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permanganate of potash or permanganate of soda, and water, with or without the addition of saccharine, substantially as described, and in the proportions specified.
(Specification, 5s.)

No. 20466.—18th December, 1905.—ALFONSO GEORGE LAVERTEINE, of Club Chambers, Anderson Street, Johannesburg, Transvaal, Civil Engineer, and JAMES EDWARD MCNELLAN, of 101, Bree Street, Johannesburg aforesaid, Civil Engineer. Improvements in means for inflating rubber tires.

Claims.—(1.) In means for inflating rubber tires, the use of a cartridge containing compressed air or gas and means for releasing said air or gas and conducting it to the tire to be inflated, substantially as described with reference to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, or Fig. 4 of the drawings. (2.) Means for inflating rubber tires, consisting of a cartridge containing compressed air or gas and means for releasing the air or gas and for conducting it to the tire to be inflated, said means comprising a needle adapted to perforate the cartridge to release the air or gas and a valve through which the air or gas may pass to the tire to be inflated, means for raising said valve and causing the needle to perforate the cartridge, and means whereby the valve is closed when the means which serve for opening it are released, to allow a portion only of the contents of the cartridge to be utilised, substantially as described. (3.) Means for inflating rubber tires, consisting of a casing adapted to receive a cartridge containing compressed air or gas, a valve seated in said casing, a needle fitted to said valve adapted to perforate the cartridge to release the air or gas when the valve is raised off its seat, a port in the valve for conducting the compressed air or gas to the tire to be inflated, and a piston formed on part of the valve which operates to close the valve when the pressure maintaining the valve in an open position is released, substantially as described. (4.) Means for inflating rubber tires, consisting of a casing adapted to receive a cartridge containing air or gas under pressure, a valve formed with a stem and seated in said casing, a needle fitted to said valve adapted to perforate the cartridge to release the air or gas when the valve is raised off its seat, a port through the valve and stem, a rod or tube into which the stem of the valve is fitted, a cup-leather between said stem and rod forming a piston, a lever for moving said rod inwards to open the valve and to perforate the cartridge, and a port through the valve through which the compressed air or gas may pass to act on the piston to close the valve when the valve is released, and means for conducting the air or gas from the casing to the tire to be inflated, substantially as described. (5.) In means for inflating tires, the combination with the casing of the cartridge fitted with a valve by means of which the compressed air or gas is released, and means for actuating said valve, substantially as described. (6.) In means for inflating tires, the combination with the casing of the cartridge fitted with the valve, and means for actuating the valve to release the compressed air or gas, said means comprising the lever pivoted in the casing-cap and adapted to engage the cartridge to press it over the valve, and means for conducting the air or gas from the casing to the tire, substantially as described. (7.) In means for inflating tires, the combination with the casing of the cartridge fitted with the valve, the cartridge being constructed to provide a resilient seating for the valve, and the casing being constructed to provide a resilient seating for the cartridge, the lever pivoted in the casing-cap, and the concave piece pivoted to the lever, the concave piece being adapted to engage and depress the cartridge to open the valve to release the compressed air or gas, substantially as described. (8.) Means for inflating tires, having its several parts constructed and arranged to operate in combination, substantially as described in connection with and as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, or Fig. 4 of the drawings.
(Specification, 10s.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 20471.—20th December, 1905.—ALFRED COLLIER, of Ryrie Street, Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Banker. Improvements in forms of cheques and like value or amount indicating documents.

Claims.—(1.) A cheque or other form, in which the only provision for a statement of the pounds (or the like, as dollars) consists of one of a series of horizontal amount-limiting lines, the right part whereof is for words and the left part compartmented for the corresponding figure or figures, the lines being decimally distinguished, the lower the line the lower being the limit it indicates, as described. (2.) A cheque or other form in combination with a butt, in which the only provision in each case for a statement in figures of the pounds (or the like, as dollars) consists of one of a series of horizontal amount-limiting compartmented lines, each compartment being for one figure, the lines being decimally distinguished, the lower the line the lower being the limit it indicates, as described. (3.) A cheque or other form having narrow compartments each for a figure on a series of decimally distinguished amount-limiting lines which have space for wording to correspond with the figures, vertical (or vertical and horizontal) lines being embossed or provided, forming ridges substantially as described. (4.) A cheque form and butt, each having figure-compartments for a statement of the pounds (or the like, as dollars), the butt having means to facilitate the superposition of the cheque in such position that figures written in proper compartments on the cheque may be transferred by carbon to corresponding compartments on the butt, as described. (5.) A cheque-form adapted to be signed in blank, having horizontal amount-limiting lines compartmented at the left end for figures, so located that to limit the amount for which the cheque can be filled it suffices to draw a cancelling-line along the uppermost of the said horizontal lines (or, according to the limit, along the same and one or more lines under it), the limit indicated by each horizontal line being one-tenth of the limit indicated by the line above it, as described.
(Specification, 6s. 6d.; drawings, 1s.)

No. 20475.—20th December, 1905.—MICHEL BERNARD LEON EHRMANN, of St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia, Consulting Chemist. Improvements in and relating to the manufacture of butter.

Claims.—(1.) The use of carbonic acid in the treatment of cream preparatory to its manufacture into butter. (2.) In the manufacture of butter, the employment of carbonated cream. (3.) In the manufacture of butter, the employment of carbonic acid, substantially as indicated. (4.) As a means of treating manufactured butter, the aforesaid process of utilising carbonic acid. (5.) As an improved article of manufacture, butter which has been made by the carbonic-acid process. (6.) The improved product resulting from treating butter other than fresh by the carbonic-acid process.
(Specification, 3s. 6d.)

No. 20515.—2nd January, 1905.—JAMES ROBINSON HATMAKER, of 25, Rue de la Faisanderie, Paris, France, Gentleman. Eggs and egg-containing substances in dry form, and process for obtaining same.

[NOTE.—This is an application under section 106 of the Act, the date given being the official date of the application in Great Britain.]

Claims.—(1.) Dry sterile eggs, or parts of egg, in light fluffy or porous form obtained by drying eggs rapidly in a very thin film or layer upon a suitable surface heated in excess of 212° Fahr., substantially as described. (2.) Dry sterile compounds of eggs, or parts of egg, and other substances obtained by drying rapidly in a very thin film or layer upon a suitable surface heated in excess of 212° Fahr., liquid mixtures of such substances, substantially as described. (3.) The described process of drying liquid eggs, or parts of egg, or liquid mixtures of eggs or parts of egg and other substances, which consists in exposing such liquids or mixtures in a very thin uniform film or layer upon a suitable surface heated in excess of 212° Fahr., and in removing the dry products therefrom before they are injured.
(Specification, 2s. 6d.)

An asterisk (*) denotes the complete specification of an invention for which a provisional specification has been already lodged.

NOTE.—The cost of copying the specification and drawing has been inserted after the notice of each application. An order for a copy or copies should be accompanied by a post-office order or postal note for the cost of copying.

The date of acceptance of each application is given after the number.

Extracts from the drawings accompanying the foregoing complete specifications appear at the end of this Gazette.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.

Provisional Specifications accepted.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 24th January, 1906.

APPLICATIONS for Letters Patent, with provisional specifications, have been accepted as under:—

No. 20216.—L. Healy and E. C. Hopkinson, wheel-jack.
No. 20246.—H. J. Walles, submarine boat.
No. 20273.—A. Schultze, typewriter carriage and spacer.
No. 20364.—A. Williams, funnel.
No. 20372.—J. A. E. Louden, ice-chest.
No. 20429.—S. C. Heale, picture-frame.