JULY 29.]

Notice of Acceptance of Complete Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 28th July, 1909.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the undermentioned applications for Letters Patent have been accepted, and are open to public inspection at this office. Any person may, at any time within two months from the date of this Gazette, give me notice in writing of opposition to the grant of any such patent. Such notice must set forth the particular grounds of objection, and be in duplicate. A fee of 10s. is payable thereon.

No. 24700.-18th July, 1908.-ARTHUR HARRY WRIGHT, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Commercial Traveller. Improved advertising-apparatus.*

Claims.-(1.) An apparatus serving for displaying advertisements and as an article of furniture, characterized by the provision of means for displaying tabulated or indexed lists of directory and other tabulated or indexed information, comprising bands passing over rollers and adapted to display said lists through windows or the like, means being provided for rotating said rollers. (2.) An apparatus serving for displaying advertisements and supplying directory information in accordance with claim 1, having either its front and rear faces constituted either by a hall-stand or writing-desk. (3.) An apparatus in accordance with the preceding claims characterized by the provision therein of suitable coin-in-slot-operated mechanism for the purpose specified. (4.) An apparatus in accordance with the preceding claims characterized by the provision of means for giving general information, such as clocks, barometers, train arrival or departure indicating discs, thermometers, and the like. (5.) The apparatus having its various members constructed, arranged, and adapted to operate substantially as described with reference to the drawing for the purpose specified.

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

No. 24734.-29th July, 1908.-WALTER SEIFERT and WILLIAM CAMPBELL, both of Takapau, New Zealand. Improved apparatus for the treatment of flax and like fibres.*

Claims.-(1.) In the treatment of flax, means for feeding the blades to scutchers or washers, and for holding them while being treated therein, the same consisting of a travelling chain and a fixed board along the surface of which the chain is arranged to travel, and which is so fixed as to bear longitudinally against such chain, substantially as specified. (2.) In the means for the treatment of flax described in claim 1, the combination therewith of an inclined bar arranged longitudinally with the chain and extending from beneath to above the level thereof, substantially as and for the purposes specified. (3.) In the means for the treatment of flax described in claim 1, the combination with the travelling chain of a bar or bars arranged longitudinally along beneath it, substantially as and for the purposes specified. (4.) In the treatment of flax, means for scutching and washing the fibre after stripping, consisting of a pair of scutching-machines arranged with the tops of their concaves parallel and adjacent to each other, and with their drums rotating down over the concave surfaces, and means whereby the fibre may be suspended and carried along above the adjacent ends of the concaves so that the suspended ends may be caused to pass in from the sides of the respective concaves and be carried across the surfaces thereof, substantially as specified. (5.) In the treatment of flax, the combination with a pair of scutching-machines arranged with the tops of their concaves parallel and adjacent to each other, of a travelling chain passing longitudinally along above such adjacent ends, and a fixed board extending longitudinally parallel with the chain and arranged to press against it, substantially as specified.

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

No. 24915.-12th September, 1908.-THOMAS BARTON, of Hamilton, New Zealand, House-furnisher. Improvements in easy-chairs.*

Claims.-(1.) An easy-chair characterized by having a back pivotally supported within the chair-frame, and a seat loosely carried within the frame, supported at its front end upon a cross-bar thereof and connected at its rear end with the bottom of the chair-back, by means of link connections, substantially as specified. (2.) The improvements in easy-chairs, substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated

in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. (3.) The improvements in easy-chairs, substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings.

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

No. 24928.--12th September, 1908.--ROBERT WALKER, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Tinsmith. Improved strainer for milk, water, and the like.*

Extract from Specification.--In operation the fluid is poured from the pail on to the conical shedder (5), whence it descends into the receptacle without splashing, and the weight of the fluid above the discharge-outlet forces the portion below upwards through the straining medium at the base of the cone (5) and thence through the discharge-outlet.

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

(Specification, 2s. 9d.; drawing, 1s.)

No. 24933.-17th September, 1908.-UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, of Paterson, in the State of New Jersey, United States of America, a corporation duly organized under the laws of the 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, Joseph Gouldbourn, and Arthur Bates, Engineers, all of Leicester, England). Improvements in or relating to horns or work-supports for use in machines employed in the manufacture of boots and shoes.*

Claims.--(1.) In a machine for use in the manufacture of boots and shoes, the combination with the horn of a pedal-actuated member (such, for example, as 30 or 48) that first raises the horn to exert upon the work a light yielding pressure, and then continues the movement to exert a heavier pressure, with or without connections between the said member and a starting-device to start the machine after the heavy pressure has been applied. (2.) In a machine for use in the manufacture of boots and shoes, the combination with a member (such, for example, as 30 or 48) operated by a pedal or otherwise of a locking-device and different yielding-devices (for example, 58 and 74) in such manner that the member first applies a thrust to the horn through one of the yielding-devices, next engages the locking-device with the horn, and finally imparts through the other yielding-device and the locking-device a heavier thrust to the said horn. (3.) In a machine characterized by the combination claimed in preceding claiming clause No. 1 or No. 2, the employment of a toggle or like device which not only operates the member (such, for example, as 48), but assumes a position in which it can prevent the transmission of back pressure to the part by which the said member was operated

[N.B.--Here follow eleven other claims.]

(Specification, £1 1s. ; drawing, 3s.)

No 25133.-28th October, 1908.--EDWARD WILLIAM COLEMAN, of 22 The Embankment, Twickenham, England, Mechanic. Improvements in driving-gear for hand-, foot-, or power-driven machinery.*

Claims.-(1.) A driving-gear comprising two driven wheels provided with free-wheel devices operating in opposite directions to effect the rotation of the driven shaft and a common driving member, substantially as described. (2.) A driving-gear substantially as described with reference to the drawings.

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

No. 25160.-31st October, 1908.-JACOB CHARLES RUSSELL, of Ohio Road, Brooklyn, Wellington, New Zealand, Superintendent Overhead Line, and ALBERT FREDERICK LORD, of Todman Street, Brooklyn aforesaid, Line Inspector. An improved splicing-ear for electricity-conductors.*

Claims.-(1.) A splicing-ear made in sections, so constructed that when joined together they form a horizontal groove, leading into a diagonally inclined cable-hole, substantially as described, and as illustrated in the drawings. (2.) In a splicing-ear as set out in claim 1, a renewable runner slotted at each end so as to fit the cable, and of same diameter as the cable for which the ear is intended, secured to the lower part of one of the sides, substantially as described, and as illustrated in the drawings.

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