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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 13

Notice of Acceptance of Complete Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1908.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the undermentioned 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. 22423.—8th February, 1907.—JAMES MONTGOMERY, of A. and J. Macfarlane, McLaggan Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, Ham-curer. Improvements in cooling-chambers.*

Claims.—(1.) A cooling-chamber, comprising a race having a concrete floor, graded, a water-sprinkler along the concrete floor, a fan with two outlets, substantially as and for the purpose described. (2.) The combination of an enclosed fan with a race having a water-sprinkler, substantially as and for the purpose described.

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

No. 22489.—28th February, 1907.—UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, of Paterson, State of New Jersey, United States of America, a corporation duly organized under the laws of said State of New Jersey, carrying on business as Shoe-machinery Manufacturers at 205 Lincoln Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America (the assignees of Andrew Eppler, of Allston, Suffolk, Massachusetts aforesaid, Inventor). Improvements in or relating to machines for reinforcing insoles.*

Claims.—(1.) In a machine for reinforcing insoles, a presser, and means (such for example as 20a, 7, 20) whereby the presser is caused to strike against the side of the lip with a quick blow, for the purpose described. (2.) In a machine for reinforcing insoles, the combination with a pivoted arm 10 yieldingly held in adjustable contact with a stop 25 and a cam 14 for oscillating it to effect the feed of the work, a sliding carrier 9 mounted upon said arm 10 that is held yieldingly in raised position, and a cam 13 for lowering it to effect the pressing of the reinforcing material on the insole of an arm 7 carrying the presser, which arm is pivoted on the carrier 9 and yieldingly brought into contact with the lip by a spring 20a, a cam 15 being arranged to swing the arm in opposition to said spring. (3.) An insole-reinforcing machine having, in combination, a guide-roll for supporting one side of the lip, a rotating circular knife for trimming the lip, means for actuating the knife, and means for pressing the knife laterally against the end of the guide-roll. (4.) An insole-reinforcing machine having, in combination, a guide-roll for supporting one side of the lip, a rotating circular knife for trimming the lip, a carrier for the knife, means for actuating the knife, a spring for pressing the knife laterally against the end of the guide-roll, and means for regulating the pressure of said spring. (5.) In a machine for reinforcing insoles, the pressing-device substantially as described, and illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 7 of the drawings. (6.) An insole-reinforcing machine substantially as described, and illustrated in the drawings.

(Specification, 10s.; drawing, 5s.)

No. 22490.—28th February, 1907.—UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, of Paterson, State of New Jersey, United States of America, a corporation duly organized under the laws of said State of New Jersey, carrying on business as Shoe-machinery Manufacturers at 205 Lincoln Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America (the assignees of Albert Edward Johnson, of Brockton, Plymouth, Massachusetts aforesaid, Inventor). Improvements in or relating to insoles and methods and machines for producing the same.*

Extract from Specification.—A principal object of the present invention is to produce an insole having a lip stronger and better than those hitherto known, and which, if desired, may be subsequently reinforced. As will be explained in detail, the lip comprises two flaps cut from the body portion of the insole, turned up, pressed together, and united, preferably by an adhesive, thus giving a practically integral lip which cannot easily be broken down during the subsequent treatment of the insole, and which is stronger and better than a lip formed either of a single flap or even of two flaps not permanently united. In addition to the insole itself, the present invention includes the method of forming it by turning up the two flaps and uniting them, preferably by cement and pressure, at the same operation. While no particular apparatus is necessary for carrying out this method, yet the improved machine illustrated, described, and claimed has been found useful for the purpose. This machine in its preferred embodiment comprises a channeling-knife and a slitting-knife, which are constructed and arranged to cut and turn up two flaps from the surface of an insole as the insole is fed through the machine, either by hand or, preferably, and as illustrated, by mechanism, including a positively rotated work-support and a reciprocating feeding-device engaging respectively opposite sides of the work. At the same operation the two flaps thus formed, which have been previously supplied with an adhesive, are pressed forcibly together by repeated blows of a hammer or by some other suitable pressing-mechanism. In the form of machine illustrated the knives and hammer are so arranged that the shank of one of the knives serves as an anvil or abutment between which and the hammer the flaps are pressed together. In this way the devices which form the lip may be arranged closely together so that they perform their functions properly even upon a sole having sharp curves, by reason of which the sole must be swung laterally quickly in order that it may be fed properly through the machine. Preferably the two knives are rigidly though adjustably mounted in the same carrier, which is arranged to yield to accommodate variations in the thickness of the work, without, however, disturbing the relative positions of the knives. To maintain the hammer also in desired relation to the knives it too is pivoted to the same carrier, with the result that knives and hammer move vertically together. The hammer in acting upon the flaps is arranged to move yieldingly substantially parallel with the surface of the sole to exert a substantially uniform pressure upon the flaps in the direction most effective for uniting them.

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

(Specification, £1 2s.; drawing, 6s.)

No. 22510.—5th March, 1907.—ERNEST MOSS, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Mechanic. An improved apparatus for stamping and franking letters, telegrams, and the like.*

Claims.—(1.) In machines for stamping envelopes and the like, the combination with a pivoted swinging quadrant and spring-controlled impression stamps mounted radially therein, and each capable of longitudinal movement, of a spring-controlled plunger mounted vertically above the stampers, and means whereby the plunger may be depressed upon the top end of the stamper placed vertically beneath it, so as to depress it, substantially as specified. (2.) In machines for stamping envelopes and the like, the combination with a pivoted swinging quadrant and spring-controlled stampers of different values mounted radially therein, and each capable of longitudinal movement, of a spring-controlled plunger mounted vertically above the stampers, a countershaft carried in bearings in the machine above the top end of the plunger, an eccentric cam on such countershaft bearing upon such end of the plunger, and a main operating-shaft geared with the countershaft, substantially as specified. (3.) In machines for stamping envelopes and the like, the combination with a pivoted swinging quadrant and spring-controlled stampers of different values mounted radially therein, and each capable of longitudinal movement, of a main operating-shaft and two countershafts geared therewith; an eccentric cam secured upon one of such countershafts; a vertically arranged spring-controlled plunger mounted beneath such cam and above the stampers; a drum slidably mounted on the second countershaft, and having a number (equalling the number of stampers) of parallel rows of teeth upon its periphery that approximate in circumferential lengths, in proportion to the whole circumference, with the proportions the several impression stamps bear in value to that of the highest value; counting and indicating mechanism placed within the machine; a shaft for operating it; and a pinion on the shaft adapted to gear with any one of the rows of teeth on the drum: substantially as specified. (4.) In machines for stamping envelopes and the like, the combination with a pivoted swinging quadrant and spring-controlled stampers of different values mounted radially therein, of a spring-controlled plunger mounted in a vertical plane above the stampers; a drum slidably mounted on a shaft, and having a number of parallel rows of teeth on its periphery, of circumferential lengths