1876
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 54

upwardly movable blank-pile support for automatically disconnecting the blank-pile support from the means which gradually elevates it at the time when the support approaches the limit of its upward movement, so that the blank-pile support will fall to its lowest position in readiness to receive a new supply of blanks, whereby the blank-gumming pickers will not be permitted to repeatedly strike on the top of the support and injure the picker and conjunctive parts, and deposit, as is undesirable, a layer or layers of gum on the support. The invention also pertains to improvements in the means for imparting the rotative propulsion to the roll in the gum-box which gives gum to the supply-roll that reciprocates under and gums the pickers. The invention also pertains to means for not only changing the extent or range of movement of the blank-conveyer, but also for changing the zone or region within which it has its movements so that in the adjustable machine the blanks may always be carried and positioned properly over and in relation to the folding-throat. The invention, furthermore, pertains to means for stripping or shedding the boxes to permit their ejection from the machine. And the invention, furthermore, relates to an improved formation of the portions of the machine at the base of the folding-throat at and adjacent to which the bottom and sides of a box are squared and formed.

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

(Specification, 15s.; drawing, 6s.)

No. 23705.—16th January, 1908.—THOMAS BOLTON, of Shakespeare Street, Hamilton, Victoria, Australia, Bee-farmer and Storekeeper. Improved means for disinfecting, insect-destroying, and for other like purposes.

Claims.—(1.) An improved means for disinfecting, insect-destroying, and for other like purposes, consisting in arranging within a casing or appliance an inner casing or receptacle for the reception of a soluble chemical substance, and providing means for adjusting the supply and discharge of water to and from said chemical-receptacle, and means such as valves for retarding and distributing the flow of water through the appliance, substantially in the manner described and shown. (2.) An appliance for the purpose specified consisting of a casing as A, having its two opposite branches furnished with valves and seats, and the other branch with a chamber or receptacle in which to place a soluble chemical substance, and to which latter the supply of water is capable of being regulated, and furnishing said outer casing with screw threads and couplings for connection to a hose, hydrant, or the like, substantially as described and as illustrated. (3.) An appliance for the purpose specified consisting, in combination, of a casing as A, having branch A1 and cap A3, valves B-B1, seats b-b1, springs b2-b3, coupling C, removable chemical chamber receptacle D having cover D1 and parts marked D2, flange d5, slot D6, pin d7, adjustable holes d-d2, turn-handle d3-d4, and the pointer and dial and their appurtenant parts, all substantially as described and shown. (4.) An appliance for the purpose specified having an internal removable chemical-chamber to which water is adjustably admitted, combined with a casing either in the form of a three- or four-way branch-piece or of a circular form, and fitted with screw threads and couplings for connection to a hose, hydrant, or the like, all fitted and arranged substantially as described and shown.

(Specification, 5s.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 23917.—16th January, 1908.—ROBERT FALKLAND CAREY, of 18 Carlton Terrace, Finchley Road, Childs Hill, London, England, Engineer. Improved construction of mechanism for opening and closing doors.

Claim.—The improved construction of mechanism for opening and closing doors consisting of carrying the door or doors by top and bottom brackets, each having a pivot-point positioned that the door or doors are moved in a circular direction, edge on, substantially as set forth, in combination with a rising and falling platform positioned under the door or doors, means or mechanism connecting the bottom bracket or brackets with the platform so that the weight of a person on the platform will operate the mechanism to open the door or doors, and on the removal of the weight the platform will be returned and the door or doors closed.

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

No. 23948.—28th January, 1908.—JOHN A. MILNE and HAROLD MORGAN, both of Roxburgh, New Zealand, Mechanical Engineers. Improved current-turbine.*

Extract from Specification.—The turbine, which is submerged, is actuated by a natural current, and consists of a series of blades made of suitable material, mounted radially upon the boss or hub secured to a shaft. The blades are mounted so that the angle of the surface opposing the current is adapted to be automatically adjusted, thus governing the speed of the apparatus in varying currents. The turbine-shaft is provided with suitable gearing, and is adapted to mesh with a wheel secured to the end of a vertical shaft, and upon the upper end of the said vertical shaft there is a mitre or bevel wheel engaging similar gear on a horizontal shaft, upon which may be mounted a driving-pulley, connected by a belt or by any other suitable method for transmitting power to a second-motion shaft, and from thence by other pulleys and belt-connection to any desired position on the pontoons. The gearing at the lower end of the vertical shaft and at the end of the turbine-shaft is suitably encased in a watertight-bearing bracket, provision being made therein for lubrication. A grating may be erected and secured to the under-surface of the pontoons for the purpose of guarding the apparatus against floating timbers or other débris.

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

(Specification, 7s. 6d.; drawing, 4s.)

No. 23991.—11th February, 1908.—WILHELM ALEXANDER FELIX BLEECK, care of Isles, Love, and Co., of 284 and 286 Queen Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Electrician. Improvements in primary batteries.

Claims.—(1.) In primary batteries of the double-fluid type, the combination of sodium-hydroxide solution as excitant with chromic-acid solution as depolariser. (2.) In primary batteries of the double-fluid type, the combination of sodium-hydroxide as excitant with a depolariser consisting of chromic acid dissolved in a solution of hydrogen-peroxide with the addition of hydrochloric acid, as described. (3.) A double-fluid primary battery consisting essentially of zinc as the positive element in a solution of sodium-hydroxide as the excitant, and of carbon as the negative element in a solution of chromic acid as the depolariser, the depolariser being separated from the excitant by a porous partition, substantially as described. (4.) A double-fluid primary battery consisting essentially of zinc as the positive element in a solution of sodium-hydroxide as the excitant, and of carbon as the negative element in a depolariser consisting of chromic acid dissolved in a solution of hydrogen-peroxide with the addition of hydrochloric acid, the depolariser being separated from the excitant by a porous partition, substantially as described.

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

No. 24012.—19th February, 1908.—E. CLEMENS HORST COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New Jersey, United States of America, and having a place of business at 215–217 Pine Street, in the City and County of San Francisco, California, United States of America (assignees of Emil Clemens Horst, of 215–217 Pine Street, San Francisco, California aforesaid, Hop Grower and Packer). Hop picker and separator.

Extract from Specification.—In the simplest form of the device, as shown in Fig. 1, for hand-picking, A represents a bar or handle of suitable description, to which is secured any suitable number of curved and centrally bent spring-picker members 2, preferably made of wire. These pickers are essentially V-shaped, so as to enclose sharp crotches of any desired width in which the hops are caught. These crotches or V-shaped loops, formed by suitably bending the wires in the manner shown and described, operate to engage the stems of the hops, and, by a drawing motion either of the fruit against the device or the devices against the hops, the hops and clusters are easily and rapidly severed from the vines.

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

(Specification, 10s.; drawing, 2s.)