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No. 22585.—23rd March, 1907.—JOHN ARCHIBALD STEELE, of Tamaheri, Waikato, Auckland, New Zealand, Farmer. Improvements in aprons of harvester-binders.

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Claims.—(1.) For the purpose indicated, in combination with the apron of a harvester-binder, spreaders, pockets enclosing the spreaders and attached to the apron by stitching, substantially as set forth. (2.) For the purpose indicated, in combination with the apron of a harvester-binder, a spreader having loops at its ends and attached to the edges of the apron by rivets, and a pocket enclosing the spreader and attached to the apron by stitching, substantially as set forth. (3.) For the purpose indicated, in combination with the apron of a harvester-binder, spreaders attached at their ends to the edges of the apron, a pocket surrounding the spreader and attached to the apron by stitching, and ribs formed of rope or the like and attached by stitching to the apron, the ends of the rope being turned inwards, substantially as set forth.

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

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No. 22629.—2nd April, 1907.—INTERNATIONAL CIGAR MACHINERY COMPANY, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of New Jersey, United States of America, with its principal office at No. 111 Fifth Avenue, New York, United States of America (assignee of Oluf Tyberg, of Point Loma, San Diego County, California, United States of America, Mechanical Engineer; William Stone Luckett, of East Orange, New Jersey, United States of America, Cigar-manufacturer; and Mathias Fogde, of Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, Machinist). Improvements in cigar machinery.

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Extract from Specification.—This invention relates to certain improvements in cigar machinery. Machinery has been more or less extensively employed in making cigars of the cheaper variety, in which the filler consists of short pieces of tobacco, usually designated in the trade as “scrap.” In making such cigars by machinery the bunches are first formed by bunch-machines. After the bunches are thus made they are placed in moulds, in which they are allowed to stand for a number of hours until the bunches are thoroughly shaped by the moulds and are dried out sufficiently to maintain their shape. The bunches are then removed from the moulds, and wrappers are applied thereto in wrapping-machines. This method of making cigars is not, however, applicable to making high-grade cigars, for the reason that the trade objects to mould-work in high-grade cigars, and insists that such cigars shall be of the kind known as “fresh-bunch” cigars. In the manufacture of “fresh-bunch” cigars, which has been heretofore exclusively carried on by hand, the filler is formed by the cigar-maker into the shape which the cigar is to have, and the maker then immediately applies the binder and wrapper thereto, the wrapper being thus applied while the bunch is damp or “green.” In cigars of this character the smoking qualities and the excellence of the cigar depend not only upon the careful selection of filler-tobacco by the cigar-maker, but also upon the accuracy with which the filler is formed. The problem of making high-grade cigars by machinery therefore differs widely from the problem of making such cigars as depend upon a mould for the shaping of the bunch, and it has heretofore been found practically impossible to solve this problem because of the difficulties, first, in properly forming the bunch, and then in handling it while it is damp or fresh. The present invention has for its principal object to provide an organized machine for making cigars of the fresh-bunch type, although certain of the mechanisms employed are capable of use in machines which are intended to be used for making cigars of other than the fresh-bunch type. The invention embraces improvements in the mechanism for forming the filler tobacco and in preparing fillers therefrom, and also includes improvements in the various mechanisms which are necessarily employed to present the formed filler to the bunch-making mechanism and to the wrapping mechanism, and also includes improvements in the wrapping mechanism by which it is particularly adapted for use with the particular class of bunches to be wrapped, and also includes mechanisms by which the wrapped cigar is completed or finished; machines built in accordance with the invention being, therefore, capacitated to carry out all the operations necessary to the production of fresh-bunch cigars.

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

(Specification, £2 2s. 3d. ; drawing, 13s.)

No. 22781.—4th May, 1907.—ALBERT MANVERS, Musician, and HENRY PHILLIPS, Clerk, both of 51 Regent Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Improved apparatus for creating and maintaining a vacuum.

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Claims.—(1.) In apparatus for creating a vacuum, an outer casing adapted to be connected to the vessel to be exhausted, a tube in sections axially within the outer casing, such tube being adapted to be connected with a suitable water-supply under pressure, collars connecting the adjacent sections of tube together, and perforations in the collars whereby communication is established between the interior of the casing and the interior of the tube, as specified. (2.) In apparatus for creating a vacuum, an outer casing adapted to be connected to the vessel to be exhausted, a tube in sections axially within the outer casing, such tube being adapted to be connected with a suitable supply of water under pressure, and a perforated disc placed at the inner end of the first section of tube whereby the column of water in the tube may be split up into a number of smaller columns, as set forth. (3.) In apparatus for creating a vacuum, an outer casing hermetically sealed against the outer air, means for connecting such casing with the vessel to be exhausted, a tube in sections axially placed within the outer casing, means for connecting the first section of the tube with a suitable supply of water under pressure, a perforated disc terminating the first section of the tube, collars to connect the adjacent sections of tube together, such collars having perforations whereby communication is established between the inside of the casing and the inside of the tube, all as and for the purposes specified. (4.) In apparatus for creating a vacuum, a hermetically sealed outer casing, a tube in sections axially within the casing, perforated collars for connecting together the sections of tube, a bulbous cover entirely covering the discharge end of the apparatus, such cover being screwed over the end of the outer casing, and a discharge or waste pipe leading from the bulbous cover, as and for the purposes set forth. (5.) The general arrangement, construction, and combination of parts in the improved apparatus for creating and maintaining a vacuum as described, as illustrated in the drawings, and for the several purposes specified.

(Specification, 4s. 3d. ; drawing, 1s.)

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No. 22786.—8th May, 1907.—WILLIAM HENRY MOUNSEY, of Aveland Avenue, North Norwood, South Australia, Engineer. Improved matrix-cleaner for linotype-machines.

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Claim.—In linotype-machines, two or more brushes attached to the intermediate elevator channel-plate, and two or more brushes attached to the front and back plate of the distributor-box for the purpose of automatically brushing and cleaning both sides of the matrices after they have been used for forming a line of type and before they are distributed into the magazine, all substantially as described in this specification and shown in the drawings.

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

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No. 22787.—8th May, 1907.—WILLIAM HENRY MOUNSEY, of Aveland Avenue, North Norwood, South Australia, Engineer. Improved knife-block and knife for linotype-machines.

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Claims.—(1.) In knife-blades of linotype-machines, a right-hand knife made in sections for the purpose of adjusting the different sections to allow various kinds of type letters to pass through for trimming. (2.) In knife-blocks of linotype-machines, a right-hand knife made in sections, each section having attached thereto a sliding rod moving in a groove or bearing and supplied with a notch to enable the knife section to be adjusted as may be required in the trimming of lines formed of various two-line letters in a single-line bar. (3.) In the knife-blocks of linotype-machines, having a right-hand knife-blade made in sections, and such sections having attached thereto sliding rods moving in grooves or bearings and having a notch in each rod, revolving rods turning in a bearing or hole and having at the outer ends handles to enable them to be turned, and also having at the other or inner end eccentric points fitting into the notches of the sliding rods attached to the sections of the knife-blades. (4.) In the knife-blocks of linotype-machines, having a right-hand knife in sections which can be adjusted, a number of plates with springs adjusting themselves to the varying thickness of a type-line having two-line letters for the purpose of exerting an even pressure on the type-line which is being trimmed. (5.) In the knife-block of linotype-machines, a right-hand knife-blade made in sections, each of these sections having a sliding rod working in a groove or bearing, and having a notch, and each sliding-rod being operated upon by an eccentric end