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14, and a platter such as 28, of a horizontal spindle such as 29, gearing such as 35 and 36, a vertical shaft such as 37, terminating in a handle such as 39, as and for the purposes stated, substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawing. (7.) The combination and arrangement together of the mechanical parts or integers for the purposes set forth, constituting improved sanitary furniture for a closet or privy, substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawing.

(Specification, 6s.; drawings, 4s.)

No. 24185.—27th March, 1908.—JOHN WILSON, of Auckland, New Zealand, Cement-manufacturer. Improvements in ferro-concrete structures.

Extract from Specification.—According to my invention, pairs of portable shutters, consisting of battens secured to horizontal bars, are placed face to face at a distance apart equal to the thickness of the wall or the like to be constructed. The shutters are spaced apart by gauges of wood and of concrete or the like, and secured together by bolts. The gauges are located upon vertical rods, the lower ends of which are sunk into the foundation of the structure. These rods are held accurately vertical by a cap-plate, and serve as guides for the gauge-blocks. After the space between the shutters has been filled with concrete a second pair or tier is placed in position above the first pair or tier of shutters, and after the space between this second pair or tier has been filled in the first pair or tier of shutters may be removed and brought into use above the second pair or tier, and so on until the structure is complete.

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

(Specification, 3s. 9d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 24186.—27th March, 1908.—FRITZ OTTO VON ROME, of Christchurch, New Zealand. An improved construction of boot-upper.

Claim.—An improved construction of boot-upper, consisting in forming the upper with an instep portion extending rearwardly from the front portion, and with flaps extending forwardly from the respective edges of the back and overlapping the corresponding edges of the instep portion, means for fastening the flaps together, and pieces of elastic webbing extending between the edges of the instep portion and the inside of the corresponding flap, substantially as specified, and as illustrated in the drawings.

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

No. 24195.—25th April, 1908.—WILLIAM WALLACE PEARCE, of 292 Cashel Street, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, Gentleman. Improvements in or relating to travelling-trunks.

Claims.—In a cover for travelling-trunks having fastening straps and buckles at its ends and sides, of stitching or other marking outlining a space corresponding to the size of a trunk-bottom, and loops upon the other side of the cover below said space and adapted to receive encircling straps, whereby the trunk is readily placed in proper position with relation to the cover and said encircling straps, substantially as set forth. (2.) In a travelling-trunk containing a tray projecting above the body thereof, constructing the lid of the trunk with a rim bevelled upon the inside, whereby the lid may be closed without coming into contact with the tray, substantially as set forth. (3.) The general, particular, and internal arrangements of the tray 15 with the relative positions of the different parts fitting them for the different uses of which these parts are designed—namely, in short, the removable writing-case, letter-receipt rack, dressing-case, toilet, and cash purposes; also for corner-supports of tray as mentioned. (4.) The particular construction of tray 16: ends much lower than sides, ends of sides cut back, grooves in corners of bottom tray to enable it to be taken out over supports of top tray. (5.) The relative construction and arrangement, with recess beneath, of small inner tray 35a, also in conjunction with the partition 34 cut back at its ends. (6.) The internal arrangements of the bottom tray 16 for the special places for different items of wardrobe.

(Specification, 5s. 3d.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 24198.—1st April, 1908.—JAMES THOMAS HUNTER, of Queen’s Chambers, Wellington, New Zealand, Patent Agent (the nominee of Linotype and Machinery, Limited, of 188 and 189 Fleet Street, London, England—the assignees of Charles Showler Woodroffe, of 188 and 189 Fleet Street aforesaid, Chartered Patent Agent; Herbert Pearce and John Ernest Billington, both of Linotype and Machinery Works, Broadheath, Chester, England, Engineers). Improvements in the quadding-apparatus of typographical composing-machines.

Extract from Specification.—The present invention relates to improvements in the quadding-apparatus of typographical composing-machines, more especially in the quadding-apparatus described in the specification of British Letters Patent 16255 of 1898. That apparatus was invented for use in and is described in connection with the linotype machine described in the specification of New Zealand Letters Patent No. 7001. In this machine the mould for the body of the linotype is a horizontal slot in a mould-block on the mould-carrier, that for the printing-edge of the linotype being provided by the assembled line of elements or matrices and space-bars. This line is held against the body-mould by a vice consisting of two jaws, between which the line is wedged tight by the thickening of each of the space-bars. The body-mould is the same length as the line, so that the latter covers and closes the body-mould on that side of it, the opposite side of it being open to receive type-metal, which is injected into it by a pump. If the line to be assembled happened to be a short one, such as so frequently occurs at the end of a paragraph, the operator was obliged, unless his machine was fitted with the quadding-apparatus of British Patent 16255 of 1898, to make the short line up to full length by assembling a sufficient number of quads, otherwise the line would not have been long enough to close the mould. The assembling of each quad necessitated a depression of the quad-key on the keyboard, and therefore occupied time for which there was nothing to show in the printing-edge of the linotype. The last-mentioned patent relieved him of the necessity of so assembling quads by making the right-hand vice-jaw—the one that contacts with the end of a line—movable, so that the depression of a special key should be followed by the automatic movement of this jaw towards its fellow jaw far enough to embrace the short line between them. The mechanism of this patent is now known in the art as a quadding-apparatus or “quadder.” The present invention has been invented for use in the same machine, and is particularly adapted for use therein, although it is not necessarily restricted thereto. But because of that particular adaptability, its construction for and use in the said machine have been chosen for illustration and specification. It follows British Patent 16255 of 1898 in having the vice-jaw that contacts with the end of a line movable, but is characterized by certain improvements which are duly specified hereafter and claimed. Before proceeding with the specification of such construction and use, it will be well to premise that the matrices and space-bars—these being the elements which the said machine composes or assembles into lines—enter a horizontally-positioned organ known as the assembler-elevator through the open right-hand end of it, one by one; that they are pushed along the said elevator towards the left by the last element assembled; that the elevator then assuming the function of a line-carriage is raised vertically till it places the line assembled in it within the grasp of the line-shifter; that the line-shifter is the moved horizontally to the left till it delivers the said line into the first elevator; that the latter then moves vertically downwards to place the line between the jaws of a vice, where it is justified by having all its space-bars thickened until it is wedged by them tightly between the said jaws; that the casting-apparatus has a slot to serve as a mould for the body of the linotype, the only part of the complete mould which the assembled line contributes being that for the printing-edge of the linotype; that these two—slot and part—register with each other to form the complete mould; that the linotype is then cast; that the vice is then opened as much as it had been previously closed; and that, lastly, the said first elevator, with the line in it, is raised vertically to deliver the line to the distributing-mechanism.

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

(Specification, £1 10s.; drawings, 9s.)

No. 24199.—1st April, 1908.—JAMES THOMAS HUNTER, of Queen’s Chambers, Wellington, New Zealand, Patent Agent (the nominee of Dr. C. Richard Bohm, of Berlin, Germany). A new and useful method of producing incandescent mantles.

Extract from Specification.—The improvement consists in using, in addition to the peroxide of hydrogen, such substance