
those layers above the acting one coming into contact with
the breast of the heel and scratching it or becoming worn
or frayed. . . . . Another of the features of this invention
consists in providing a machine having a plurality of spindles
carrying the work members, one of which spindles is con-
tinuously rotated, and another of which is connected with the
first spindle by means which may be readily rendered in-
operative, whereby the second spindle can be stopped
quickly and easily without the necessity of stopping the
whole machine.

[NOTE.—The above extracts from the specification are inserted
in place of the claims.]
(Specification, £1 ; drawing, 3s.)

No. 18690.—3rd November, 1904.—UNITED SHOE MA-
CHINERY 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, Massa-
chusetts, United States of America (assignees of Erastus
Edwin Winkley, of Lynn, Massachusetts aforesaid). Im-
provements in or relating to sole-laying, sole-leveiling, or
other sole-pressing or like machines used in the manufacture
of boots or shoes.*

Extract from Specification.—Our invention consists in
providing a sole-pressing machine comprising mechanism
acting to move a jack and form to subject the sole of a shoe
to a plurality of rolling pressures, and means acting auto-
matically to stop the jack in a position of presentation, com-
bined with any automatically controlled means for varying
the number of pressing operations to which the sole is
subjected.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted
in place of the claims.]
(Specification, £2 2s. ; drawings, 11s.)

No. 18691.—3rd November, 1904.—UNITED SHOE MACHI-
NERY 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 John Benjamin
Hadaway, of Brockton, Massachusetts aforesaid). Improve-
ments in or relating to machines for operating on welts of
boots and shoes.*

Extract from Specification.—In the machine in which the
present invention has been embodied, a welt-slitting knife is
arranged to reciprocate transversely across the welt in
substantially the plane of the welt and to make its welt-
slitting stroke while the welt is clamped between the welt-
beating hammer and the work-support. The hammer of a
welt-beating machine is vibrated at an extremely high rate of
speed, the hammer of the machine in which the present
invention has been embodied being vibrated at the rate of
approximately 2,000 beats per minute. In order to enable
the welt-slitting knife to make its welt-slitting stroke while
the welt is clamped between the hammer and the welt-
support without imparting to the knife an exceedingly rapid
movement, which would impose sudden stresses upon the
machine and impair its durability and interfere with its
successful operation, the welt-slitting stroke of the knife is
divided up into a series of steps extended over a plurality of
strokes of the hammer, the advancing movements of the
knife occurring during the successive times during the cycle
of operations of the machine when the welt-beating hammer
is in contact with the welt. Since the advancing movements
of the knife occur during successive beats of the hammer,
the complete cutting stroke of the knife is performed in
such a short interval of time that the operator will not
sensibly move the shoe and thereby change its position
during the time the complete cutting-movement of the knife
is taking place. An operator soon learns to suit the feed-
movements imparted by him to the shoe to the motion of
the slitting-knife, and automatically holds the shoe station-
ary during the time a slit is being cut in the welt. The
knife is withdrawn from the welt by a continuous move-
ment, and remains out of contact with the welt during a
plurality of beats of the hammer, the time during which
the knife remains out of contact with the welt being suffi-
cient to allow the operator to feed the shoe the desired
distance beneath the hammer so that the slits are located
upon the welt the required distance apart. This manner
of actuating the welt-slitting knife, so that it makes its
welt-slitting stroke in a series of steps during the operation
of the welt-beating hammer, is considered to be a feature
of the present invention, and also the manner of operating
the knife by which it is caused to cut a slit in the welt
and then remain out of contact with the welt during a
plurality of beats of the hammer.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in
place of the claims.]
(Specification, £1 1s. ; drawings, 4s.)

No. 18705.—7th November, 1904.—WILLIAM BAXTER
JONES, of Karamu Road, Hastings, Hawke’s Bay, New Zea-
land, Engineer. An improved spring tine cultivator.*

Claims.—(1.) An implement for the purpose indicated
comprising, in combination, a rectangular frame having a
middle bar and front diagonal stay bars, rocking-shafts
journalled to the frame, tines secured to the rocking-shafts,
another rocking-shaft journalled to the rear of the frame,
shackles secured to the said shaft, land wheel mounted in
the shackles, and means for rocking the shafts simultane-
ously, substantially as set forth. (2.) In an implement for
the purpose indicated, means for rocking shafts to which
tines are attached, and a shaft to which land wheels are
connected by shackles, comprising a lever fulcrumed at its
lower end to the frame of the implement, a lever-arm secured
upon the front rocking-shaft, a bar connecting the lower end
of the lever and the lever-arm, another lever-arm secured
upon the same shaft, a lever-arm upon the rear rocking-shaft,
a rod connecting the lever-arms, a lever-arm secured to the
rocking-shaft of the land wheels, and a bar connecting the
lever and the lever arm, substantially as set forth. (3.) An
implement for the purpose indicated comprising, in com-
bination, a rectangular frame having a middle bar and front
diagonal stay bars, a front and rear rocking-shaft journalled
to the frame, tines secured to the rocking-shafts, another
rocking-shaft journalled to the rear of the frame, shackles
secured to the said shaft, land wheels mounted in the shackles,
a lever fulcrumed at its lower end to the frame of the
implement, a lever-arm secured upon the front rocking-shaft,
a bar connecting the lower end of the lever and the lever-
arm, another lever-arm secured upon the same shaft, a rod
connecting the lever-arms, a lever-arm secured to the rocking-
shaft of the land wheels, and a bar connecting the lever and
the lever-arm, substantially as set forth. (4.) In apparatus
for the purpose indicated, means for securing a tine to its
rocking-shaft comprising a loop bent to the circumference
of the shaft around part of which it fits, a bolt-end integral
with the top of the loop, a nut screwing upon the bolt-end,
and a straight bar forming the back of the loop, substantially
as set forth. (5.) An implement for the purpose indicated
characterized by having rocking-shafts which are operated
by mechanism for the purpose of lowering the frame of the
implement simultaneously with the rocking of the tines into
operative position, substantially as set forth. (6.) An im-
plement for the purpose indicated characterized by having
tines bent laterally downwards in one direction on a rocking-
shaft, and other tines bent into a laterally opposite direction
on another rocking shaft, and a loop having a bolt-end
passing through the tine, and a nut for securing the tine to
its shaft, substantially as set forth. (7.) The combination
and arrangement of parts comprising the improved spring-
tine cultivator, substantially as and for the purposes set
forth, and illustrated on the drawing.
(Specification, 6s. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 18752.—16th November, 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, Massa-
chusetts, United States of America (assignees of William
Roderick Barclay, Commercial Traveller, and Arthur Bates,
Engineer, both of Leicester, England). Improvements in or
relating to nail-driving machines.*

Extracts from Specification.—According to a preferred type
of construction under this invention there is combined with the
nail-conduit and a nail-deflector a yieldingly supported mem-
ber. . . . Preferably the yieldingly supported member may
be a nail-receiving tube adapted to rise and fall in relation
to the horn, and normally kept at the upper limit of its travel
by a spring or a weighted lever, the tube having a cam upon
it directly engaging a nail-deflector so that when the tube is
depressed against the resistance of its spring or weight by
the work bearing upon its upper end the cam moving with it
allows the nail-deflector to be projected into the nail-receiving
tube, whilst upon removal of the work the tube ascends and
its cam causes the nail deflector to return to its original
position, leaving the tube clear for reloading.

[NOTE.—The above extracts from the specification are inserted in
place of the claims.]
(Specification, 15s. ; drawings, 3s.)