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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 46

No. 24044.—24th February 1908.—DONALD DONALD, of Masterton, Wellington, New Zealand, Machinery-importer. Improvements in lifting-jacks.

Extract from Specification.—The invention relates to lever lifting-jacks of the rack-and-pawl type, and provides certain improvements therein, principally consisting of double-acting apparatus for operating the rack, single-action gear for employment when heavier weights have to be filed, means forowering the jack with the weight upon it, and a trip arrangement whereby the rack is released to permit it to fall to its lowest position.

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

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

No. 24108.—6th March, 1908.—JOHN THOMPSON, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Boot-manufacturer. Improvements in the manufacture of whole-back boots.*

Claim.—The manufacture of a whole back for a boot, consisting in cutting the usual blank, folding it so that the back line of the fold is substantially at right angles to the base, and “breaking back” the top part of the fold on a blocking-machine, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

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

No. 24124.—5th April, 1907.—LOUIS HARDAKER, of No. 106 Constitution Road, Petersham, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Ledger-keeper. Improvements in pneumatic-tired wheels for road vehicles.

[NOTE.—This is an application under section 106 of the Act, the date given being the official date of the application in the Commonwealth of Australia.]

Extract from Specification.—This invention relates to improvements in pneumatic-tired wheels for road vehicles, whereby the tire is preserved from contact with the roadway, and so puncture and other injury is prevented. These improvements consist in the combination with a pneumatic-tired wheel of ordinary construction of an outer loose tread-wheel or ring-rail, which is supported vertically or in parallelism with the wheel by having a casing or frame contacting against rollers on the fast or pneumatic wheel, or by having rims or plates contacting with rollers or against rollers on a framing or casing affixed to the vehicle. And this invention consists further in the particular combinations and arrangements of mechanical parts described and claimed.

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

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

No. 24267.—14th April, 1908.—Dr. WILLEM DIGNUS GRATAMA, of Delftweg, C.94, Rijswijk, Holland, Director. Improvements in or relating to vulcanisers.

Extract from Specification.—The improved vulcaniser may consist of two pulley or drum casings below, one pulley or drum casing above, and two vertical tubes between them, to which steam or other fluid under pressure is admitted. For preserving the pressure of the steam or fluid, the two lower pulley or drum casings are filled with a shutting-off liquid, preferably mercury, through which the goods are passed. Preferably the two lower pulley or drum casings are connected with two vertical open tubes, in which the shutting-off liquid or mercury is permitted to rise under the pressure of the steam or fluid. Where so preferred, one or several pulley or drum casings may be inserted both below and above and connected with one another and with the preceding pulley or drum casings by means of vertical tubes, so that the goods may be passed through the whole vulcaniser in a serpentine line, only the two extreme lower pulley or drum casings and their open tubes being filled with the shutting-off liquid or mercury.

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

(Specification, 5s.; drawing, 2s.)

No. 24274.—14th April, 1908.—WILLIAM ERNEST HUGHES, of Queen’s Chambers, Wellington, New Zealand, Patent Agent (nominee of the Printing Machinery Company, Limited, of 188 Fleet Street, London, England—assignees of Henry Frederick Bechman, of Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, United States of America, Engineer). Improvements in web-printing machines.

Claims.—(1.) In a printing-press, means whereby two webs can be simultaneously fed through the printing mechanisms at different predetermined speeds, and be printed from different forms by the same printing couples, and whereby different lengths of each web can be printed at each operation of the press. (2.) In a printing-press such as claimed in claim 1, means whereby the said press can be adjusted for printing a full-width web at either of two speeds relatively to the speed of operation of the press as a whole. (3.) In a printing-press such as claimed in claim 1 or 2, the combination of one or more printing couples, mechanism for feeding webs to and delivering them from the press at different speeds, a looping mechanism for each web, and means for operating the looping mechanisms one from the other or otherwise at relatively different speeds. (4.) In a printing-press such as claimed in claim 1 or 2, the combination with one or more printing couples of a sectional web feeding or delivering roll, having a fast and a slow portion adapted to feed or deliver a fast and a slow web to or from the press, and mechanism for looping the fast and slow webs. (5.) In a printing-press, two sets of looping-rollers operatively connected with each other, so that one set is operated from the other but at a different speed.

(Specification, 9s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 24314.—29th April, 1908.—HENRY BODDINGTON, Justice of the Peace, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Pownall Hall, Wilmslow, Chester, England. Improvements in or applicable to windows, shutters, ventilators, and the like.

Claim.—The improvements in or applicable to windows, shutters, ventilators, and the like of the revolving type, consisting of a frame in which revolvable rings are fitted and retained therein, either by balls inserted between the interior of the frame and the periphery of the rings as in Fig. 4, or by a spring t placed in a groove in the frame in front of said rings as in Fig. 18, one half of the area of each of said rings being formed either of metal, wood, glass, wire-gauze, or other material, and the other half of the area of said rings formed of different material, so that as either ventilation, light, or obscurity, either wholly or partially, is required, one or other of said rings is rotated, so as to place one portion of the disc formed of one material in one ring, over a portion of a disc formed with a different material in another ring, or the whole of said rings capable of being removed when the whole of the aperture in the frame is required to be open, all substantially as described.

(Specification, 5s.; drawing, 2s.)

No. 24317.—29th April, 1908.—RALPH FALKINER, of Moonbria, New South Wales, Australia, Pastoralist. An improved universal joint or coupling specially for use in sheep-shearing machines.

Claims.—(1.) The described universal joint or coupling, consisting of the various parts constructed, arranged, combined, and operating substantially as and for the purposes specified, and as illustrated in the drawings. (2.) In a universal joint or coupling, a pair of bevel pinions (as B B1), gearing with a double-bevel wheel (as C), in combination with a casing (as D D1) made in halves, each half being concentric with the axial centre of said double-bevel wheel, and having an oil-tight joint (as E) between said halves substantially as and for the purposes specified, and as illustrated in the drawings. (3.) In a universal joint or coupling, a pair of bevel pinions (as B B1), gearing with a double-bevel pinion (as C), in combination with a casing made in halves (as D D1), a joint (as E) between said halves being arranged in substantially the same plane as said double-bevel wheel, this latter being mounted upon a boss or sleeve (as F) projecting from one half of the casing, substantially as and for the purposes specified, and as illustrated in the drawings.

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