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said platform the box or receptacle is open, all substantially as set forth, and as shown on the drawing. (2.) In a feeding-box, the combination of a platform connected with a door and balance-weight so that when sufficient weight as calculated is applied to said platform the door opens and allows the contents to be extracted, all substantially as set forth, and as shown on the drawing. (3.) In a feeding-box, a hinged transparent or perforated door so connected with a combined platform that when a creature of sufficient weight or sufficient weight is applied to said platform said door opens allowing the contents to be extracted, and when said weight is withdrawn from said platform said door automatically closes by the action of the balance-weight, all substantially as set forth, and as shown on the drawing.
(Specification, 3s. 3d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 19874.—9th August, 1905.—OTENE PAORA, of Orakei, Auckland, New Zealand, Farmer. An improved adjustable cant hook or lever.

Claims.—(1.) A cant hook or lever constructed of a staff or bar with an adjustable and slidable cross-bar having a hooked-shaped tongue on its working end or head fitted thereto, all for the purpose set forth, substantially as described, and illustrated by the drawings. (2.) A cant hook or lever constructed of a staff or bar with an adjustable and slidable rack or ratchet cross-bar having a hook-shaped tongue on its working end or head fitted thereto, with a movable tongue or pawl for engaging and holding such rack or ratchet cross-bar controlled by a spiral compression-spring, such tongue or pawl working in guide attached to the staff and operated by a small hand-lever attached to the handle of such staff, all for the purpose set forth, substantially as described, and illustrated by the drawings.
(Specification, 2s. 3d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 19882.—15th August, 1905.—GEORGE CHRISTIAN JOHN RICHARD, of 73, King Street, Newtown, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Art Metal-worker. A new device in collapsible gates and collapsible shutters for shop-fronts, warehouses, doorway-entrances, and the like.

Claims.—(1.) In collapsible gates and shutters, the use of slot-pieces marked “A” on No. 2 drawing with slot in same marked “D” on No. 2 drawing fixed between lattice-bars of gate for them to work in same. (2.) The use of any number of slot-pieces marked “A” on No. 2 drawing with slot in same marked “D” on No. 2 drawing fixed in different positions so as lattice-bars can work in same.
(Specification, 2s.; drawings, 2s.)

No. 19883.—15th August, 1905.—WILLIAM JOHN WALLETT, of 5, Equitable Buildings, Durban, Natal, Contractor. Improvements in lock-nuts.

Extract from Specification.—According to my invention the nut on the under-side is formed with two (more or less) indentations, recesses, or cavities of a suitable shape and depth, and on the surface of the washer next the nut are formed two (more or less) inclined planes or tapering projections. The under-side of the washer, or that surface which comes into contact with the plate or other object into which the bolt is placed, is fluted or formed with shallow channels or grooves at a suitable angle, which flutes, channels, or grooves run preferably in the reverse direction to the pitch of the screw-thread.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 5s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 19890.—17th August, 1905.—JACOB DAVID WOLF, of 17, Throgmorton Avenue, London, England, Gentleman. Improvements in or relating to the separation of metals from their ores.

Claims.—(1.) In apparatus for the separation of metals from their ores in which a travelling belt coated with tacky material is used to separate finely divided metals and gangue in a wet pulp—ridging, roughening, or corrugating the viscous oil, grease, or tacky material upon the surface of the travelling belt. (2.) In apparatus for the separation of metals from their ores in which a travelling belt coated with tacky material is used to separate finely divided metals and gangue in a wet pulp, imparting by suitable means a vertical movement or movements to such travelling belt coated with tacky material. (3.) In apparatus for the separation of metals from their ores in which a travelling belt coated with tacky material is used to separate finely divided metals and gangue in a wet pulp, the use of an apron or grid or the like above the surface of such travelling belt for the purpose of facilitating the separation of the metallic particles from the gangue. (4.) In apparatus for the separation of metals from their ores in which a travelling belt coated with tacky material is used to separate finely divided metals and gangue in a wet pulp—ridging, roughening, or corrugating the viscous oil, grease, or tacky material upon the surface of the travelling belt, and imparting by suitable means a vertical movement or movements to such travelling belt coated with tacky material. (5.) In apparatus for the separation of metals from their ores in which a travelling belt coated with tacky material is used to separate finely divided metals and gangue in a wet pulp—ridging, roughening, or corrugating the viscous oil, grease, or tacky material upon the surface of the travelling belt, and the use in combination therewith of an apron or grid or the like above the surface of such travelling belt, and arranged to act in conjunction therewith for the purpose of facilitating the separation of the metallic particles from the gangue. (6.) In apparatus for the separation of metals from their ores in which a travelling belt coated with tacky material is used to separate finely divided metals and gangue in a wet pulp, imparting by suitable means a vertical movement or movements to such travelling belt coated with tacky material, and the use in combination therewith of an apron or grid or the like above the surface of such travelling belt, and arranged to act in conjunction therewith for the purpose of facilitating the separation of the metallic particles from the gangue. (7.) In apparatus for the separation of metals from their ores in which a travelling belt coated with tacky material is used to separate finely divided metals and gangue in a wet pulp—ridging, roughening, or corrugating the viscous oil, grease, or tacky material upon the surface of the travelling belt, imparting by suitable means a vertical movement or movements to such travelling belt coated with tacky material, and the use in combination therewith of an apron or grid or the like above the surface of such travelling belt, and arranged to act in conjunction therewith for the purpose of facilitating the separation of the metallic particles from the gangue.
(Specification, 13s.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 19896.—17th August, 1905.—ALBERT EDWARD BREGMAN, of Churchill, Waikato, Auckland, New Zealand, Farmer. An improved combined saw-set, gauge, and stripper.

Claims.—(1.) The arrangement, construction, and combination of a saw-set, gauge, and stripper, all for the purposes set forth, substantially as described, and as illustrated by the drawings. (2.) A saw-set gauge constructed of a plate having a straight edge with a rectangular portion cut out of one corner, having a graduated scale marked or cut on the lower inner side of said cut-out corner, and a thumb gauge-screw working through a top projecting piece controlled by a thumb set-screw working through and parallel to such projecting piece, such saw-set gauge being in combination with a saw-set and stripper, for the purposes set forth, substantially as described, and as illustrated by the drawings. (3.) A saw-stripper constructed of a plate with a straight edge thereon, said plate broadening out to an ovate, oval, or rectangular shape, with recesses cut thereout to permit of a file or suchlike being inserted into one, and of a thumb-screw to turn in the other working through a projection between the two recesses, the corner of the straight edge and one of the recesses being cut off diagonally, such saw-stripper being in combination with a saw-set and saw-set gauge, all for the purposes set forth, substantially as described, and as illustrated by the drawings.
(Specification, 3s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 19899.—16th August, 1905.—CHARLES BOWTELL SMITH, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Printer. Improved counter-sales or check book.

Claims.—(1.) In counter-sales or check books where more than one fac-simile entry is needed, in combination, a book composed of sets of leaves, all of regular different sizes for ease in working said sets, with the means of fixing said books to cases or covers, all substantially as set forth, and as shown on the drawing. (2.) In counter-sales or check books where triplicate sets are worked in combination, leaves of said book arranged in three sizes for convenience of working the sets, the middle leaf of each set being transparent, with double-faced carbon paper placed between the second and third leaf of each set, and the book being secured to its cover by the device as set forth, all substantially as shown, and as described and as set forth.
(Specification, 3s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)