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the supply may be from one or more tubes passing to or directing the gas, in the manner and direction referred to, to the interior of the annular mantle.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]

(Specification, 10s.; drawings, 5s.)

No. 21017.—19th April, 1906.—BENJAMIN CRAWFORD and HERBERT A. TATTERSALL, both of St. Mary's Road, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand, Plumbers. An improved boiler.*

Claims.—(1.) A boiler for hot-water systems and the like, consisting of horizontal chambers and vertical tubes, the vertical tubes having their upper ends screwed into the upper chamber, nippies screwed into the lower chamber and receiving the lower ends of the vertical tubes, and lock nuts screwed down upon the nippies, substantially as specified and illustrated in the drawings. (2.) A tubular boiler for hot-water systems and the like, constructed, arranged, combined, and operating substantially as specified, and as illustrated in the drawings.

(Specification, 2s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 21264.—6th June, 1906.—HANS PETER RASMUSSEN, Police Constable, and HERMAN DAVIES, Draper, both of Geraldine, New Zealand. Improvements in closet seat-covers.*

Claims.—(1.) In closet-covers of the nature described, the provision of a strip of material extending across the aperture in the cover, substantially as and for the purpose specified. (2.) In closet seat-covers of the nature described and arranged in pads, the provision of a length of tape secured along the edge of each cover and projecting a short distance beyond it, substantially as and for the purpose specified. (3.) In closet seat-covers of the nature described, the arrangement of the covers in a continuous sheet wound upon a roller or rollers, substantially as and for the purposes specified. (4.) The improvements in closet seat-covers, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

(Specification, 3s. 9d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 21283.—8th June, 1906.—JOHN WILLIAM DAVIS, of Jubilee Avenue, Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand, Surveyor. An exposure and focus distributor for photographic purposes.

Claims.—That the arrangement of sliding and swinging masks, capable of adjustment to the outline of the subject to be photographed or to any part or parts of such outline, is novel and original. That the distribution of the light-rays so that each and every part of the negative may be given its correct length of exposure, and a perfectly exposed negative thereby obtained, is novel and original. That the adjustment of the focus for each exposure by the arrangement claimed is novel and original. As substantially set forth.

(Specification, 2s.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 21483.—20th July, 1906.—R. HANNAH AND CO. (LIMITED), of 63A Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand, Boot-manufacturers (assignees of Harry James Pallett and Harry Chambers, both of 63A Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand, Bootmakers). An improvement in boot-uppers.

Claims.—(1.) An improvement in boot-uppers made of an integral piece of leather, consisting in making curved cuts in the sides of the upper, reducing the height of the upper between the cuts, overlapping the concave edges formed by the cuts upon the sides of the upper, stretching the said concave edges, and stitching the said edges to the upper while thus stretched, substantially as set forth. (2.) In an improvement in boot-uppers as described in claim 1, the employment of diagonal cuts at the termination of the curved cuts whereby a neat overlap is obtained, substantially as set forth. (3.) In an improvement in boot-uppers as described in claim 1, uniting the edges of the upper to reinforce the seams in the sides of the upper, substantially as set forth. (4.) The combination and arrangement of parts comprising the improvement in boot-uppers, substantially as set forth, and illustrated upon the drawing.

(Specification, 3s.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 21531.—26th July, 1906.—JOHN HERCUS, Agent, and WILLIAM MORTON, Mechanical Engineer, both of Princes Street, Dunedin, New Zealand. An improved thinning attachment for turnips and the like.

Extract from Specification.—The object of this invention is to provide a cheap, simple, and reliable attachment that can be quickly fixed to many of the smaller machines in present use on farms, &c., such, for instance, as grubbers. For this purpose we make a wheel composed of a number of slicers or cutters, said wheel fixed to work freely as to its turning and as to its up-and-down movements, so that it will work in uneven places if required to do so. This wheel (which is capable of working and being instantly moved either to the right or to the left-hand side of the machine to which it forms an attachment) is placed at an angle of, say, about 45° (more or less) with the line of movement or the lines of the planted furrows to be thinned.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]

(Specification, 4s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 21541.—31st July, 1906.—EDWARD HAMPTON BROWNE, of Clevedon, Auckland, New Zealand, Farmer. An improved wire-strainer.

Claims.—(1.) A wire-strainer consisting of a bar, an integral fork near one end of the bar, an extension of the bar projecting beyond the fork and inturned hooks integral with the other end of the bar, a gap being left between the points of the hooks for the admission of the fencing-wire, substantially as set forth. (2.) The combination and arrangement of parts comprising an improved wire-strainer, substantially as and for the purposes specified, and as illustrated in the drawing.

(Specification, 1s. 9d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 21555.—1st August, 1906.—MAUDE NICHOLAS, of 49 Denbigh Street, South Belgravia, London, England, Gentlewoman. Improved construction of apparatus for cleaning, dyeing, or otherwise treating wool, textile fabrics, and other like material.

Claim.—The improved construction of apparatus for cleaning, dyeing, or otherwise treating wool, textile fabrics, and other like material, consisting of a cylinder capable of being sealed and containing two perforated plungers held at a distance apart by a rod or rods, and means for reciprocating such plungers, the goods to be treated being contained between the plungers, so that the cleaning agent is caused to pass to and fro through and between the material when the plungers are reciprocated, substantially as set forth.

(Specification, 2s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 21556.—1st August, 1906.—CHARLES ERNEST FLINT, of 45 Princes Street, West Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, Jeweller, and DAVID BARCLAY, of Hobart aforesaid, Managing Director of the Commercial Bank of Tasmania (Limited). Improvements in and connected with tape-measures for use by tailors, dressmakers, and others.

Claims.—(1.) The combination with a tape-measure of markers slidable thereon, and means for securing the tape in position upon the figure of a person being measured. (2.) The combination with a principal tape of one or more attached tape-measures adapted to be moved along said principal and to swing from side to side thereof, and markers sliding upon the tapes, as and for the purposes set forth. (3.) A tape-measure having a hook at one end and a weight at the other end, and markers upon the tape adapted to slide thereon, as described. (4.) A principal tape-measure and one or more secondary tapes loosely connected to the principal in such a way as to slide and swing thereon, in combination with hooks and markers upon the tapes, as and for the purposes specified. (5.) The general combination and arrangement of parts constituting my improvements connected with tape-measures, substantially as described and operating in the manner explained, and as illustrated.

(Specification, 5s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 21605.—9th August, 1906.—GEORGE CAMPLING, of Arncliffe, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Dentist. Improvements in suction-dentures.

Claims.—(1.) A suction-disc for suction-dentures formed with a light ring around its upper edge, substantially as