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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 93

No. 21761.—10th September, 1906.—HAROLD WELSBY PENNINGTON, of Gisborne, New Zealand, Club Steward. Improvement in marking or scoring apparatus for billiards, pool, or the like.

Claim.—A box provided with a front which, having six or more longitudinal slots in its front, between each set of slots a roller is journaled, which is provided on its surface with a series of longitudinal rows of numbers ranging from one to one hundred, and on which front of box sliding pointers are held which point to the numbers on the rollers showing between the slots in front of the box, substantially as shown and described. In combination with the improvement in marking or scoring apparatus for billiards, pool, or the like, an apparatus for registering on slips of paper at the side the names of the players, the number scored, and the number of games played, substantially as shown and explained.
(Specification, 3s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 21763.—11th September, 1906.—JOHN CALVIN FOUNTAIN, of Parkhill, Ontario, Canada, Engineer, and JOSEPH EGERTON WILKINSON, of Petrolea, Ontario, Canada, Dentist. Exhaust condenser.

Claims.—(1.) An exhaust-steam condensing-chamber provided with a conical inner face at the lower end, and with water and steam inlet openings and with a hot-water outlet opening, a valved water-supply pipe one end of which is secured in said water-inlet opening, a sleeve secured and adjustable in said steam-inlet opening, an exhaust-steam pipe the outer end of which is secured to said sleeve, and a branch pipe extending from said exhaust-steam pipe, in combination with a boiler, a hot-water conducting pipe extending from and communicating with said condensing-chamber and said boiler and provided with an overflow pipe, and means for forcing the contents of the hot-water pipe into the boiler. (2.) An exhaust-steam condensing-chamber provided with a conical inner face at the lower end, and with water and steam inlet openings and with a hot-water outlet opening, a valved water-supply pipe one end of which is secured in said water-inlet opening, a sleeve secured and adjustable in said steam-inlet opening, an exhaust-steam pipe the outer end of which is secured to said sleeve, and a branch pipe extending from said exhaust-steam pipe, in combination with a boiler, a hot-water conducting pipe extending from and communicating with said condensing-chamber and said boiler and provided with an overflow pipe, a pump communicating with said hot-water conducting pipe at a point below said condensing-chamber, and check valves located in said hot-water conducting pipe one between said overflow pipe and said pump, and one between said pump and said boiler.
(Specification, 5s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 21782.—13th September, 1905.—WILLIAM HERMANN SCHARF, of Montreal, Canada, Superintendent. Linotype machine.

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

Extract from Specification.—The general object of this invention is to simplify the construction of linotype machines with a view toward reducing the number of parts required, avoiding the necessity, where it is possible, of using such parts as are expensive to manufacture or assemble, and thereby effecting a great saving in the construction of these machines, and, furthermore, with a view toward making different members of the machine more conveniently separable and removable from the rest of the machine. The present improvements have to do particularly with the composing-mechanism. The matrix-releasing mechanism which forms a part of the composing-mechanism generally includes power-supplying devices for actuating the same, the finger-keys merely serving to place the mechanism under the control of the power-supplying devices. For this purpose it has been customary to employ a continuously rotating drum to co-operate with cams corresponding with the different matrices, which cams were released by the keys so as to come in contact with the drum and be rotated thereby. The provision of all of the cams required for this purpose and of the continuously rotating drum and power-connections therefor not only renders the assembly of the machine expensive and difficult in the first instance, and the separation and removal of the key-board and adjacent parts from time to time inconvenient, but increases to a very great extent the cost of construction. The objection to operating the matrix-releasing mechanism directly from the keys has not been due so much to a hard key-action as to the difficulty of positively releasing the matrices when the keys are operated very quickly. By providing the cams and the continuously operating drum it mattered not how quickly the keys were operated, since the regular and predetermined interval of time taken up in the revolution of the cams always insured the positive release of the matrices. In accordance with the present invention means are provided to overcome this objection to the operation of the matrix-releasing mechanism directly from the keys, and these means comprise devices to arrest momentarily the action of the escapements for the matrices. In this way the matrices are always released properly, while the construction of the matrix-releasing mechanism is thereby greatly simplified. Furthermore, new and improved escapements for the matrices are provided, and the connections between the escapements and the escapement-rods are such that they can be readily separated at any time, as when it is desired to renew the magazine for the purpose of replacing it by another containing matrices bearing characters of a different face. Moreover, the escapement-rods, key-rods, and their connections, guides, and supports all form, with the keyboard, a distinct compact and separable member which can be easily and quickly removed from the rest of the machine. Again, the magazine delivery-mouth is adapted so that the magazine can be swung away from it without interfering with any other parts of the machine and without moving any other parts of the machine, and can in this way be completely removed from the machine when desired, and when the magazine is secured to the machine improved means are provided for locking the same thereto.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 11s. 6d.; drawings, 5s.)

No. 21783.—13th September, 1905.—WILLIAM HERMANN SCHARF, of Montreal, Canada, Superintendent. Linotype machine.

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

Extract from Specification.—This invention relates particularly to the composing-mechanism of linotype machines, One of the objects of the invention is to improve and simplify the construction of the magazine and magazine delivery-mouth, the latter being that part of the machine into which the matrices are delivered immediately from the magazine; and also to improve and simplify the connection or relation between the magazine and magazine delivery-mouth and the adjacent parts, whereby the magazine or different magazines may be readily attached to and detached from the machine, and whereby the alignment of the channels in the magazine with the escapement-pawls on the one hand and with the channels in the magazine-mouth on the other may be entirely automatic. Another object of the invention consists in reducing the number of parts required, and particularly in obviating the necessity of providing a set of escapement-pawls upon every magazine. Another object of the invention is the provision of an improved device for preventing the matrices from escaping from the delivery end of the magazine when the magazine is removed from the machine, and for retracting the ends of the matrices so as to prevent any injury to them while the magazine is being removed and replaced or at any other time. Still another object of the invention is the provision of an improved matrix-control operated directly and not through the escapements or keyboard, whereby the discharge of the matrices from any number of the channels in the magazine may be regulated—that is, may be permitted only during the composition of alternate lines or during some other predetermined interval. In accordance with the present improvements the magazine delivery-mouth, which has heretofore been made to swing away to permit the magazine to be removed, is rigidly secured in position, and the escapement-pawls, which generally have been secured upon the magazine itself, are pivoted upon the casting which forms the magazine delivery-mouth. Furthermore, the different magazines which are to be used upon the machine, and which in view of the present improvements are not required to be furnished with separate sets of escapement-pawls, are provided with set-screws which may be adjusted to engage projections upon the magazine delivery-mouth so that the alignment of the magazine with the adjacent parts will take care of itself when once the screws have been set in the proper position.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 14s. 6d.; drawing, 3s.)