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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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No. 25304.—7th December, 1908.—EDWIN THOMAS WOOD, of 30 Dowling Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, Accountant and Tutor. Improved dust, draught, rain, and vermin excluder for bottom of doors.*

Claims.—(1.) In a dust, rain, and vermin excluder in combination with a door, a flap having a hook-shaped upper edge, an opposing hook-shaped piece secured to the door and adapted to engage with the said flap so that the two parts may turn on the said hook-shaped edges in the manner of a hinge, a pin imbedded in the said opposing hook-shaped edge, a groove formed in the hook-shaped upper edge of the flap to engage with the said pin. (2.) The combination and arrangement of parts comprising my improved dust, rain, draught, and vermin excluder, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth, and as described and illustrated in the drawings.

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

No. 25369.—22nd December, 1908.—GEORGE ALFRED BENNETT, of 14 Blythswood Road, Goodmayes, Essex, England, Artist, and JAMES ARNOLD SMITH, of 2 Clarendon Road, Leytonstone, Essex, England, Traveller. A new or improved pneumatic tire.

Claims.—(1.) A pneumatic tire comprising a tube containing sand arranged between the cover and the air-tube, substantially as set forth. (2.) In a pneumatic tire according to the preceding claim, a protecting layer of felted or woven fabric interposed between the cover and the sand-tube, and it may be also between the sand-tube and the air-tube, substantially as set forth. (3.) In a pneumatic tire, the combination with a tire-cover of a sand-tube, an air-tube, and felt or fabric layers interposed between these tubes and between the sand-tube and the cover, substantially as set forth. (4.) A puncture-proof pneumatic tire constructed substantially as described with reference to and shown in the drawings.

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

No. 25371.—22nd December, 1908.—JOHAN PETER HEMMELUND, of The Waterworks, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, Engineer. An improved rudder for controlling the various movements of screw-propelled vessels, and means for operating same.

Extract from Specification.—Briefly stated, my invention consists in an improved construction of folding-rudder and means for operating it so that it is enabled to deflect, retard, or reverse the current of water sent astern by the action of the propeller, whereby in turn the control of the vessel as already described is brought about. This opening, closing, and turning of my improved folding-rudder is performed and controlled by the helmsman or navigator from his usual position on the vessel, and is transmitted to the rudder by suitable mechanism means, either by hand-power, steam, oil, gas, hydraulics, electricity, compressed air, or whichever motive power may be considered most suitable and convenient, according to the size and equipment and requirements of the vessel. Means are also provided whereby the relative position of the blades of the rudder may be indicated to the helmsman or navigator.

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

(Specification, 9s. 6d.; drawing, 2s.)

No. 25621.—1st March, 1909.—JOHN MORGAN TAYLOR and HENRY OAKLEY, both of Colombo Street, Christchurch, New Zealand, Plumbers and Gasfitters. Improved silencing-apparatus for flushing-cisterns.

Claims.—(1.) Apparatus of the kind described, comprising an air-chamber, an inverted U-shaped pipe connected to the top of the chamber, a pipe connected at one end to the top of a main siphon and extending nearly to the bottom of the air-chamber, substantially as described. (2.) The combination with a flushing-cistern having the ordinary operating-mechanism (ball-cock and main siphon) of a pipe connected at one end to the top of the siphon and having its other end extending nearly to the bottom of an air-chamber, and an inverted U-shaped pipe connected to the top of the air-chamber, substantially as set forth. (3.) The combination and arrangement of parts comprising the improved silencing-apparatus for flushing-cisterns, substantially as and for the purposes set forth and illustrated in the drawing.

(Specification, 2s. 3d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 25665.—9th March, 1909.—ALEXANDER PARKER, of Kelburne Parade, Kelburne, Wellington, New Zealand, Engineer; ARTHUR GRENVILLE HUME, of National Mutual Buildings, Wellington aforesaid, Engineer; JOHN ROUTLEY, of Rawhitiroa House, 105 Main Street, Eastbourne, Wellington aforesaid, Settler; MATTHEW ROUTLEY, of 5 Rawhiti Terrace, Kelburne aforesaid, Builder; ROBERT EDWIN MANLEY, of 95 Kelburne Parade, Kelburne aforesaid, Broker; and HERBERT DOUGLAS VICKERY, of 246 Lambton Quay, Wellington aforesaid, Accountant. An improved machine for printing and making tag labels.

Extract from Specification.—A ribbon of paper or the like, suitable for labels, is fed from a roller over a printing-roller and thence between upper and lower dies; and ribbons of adhesive paper or the like, suitable for making reinforcing-washers, are fed between the dies and above and below the said label-ribbon. The punches of the dies are perforated axially, and the punch of the paper die is fitted with a smaller punch for piercing the reinforcing-washers and the label with a hole for receiving a length of twine. The travel of the ribbons is arrested while reinforcing, punching, and cutting operations are proceeding. From the dies the label-ribbon passes to a second printing-roller for the purpose of receiving printing-matter on the side opposite to the printed matter impressed by the first roller. Finally, the labels are cut into shape and the label-ribbon punched so that each label is attached to the next succeeding and preceding labels by small tabs only, which are sufficient to connect the labels together but can be readily torn through. The resulting product is a ribbon of labels properly reinforced, perforated, and printed on both sides, and this ribbon is wound upon a roller ready for use.

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

(Specification, 11s.; drawing, 4s.)

No. 25685.—12th March, 1909.—WILLIAM JAMES JENKIN, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Commercial Traveller (nominee of George David Watson, Engineer, and Albert Peter Ferguson Watson, Engineer, both of Christchurch, New Zealand). An improved construction of gate-hinge.

Claims.—(1.) In a self-closing gate-hinge, the combination with a helically twisted hinge-pin arranged parallel with and extending beyond the vertical end member of the gate to which it is securely fastened, of eye-bolts attached to the gate-post, one of such bolts having its eye or bore rectangular in shape to coincide with the cross-section of the hinge-pin, substantially as described and for the purpose specified. (2.) The improved construction of gate-hinge, substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawings.

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

No. 25698.—18th March, 1909.—FORNI ELETTRICI STASSANO SOCIETA ANONIMA, of Via Arsenale 17, Turin, Italy (assignee of Ernesto Stassano, Major of Artillery, of 17 Via Bogino, Turin, Italy. An improved electric furnace.

Extract from Specification.—The present invention has for its object an electric furnace, the chamber of which may be subjected to a conical motion around a vertical axis, and to an oscillation of little amplitude around its own axis, in order to very actively stir the material to be melted, which is not put in contact with the electrodes. The furnace-chamber, besides, is closed so that the voltaic arcs, which are produced in same, present the advantages of the arcs produced in a closed pot for what regards the diffusion of the flame. In a furnace according to this invention, it is also possible to feed the current to the electrodes and the water to the hydraulic cylinders which control the electrodes without sliding-contacts, and by means of flexible or ball-joint connections.

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

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

No. 25699.—15th March, 1909.—ALEXANDER JOHN PETERSEN, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Painter. An improved cover for frying-pans or like receptacles.

Claims.—(1.) The combination with a frying-pan or like receptacle of a cover comprising a pair of semicircular plates adapted to enclose the whole area of the pan, a hinge-plate upon which the semicircular plates are hinged so as to allow of their being turned outwardly in a horizontal plane, and a wire clip provided upon such hinge-plate adapted to grip