No. 22340.-23rd January, 1907.-WILLIAM GEORGE, of Invercargill, New Zealand, Farmer. An improved milking-pail.

Claim.-In milk-pails, strips of metal with roughened outer surfaces secured upon the outer face of the pail at points diametrically opposite to each other, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

(Specification, ls. 6d.; drawing, ls.)

No. 22341.-23rd January, 1907.-THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL SYNDICATE, LIMITED, of 27 and 28 Old Jewry, London, E.C., England (assignees of Louis Stange, of 84 Bismarck-strasse, Aix-la-chapelle, Germany, Chemist). Improvements in the manufacture of matches and igniting-surfaces therefor.

Extract from Specification.-The use of the following ingredients: Chlorate of potassium (KClO₃), powdered glass, sulphur, glue, anhydrous diazobenzene-sulphonic acid, rosin, water.

[NOTE.-The above extract from the specification is inserted in place offthe claims.]

(Specification, 3s. 9d.)

No. 22343.-23rd January, 1907.-H. J. WEST AND Co., LIMITED, of 116 Southwark Bridge Road, Surrey, England, Engineers (assignees of Lenig Chew, of 116 Southwark Bridge Road aforesaid). Improved process and apparatus for chilling and carbonating beer and other beverages.

Claims.-(1.) The improved process for chilling and carbonating beer and other beverages which consists in first cooling the beverage and carbonic-acid or other gas, both together, to the same or nearly the same temperature; in then submitting the beverage and gas, both together, to pressure, and in then completing the carbonation, with or without further refrigeration, under a higher pressure than that at which the first cooling is effected, substantially as described. (2.) Apparatus for carrying out the process forming the subject-matter of the first claiming clause hereof, which consists of a gas receiver and cooler adapted to receive and cool the beverage and gas both together, a saturating-compressor adapted to withdraw the beverage and gas from the gas receiver and cooler and to compress the same, and a storage-reservoir adapted to complete the carbonation under a higher pressure than that at which the cooling and partial carbonation is effected in the receiver and cooler, combined and operating substantially as described. (3.) In apparatus for chilling and carbonating beverages of the kind described, the use of a saturating-compressor which consists of a pump, the capacity of which is smaller at one side of the piston than at the other, the smaller capacity being adapted to pump the beverage to be treated into the gas receiver and cooler, and the larger capacity to pump the beverage, together with the carbonic-acid or other gas, from the gas receiver and cooler, and to force them both together into the storage-reservoir, substantially as described. (4.) Apparatus for chilling and carbonating beer and other beverages which consist of a gas receiver and cooler, a saturating-compressor comprising a pump for delivering the beverage to be treated to the gas receiver and cooler, a pump for withdrawing the beverage and gas from the gas receiver and cooler, compressing the same and forcing them into the storage-reservoir, and a storage-reservoir combined and operating substantially as described. (5.) In apparatus for chilling and carbonating beverages of the kind described, the use of a saturating-compressor consisting of a pump provided with means for varying the stroke of the piston, substantially as and for the purpose specified. (6.) In apparatus for chilling and carbonating beverages of the kind described, the use of a saturating-compressor consisting of a pump provided with means for varying the clearance between the piston and the end of the pump-cylinder, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

(Specification, 13s. ; drawing, Is.)

No. 22346.-23rd January, 1907.-MACPHERSON ROBERT-son, of Argyle Street, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, Confec-tionery-manufacturer. Improvements in means for and mode of manufacturing coated articles, such as chocolate confec-tions.

Claims.-(1.) A mode of preparing such confections as chocolate-coated ones, consisting in placing each confection as soon as coated upon a supporting-member in a receptacle wherein the confections are exposed to the drying influence of cold air forced into the receptacle, substantially as described. (2.) In manufacturing coated confectionery and like articles, placing the same with undried coats within a receptacle having an open-fronted chamber or chambers, from the top of which cold air is forced down and caused to pass over the said articles. (3.) Drying chocolate-confection coatings by the forcible impact thereon of cold air. (4.) A receptacle having means for the entrance of cold air, and slits or other fine exits located higher than a support or supports for con-fectons or other articles having coatings to be dried on. (5.) A receptacle as mentioned in the preceding claim having a front open to the operative who is to place confections or articles therein, and having also a side open or openable to another operative, substantially as described. (6.) The com-bination of parts forming a receptacle for the purpose set forth, substantially as illustrated in Fig. l.

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

No. 22347.-23rd January, 1907.-HARRY ROBERT LEES, of Daylesford, Victoria, Australia, Teacher of Music. Im-provements in machines applicable for harvesting potatoes and other purposes.

Claims.-(1.) In a machine of the class indicated, a revol-vable drum having digging-forks, screening-means, potato-raising means, and shoots or conveying-means, substantially as described. (2.) In combination with a revolvable drum having means to dig, clean, screen, and deliver potatoes, gear wheels, substantially as illustrated, to drive the same, ard means (as a lever and connections to framing) to separate the said wheels at will. (3.) In combination with a revolvable drum having forks to dig and pockets to raise potatoes, a casing located in front of the forks as described, and a shoot within the ring of pockets to deliver to a screen forming part of the drum. (4.) In combination with a revolvable drum having means to deliver potatoes and earth sideways to a screen, an oblique raisable share or shares behind the drum to return to the trench earth falling through the screen. (5.) In a machine of the class indicated, the construction of framing and means illustrated in Fig. l for adjusting in desired position the upper part thereof. (6.) In a machine of the class indicated, the ring of forks and their pockets, the frontal casing, the shoot supplied with material by the said pockets, the receiving-screen and the oblique rear share, substantially as illustrated in Figs. l and 2. (7.) In a machine of the class indicated, road-wheels provided with wheels n gearing with wheels m on the axle of a drum having a ring of digging-forks on one side and a ring of raising and delivering pockets on the other, the drum being revolvable in the plane of travel of the machine. (8.) The construction of parts shown in Figs. l and 2 as a whole, substantially as described.

(Specification, 5s. 9d.; drawing, ls.)

No. 22353.-24th January, 1907.-CHARLES CYRUS BUL-LOCK, of No. 86 Lane Cove Road, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Licensed Surveyor. Improved contrivances for the capture of rabbits and like animals.

Claims.-(1.) Improved contrivance for the capture of rabbits and like animals, consisting essentially of overplus length and overplus breadth of flexibl. netting-say, vertically set-slidable on cords between posts or pickets, and adapted to pocket at points of attack, substantially as described. (2.) Improved contrivance for the capture of rabbits consisting of a series of pocketing-nets, as set forth in the pre-ceding claim, combined with nosing or directing nets or fences, substantially as described and explained. (3.) The particular construction of pocketing-nets between posts or pickets, for the purposes set forth, substantially as described and explained and as illustrated in the drawings. (4.) The construction of contrivances for the capture of rabbits and like animals consisting of the parts or integers combined for the purposes set forth, substantially as described and explained and as illus-trated in the drawings.

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

No. 22355.-24th January, 1907.-JAMES EDWARD WIL-LIAMS, of Mawhera Quay, Greymouth, New Zealand, Tailor. An improved game.

Claims.-(1.) Apparatus for playing games comprising a bar horizontally supported by side pieces at a height above a level surface, such side pieces being adaptable in their width apart, and a barrier enveloping the back and ends of the bar,