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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Alexander Houseman and Louis Weichert, both of Charl-estown, near Newcastle. [Improvements in anti-fraudulent bottles.

Extract from Specification.—According to these improvements the neck of the bottle has a rabbet or step or recess internally there of a short distance from the top or mouth. Below and from this rabbet the neck is made slightly convex lengthwise and holds the cork. A lock stopper or plug of glass or porcelain or other suitable material having compressible protruding catches or springs is adapted to be inserted in the neck of the bottle until the compressed catches or springs pass under the rabbet or into the recess and engage therein, thus locking said stopper or plug against withdrawal until the head or neck is broken off, which is facilitated by an external recess at the junction of head and neck.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 5s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 20516.—3rd January, 1906.—WILLIAM SAMUEL LAYCOCK, of Victoria Works, Millhouses, Sheffield, England, Engineer. Improvements in seats for railway-carriages or other vehicles.

Claims.—(1.) In a seat of the kind herein referred to, the combination with arms supporting the back of levers pivotally connected with the said arms and provided with pins or projections engaging in slots in the frame of the seat, the upper ends of said levers engaging projections upon brackets secured to the seat proper, as described with reference to the drawings. (2.) The combination with mechanism such as described in claim 1 of cheeks or cam-surfaces upon the end of the arms carrying the seat-back and fixed projections designed to engage said surfaces, in order to alter the inclination of the seat-back.
(Specification, 4s.; drawings, 2s.)

No. 20543.—16th May, 1905.—ARTHUR CURWOOD, of Campbelltown, Southland, New Zealand, Shipwright, JOSEPH HARRISON, of Half-moon Bay, Stewart Island, Fish-merchant, and EWEN ALEXANDER CAMERON, of Spey Street, Invercargill, Southland, aforesaid, Civil Engineer and Architect. Improved means for balancing and fastening window-sashes.

Extract from Specification.—This invention relates to means for balancing and fastening window-sashes, and according hereto each sash is provided with a rack sunk into a groove formed in each side of the sash. Brackets in which toothed wheels are mounted are let into the framing on each side of the window so that the racks on the sashes engage with the toothed wheels. The usual sash-balance weight and cords are dispensed with, and I make the weights with racked teeth to engage the toothed wheels before mentioned. Each bracket is provided with rollers, against which the weight rests and by which its teeth are kept in gear with the toothed wheel. The bracket has a slot into which a locking-bar passes and engages the teeth of the toothed wheels, which are thus prevented from revolving, and thereby fasten the window-sashes.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 4s. 6d.; drawings, 2s.)

No. 20553.—10th January, 1906.—ROBERT HARBEN WHITELEGG, of Stuart House, Upton Lane, Forest Gate, Essex, England, Locomotive Engineer. An improved variable blast-pipe arrangement for locomotive engines.

Extract from Specification.—A convenient way of carrying out my invention when applied by way of example in connection with the ordinary link-motion gear is as follows: On the reversing-shaft I provide a lever which I connect with the downwardly continued stem of a regulating-cone which is arranged in the centre of the coned upper end of the exhaust-pipe in the smoke-box, the arrangement being such that the greatest opening for the exhaust is given when the valve-gear is either in the full forward or full backward position, whilst the smallest opening occurs when the valve-gear is notched up and worked most expansively.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 4s.; drawings, 2s.)

No. 20565.—9th January, 1906.—ALFRED BRADFIELD, Junior, of Ratanui, New Zealand. An attachment for lifting-jacks.

Claims.—(1.) In lifting-jacks the combination of an ordinary jack having a heel, with a plate or bands passing under the bottom and forming a reverse heel on each side of the heel that is part of jack, substantially as shown and as described and for the purposes set forth. (2.) In bottle or similar jacks, the combination of a jack with straps or bands fixed to both ends of said jack and forming heels capable of being drawn apart by the usual action of the jack, all substantially as shown in the drawing and as explained and described.
(Specification, 2s.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 20581.—16th January, 1906.—HILARY QUERTIER, of Woods Hotel, Dunedin, New Zealand, Engineer. Improvements in rail-cleaners for tramways and the like.

Extract from Specification.—My present invention comprises improvements in the construction of the ploughs for clearing rail-grooves and means for securing them to a pivoted carrying-frame, dirt-deflecting screens for the revolving cleaning-brushes, and a method of constructing the brushes which renders them renewable at a low cost when worn out.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 7s.; drawings, 2s.)

No. 20585.—17th January, 1906.—JAMES BROOKS, of Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Physician. Improvements in flasks or cores for castings.

Claims.—(1.) The described composition of matter, consisting of sand and borax. (2.) The described composition of matter, consisting of sand, sodium-biborate, and a liquid. (3.) A composition of matter for use in making cores for castings, and consisting of a body of earthy material, borax, and a liquid to unite them. (4.) A mouldable composition adapted to be moulded and hardened in a predetermined form, comprising a boron-compound and a silicious filler. (5.) A mouldable composition adapted to be moulded and hardened in a predetermined form, comprising a borate of sodium, a liquid, and a silicious filler. (6.) The described composition of matter, consisting of a mixture of sand, borax, and a liquid, hardened by heat. (7.) A composition of matter for use in making cores for castings, consisting of a body of earthy material, borax, and a liquid, hardened by heat. (8.) A mouldable composition adapted to be moulded and hardened by heat in a predetermined form, comprising a borum-compound and a silicious filler. (9.) A mouldable composition adapted to be moulded in a predetermined form, comprising an alkaline borate, a silicious filler, and a suitable liquid, hardened by heat. (10.) A mouldable material, comprising borax, sand, and water, adapted to be moulded and hardened by heat in a predetermined form.
(Specification, 3s. 6d.)

No. 20589.—18th January, 1906.—JAMES INGLE, of 58 Smith Street, Kennington Park, London, England, Engineer, and WILLIAM JAMES GREEN, of 60 North Side, Clapham Common, London, England, Chemist. Improvements in and relating to branding-machines for casks, cases, and the like.

Claims.—(1.) A branding-machine, consisting of a sliding-frame, a set of type-wheels mounted on said sliding-frame, operating-gear for moving the said type-wheels, means carried by the frame of the machine adapted to co-act with the type-wheel operating-gear so as to move the type-wheels and present consecutive numbers at each operation, and means for heating the said type-wheels with gaseous fuel, substantially as described. (2.) A branding-machine, consisting of a sliding-frame, a set of type-wheels mounted on said sliding-frame, operating-gear for moving the said type-wheels, means carried by the frame of the machine adapted to co-act with the type-wheel operating-gear so as to move the type-wheels and present consecutive numbers at each operation, and a gas-burner supported on the operating-gear of the vertical moving-frame and adapted to pass under and move away from the type-wheels automatically by the movement of the operative mechanism, substantially as described. (3.) In a branding-machine as claimed in claim 2, the arrangement of an automatically controlled gas-supply upon the gas-burner device, substantially as described. (4.) The arrangement and construction of a consecutive-numbering branding-machine, substantially as described and illustrated in and by the drawings.
(Specification, 3s.; drawing, 1s.)