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No. 22280.—8th January, 1907.—ANDREW GEORGE BRANDRAM, of Daventry Cottage, Festing Grove, Southsea, Hants, England. Improvements in joints for sewer and like pipes.

Claims.—(1.) For making a pipe-joint, the employment of a flat metal band coated with heated bitumen designed to encircle the peripheries of the pipes at their point of junction, the ends of said band being drawn tightly together so as to exert a considerable degree of compression upon the bitumen, and then secured by a suitable fastening. (2.) Joints for sewer or other pipes formed in the manner described with reference to the drawings.

(Specification, 6s. 9d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 22281.—8th January, 1907.—GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE, of Westinghouse Building, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Manufacturer. Improvements in draft gear for vehicles.

Claims.—(1.) A draft gear for vehicles, comprising a helical spring secured at an intermediate point to the car-frame, and a draw-bar connected to the free ends of said spring, substantially as described with reference to Figs. 1 to 3 and 11 to 13 of the drawings. (2.) A device for attaching a draft gear comprising a helical spring and a draw-bar connected thereto to the car-frame, comprising a flaring casing connected to the car-frame having a split end for clamping the spring, substantially as described with reference to Figs. 1 to 3 or 11 to 13 of the drawings. (3.) A draft gear comprising a helical spring attached at one end to the car-frame and at the other end to a draw-bar, substantially as described with reference to Figs. 9 and 10 of the drawings. (4.) A draft gear having a tubular draw-bar and a coupler-head attached thereto provided with a passage communicating with that in the draw-bar and leading to a gasket-opening in the coupler-head. (5.) An automatic coupler for vehicles having a projecting portion and a wide gathering hood formed in two longitudinal parts secured together, substantially as described with reference to Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings. (6.) An automatic coupler-head for vehicles of the kind described, having an opening containing a gasket arranged substantially at right angles to the inclined face of the locking-rib, and a fluid-pressure conduit communicating with said opening, substantially as described with reference to Figs. 5 and 6 of the drawings. (7.) In a draft gear provided with an automatic coupler-head, means for normally deflecting said coupler-head to one side of the centre line of the car, substantially as described with reference to Fig. 3 or to Figs. 11 to 13 of the drawings. (8.) A draft gear comprising an automatic coupler-head subjected to a lateral or swinging movement, and an operative device mounted on said coupler-head, and a manually actuated mechanism at the side of the car, and a flexible connection between said mechanism and the operative device on the coupler-head, substantially as described with reference to Figs. 14 to 19 of the drawings. (9.) In a draft gear, an automatic coupler having spring-actuated latch mechanism, an additional spring and manually operated means for causing said spring to act upon the latch mechanism to assist in holding the same in locked position, substantially as described with reference to Figs. 14 to 19 of the drawings. (10.) The several improved forms of draft gear for railway cars constructed substantially as described, and shown in the drawings.

(Specification, 14s. 9d.; drawing, 3s.)

No. 22283.—9th January, 1907.—THOMAS WHITTLE, of Traralgon, Victoria, Australia, Saddler, and GEORGE GARIBALDI TURRI, of Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria aforesaid, Patent Attorney, &c. (assignees of Thomas Whittle aforesaid, and William Cumming, of Malvern, near Melbourne, Victoria, aforesaid, Electrical Engineer). Improvements in and connected with ships’-progress indicators.

Extract from Specification.—The object of this invention is to provide improvements in indicators for exhibiting—approximately—at any moment the progress and the position of a steamship or conveyance upon its course or approximate course. It is customary to publish once a day on some passenger-vessels a statement of distance travelled, and mark the position reached on a geographical map; but a new map is used each voyage, and neither passengers nor officers can obtain the information brought up to any particular moment when the same may be looked for. By this invention, however, a single geographical map is used for a plurality of voyages, both outward and inward. The map may be set up in a glass frame, picture-fashion, in any convenient part of the vessel—as in a saloon or cabin, or on deck—the interior mechanism or required parts of it being made accessible in any suitable way. Passengers may by this invention time the vessel’s speed and obtain useful geographical information without subjecting the officers to interrogations which are often unreasonably resorted to under present conditions. The map has a track or route, and an indicator or the like movable along it. The track indicates approximately, or as nearly as may be desired, the route to be travelled. When cheapness is an object the indicator is set by hand or by simple mechanism from time to time at convenient intervals. It may when under glass be drawn into position, for example, by a magnet, or when attached to a chain as described the chain may be adjusted by any convenient means. This invention provides, however, for the actuation of the indicator by connections to the engines of the vessel, or to a wheel turned by a log drawn through the water. Means are provided for advancing, stopping, or retracting the indicator at any moment independently of the engines, to suit circumstances; and means are also provided for causing the movement of the indicator by the engines to take place in the reverse direction when the vessel is making a return journey. Advertisements will be combined with the map or chart when desired, in any suitable manner. A sample advertisement will be found upon the drawings.

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

(Specification, 15s.; drawing, 2s.)

No. 22284.—9th January, 1907.—HENRI PATAUD, of 15 Rue de la Federation, Paris, France, Civil Engineer. Improvements in wheel-fellies.

Claims.—(1.) An arrangement for removable fellies or dismountable fellies which permits at will of providing two circular edges or flanges in combination with a flat felly or of removing these edges, the said arrangement consisting essentially in a second felly of U section and with flanged edges which is always engaged by the spokes of the wheel, and which, being open and elastic, is arranged concentrically at the interior of the flat felly at the position of dismounting, and, on the other hand, exactly fits this flat felly and projects at its outer edges when it is expanded so as to lock and maintain the tire in place. (2.) In an arrangement for removable fellies or dismountable fellies according to claim 1, the provision for opening and locking the second open felly f (with U profile), of two elements or pieces g and h of the same profile, connected together by a rigid joint i, while the other two extremities have a shape convenient for attaching to the two ends of the said felly f.

(Specification, 10s. 9d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 22285.—9th January, 1907.—ERNEST SMITH BALDWIN and HENRIE HAMPTON RAYWARD, carrying on business as “Baldwin and Rayward,” Patent Agents, Wellington, New Zealand (nominees of William Hubbard, of Woodland Street, Dulwich Hill, New South Wales, Australia). An improved means for locking a nut on a bolt.

Claim.—An improved means for locking a nut on a bolt, consisting of a pair of corresponding channels cut through the thread of the bolt and of the nut respectively, forming together a longitudinal aperture to receive a locking-wire, the free end of which is either wound into the thread of the bolt when the latter projects beyond the nut, or into grooves provided therefor in the faces of the nut, substantially as set forth, and as illustrated in the drawings.

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

No. 22292.—7th January, 1907.—CHARLES EDWIN DRAPER USHER, of Kelly’s Building, Commissioner Street, Jeppestown, Johannesburg, Transvaal, Assayer. Improvements in slimes-treatment.

Claims.—(1.) In the wet treatment of metalliferous slimes, the process which consists in maintaining the slimes uniformly suspended in liquid, passing upwardly through such mass solvent, or wash-water, as the case may be, at such a rate as not to materially disturb the homogeneity of the slimes, and collecting the clear liquid above the slimes. (2.) Apparatus for the wet treatment of metalliferous slimes, consisting of a vat, means for maintaining the slimes therein in a substantially uniform state of suspension, and means for passing