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pawl lever, of special form of appliances by means of which the cramp may be firmly fixed upon joists of varying widths and released therefrom with a minimum of trouble. Means are provided whereby a gripping arrangement and pawls of the cramp are readily released, and simple means are provided for retaining a gripping-block in engagement with its slide-bar.

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

(Specification, 2s. 9d. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 23327.—21st August, 1907.—AUSTIN JOSEPH HOBAN, of Scargill, Canterbury, New Zealand. Girthgall preventative.*

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Claims.—(1.) The means—a pair of straps from terret on trap-saddle to trace-rings on hames. (2.) The application and combination of the various parts specified for the purpose set forth, as described and illustrated.

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

No. 23412. — 1st September, 1907. — CHARLES HENRY EDMUND HOPE-JOHNSTONE, of Aramoho, Wellington, New Zealand, Factory-manager (assignee of the company Nutricia Centrale fur Backhausmilch, Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung, incorporated according to the laws of the Kingdom of Prussia, domiciled in No. 111 Potsdamerstrasse, Berlin, Prussia, German Empire—assignees of Gustav Litsche, of No. 2 Steinmetzstrasse, Berlin, Prussia, aforesaid, Merchant). An improvement in preparing milk for food.

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Claim.—The improvement in the described process of preparing cow’s milk or the milk of other domesticated animals for food, especially for infants, which improvement consists in employing an acid, such as citric acid, or a salt of a weak alkaline nature, such as citrate or bicarbonate of sodium, in the unsterilised mixture of cream and treated skim-milk, substantially as and for the purpose described.

(Specification, 1s. 9d.)

No. 23421.—27th August, 1907.—WILLIAM JOHN O’CONNOR, of Nightcaps, New Zealand, Blacksmith. Improvements in hammers and spanners.*

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Claim.—The combination with a handle-piece, having at one end a shifting-jawed spanner, of a hammer-head formed integral with or secured to the other end of the handle-piece, so that the handle of the spanner forms the handle of the hammer, substantially as described.

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

No. 23460.—12th September, 1907.—CHARLES GODFREY WHITAKER, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Mechanical Engineer. An improved egg-carrier.*

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Claims.—(1.) In egg-carriers of the class referred to, forming the trays with battens of suitable width and securing a row of egg-holding loops along each edge of each batten, substantially as specified. (2.) The improved egg-carrier constructed substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawings.

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

No. 23532.—30th September, 1907.—MAX RUPING, of 19 Stuttgarterplatz, Charlottenberg, Germany. Manufacturer and Merchant. Methods for impregnating wood and other porous materials.

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Claim. — The method of impregnating wood or other porous material, consisting in subjecting the material to be impregnated to a strong fluid-pressure, so that the cells, pores, or cavities are first filled with highly compressed air or gas, which, after the material has been treated with impregnating liquid under still greater pressure, presses (by its expansion when the pressure is cut off and, if desired, a vacuum created) the excess of impregnating liquid wholly or partly out of the cells, pores, or cavities of the material, substantially as described.

[NOTE.—Here follow five other claims.]

(Specification, 6s.)

No. 23564.—8th October, 1907.—GEORGE WATSON, Strip-perkeeper, and ANDREW WYND, Engine-driver, both of Foxton, New Zealand. Automatic adjustable beating-bar for flax-stripping.*

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Claim.—It consists in means by which the space between the beating-bar of a flax-stripper and the drum is automatically adjusted to the thickness of the flax by the action of two levers actuated by weights, the levers causing two blocks to move forward, these two blocks having fixed at or near their ends the beating-bar, which is accordingly pushed forward by the action of the levers on the blocks, thus keeping an even pressure against the flax between the beating-bar and the drum.

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

No. 23605.—17th October, 1907.—GEORGE HOLT FRASER, of 226 Quincy Street, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, Manufacturer. Improvements in crushing-machines.

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Extract from Specification.—This invention relates to machines for crushing, grinding, or pulverising. The crushing is performed between the inner face of a revolving ring and the outer faces of crushing-rolls (usually three), which press outwardly against the ring. The rolls are mounted on transverse shafts, to one of which the driving-power is applied for rotating the ring and the remaining rolls by traction. The roll-shafts are carried in rigid bearing-frames, which are hung so as to freely swing in directions radially of the ring. The ring and rolls are enclosed in a suitable casing.

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

(Specification, 5s. 6d. ; drawing, 4s.)

No. 23683. — 7th November, 1907. — STEPHEN JOHN PHILLIPS, of Hallett, South Australia, Railway Ganger. An improved cutting and cauterizing device.*

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Claims.—(1.) An improved cutting and cauterizing device, comprising a two-part tool to which heat is continuously applied. (2.) In a cutting and cauterizing device, consisting of a two-part tool, a cutting member, and means for continuously applying heat to such member, substantially as described and for the purpose indicated. (3.) An improved cutting and cauterizing device, comprising a two-part tool consisting of a cutting member and a pivoted compressing or gripping member, to which tool heat is continuously applied, substantially as described. (4.) In a cutting and cauterizing device, the combination with a movable compressing or gripping member (such as B) and a stationary cutting member (such as A) with knife (such as A¹), of means for continuously applying heat to the knife (such as A¹) through a hollow casting (such as A²) having an exhaust (such as A⁴), substantially as described and for the purpose indicated.

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

No. 23718.—6th August, 1907.—PAUL BOLL, of Crassy Street, Deniliquin, Electrical and Mechanical Engineer, and RALPH FALKINER, of Moonbria, Pastoralist, both of New South Wales, Australia. Improved mechanism for driving sheep-shearing machines.

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

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Claims.—(1.) In combination, a sheep-shearing machine coupled to the armature-spindle of an electro-motor, substantially as and for the purposes specified, and as illustrated in the drawings. (2.) In combination, a sheep-shearing machine coupled to the armature-spindle of an electro-motor by means of flexible shafting, substantially as and for the purposes specified, and as illustrated in the drawings. (3.) In combination, a sheep-shearing machine coupled to the spindle of an electro-motor, a variable resistance-coil and starting-switch within the circuit to control the speed of said motor, substantially as described, and as illustrated in the drawings. (4.) The combination with a sheep-shearing machine of an electro-motor, the armature-spindle of said motor being coupled to the sheep-shearing machine by means of flexible shafting, the whole being enclosed in a suitable casing and hung upon a bracket or support by means of an eyebolt,