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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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No. 22558.—19th March.—F. H. Lampen, Wellington, N.Z.
Signalling-flags.
No. 22559.—19th March.—J. Murdoch, Wellington, N.Z.
Toilet-cabinet.
No. 22560.—19th March.—H. W. Gilling, Matapu, N.Z.
Milking-machine.

Complete Specifications filed after Provisionals.

LIST of complete specifications filed after provisional
specifications, from the 3rd to the 16th March, 1907,
inclusive:—
No. 21158.—F. W. E. Gabriel, turnstile.
No. 21261.—C. Lucas, hanger for scaffolding-bracket.
No. 21278.—J. Smaill, heating buildings.
No. 21318.—J. Irvine, fastening fencing-wire to standard.
No. 21344.—G. Gray, seed-sower.
No. 21357.—J. Sutcliffe, forced draught for engines, &c.
No. 21371.—R. Rayson, cooling storage-rooms.
No. 21472.—H. Wriedt, dough-moulding machine.
No. 22086.—W. J. Teese, milking-apparatus.

Notice of Acceptance of Complete Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 20th March, 1907.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the undermen-
tioned applications for Letters Patent have been
accepted, and are open to public inspection at this office.
Any person may, at any time within two months from the
date of this Gazette, give me notice in writing of opposition
to the grant of any such patent. Such notice must set forth
the particular grounds of objection, and be in duplicate. A
fee of 10s. is payable thereon.

No. 20394.—28th November, 1905.—JOHN HUGH JONES,
Engineer, and WILLIAM KANE, Dredgemaster, both of Crom-
well, New Zealand. Improvements relating to the saving
of gold in dredges.*

Claims.—(1.) In gold-saving dredges having reciprocating
screens or troughs thereon, the means for imparting a re-
ciprocating longitudinal motion thereto, consisting of an
eccentric mounted on a power shaft, a strap surrounding
the eccentric, and vertical guides attached to the side of the
screen or trough between which the eccentric-strap fits,
substantially as specified. (2.) The improvements in gold-
saving appliances substantially as described and explained,
and for the purposes specified.
(Specification, 2s. 3d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 20704.—12th February, 1906.—CHARLES JACKSON
TUCK, of Cole Street, Dannevirke, Hawke’s Bay, New Zea-
land, Bushman. Improvements in snatch pulleys or blocks.*

Claims.—(1.) A pulley-block for the purpose indicated,
comprising, in combination, a pulley, a hollow axle, a screw
closing the end of the hollow axle, a front bar made in two
parts hinged together, the lower part screwed upon the end
of the axle, a head upon the axle, a back bar pivoted upon
the head, a trip-pin having a middle part, a loop screwed
into the middle part, a jaw upon one end of the pin, a slotted
plate fitting the jaw and pivoted upon a pin passing through
the jaw, a pin through the other end of the trip-pin, and slots
in the back plate through which the said pin may pass, sub-
stantially as set forth. (2.) In a pulley-block for the purpose
indicated, a trip-pin, a jaw upon the trip-pin, a slotted plate
fitting the jaw and pivoted upon a pin passing through the
jaw, substantially as set forth.
(Specification, 2s.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 20804.—5th March, 1906.—ALEXANDER FINLAY
CAMPBELL, of Totara Valley, Timaru, New Zealand, Thresh-
ing-machine Proprietor. Improved wearing-strip for concave
of threshing-machine.*

Claim.—In combination with the rubbing-bars of the
concaves of threshing-machines, an angle steel or iron plate
secured to the side of the bars and completely covering the
top of same, substantially as and for the purpose described,
and illustrated in the drawings.
(Specification, 1s.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 20900.—23rd March, 1906.—OLE KRISTIAN CARLSON,
of Clydevale, Otago, New Zealand, Puntnan. An improved
water-tap.*

Claim.—(1.) The improved water-tap comprising, in com-
bination, an intake having a bell mouth at its inner end,
a flange near its other end, a screwed end upon the intake,
a tap adapted to screw upon the intake and having a flange,
a bar within the intake, a rod engaging a screw-threaded
hole in the bar, a plug upon the end of the rod, an operating-
wheel upon the other end of the rod, and a bracket integral
with the intake, substantially as set forth.
(Specification, 2s.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 20949.—4th April, 1906.—JOSEPH WILLIAM HARRIS, of
7 St. Elizabeth Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, General
Contractor (assignee of Louis Arsene Desy, of 468 Berrie
Street, Montreal aforesaid, Engineer). Excavating-apparatus.

Extract from Specification.—My invention relates to self-
propelled excavating-apparatus adapted for use in digging
trenches. The object of my invention is to provide an im-
proved means unitary with the apparatus for propelling the
same and for driving its excavating-mechanism; a further
object of my invention is to provide an efficient and easily
worked excavating-mechanism; a further object is to provide
means for propelling the apparatus at a less rate of speed
when the excavating-mechanism is in operation than when
the apparatus is being transmitted from place to place; a
further object is to provide manually operated means for
changing the cut of the excavating-mechanism; a further
object is to provide an improved form of apparatus over
what is disclosed in my United States Patent No. 779415;
further objects of my invention will be disclosed in the speci-
fication; and my invention consists of the construction, com-
bination, and arrangement of parts as illustrated, described,
and claimed.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place
of the claims.]
(Specification, 16s.; drawing, 12s.)

No. 21003.—17th April, 1906.—ARTHUR GEORGE HARVEY,
of Waverley, Wellington, New Zealand, Medical Practitioner.
Improvements in or relating to bits for controlling horses.*

Claims.—(1.) In bits for controlling horses, making the bit
in two parts pivoted together, the ends of the bit being placed
at an angle to the pivot-pin of the two parts, whereby the
overlapping ends are projected upwards towards the roof
of the horse’s mouth when a strain is exerted upon the reins,
substantially as set forth. (2.) The employment with a bit
constructed as described in claim 1, in combination with rings
pivoted to the ends of the bit and adapted to receive the
ends of the reins, of rings located upon the bit and sup-
porting a nose-strap, and links connecting together the rings
at each end of the bit, substantially as set forth. (3.) The
combination and arrangement of parts comprising the improve-
ments in or relating to bits for controlling horses, substantially
as and for the purposes specified, and as illustrated in the
drawing.
(Specification, 2s.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 21073.—3rd May, 1906.—UNITED SHOE MACHINERY
COMPANY, of Paterson, New Jersey, United States of America, a
corporation duly organized under the laws of said State of New
Jersey, and having a place of business at 205 Lincoln Street,
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America (assignees
of John Pennell Pride, Commercial Traveller, and Arthur
Bates, Engineer, both of Leicester, England). Improve-
ments in machines for use in the manufacture of boots and
shoes.*

Claims.—(1.) A machine for shaping a portion or portions
of a shoe, having a tool or device arranged and constructed
to enter the angle or crease between the upper and the sole,
and to exert, while remaining constantly in engagement
with the shoe, a succession of blows or pressing actions, either
upon the sole or upon the adjacent portion of the upper, or
upon both, for the purpose either of bending the marginal
portion of the sole relatively to the general plane of the
sole, or of blocking or shaping the upper, or of performing
both operations simultaneously, with or without a member