2570 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No 72 portion being covered with a polishing or cleaning medium through such holes, and means for withdrawing the pin such as cloth or felt, and the bottom portion having a base : therefrom, substantially as specified. (3.) The improve- of cork, for scouring or cleaning purposes, substantially as ments in and relating to hillside and single-furrow ploughs, described and illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings. (2.) In substantially as described and explained, as illustrated in a knife cleaner and sharpener, in combination, a piece of wood the drawings, and for the several purposes set forth. or such like the top portion of which is coated with emery or (Specification, 4s. ; drawing, 1a.) a base cork for sharpening purposes, and the bottom having as a base for scouring or cleaning purposes, with a side or sides of such wooden piece being covered with a finishing No. 21819.—21st September, 1906.—JOHN DENNISTON or cleaning medium such as cloth or felt, substantially as SMITH and JOHN JEROME SCOTT, of 307 George Street, Dun- described, and as illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawings. edin, New Zealand, Mechanics. An improved railway-truck (Specification, 3s. 6d. ; drawing, 1s.) door.

No. 21766.—11th September, 1906.—ANDREW HERBERT Claims.—(1.) For the purpose indicated, in combination BYRON, Civil Engineer, DAVID JOHN BRYON, Draftsman, and with a railway-truck door, two springs capable of a winding ROBERT RICHARDSON RICHMOND, Surveyor, all of 46 Lambton movement mounted on the hinge-bar or pin of the door, Quay, Wellington, New Zealand. An improved machine and substantially as specified. (2.) In means described in claim method for dressing and drying flax and other fibre products. 1, one end of each spring engages with the bottom of the truck, while the other end engages with the door, substantially as Extract from Specification.—Our invention consists in a described and explained, and as illustrated in the draw- machine and method for thoroughly dressing, bleaching, and ings. (Specification, 2s. ; drawing, 1s.) drying flax (Phormium tenax) and other fibre products in one operation, so that the product after passing through the machine, is absolutely dry, bleached, and dressed ready for baling up without exposure to the sun, wind, and weather. The No. 21841.—25th September, 1906.—WILLIAM GEORGE drying and bleaching, as is the custom, at present. The RICHARDSON, of " Kenilworth," 21 Upper Vincent Street, finished product will be of finer quality than any hitherto Auckland, New Zealand, Hemp Expert. An improved pro- obtained, suitable both for fabrics and for cordage. The cess for the utilisation of the green vegetable fleshy part of machine is driven by belts or cog-wheels, and is formed by an the flax (by-product in the stripping process of extraction of arrangement of steel crushing or grinding rollers, a hackler, a scutcher, and a comb. The machine is provided with fibre) and combining it with other food substances in the two sets of water jets and one set of steam jets, also with proportions and for the purposes described. heated drying rollers and heated boxes and tables. Also with (3.) The method and means enumerated for preparing the first pair of self-feeding rollers at the intake, as in tip passes to the green vegetable fleshy part of the leaves of Phormium tenax (pro- one pair of rollers to another, or of rollers to a hackler, scutcher, or comb, or to another pair of duced as a by-product in the stripping process of extraction of rollers, guides, so that in the proper relative working positions of guides, the fibre by combining it with other food substances in the rollers, hackler, scutcher, and comb may be arranged for crimp, corn, bran, lined, mo- either vertically or horizontally, by adjusting gear. The tasses, salt, and suitable substances, in the proportions and for water jets, steam jets, drying rollers, heated boxes, and table the purposes described. at outlet can be brought to any desirable temperature, and a (2.) Drying by means of heated air chemical bath given to fibre during its progress through a green vegetable fleshy part of the leaves of Phormium tenax the machine if required. (a by-product in the stripping process of extraction of fibre) [Note.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place and through any one of a number of holes in the wheel-shank, from the drying of the unformed mass to the finished market- a spring controlling the pin and keeping it normally extended able cake of cattle-food. (Specification, 2s. 9d. ; drawing, 1a.) of the claims.]

No. 21767.—11th September, 1906.—SAMUEL THOMAS No. 21909.—13th October, 1906.—ASA WHITNEY, of Mel- SMITH, of Dannevirke, New Zealand, Grocer. Improved bourne Club, Melbourne, Australia, Captain M.N., Engi- means for use in cutting cheese and like goods. neers and Ammunition Manufacturer. Improvements to rifle Claims.—(1.) In means for cutting cheese and other goods, ranges, targets, and the like. a slab or table formed with a slot extending longitudinally Extract from Specification.—According to the present in- through its middle and inwards from one end in combina- vention, I construct a target in such a manner that not only tion with a cutting wire, a pulley mounted beneath the table the range of same is continually changing (but also the angle at one end around which the wire is passed, and a spring of motion relatively to the line of fire), and so the direc- secured at the other end of the table beneath the opposite end of the tion at which the target is presented to view. It may also be wire and to the free end of which one end of the cutting- caused to disappear and reappear at different places in order table is attached, substantially as specified. (2.) The im- that the shooter may not know where or when to expect the proved means for use in cutting cheese and like goods, sub- target to appear. The target may also be so arranged as stantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in to close in together, thus representing a company of men. the drawings. A further feature of the invention enables the speed of the (Specification, 2s. 6d. ; drawing, 1s.) target in any direction to be varied ; for instance, in the case of a target composed of dummy men it may be caused to advance slowly, and then more quickly to represent a charg- ing body of men, or it may perform other evolutions. [Note.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place No. 21777.—12th September, 1906.—THOMAS KEATS, of of the claims.] Sheffield, New Zealand, Farmer. Improvements in and re- (Specification, 48. 6d. ; drawing, 4s.) lating to hillside and single-furrow ploughs. Claims.—(1.) In ploughs of the class described, the combina- No. 22188.—12th December, 1906.—JAMES LAYFIELD, Con- tion with the vertical shank outwards from the plough-beam tractor, of 1024 Ninth Avenue, Fairview, Vancouver, British attached to and extending outwards from the plough-beam Columbia, Canada, and ALBERT VICTOR CRISPE, Hardware and adjustable in its length, a boss on the outer end of such Merchant, of 1718 Haro Street, Vancouver aforesaid, Ce- arm through which the wheel-shank passes vertically, and ment building-blocks. means whereby such shank may be locked to the boss at any desired point in its length, substantially as specified. (2.) In ploughs of the class described, an arm Claims.—(1.) In a cement or concrete building-block, the attached to and extending outwards from the plough-beam combination with outer and inner wall portions of cement or and adjustable in its length, a boss on the outer end of the concrete of a bond connecting them together, such bond arm adapted to surround the vertical shank of the plough- comprising ties of thin sheet-metal extending between the beam, a pin passing through holes in the sides of the boss- walls of the block and having the ends where embedded in and through any one of a number of holes in the wheel-shank, the cement bent over in relation to the mid-portion. (2.) In a spring controlling the pin and keeping it normally extended a cement or concrete building-block, the combination with