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the thread-finger effective or ineffective, and means for operating the finger adjustable to vary the amount of slack supplied by the finger, substantially as described. (2.) A machine for lacing shoe-uppers, having, in combination, means for forming a series of loops in a lacing-cord and retaining them in position to be passed through the eyelet holes of an upper, a work-positioner, means acting to automatically change the relation of the work-positioner, and loop-forming means to retain the upper in position, and means for passing a locking-cord through the loops between the work-positioner and the upper, substantially as described. (3.) A machine for lacing shoe-uppers, having, in combination, means for forming a series of loops in a lacing-cord and retaining them in position to be passed through the eyelet holes of an upper, means for passing a locking-cord through the loops, a work-positioner provided with an outwardly curved work-engaging end, means acting to automatically change the relation of the work-positioner and loop-forming means to retain the work out of the path of the means for passing the locking-cord through the loops, substantially as described.

[NOTE.—Here follow fourteen other claims.]
(Specification, £1 15s.)

No. 25643.—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 Arthur Ernest Jerram, of Leicester, England, Engineer). Improvements in or relating to feeding-mechanisms for shoe-machinery.*

Claims.—(1.) In a machine for inserting one by one a plurality of eyelets, nails, or the like into similar but reversely shaped parts of boots or shoes, the employment of a device arranged to feed the work in either of two directions, in order to equalise the facility of handling or of locating either of two reversely shaped pieces in the machine. (2.) For a machine that hammers or presses successively eyelets, nails, or the like into work, and for the purpose of facilitating operations upon similar but reversely shaped parts of boots or shoes that are customarily fed from right to left but that are better adapted for feeding in a reverse direction, the employment of a work-feeding device capable of intermittently engaging and feeding the work from the left of the operator toward the right, with or without means to adjust the extent of the feeding-motion.

[NOTE.—Here follow ten other claims.]
(Specification, 16s.)

No. 25700.—13th March, 1909.—RICHARDSON BENNET, of 143 Buckley Street, Footscray, Victoria, Australia, Engineer. Improvements in or relating to fishing-line reels.*

Claims.—(1.) In improvements in or relating to fishing-reels, a divided spring ring secured to the interior of a reel-frame by a holdfast, a major spring leg and a minor spring leg to said spring ring, each spring leg having an upturned end bearing on a pawl, a crank-movement adjusting said pawl in its relation to a toothed disc.

[NOTE.—Here follow two other claims.]
(Specification, 7s. 6d.)

No. 26280.—22nd July, 1909.—CHARLES SUTTIE, of Waiharoa, New Zealand, Flaxmiller, and MONTAGUE HARRISON WYNYARD, of Auckland, New Zealand, Solicitor. Improvements in flax-catching contrivances.*

Claims.—(1.) An apparatus for hanging New Zealand flax as it leaves the stripper across a band (as a rope, chain, wire, or the like) or a bar, comprising an open chute hinged at its upper end to a fixed pivot or hinge, and positioned so that the butts of the descending flax will pass along its face, such chute being operated by movement given to it, so that after the butts have descended a certain distance on one side of the band or bar the lower extremity of the chute will be moved over and across the band or bar, and the remaining portion of the flax will fall on the other side of such band or bar, thereby hanging the flax across such band or bar, substantially as and for the purposes described.

[NOTE.—Here follow six other claims.]
(Specification, 5s. 6d.)

No. 26434.—18th August, 1909.—LEWIS GRANT ABRAMS, of John Street, Glebe Point, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Broom, Brush, and Bellows Manufacturer (assignee of Hugh M. Marsh, of 2451 Fifty-sixth Street, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.). An improved millet or broom-corn broom and the like, or brushes.*

Extract from Specification.—I use a pair of interlocking hollow half fittings or clamps, each having a shank curved to form a socket or receiving-member for the handle; the jaws of the hollow half fittings or clamps are made to extend parallel and are bowed outward transversely, their lower edges being recurved to form a rounded gripping-seat.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 5s. 6d.)

No. 26576.—13th September, 1909.—DAVID MORRISON, of Gisborne, New Zealand, Surgeon. Improvements in playing-cards.*

Claim.—A pack of playing-cards made up of a number of suits or sets of cards, each distinguishable from the others by a distinctive character imprinted or otherwise marked thereon, and each suit or set being composed of a number of cards each divided into halves, and having its respective distinctive characters printed thereon in numbers varying in the proportion of the number of those on the one half to those on the other half, substantially as specified.

(Specification, 3s.)

No. 26684.—13th October, 1908.—EDWARD JAMES HORWOOD, of Lane Street, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, Mining Engineer. Improvements in and relating to the separation of zinc-blende and other metalliferous constituents from ore-concentrates and slimes by flotation or granulation.

[NOTE.—This is an application under the International and Inter-colonial Arrangements, the date given being the official date of the application in Australia.]

Claims.—(1.) Subjecting crude ore-concentrates, slimes, or product of mixed sulphides to a preliminary treatment at which the character or compound of some of its contained sulphide particles is variously altered or changed in composition and in relation to flotation, and then subjecting the resultant to a flotation or granulation process for the purpose of dividing the different mineral particles or separating the zinc-blende or other sulphide the one from the other or others.

[NOTE.—Here follow five other claims.]
(Specification, 7s. 6d.)

No. 26752.—15th October, 1909.—SAMUEL BARNINGHAM, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Ironfounder, Engineer, and Rangemaker. Improvements in ranges.

Claims.—(1.) In ranges, in combination, a short-circuit controlling damper or valve, having a straight pull, with a circulator, hit-or-miss controlling ventilator, substantially as shown on the drawing, and as described and as explained. (2.) In ranges, in combination, the back flue eased or sloped up for better distribution of heat, with the arrangement of the fire-grate and front bars for raising or lowering same, substantially as set forth. (3.) In combination in a range, a straight pull, short-circuit damper, the back flue sloped, the grate and front bars made so as to alter their height relatively to the hot-plate, and the front circular hit-or-miss ventilator for controlling the amount of air for combustion, all substantially as set forth.

(Specification, 4s.)

No. 26795.—30th March, 1909.—WILLIAM EDGAR GOSS, of 776 Hay Street, Perth, Western Australia, Manufacturer. Improved acetylene-gas generator.

[NOTE.—This is an application under the International and Inter-colonial Arrangements, the date given being the official date of the application in Australia.]

Claims.—(1.) An acetylene-gas generator having its carbide-chamber contained within a bell or dome or air-chamber as b, substantially as set forth, and illustrated in the drawing. (2.) A carbide-chamber as above claimed in whose bell or dome is formed an air vent or release, said vent being controlled by a balanced or self-closing valve, and which valve,