MAR. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 883

No. 25590.-23rd February, 1909.-WILLIAM JOHN RAWLING, of Pulteney Street, Adelaide, South Australia, Tinware-manufacturer. Improvements in sanitary pans.

Claims.--(1.) In a sanitary pan having an upper and a lower chamber, a slidable plate arranged between the two chambers and adapted to be moved in or upon suitable guides to and fro horizontally across the top of the lower chamber either by an independent hand movement or automatically through suitable connections by the rising of the pan lid, substantially as described. (2.) A self-contained or portable sanitary pan comprising an outer casing having a lid and a seat hinged to its top and a door in its lower portion, an inner bottomless bowl or chamber proper within the upper portion of the outer casing, an inner pan or receptacle within the lower portion of the outer casing, and a slidable plate carried in or upon suitable guides and adapted to be moved to and fro horizontally across the top of the lower chamber either by an independent hand movement or automatically through suitable connections by the raising of the lid, substantially as described. (3.) In a sanitary pan, a disinfectant-containing vessel fitted in a convenient position within the upper chamber between the outer casing and the inner bowl, such vessel having an opening in its bottom fitted with a spring valve or stopper the stem of which projects through the seat and has a thumb-piece or knob whereby it may be operated and a charge of disinfectant released upon a shute or guide which directs the disinfectant towards the centre of the pan or receptacle, substantially as described.

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

No. 25591.-23rd February, 1909.-MALKEMASKINEKOMPAGNIET, PATENT GANDIL, LIMIT, of 6 Kvaesthusgade, Copenhagen, Denmark, Manufacturing Firm (assignees of Ernst Valdemar Gandil, of Hobrogade 2, Copenhagen, Denmark, Engineer). Improvements in adjusting-devices for milking-machines.

Claim.--(1.) Adjusting-device for the milking-device in milking-machines, characterized by the pipe carrying the milking-device being led through a cavity in a slashed or intersected ball turnable in a corresponding ball-ring and which can be retained in a certain position either by pressing the ball against the ball-ring or by pressing the ring together around the ball.

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

(Specification, 4s.; drawing, 2s.)

No. 25594.-23rd February, 1909.-JAMES KIRKWOOD, of 105 Ingestre Street, Wellington, New Zealand, Electrical Engineer. Improvements in and relating to the suspension of electric lamps.

Extract from Specification.--In carrying out my invention I bend the ends of the spiral spring at right angles to the coils of the spring, in line with the axis of the spiral (parallel to it, and in line with each other, so that it has the form of a spiral spring with a piece of straight wire jutting from the centre of its coils, parallel to its axis, like an axle coming out of each end). These straight ends of wire are then bent at their extreme ends in the form of hooks to enable the spring to be readily attached to the flexible cords of electric-light fittings. I attach the said spring to the said flexible cords, fitting in such a manner that the flexible cord is left on the inside of the coils of the spiral spring in a slack and coiled state (refer to drawing at d-d).

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

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

No. 25597.-24th February, 1909.-CARL EDENFELDT, of 151 Manners Street, Wellington, New Zealand, Clerk, and HENRY PEARSON, of 151 Manners Street, Wellington aforesaid, Greengrocer. Cash-receiver.

Claims.--(1.) A device for receiving cash, consisting of a standard or pedestal and a tray mounted on such standard and capable of being tipped, substantially as herein described or shown on a copy drawn. (2.) A device for receiving cash, consisting of a standard or pedestal and a tray hinged thereto so as to normally rest on the top of such standard or pedestal but capable of being tipped when desired, substantially as described. (3.) A cash-receiver comprising a tray, a spring

supporting such tray and mounted on a suitable standard, substantially as described. (4.) A cash-receiver, substantially as described, and as shown in copy and drawing.

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

No. 25602.-25th February, 1909.-ARTHUR COWELL, of Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, Mechanic, and JOHN PHILLIPS, of Tapungah, Mitchell, Queensland aforesaid, Grazier. Improvements in fencing-droppers and the like.

Claims.--(1.) A fencing-dropper, substantially as indicated with reference to Fig. 1. (2.) A fencing-dropper top arm, substantially as indicated with reference to Fig. 2. (3.) A fencing-dropper bottom arm, substantially as indicated with reference to Fig. 2. (4.) In a dropper, a convolution for gripping a fence-wire, substantially as described with reference to the part D. (5.) A dropper having one or more convolutions and swingers such that it may be locked on fence-wires, substantially as indicated. (6.) A dropper having parts as 5, 6, 7, each in a plane on one side of the next part as illustrated by Fig. 1.

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

No. 25605.-25th February, 1908.-SUTTON BENDLE, DONALD INNES SMITH, and THOMAS BEZLY HOUGHTON THORNE, all of 148 Sloane Street, London S.W., England, Wine-merchants. A new or improved preparation of a nourishing wine or other alcoholic fluid.

[Note.--This is an application under the International and Inter-colonial Arrangements, the date given being the official date of the application in Great Britain.]

Claim.--(1.) A process for the production of a nourishing fluid consisting in mixing together still wine or other still alcoholic fluid, a hydrolysed or digested preparation of albumin or other protein, and a suitable proportion of a substance adapted to wholly or partly neutralise the fixed acid in the said wine or other alcoholic fluid, the whole substantially as described.

[Note.--Here follow four other claims.]

(Specification, 4s. 6d.)

No. 25611.-24th February, 1909.-EDWARD NEEDHAM WATERS, a member of the firm of Edward Waters and Sons, Patent Attorneys, of 414 to 418 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (nominee of Acme Bottle-manufacturing Company, Limited, an English joint-stock company of limited liability duly incorporated under English laws, of Victoria Wharf, Dartford, Kent, England--the assignees of August Rohrbach, of 6 Bahnhofstrasse, Erfurt, Germany, Engineer). Improvements in or relating to glass-blowing machines for blowing hollow objects, especially glass bottles, jars, or the like, in moulds.

Extract from Specification.--The invention comprises a number of head moulds and preliminary, or so-called parison, moulds arranged on plates or supports rotatable in vertical planes, and a number of finishing moulds arranged on a work-table or support rotatable in a horizontal plane, and pneumatic means which alone operate the head, preliminary, and finishing moulds to open and close same independently as and when required, advantageously by the air-pressure acting upon pistons in cylinders, the movement of the pistons being transmitted by suitable means, for example, either by toothed sections or through pairs of toggle joints to the parts of the divided moulds.

[Note.--The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]

(Specification, £l 9s.; drawing, 6s.)

No. 25620.-lst March, 1909.-GEORGE ARTHUR PEARSON, of Petone, Wellington, New Zealand, Locomotive Engineer. Improvements relating to couplings for air and vacuum brake pipes.

Claims.--(1.) In couplers of automatic brakes, cocks in the coupler-heads having plugs with attached bifurcated levers, toes upon the terminals of the levers, adapted to contact with the heads of the coupler, substantially as set