Oct. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2559

No. 23391.—25th August, 1908.—CHARLES SUTTIE, of Waharoa, Flax-miller, and MONTAGUE HARRISON WYNYARD, of Auckland, Solicitor, both in the Dominion of New Zealand. A new or improved means for treating flax and the like after stripping.

Claims.—(1.) Apparatus for the purpose indicated, comprising a pair of driven drums placed close together and arranged on horizontal axes and revolving in opposite directions, and having their peripheries either plain or furnished with bars or ribs extending longitudinally along them, and mounted in a movable frame beneath a stripper so that the stripped material may be engaged by such drums and directed between them and hung across a band or bar arranged beneath the “travel” of the drums, substantially as specified. (2.) Apparatus for the purpose indicated, comprising two travelling-bands travelling in opposite directions, each passing round a set of two rollers, the inner rollers of each set being placed close together, the outer surface of the bands being either plain or furnished with bars or ribs, and such rollers and bands being mounted in a movable frame beneath a stripper so that the stripped material may be caught by such travelling-bands and directed between them and hung across a band or bar arranged beneath the travel of the drums, substantially as specified. (3.) The general combination and arrangement of parts, constituting a means whereby flax and the like as it leaves the stripper is engaged, held, and directed in the required course for catching the same, substantially as described.

(Specification, 4s. 6d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 23680.—2nd November, 1907.—RALPH DUNNE, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Picture-framer. Improvements in mitre-cutters.*

Claims.—(1.) In a mitre-cutter, a saw-guide, consisting of a vertical and horizontal portion, laterally adjustable strips secured to said horizontal portion, means whereby said saw-guide may be kept in a substantially vertical path when being raised or lowered, and means for securing said saw-guide at a desired height, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (2.) In a mitre-cutter, means against which the strips to be cut may be placed whereby the strips may be cut square by a saw operating in the saw-path in said mitre-cutter, substantially as described. (3.) In a mitre-cutter, fences for the strips to be cut, consisting of a series of pins, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (4.) A saw-guide according to claim 1, characterized by the horizontal adjustable strips having their lower edges next the saw-path chamfered, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (5.) A saw-guide according to claim 1, having the free ends of its horizontal adjustable strips narrowed, and provided with adjusting-screws at the sides, the heads of such adjusting-screws being adapted to slide on the sides of an upward guide provided with passages where-through said adjusting-screws may be reached for adjustment, substantially as described, and illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings. (6.) Improvements in mitre-cutters, consisting of the parts constructed, arranged, and operating, substantially as and for the purposes set forth, and as illustrated in the drawings.

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

No. 23822.—12th December, 1907.—HART SPEAR, of Willis Street, Wellington, New Zealand, Oculist optician. Improvements in spectacles, and similar optical instruments.*

Claims.—(1.) In spectacles, the forming of an approximately crescent-shaped lens as described, and above it a semicircular or approximately semicircular space or indenture above the lens, as at F, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth. (2.) In spectacles, frames partly surrounding each lens and terminating in hook-shaped extremities which fit around the rounded tips of the horns of the crescent, substantially as described, and as illustrated in the drawings.

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

No. 24135.—13th March, 1908.—TOMAS L. MULLALLY, of 745 Calle Tucuman, Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic, South America, Farmer. Dismountable covering for hay and other stacks, piles of sacks, open loaded railway-wagons, and the like.

Claims.—(1.) A dismountable covering for stacks of fodder and cereals, piles of sacks, and open loaded railway-cars, and the like, comprising in combination a number of flexible metallic sheets, reinforcements at their longitudinal edges, slots and pegs in and on the reinforced edges respectively, hooks provided at both ends of one of the reinforcements, bars engaging with said hooks and with one another, and weights, or other suitable means for holding the covering in position. (2.) The improved dismountable covering for stacks of fodder and cereals, piles of sacks, open loaded railway-cars, and the like, substantially as described, and as illustrated.

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

No. 24196.—31st March, 1908.—MONTAGUE MOORE, of 314 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Mining Agent, and THOMAS JAMES HESKETT, of 2 Donald Street, Brunswick, in the said State, Engineer. Improvements in the process of and apparatus for directly reducing iron ore and subsequently treating same for the manufacture of wrought iron and steel.

Claims.—(1.) In a process as described, causing the reducing-gas to enter the reducing-chambers at the bottom thereof, and so controlling it that a portion passes upwards through said reducing-chambers and also the heating-chambers above, while the remainder passes with the reduced ore to the gas furnace and protects it from oxidation until delivered beneath the bath in said gas furnace. (2.) In the manufacture of steel or a steely quality of wrought iron, melting scrap steel or wrought iron with solid fuel in cupola furnaces and supplying same therefrom to the bath in the gas furnace, as and for the purpose described. (3.) The combination with heating and reducing chambers A¹ and A², gas-producer B, gas furnace E, and air-regenerator I, of the cupola furnaces J, as and for the purpose described. (4.) The combination with the heating and reducing chambers A and A², gas-producer B, gas furnace E, and air-regenerator I, of the cupola furnaces J and refining furnace K, as and for the purpose described. (5.) The combination with the heating and reducing chambers A¹ and A² of the flue C in communication with the gas-producer B, pipes D leading from said flue C to the bottom of the reducing-chambers A², air-inlet F, and damper G¹, as and for the purpose described.

(Specification, 7s. 6d.; drawing, 2s.)

No. 24230.—8th April, 1908.—WILLIAM HORTON FLETCHER, of Eikenhof, Jackson’s Drift, Transvaal, Mining Engineer. Improvements in mills or apparatus for crushing or pulverising ores, minerals, and the like.

Claims.—(1.) A crushing or pulverising mill in which the frame comprises two discs fixed to a driving-shaft, said discs carrying between them and in proximity to their peripheries a plurality of pins, a roll mounted on each pin constructed with a hole or aperture at the centre larger in diameter than the pin, to permit the rolls to move inwards and outwards relative to the axis of the driving-shaft, substantially as described. (2.) A crushing or pulverising mill as claimed in the preceding claim in which the rolls are made solid and formed in one piece, with or have attached to them the pins or bolts, and the holes or apertures larger than the pins are provided in the frame, substantially as described in connection with figure 5 of the drawings. (3.) In a crushing or pulverising mill as claimed in claim 1, the provision of a curved crushing-surface or path consisting of a number of segments made trough-shape at the top or inclined at the sides, substantially as and for the purpose described. (4.) A crushing or pulverising mill of the class described, comprising a sectional housing or casing provided in its upper portion, with an inlet for the material, and fitted in its lower portion with a screen, a horizontal driving-shaft which at one end projects into the casing, bearings for said shaft, means for rotating the shaft, a frame fixed on the end of the shaft inside the casing carrying a plurality of rolls capable of rotating about their point of attachment to the frame and movable inwards and outwards relative to the centre of the driving-shaft, and a curved segmental trough-shaped crushing-surface in the path of the rolls, substantially as described and shown. (5.) A mill or apparatus for crushing or pulverising ores and the like comprising the several parts constructed and arranged to operate in combination, substantially as described in connection with and as illustrated in the drawings.

(Specification, 7s.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 24408.—19th May, 1908.—WILLIAM B. BODELL, of Derwent Street, Island Bay, Wellington, New Zealand, Bricklayer. Improved apparatus for carrying away the steam from washing-boilers and the like.

Claims.—(1.) For the purpose indicated, the employment with a washing-boiler having a conical dome constructed in