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No. 25255.—23rd November, 1908.—RICHARD WILLIAM GALLAGHER, of 28 Hartmann Apartments, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Electrician. Statement-delivery apparatus for meters.

Claims.—(1.) In combination with measuring-mechanism, a support for a roll of paper, means for advancing the outer or front end of a roll of paper upon said support, and means for operating said advancing-means by said mechanism which permits the paper to be advanced independently of the movement of said mechanism, substantially as described.

[NOTE.—Here follow three other claims.]

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

No. 25264.—25th November, 1908.—FRANK MUSGROVE, of the Criterion Theatre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Gentleman (nominee of Walter Taylor, of 94 Bermondsey Wall, Bermondsey, London, England, Engineer). Improvements in apparatus for public amusement.

Extract from Specification.—In carrying out the invention I so mount a number of gangways, platforms, or the like that cranks, eccentrics, or the like communicate a rotary motion to them in any desired plane, which motion may be combined with a secondary motion derived from cams or the like.

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

(Specification, 4s. 6d. ; drawing, 2s.)

No. 25268.—21st November, 1908.—EDWARD HOPE KIRKBY, of 120 Bathurst Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Electrician. Improved apparatus for conveying an alarm from premises where sprinklers are installed to a distant station.

Claims.—(1.) In apparatus for conveying an alarm from a fire-sprinkler to a distant station, a cistern and float in combination with clockwork mechanism provided with a rotating disc, projecting pins upon the disc, and a contact-breaker adapted to receive the impact of the pins as the disc rotates, such contact-breaker being connected to suitable electrical signalling-appliances for notifying a distant station that a sprinkler is at work, as specified.

[NOTE.—Here follow four other claims.]

(Specification, 5s. 6d. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 25269.—21st November, 1908.—CHARLES SUTTIE, of Waharoa, New Zealand, Flax-miller, and MONTAGUE HARRISON WYNYARD, of Auckland, New Zealand, Solicitor. Improvements in apparatus for operating a mechanical flax-catcher.

Claims.—(1.) In apparatus for operating a mechanical flax-catcher, a scroll-gear comprising a continuous slot in the periphery of a drum which is revolved when the apparatus is put in gear (such slot at the required positions running straight round, then cutting across, then continuing straight round, then cutting back again across the periphery of the drum), and a lever carrying a pin which sits in and is moved by such slot as the scroll-gear is revolved, such lever operating the flax-catcher either directly or by leverage and communicated movement, substantially as and for the purposes described.

[NOTE.—Here follow three other claims.]

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

No. 25270.—23rd November, 1908.—WILLIAM MACLEAN HOMAN, of Bethlehem, Orange River Colony, South Africa. Improvements in sun-dials.

Claims.—(1.) In a sun-dial, a time-scale, a gnomon, a pivot the axis of which is parallel to the axis of the earth, and means to adjustably secure the time-scale to said pivot.

[NOTE.—Here follow thirteen other claims.]

(Specification, 7s. 6d. ; drawing, 3s.)

No. 25271.—26th November, 1908.—HENRY AUGUST HUGO SALOMO, of 278 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Engineer. An improved differential gear.

Claims.—(1.) A differential gearing consisting of a pair of conical friction or toothed wheels so disposed that one of them remains by preference stationary whilst its companion, in accordance with the intended effect, is somewhat, or by one or more teeth respectively, larger than the former, and is caused to describe whilst rotating thereon oscillatory movements to procure a displacement in their relative position corresponding to their difference in size or in number of teeth, for either acquiring thereby an increase in power at the proportionate expense of time, or vice versa an increase in speed at the proportionate expense of power.

[NOTE.—Here follow three other claims.]

(Specification, 8s. 6d. ; drawing, 3s.)

No. 25274.—25th November, 1908.—PETER BOYD, of High Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, Inventor. Improved attachment for sowing single seeds.

Claims.—(1.) In attachments for sowing single seeds, in combination, a wheel having spoons capable of holding said seed, and a spring over each capable of being lifted to allow each seed to enter, and again lifted more to allow said seed to drop out, all substantially as described and as explained, and as illustrated in the drawing. (2.) In combination, for sowing single seeds, a disc or wheel having “V” nicks or pockets undercut for receiving and holding single seeds and elevating them for delivery to the sowing-hopper, all substantially as set forth. (3.) Wheels capable of receiving single seeds in receptacles provided for them, and elevating and delivering the said seeds singly into a sowing-hopper, all substantially as set forth.

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

No. 25283.—12th May, 1908.—LEOPOLD ZECHNALL, of 131 and 132 Bunhill Row, London, England, Manufacturer. Improvements in inverted incandescent gas lamps.

[NOTE.—This is an application under section 106 of the Act, the date given being the official date of the application in Great Britain.]

Claims.—(1.) In inverted burners, the combination with an inverted Bunsen burner of a shade-carrier detachably secured thereto and a globe or bulb carrier detachably secured to the shade-carrier, said shade and bulb carriers being so spaced from the Bunsen tube as to provide between same and the Bunsen tube a space or flue for the passage of the products of combustion.

[NOTE.—Here follow five other claims.]

(Specification, 5s. ; drawing, 2s.)

No. 25284.—2nd December, 1908.—DE DION BOUTON (1907), LIMITED, of 10 Great Marlborough Street, London W., England (assignee of Albert de Dion and Georges Bouton, both Directors of De Dion Bouton et Cie., 20 Quai National, Puteaux, Seine, France). Improvements in or relating to fans for motor vehicles.

Claims.—(1.) A fan for cooling the radiators of motor vehicles provided or combined with air-diverting devices, which latter are so constructed and arranged as to divert from the engine and adjacent parts of the vehicle the air drawn from the radiator by the fan.

[NOTE.—Here follow five other claims.]

(Specification, 1s. 9d. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 25285.—2nd December, 1908.—MORTIMER FREDERICK MREVILLE, of “Summersdale,” Chichester, Sussex, England, Engineer. Improvements in apparatus for the production of carburetted air.

Claims.—(1.) Apparatus for the production of carburetted air, consisting of a chamber longitudinally divided into upper and lower compartments by a horizontally disposed perforated partition, air-inlet passages arranged below said partition at opposite sides of the carburetter, and a series of vertically depending pipes situated at short intervals apart below the air-inlet passages, the lower ends of the pipes on one side being perforated and horizontally turned to lie along the bottom of the carburetter, whilst the lower ends of those on the opposite side are perforated and outwardly bent in a downwardly sloping direction, substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

[NOTE.—Here follow four other claims.]

(Specification, 5s. ; drawing, 1s.)