No. 25094.-20th October, 1908.-JAMES MOTTERSHEAD COLLINS, Accountant; JOHN LOW, Wheelwright; and ADAM BURGES, Engineer: all of Palmerston North, New Zealand. Improved means for use in the treatment of flax.

Claim.-Means for the purpose indicated, comprising a rod or the like extending longitudinally beneath a travelling chain or the like, and having arms or forks diverging from it on each side thereof, substantially as specified.

(Specification, ls. 9d.; drawing, ls.)

No. 25095.-20th October, 1908.-JAMES MOTTERSHEAD COLLINS, Accountant; JOHN LOW, Wheelwright; and ADAM BURGES, Engineer: all of Palmerston North, New Zealand. Improvements in or relating to flax-scutching machines.

Claims.-(1.) Means for the purposes indicated, consisting in the combination with a flax-scutching drum, of a cone-shaped frame attached to either or both of its sides with the base thereof adjacent to and coinciding with the drum's periphery, substantially as specified. (2.) In means for the purposes indicated, the combination with a flax-scutching drum, of a cone-shaped frame attached to the inlet side of such drum with the base thereof adjacent to and coinciding with the drum's periphery, and a travelling band arranged beneath such frame and moving in a direction corresponding with its rotation and towards the edge of the drum, substantially as specified. (3.) The improvements in or relating to flax-scutching machines, substantially as described and explained, and for the purposes specified.

(Specification, 3s. 3d.; drawing, ls.)

No. 25096.-20th October, 1908.-JAMES MOTTERSHEAD COLLINS, Accountant; JOHN LOW, Wheelwright; and ADAM BURGES, Engineer: all of Palmerston North, New Zealand. Improved apparatus for use in the treatment of flax and like fibres.

Claims.-(1.) Means for the purposes indicated, consisting of the combination with a scutching-drum, of a concave surrounding approximately half the drum's periphery, and arranged with its entry end approximately vertically above the middle of the drum, substantially as specified. (2.) In means for the purposes described, the combination with a scutching-drum, of a concave surrounding approximately half the drum's periphery, and arranged with its entry end approximately vertically above the middle of the drum, and water-inlets leading into the upper end of the concave, substantially as specified. (3.) The improved apparatus for use in the treatment of flax and like fibres, operated and constructed substantially as described and explained, and for the purposes specified.

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

No. 25127.-26th October, 1908.-JAMES CATFORD KOLLER, corner of End and Rockey Streets, Doornfontein, near Johannesburg, Transvaal, Chemist and Assayer. Improvements in the extraction of metals from their ores, and apparatus therefor.*

Claim.-In the process of extracting metals from their ores, the use of the solvent gaseous mixture of chlorine, hypochlorous acid, and ozonic acid, substantially as described.

[NOTE.-Here follow eleven other claims.]

(Specification, 15s. 6d.; drawing, 2s.)

No. 25399.-30th December, 1908.-JOHN FISHER, of No. 16 Bent Street, Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Australia, Storeman. An improved device for temporarily securing the loose cap within a pressed bale of wool while the flaps of said bale are being sewn together.

Claims.-(1.) In an improved device for temporarily securing the loose cap within a pressed bale of wool while the flaps of said bale are being sewn together, the combination with a head having a number of curved tines or teeth projecting downwardly therefrom, of arms or levers extending outwardly from one edge, and preferably near each end of the said head and at right angles to the said teeth. (2.) My improved device for temporarily securing the loose cap within a pressed bale of wool while the flaps of said bale are being sewn together, consisting of the combination with a head a having a number of curved tines or teeth b of the arms or levers c and handle d, substantially as described, and as illustrated in the drawings.

(Specification, 3s. 9d.; drawing, ls.)

No. 25473.-21st January, 1909.-THOMAS DAVID JONES, of 90 Pitt Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Financier, and HAROLD RINGSTAD, of 10 Stirling Street, Redfern, New South Wales, Factory-manager (assignees of Johanathan Rankin Henderson, of Gosford Hotel, Castlereagh Street, Sydney, New South Wales). Counter advertising-cabinet.

Claims.-(1.) The combination with a cabinet of mechanism that rotates advertisements by pulling out a drawer, substantially as described. (2.) The combination with a cabinet of an axle and wheels revolved by pulling out a drawer, substantially as described.

(Specification, 6s.; drawing, ls.)

No. 25513.-15th April, 1908.-ARTHUR JOHN BEDFORD, residing at 33 William Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Manufacturer. A device for automatically lighting from a pilot light and extinguishing street gas-lamps.

[N0TE.-This is an application under the International and Intercolonial Arrangements, the date given being the official date of the application in the Commonwealth of Australia.]

Claim.-In a device for automatically lighting from a pilot light and extinguishing street gas-lamps by variations of gas-pressure, a flexible gas-holder contained within a tubular metal casing and provided with a weighted diaphragm adapted to open or close a cylindrical valve depending therefrom and slidably socketed upon a gas-outlet pipe, a counter-weighted arm pivotally mounted on a stem projected from said weighted diaphragm and having a projecting pin upon said arm to engage a V-shaped segment disposed above said flexible gas-holder, a gas-outlet pipe projected into the flexible gas-holder to communicate with a gas-passage in the bottom of said tubular casing, provided with a screw plug to permit of the brushing-out of any foreign matter contained in said passage, substantially as described and as shown.

[NOTE.-Here follow six other claims.]

(Specification, 8s.; drawing, ls.)

No. 25514.-15th October, 1908.-ARTHUR JOHN REDFORD, residing at 33 William Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Manufacturer. A device for automatically lighting and extinguishing street gas-lamps and pilot light therewith.

[N0TE.-This is an application under the International and Intercolonial Arrangements, the date given being the official date of the application in the Commonwealth of Australia.]

Claim.-In a device for automatically lighting and extinguishing street gas-lamps and pilot light therewith, a flexible weighted diaphragm for automatically operating the valve mechanism contained in the gas-cylinder, the adjustable loading weights disposed within the upper compartment of the cylindrical casing for the purpose of enabling said diaphragm to co-operate with said weights by a predetermined maximum gas-pressure, a slidable spindle carrying said weights and provided with an adjustable nut, and a transverse bar for supporting said spindle and adjustable loading weights disposed above said diaphragm, as described and as shown.

[NOTE.-Here follow seven other claims.]

(Specification, 12s. 6d.; drawing, ls.)

No. 25547.-10th February, 1909.-ALFRED ARTHUR LOCKWOOD, Chemist, and MARCUS REGINALD ANTHONY SAMUEL, Merchant, both of 12 Minories, London, England. Improvements relating to the treatment of ores or the like.

Claims.-(1.) In the treatment of ores, tailings, concentrates, or the like, mixing an ore with particles of a magnetic or magnetizable substance and a liquid which adheres to some constituent part or parts of the ore in preference to the others, causing such part and the particles to adhere together, substantially as described. (2.) In the treatment of ores, tailings, concentrates, or the like, mixing an ore with an acid with particles of a magnetic or magnetizable substance, and with a liquid which adheres to some constituent part of the ore in preference to the others, substantially as described. (3.) In the treatment of ores, tailings, concentrates, or the like, which contain magnetic or magnetizable particles, mixing the ore with a liquid which causes the particles and some other constituent part or parts of the ore to adhere together, substantially as described. (4.) The treatment of ores, tailings, concentrates, or the like, substantially as described.

(Specification, 3s.)