Aug. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2225

No 26193.—7th July, 1909.—ALEXANDER ESPLEN, of 9 Rumford Street, Liverpool, England, Consulting Engineer. An improved firebar.

Claims.—(1.) A fire-furnace bar provided with upwardly projecting parts e at the back end of same, and above the portions f, upon which said bars are supported, substantially as set forth. (2.) A grooved firebar having a central rib as d projecting up from the bottom of the groove b for a portion of its depth—say, about half—and adapted to act as a continuous support for the tool used in the furnace for cleaning such bars, and to thereby enable it to get under the clinkers which sag down into the groove b to a certain depth, while at the same time prevents said tool from being thrust down into the bottom of the groove b, substantially as set forth. (3.) In or for a furnace-grate, firebars formed with grooves b at their upper faces, and having at their back ends upwardly projecting or inclined parts e extending up from same in front of the end-supporting parts f, as set forth and shown.

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

No. 26196.—7th July, 1909.—ERNEST ORSON CARTWRIGHT, of Springfield, Ohio, United States of America, Manufacturer. Improvements in printing-presses.

Extract from Specification.—This invention relates to printing-presses, and more particularly to what are known as platen presses, and the objects of the invention are—first, to construct a platen printing-press which may be readily converted from a continuous or automatically fed press into a hand-fed press; second, to embody such a construction in a horizontally reciprocating press in which the platen is normally in a fixed position and lies in the same horizontal plane with the form-bed, the form-bed reciprocating in a horizontal plane towards and away from the platen; and, further, to so improve the operating-mechanism and the details of construction of the machine as to improve the operation of the machine and render the same more accurate.

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

(Specification, £1; drawing, 6s.)

No. 26197.—7th July, 1909.—ERNEST ORSON CARTWRIGHT, of Springfield, Ohio, United States of America, Manufacturer. Improvements in printing-presses.

Extract from Specification.—This invention relates to printing-presses, and more particularly to that class of printing-presses known as platen presses. The invention has for its object to provide a construction whereby a platen press may be produced which will be simple and very compact, in which the impression will be firm and uniform, which will be rapid in its operation, and which will be adapted for use in connection with either an automatic sheet-feed or an automatic roll-feed without requiring any alterations in the other portions of the press. To these and other ends my invention consists in certain novel features which I will now proceed to describe, and will then particularly point out in the claims.

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

(Specification, £1; drawing, 4s.)

No. 26198.—7th July, 1909.—WILLIAM HENRY HENNAH and AUGUST KERR WAITANGI RISSEL, both of Wellington, New Zealand. Improved means for indicating a ship’s deviations from its course.

Extract from Specification.—The means designed for this purpose depend for their action upon the swing of a compass-card relatively to the compass-bowl and vessel when the ship’s course alters—or, in other words, to the movement of the compass-bowl round the compass-card as the vessel alters her course. This movement of the compass-bowl is used to close one or other of two electric circuits that are both open when the card is in a central position; but which, as the bowl moves around towards one side or other, will close the corresponding circuit in a manner already well known in connection with this class of appliance. In this invention each of these circuits when closed is arranged to actuate a relay by means of which a separate secondary magnetic circuit is completed. The completion of either of these magnetic circuits causes a stylus, or other like device, to move transversely across a rotating or travelling strip of paper to one side or the other of a central line drawn along it,

and in a direction corresponding to the movement of the ship from the course. The movement of this stylus for a predetermined distance in either direction is adapted to close an alarm circuit, and thereby to notify those interested that the ship has swung from its course.

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

(Specification, 7s. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 26199.—7th July, 1909.—WILLIAM HENRY HENNAH and AUGUSTE KERR WAITANGI RISSEL, both of Wellington, New Zealand. Improved means for recording and gauging a ship’s deviations from its course.

Extract from Specification.—The invention depends for its action upon the movements of the compass-bowl of a mariner’s compass in relation to the compass-card as the vessel alters its course to one side or other. This movement of the compass-bowl is utilised to proportionately vary the strength of two electric circuits arranged in conjunction with the compass, which circuits are normally of equal strength, and thereby to deflect a recording-stylus a corresponding amount from a central position upon a travelling record-strip. The record-strip is caused to travel at a regular rate of speed, so that, the speed of the vessel being known and the angle of deviation from its course and the time during which such deviation has extended being recorded, the exact position of a ship from its known starting-point may be indicated upon a chart.

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

(Specification, 8s. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 26202.—5th July, 1909.—GEORGE HAROLD ROBINSON, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Inventor. Improved construction of self-locking cabinet.

Claims.—(1.) An article of the class described characterized by a box having its top and side hinged in such a manner as to form doors adapted when closed to come together at their outer edges, springs for keeping the doors normally open, a lever adapted to engage with a lug upon the lower edge of the top door, a spring for keeping the lever in the engaged position, and means for operating the lever from the outside of the box, substantially as described, and illustrated in the drawings. (2.) The improved construction of self-locking cabinet constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawings.

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

No. 26207.—3rd August, 1908.—GEORGE WILLIAM BERRY, of 601 Mount Alexander Road, Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Australia, Mechanic. Improvements in closets.

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

Extract from Specification.—According to this invention the receiving-platter normally lies in an inclined plane with the clean surface always exposed except when in actual use, and automatic means are provided for delivering at each operation a predetermined quantity of liquid disinfectant upon said platter.

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

(Specification, 8s. ; drawing, 2s.)

No. 26226.—8th July, 1909.—ARCHIBALD BENNET, Farmer, and WILLIAM BENNET, Inventor, both of Mornington, Dunedin, New Zealand. Free wheel cutter, for cross-cutting ploughed land.

Claims.—(1.) In cutting up or cross-cutting ground after ploughing, a cutting-wheel having cutting-blades mounted on a suitable frame as an idle wheel, and forced into the ground, the said blades cutting same, all substantially as set forth. (2.) In cutting up or cross-cutting the sod that is being turned by a plough, and in combination with said plough, a wheel mounted as an idle wheel and furnished with blades operating on said sod as it is being lifted and turned, cutting same across, all substantially as shown on the drawing,

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