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mounting the discs on semi-revolvable posts supported by
the plough-beam frame, and connecting said posts by a system
of levers with a centrally pivoted draw-bar so that the action
of giving the draw-bar an end-to-end semicircular travel
about the plough-frame reverses the cutting position of discs,
substantially as described. (4.) In disc and other ploughs,
mounting the furrow-wheels at each end of frame on a trans-
verse sliding-bar, and operating said bars by a system of
levers actuated from draw-bar so that as the position of
draw-bar is changed from one end to another so the transverse
position of the plough-beam is changed to suit the direction
to be ploughed, substantially as described.
(Specification, 4s. 6d.; drawings, 2s.)

No. 19367.—19th April, 1905.—HENRY BRABY, of 87 View
Street, Annandale, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia,
Engineer. Improvements in burners for heating and illuminat-
ing purposes.*

Claims.—(1.) In burners for heating and illuminating
purposes, the combination with a nozzle of spirally formed
grooves or ways therein for passage of the gas, and a fan in
front of said nozzle whereby an intimate mixture of the air
and gas is effected, substantially as described. (2.) The
improvements in burners for heating and illuminating pur-
poses consisting of the combination and arrangement of the
parts described and illustrated in the drawings.
(Specification, 2s. 3d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 19493.—18th May, 1905.—GEORGE BRODERICK, of
Temuka, New Zealand, Gardener. Improved means for ren-
dering a pneumatic tire less liable to puncture.*

Claims.—(1.) For the purpose indicated, the general
arrangement, construction, and combination of parts, sub-
stantially as described. (2.) For the purpose indicated, the
use of a strip of cardboard or a layer or layers of stout brown
paper in a wrapper of canvas between the cover of a pneu-
matic tire and the air-tube thereof, as specified. (3.) For the
purpose indicated, the use of a strip or strips of cardboard
or layers of stout brown paper in a wrapper of canvas in com-
bination with a strip of celluloid arranged within the layers,
the whole being enveloped in a rubber cover and applied to
a pneumatic tire, substantially as described, and in the
manner explained.
(Specification, 1s. 9d.)

No. 19534.—25th May, 1905.—ALEXANDER STORRIE, of
Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand, Agricultural-implement
Maker. A rotary turnip-thinner.*

Claims.—(1.) A turnip-thinner consisting of a frame, spring-
operated arms, hoes secured to the outer ends of the arms,
a hub upon which the arms are mounted, a shaft for revolving
the hub, a cam mounted freely on the shaft and having a
track against which the inner ends of the arms are pressed,
a gap in the disc, means for keeping the cam from revolving,
and means for travelling the hoes over the ground, sub-
stantially as set forth. (2.) In a turnip-thinner constructed
as specified in claim 1, the employment of a lever having a
spring bolt for operating the cam, whereby the hoes will be
prevented from cutting through the furrow, substantially as
set forth. (3.) In a turnip-thinner, a plurality of hoes which
are forced by a spring laterally through a furrow when in
their lowest position, and are returned to the other side of the
furrow by a cam having a sloping track, substantially as set
forth. (4.) The combination and arrangement of parts com-
prising the improved turnip-thinner, substantially as and for
the purposes set forth and illustrated.
(Specification, 3s.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 19559.—5th June, 1905.—VICTOR BERG, of South-
bridge, New Zealand, Painter. An improved ventilator.*

Claims.—(1.) A ventilator of the kind indicated, consisting
of a telescopic body, the outer ends of which are flanged and
are provided with a wire-gauze covering, as and for the purposes
specified. (2.) A ventilator of the kind indicated, consisting
of, in combination, a telescopic body with or without flanged
ends, bolts in one part that mesh with nuts in the other part,
and a vane or baffle-plate arranged within the ventilator,
all substantially as described and as set forth. (3.) The
general arrangement, construction, and combination of parts
in my improved ventilator, all substantially as described and
as illustrated.
(Specification, 2s. 3d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 19580.—7th June, 1905.—THOMAS SUMMERS SKEATES,
of Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand, Saddler. Improved
motor-carriage leather tire-cover.*

[NOTE.—The title in this case has been altered.]

Claims.—(1.) An outer cover for pneumatic tires comprising
a leather casing cemented to the ordinary rubber tire-cover,
and a tread-band studded with rivets secured upon a leather
strip fastened to the leather casing, substantially as specified
and illustrated. (2.) An outer cover for pneumatic tires
comprising a leather casing cemented to the ordinary rubber
tire-cover, a strip of leather fixed permanently to the leather
casing, and a second tread-band studded with rivets secured
to a leather strip, the said strip being riveted or sewn together,
substantially as specified and illustrated. (3.) An outer cover
for pneumatic tires constructed, arranged, and operating sub-
stantially as specified and illustrated.
(Specification, 2s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 19861.—10th August, 1905.—THE MONITOR SHIPPING
CORPORATION, LIMITED, of St. Nicholas’ Buildings, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England (assignees of William
Petersen, of Kenton Lodge, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
aforesaid, Shipowner). Improvements in navigable vessels.

Claims.—(1.) A vessel characterized by the hull having
a longitudinal recess, mainly below the waterline, but above
the bilge, parallel throughout the greater portion of its ex-
tent with the centre line of the ship. (2.) In combination
in a vessel substantially as described in claim 1, a rounded
gunwale, an ordinary deck continuation of that gunwale,
an upper deck above the ordinary deck connected with the
ordinary deck by means of curved sides forming a super-
structure considerably narrower than the hull, the walls
of said superstructure forming a curve or series of angles
of about 180 degrees so as to run tangentially or at an acute
angle into the ordinary deck and into the upper deck, sub-
stantially as specified. (3.) In a sea-going vessel, forming
the ship-plates with longitudinal corrugations, as described.
(4.) In a vessel having straight sides, the combination of a
broad bilge and a rounded gunwale formed of plates project-
ing outward beyond the ship’s side.
(Specification, 9s.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 19979.—5th September, 1905.—FREDERICK GEORGE
McKIM, of 115 Finsbury Pavement, London, England,
Mechanical Engineer. Improvements in or relating to pneu-
matic tires.

Claims.—(1.) A pneumatic tire comprising a number of inde-
pendent air-chambers, each of which is formed or provided with
a tread-piece and has an orifice at either end, the said air-cham-
bers being placed within a recessed wheel-rim from the peri-
phery of which the tread-pieces project, and the adjacent
air-chambers being connected together so as to form a com-
plete air-tube by means of double-coned nipples which en-
gage the orifices in the air-chambers, substantially as de-
scribed. (2.) The combination with a wheel rim, of a pneu-
matic tire comprising a series of independent air-chambers
detachably connected together to form a continuous air-
tube, and tread-pieces resting upon or integral with the
said air-chambers and projecting peripherally from the wheel-
rim, and of distance-pieces within the rim and between the
contiguous air-chambers, substantially as described. (3.) Pneu-
matic tires for vehicle-wheels, constructed substantially as
described, and illustrated in the various figures of the draw-
ing.
(Specification, 6s.; drawings, 2s.)

No. 20115.—25th September, 1905.—ANDREW TAIT WALKER
ALLAN, Miner, and WILLIAM McCULLOUGH, Journalist, both
of Thames, New Zealand. Improved portable tables, plates,
and slides for saving gold from crushed ores or sands.*

Claims.—(1.) The improved portable gold-saving machine
substantially as described, and as illustrated on the drawings.
(2.) In a gold-saving machine, the combination of the series
of silvered copper plates or tables such as 6 with distributing-
box with perforated bottom such as 8, substantially as de-
scribed, and as illustrated on the drawings. (3.) In a gold-
saving machine, the series of silvered copper plates in com-
bination with the hinged or swinging silvered dash-plates
such as 7, as and for the purposes as described, and as illus-
trated on the drawings.
(Specification, 3s.; drawing, 1s.)