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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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parts all interchangeable and easily replaced, the pneumatic
part being never subjected to driving, braking, or any other
severe strain, substantially as specified.
(Specification, 7s. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 20505.—28th December, 1905.—MACHINE-MADE CASKS,
LIMITED, of 50, Old Broad Street, London, England (as-
signees of William Jamieson, of 52, New Road, Gray’s,
Essex, England, Engineer, and Robert Burn, of 50, Old
Broad Street, London, England, Engineer). Improvements
in machines for shaping and preparing staves for casks
and the like.

Extract from Specification.—The invention comprises all
or any of the following operations: First, dressing the front
or outside of the stave to a convex form and the inside
to a concave form, so that when the staves are assembled
they form in cross-section continuous circles both inside and
outside. Second, forming or producing the correct curves
on the edges of the staves—that is to say, making the staves
wide in the middle and tapering towards each end so as to
form the bilge on the finished cask or the like. Thirdly,
bevelling the edges of the stave so as to correspond with
the varying radii of the cask or the like at the head and
at the bilge. Fourthly, forming a tongue on the one edge
and a groove on the opposite edge of the stave. Fifthly,
bevelling or chamfering the ends of the stave and cutting
the crozes to receive the heads. Sixthly, forming the cross-
cuts on the inner side of the stave, or in place thereof of
hollowing out the central part of the stave or of cutting or
forming a series of small hollows or corrugations on the
central part of the stave to facilitate bending thereof.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted
in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 12s. 6d. ; drawings, 7s.)

No. 20506.—28th December, 1905.—MACHINE-MADE CASKS,
LIMITED, of 50, Old Broad Street, London, England
(assignees of Robert Burn, of 50, Old Broad Street, London,
England, Engineer). Improvements in and relating to
casks and like vessels.

Claims.—(1.) The means described of securing the head,
bottom, or partitions in a cask or the like by rings or seg-
ments inserted in grooves cut in the inside of the staves of
the body and secured therein by suitable devices, sub-
stantially as described and set forth. (2.) A cask or the like
having its head, bottom, or partitions secured by means of
rings or segments inserted in grooves or slots formed in the
inner side of such cask or the like and secured by suitable
devices, substantially as set forth. (3.) For use in con-
nection with the invention claimed in the above claims 1
and 2, the arrangement of a rabbet or recess cut round the
edge of the head, bottom, or partitions of a cask or the like
to secure rings or segments in grooves cut in the inner side
of such cask or the like, as and for the purpose set forth with
reference to the drawings.
(Specification, 3s. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 20517.—3rd January, 1906.—FREDERICK JOHN WAL-
TON, Caterer, and LONGINUS VIVIAN ROGERS, Journalist,
both of No. 3, Station Road, Finchley, London, N., Eng-
land. Improvements in automatic time-tables and adver-
tising-apparatus.

Claims.—(1.) The automatic time-table consisting of a num-
ber of cards arranged one behind the other upon the front
one of which the current times are displayed, and means for
automatically removing the front one at predetermined
intervals and placing it at the back, thus causing the second
of the series to be exposed, substantially as specified. (2.) In
an automatic time-table composed of a number of cards
arranged one behind the other upon the front one of which
the current times are displayed, the means for removing the
front time-table card and placing it at the back, said means
comprising the combination with a clockwork-operated lever
to the lower end of which a flexible but inextensible connec-
tion is attached of a gravity hook or catch carried upon the
lower end of said connection, said hook being retained and
arranged to slide in a slot, said hook when in its lowest posi-
tion automatically engaging with a wire arranged upon the
top of and carrying the front time-table card and being auto-
matically released when at or about its highest point, of the
guide-slots in which the ends of the wire carrying the time-
table card are arranged to travel, and the gravity devices
arranged in association with said guide-slots for insuring the
wire of the time-table card following its proper path, substan-
tially as specified. (3.) In an automatic time-table com-
posed of a number of cards upon the front one of which the
current times are displayed and wherein such front card is
withdrawn and placed at the back at predetermined intervals
by the movement of a clockwork-operated lever, the means
for releasing said lever and again engaging it when it has
revolved one revolution, said means consisting of a pivoted
releasing-lever, a weight associated with said lever, a bridge
on the lower end of said lever, a rearwardly projecting pin on
said bridge and a forwardly projecting pin on the lower end
of said lever between which pins the upper end of the spring-
operated pivoted lever is normally held, and of means for
causing the releasing-lever to be operated at predetermined
intervals, substantially as specified. (4.) The improvements
in and connected with advertising consisting in the combina-
tion with a centrally situated and automatically operated
time-table of means for alternately displaying advertisements
through orifices in a framework, said means comprising ad-
vertisement-carrying boards arranged on either side of the
time-table and connected at their upper ends by a chain run-
ing over pulleys so that when one of said boards is pulled
up the other is correspondingly pulled down, means for
operating said boards consisting of a rod pivoted at one end
to the top of one of the advertisement-boards and at the other
end to one end of a clockwork-operated lever the ends of
which lever carry pins or rollers which operate against a re-
tarding-device for the purpose of arresting the movement of
this clockwork-operated lever and causing it to be periodically
held approximately stationary, all combined, arranged, and
operated substantially as and for the purposes specified.
(Specification, 8s. 6d. ; drawings, 4s.)

No. 20524.—4th January, 1906.—ALBERT JOHNSTONE
CAMPBELL, of Angel Road, Edmonton, Middlesex, England,
Civil Engineer, and ROBERT HUNTER CAMPBELL, of the same
place, Mechanical Engineer. Improvements in connection
with seltzogenes and like containers of aerated liquids.

Claims.—(1.) A seltzogene or like container for aerated
liquids provided with a head combining an inlet nipple-
piece or the equivalent, and means for attaching a capsule-
containing and gas-liberating device thereto, and means
whereby outlet for gas from the seltzogene or container
through the draw-off spout is closed whilst the liquid is
being charged with gas, and outlet for gas through the said
nipple-piece or the equivalent is closed when the said device
is removed, substantially as and for the purposes explained.
(2.) A seltzogene or like container for aerated liquids, the
said seltzogene or like container having a head provided with
a perforated nipple-piece communicating with the interior
of the seltzogene or like container above the draw-off valve
and carrying a screw or the equivalent to receive a device
holding a capsule, means for piercing or opening the capsule,
and an outlet-spout provided with a screw or the equivalent
like that on the nipple-piece and a cap adapted to be
screwed or equivalently applied on to either the said nipple-
piece or the said outlet-spout, substantially as and for the
purposes described. (3.) A seltzogene or like container for
aerated liquids, the said seltzogene or like container having
a head provided with a perforated nipple-piece communi-
cating with the interior of the seltzogene or like container
below the draw-off valve and carrying a valvular or both
valvular and capsule piercing or opening arrangement
such as to be retained in the said nipple-piece under the
pressure of gas in the seltzogene or like container, and a
device for carrying a capsule or both capsule and capsule
piercer or opener and capable of being screwed down on the
screw carried by the nipple-piece, substantially as and for
the purposes described.
(Specification, 6s. ; drawings, 2s.)

No. 20525.—4th January, 1906.—THOMAS DOUGLAS KYLE,
of Acorn Cottage, Greenbank Street, Marrickville, Sydney,
New South Wales, Australia, Engineer. Means for and
method of preventing the decomposition of fish.

Claims.—(1.) In the process of preventing the decomposi-
tion of fish, the circulation of concentrated sea-water at a
low temperature through and around said fish in a tank,
filtering the said sea-water, and passing it through a layer
of charcoal, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
(2.) In the process of preventing the decomposition of fish,
the circulating of a solution of sodium-chloride at a low
temperature through and around said fish in a tank, filtering
the said solution, and passing it through a layer of charcoal.
(3.) In the purification of fish, the process of preventing its
decomposition by circulating concentrated sea-water or
sodium-chloride solution over said fish in trays at a tempera-
ture approaching zero Fahr., filtering, and passing it through
a series of charcoal purifiers, substantially as and for the
purpose set forth. (4.) In the process of preventing the
decomposition of fish, the purifier A in combination with
concentrated sea-water or sodium-chloride solution at a low
temperature, substantially as described and shown on the