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clamped in adjusted position. (3.) A machine for preparing welts, having, in combination, means including a yielding presser-foot for supporting and guiding a welt-strip, a welt-grooving knife mounted to move with the presser-foot and provided with a cutting-blade curved in the arc of a circle, and securing-means for the knife constructed and arranged to permit a rotary and lateral adjustment of the knife with or without a welt-bevelling knife, consisting of a notched disc provided with a cutting-edge extending inwardly from the periphery of the disc. (4.) A machine for preparing welts, having, in combination, means including a yielding presser-foot for supporting and guiding a welt-strip, grooving and bevelling knives, feed-rolls for feeding the welt-strip to the knives, and connected mechanism under the control of the operator for raising the presser-foot and separating the feed-rolls. (5.) A machine for preparing welts, having, in combination, means for supporting and guiding a welt-strip, means including a yielding presser-foot and a yielding side-guide for supporting and guiding a welt-strip, grooving and bevelling knives, and connected mechanism under the control of the operator for raising the presser-foot and retracting the yielding side-guide, with or without the feed-roll, and means for separating them, as set forth in the preceding claiming clause. (6.) A machine for preparing welts, having, in combination, means for supporting and guiding a welt-strip, means for continuously feeding the strip, a welt-slitting knife arranged to form transverse slits in the strip extending partially through the strip, and means for moving the knife in the direction of the feed while making its retracting stroke and in the opposite direction while making its cutting stroke, the path of the movement being preferably oblique to the surface of the strip. (7.) A machine for preparing welts, having, in combination, means for supporting and guiding a welt-strip, welt grooving and bevelling knives, a vibrating welt-slitting knife arranged to move bodily toward and from the welt to form transverse slits therein extending partially through the thickness of the welt, and means for continuously feeding the welt-strip to the knives.

(Specification, 14s.; drawing, 7s.)

No. 23389.—27th August, 1907.—WILLIAM FITZGERALD CRAWFORD, of Customs Street, Gisborne, New Zealand, Photographer. Improvements in sheep-shearing machines and similar machines for other like purposes.*

Claims.—(1.) In sheep-shearing machines or the like, the use of a vibrating piston or flyer C driven by compressed air or other elastic fluid, conveyed through special double tube preferably of this shape ⦿, operating in the closed chamber N, substantially as and for the purposes described and explained, and as shown on the drawings. (2.) In sheep-shearing machines or the like, a tension spring such as H in combination with screw G and regulating spring and roller BB, substantially as and for the purposes described and explained, and as shown on the drawings. (3.) In sheep-shearing machines or the like, the use of an alternating valve—Figs. III, IV, and V—substantially as and for the purposes described and explained, and as set out in the drawings.

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

No. 23413.—4th September, 1907.—FREDERICK ARTHUR ALCOCK, of No. 155 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Manufacturer. Improved adjustable and removable cushion rails for forming billiard-tables.*

Claims.—(1.) In a table designed for being also used as a billiard-table, providing gaps in the wood or slate table-top for the pockets, and holes for screws whereby to secure removable cushion-rails, substantially as described and shown. (2.) In combination with removable cushion-rails, sunken nuts fitted in their under-surface, and screws to take thereinto and designed to pass through holes about the edge of table, substantially as described and shown. (3.) In combination with removable cushion-rails, the parts marked a1, a2, a3, a4, a5 and D–d for securing said cushion-rails at the desired position on the table, substantially as described and shown. (4.) In a table designed for being also used as a billiard-table, the combination therewith of removable cushion-rails designed to be either screwed or clamped to the edge of table, and pockets supported by suitable wires engaging the end parts of the cushion-rails, substantially as described and shown.

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

No. 23424.—5th September, 1907.—MANUFACTURERS’ MACHINE COMPANY, of Montclair, New Jersey, United States of America, a corporation duly organized under the laws of said State of New Jersey, carrying on business as manufacturers of machines (assignees of George Frederick Stewart, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States of America, Inventor). Pad-covers and method for making the same.*

Claims.—(1.) A molded buffing-pad cover having an outturned molded edge provided with shape-retaining means molded therewith. (2.) A molded buffing-pad cover of the character described in claim 1, in which the shape-retaining means consist of corrugations located transversely of the molded edge. (3.) A molded buffing-pad cover of the character described in claims 1 and 2, having its face molded to operative form, and in which the molded unbroken edge is provided with an encircling reinforced channel, and the transverse corrugations are radially disposed on the flaring margin of the molded unbroken edge. (4.) A molded buffing-pad cover of the class described, having a continuous edge molded to conform to the edge of the pad to which it is to be applied, the perimeter of said edge being outwardly flared to facilitate the application of said cover to the pad. (5.) A molded buffing-pad cover of the class described, having a molded face to conform to the operative shape of the pad, and a channel c and flanking inner and outer walls d and e respectively, the outer wall e being flaring and provided with molded strengthening-means. (6.) The method of molding buffing-pad covers which consists in applying a molding pressure to the body of a blank within the marginal portion thereof, and controllably moving the marginal portion during the action of the molding pressure, with or without the molding of transverse ribs or corrugations on the marginal portion of the blank. (7.) A method of the character described in claim 6 for molding buffing-pad covers, in which the marginal portion of the blank is positively held against slip during the molding operation, the controlled movement of the marginal portion being of a compensating or differential nature. (8.) A method of the character described in claims 6 and 7 for molding buffing-pad covers, in which the controlled compensating movement carries the marginal portion of the blank radially inward about the molding element. (9.) A method of the character described in claims 6, 7, and 8, in which a portion of the blank within the margin is subjected to attractive action.

(Specification, 14s.; drawing, 2s.)

No. 23440.—9th September, 1907.—HILARY QUERTIER, of Wood’s Hotel, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Engineer. A combined motor bicycle and cleaner.*

Claims.—(1.) The combination with a motor-bicycle of apparatus for cleaning by means of a current of air, substantially as set forth. (2.) The combination with a motor-bicycle of cleaning apparatus comprising a fan, a hollow shoe, and a flexible pipe connecting the shoe to the fan, substantially as set forth. (3.) In the combination set forth in claim 2, the introduction of a dust-box and screen, substantially as set forth. (4.) In the combination set forth in claim 2, the introduction of a second flexible pipe within the first flexible pipe, and a nozzle discharging air into the shoe, substantially as set forth. (5.) The combination and arrangement of parts comprising the combined motor bicycle and cleaner, substantially as and for the purposes set forth, and illustrated in the drawing.

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

No. 23451.—7th September, 1907.—CHARLES SUTTIE, of Waharoa, New Zealand, Flaxmiller, and MONTAGUE HARRISON WYNYARD, of Auckland, New Zealand, Solicitor. A new or improved means of catching flax and the like after stripping.*

Claim.—An apparatus for catching flax and the like as it leaves the stripper, comprising one or more arms fixed to a centre or a band carried round two or more rollers or pulleys, and movable horizontally, and a bar or band over which each arm will sweep, substantially as and for the purpose described.

(Specification, 2s. 3d.; drawing, 1s.)