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dropper a slight inward turn all the wires can be sprung into
the corresponding slots on the other side, without the use
of tools, the position of the pairs of slots being such that they
grip and slightly kink the wires, preventing side slip of the
said droppers on the said strained wires, with the opposite
sides of each entrance to the said slots also rounded, thus
leaving no sharp projecting points for catching in wool, all
substantially as shown on the drawing, and as described and
as explained.

(Specification, 2s. 9d.)

No. 25482.-23rd January, 1909.-EDWIN HENRY BROOKER,
of Medbury, Canterbury, New Zealand, Farmer. Improved
suction-blast seed stripper and dresser.*

Claims.--(1.) For the purpose indicated, the parts con-
structed, arranged, combined, and operating substantially as
set forth and illustrated. (2.) In apparatus for the purpose
indicated, the employment of the top formed of reticular
material, means whereby the passage of the blast through the
said material is regulated, substantially as described and illus-
trated. (3.) Apparatus for the purpose indicated, comprising,
in combination, the beater-bar and beater-drum with the
means for driving same, the riddle with means for vibrating
same, the conveyor for removing seed passing through said
riddle, substantially as specified and illustrated.

(Specification, 3s. 6d.)

No. 25522.-4th February, 1909.-EDWARD BRICE KILLEN,
of 52 Queen Victoria Street, London, England, Engineer.
Improvements in or relating to wooden wheels.

Claims.--(1.) In artillery wheels, the combination of an
unchangeable truly circular inwardly flanged steel binding-
rim, inwardly sloping wooden felloes, double-footed spokes, and
arrow-like wedges, all substantially as and for the purposes
described; and illustrated on the sheets of drawings. (2.) In
artillery wheels, constructing these substantially and in the
manner and for the purposes described, and illustrated on the
sheets of drawings. (3.) In artillery wheels, constructing the
spokes with a double foot, substantially as described, and
illustrated in the sheets of drawings.

(Specification, 6s.)

No. 25584.-19th February, 1909.-CHARLES RAWLINSON
MACDONALD, of Rona, Vermont Street, Ponsonby, Auckland,
New Zealand, University Assistant. An improved marine-
engine governor.*

Claims.--(1.) In a marine governor, the use of a propeller-
shaft which is free to slide a small distance longitudinally
relative to the vessel or ship, and in which the usual thrust
of the propeller is more or less balanced by a pressure, pull,
or attraction in an opposite direction to such thrust (so
that the shaft moves endwise slightly accordingly as the pro-
peller-thrust or the opposing stress be stronger), for the pur-
pose of using such endwise motion or the energy of such
motion for the more or less automatic governing of the speed
of the motor or engine (or motors or engines). (2.) In a
marine governor, the use of an endwise sliding propeller as
above combined with means of conveying such motion, or
the energy of such motion, to the speed-regulating device
or devices (lever, valve, stopcock, or switch) of the motor
or engine (or motors or engines) of the ship or vessel, for
the purpose of more or less automatically governing the
speed of such motor or engine.

(Specification, 6s. 6d.)

No. 25585.-19th February, 1909.-CHARLES RAWLINSON
MACDONALD, of Rona, Vermont Street, Ponsonby, Auckland,
New Zealand, University Assistant. An improved thrust-
bearing.*

Claims.--(1.) The use of one or more than one electro-
magnet in or auxiliary to a pivot, step, collar, shoulder, or
thrust-bearing or bearings for one or more of the following
purposes: (a) of relieving the bearing-surfaces of the whole
or a part of the endwise weight or pressure that they might
but for such magnet receive; (b) of causing a slight endwise
motion in the shaft or rotating or revolving body when such
endwise weight or pressure is diminished or negatived, such
endwise motion being used by the make and break of elec-
trical contact to automatically control the magnetism of the

said electro-magnet. (2.) The use of the arrangements of
field-magnet, armature, and shaft shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3,
and 4. (3.) The use of one or more than one electro-magnet
in or auxiliary to a pivot, step, collar, shoulder, or thrust
bearing or bearings for one or more of the above-mentioned
purposes, in combination with a make-and-break electrical
switch, or an electrical resistance or a choking-coil, for the
purpose of controlling the magnetism of the before-mentioned
electro-magnet.

(Specification, 7s. 6d.)

No. 25598.-24th February, 1909.-DONALD McLEAN, of
Auckland, New Zealand, Foreman of Works. An improved
level.*

Claims.--(1.) Means for ascertaining the relative levels of
two distant points, the same consisting in the combination
with a pair of water-gauge glasses of a flexible pipe connection
extending between their lower ends, substantially as specified.
(2.) The improved level constructed, arranged, and operated in
the manner described and explained, and as illustrated in the
drawings.

(Specification, 2s. 6d.)

No. 25623.-2nd March, 1909.-DONALD MUNRO, of Fea-
therston, New Zealand, Contractor. Improvement in or
relating to earth-scoops.*

Claims.--In earth-scoops, the combination with the scoop
draught-frame of a sled or runner, or a number of sleds or
runners, secured to such frame and arranged to curve down-
wardly and rearwardly thereon, substantially as and for the
purposes specified. (2.) The improvements in or relating
to earth-scoops, substantially as described and explained, as
illustrated in the drawings, and for the purpose set forth.

(Specification, 2s. 6d.)

No. 25629.-3rd March, 1909.--UNITED SHOE MACHINERY
COMPANY, of Paterson, in the State of New Jersey, United
States of America, a corporation duly organized under the
laws of said State of New Jersey, carrying on business as
Shoe-machinery Manufacturers, and having a place of business
at 205 Lincoln Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
of America (assignees of Benjamin Franklin Mayo, of Salem,
Massachusetts aforesaid, Inventor, and Ira Clyde Buck-
minster, of Beverly, Massachusetts aforesaid, Draftsman).
Improvements in or relating to sole-rounding machines.*

Claims.--(1.) In a sole-rounding machine having a knife-
carrier and a pattern relatively movable to transfer the point
of operation of the knife around the pattern, the employment
of means for swinging the knife-carrier, while the knife is at
the end of the pattern, about a centre in proximity to the end
of the pattern, and having a substantially fixed position with
relation to the pattern. (2.) In a sole-rounding machine
having a knife-carrier and a pattern relatively movable to
transfer the point of operation of the knife around the pattern,
the employment of means for swinging the knife-carrier, while
the knife is at the end of the pattern, about a centre having
a substantially fixed position with relation to the pattern, and
means for adjusting said centre to positions in proximity to
the ends of patterns of different sizes.

[NOTE.--Here follow eleven other claims.]

(Specification, 17s. 6d.)

No. 25642.-4th March, 1909.--UNITED SHOE MACHINERY
COMPANY, of Paterson, in the State of New Jersey, United
States of America, a corporation duly organized under the
laws of said State of New Jersey, carrying on business as
Shoe-machinery Manufacturers, and having a place of business
at 205 Lincoln Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
of America (assignees of Willard Allen Smith, of Melrose,
Middlesex, Massachusetts aforesaid, Mechanical Engineer).
Improvements in or relating to machines for lacing shoe-
uppers.*

Claims.--(1.) A machine for lacing shoe-uppers, having,
in combination, a plurality of needles, looper-fingers co-operat-
ing therewith to form a series of loops in a lacing-cord, a
shuttle-needle for carrying the lacing-cord through the loops,
a thread-finger arranged to engage the cord between the loop-
forming devices and the shuttle-needle, means for rendering