SEPT. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2335

No. 25292.—2nd December, 1908.—WALTER LEVINSON, of 9 Beaconsfield Parade, Victoria, Australia, Agent. An improved cigarette-holder.*

Claim.—An improved cigarette-holder consisting of a tube of gelatine open at one end and closed at the other save for a perforation in the centre of the end thereof, the rim at the open end being preferably turned back, and the said holder being dipped in or sprayed with a solution of formaldehyde and subsequently coated with wax, collodion, or varnish, as and for the purposes stated.

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

No. 26133.—21st June, 1909.—ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, of Sutton, Otago Central, New Zealand, Miner. Improved apparatus for automatically operating hydraulic nozzles in sluicing and the like.

Claims.—(1.) The combination with a hydraulic nozzle of automatic means for moving it rectilineally both laterally and vertically, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (2.) The combination with an hydraulic nozzle of automatic means for moving it alternately laterally and vertically, one movement being intermittent and the other substantially continuous, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (3.) The combination of a portable framework, a carrier adapted to move laterally on said framework, a hydraulic nozzle mounted on said carrier and adapted to move vertically thereon, and a motor mounted on said framework and geared to move said carrier laterally and said nozzle vertically as desired, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (4.) The complete apparatus for automatically operating hydraulic nozzles in sluicing and the like, substantially as described.

(Specification, 10s. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 26188.—27th July, 1909.—CROSBY ARCHER LEGG, of 29 Barbour Street, Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand, Clerk. An improvement in or relating to doors of cooking-ovens.

Claim.—For the purpose indicated, the combination with an oven-door having a slot near its upper part and a thermometer, of a guard having bars to protect the back of the thermometer, a slide mounted in a frame to protect the front of the thermometer, bolts passing through the guard, the frame, and the dial of the thermometer, and packing a non-conducting material interposed between the thermometer and the door, and between the frame and the door, substantially as set forth.

(Specification, 3s. 6d. ; drawing, 1s.)

No. 26203.—8th July, 1909.—SAMUEL FREDERICK GALAGHER, of 254 Smith Street, and CHARLES PERCY RENDLE, of 244 Smith Street, both in Collingwood, near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Tailor and Furniture Warehouseman (assignees of Louis Robinson, of “Victor” Jackson Street, Northcote, near Melbourne aforesaid, Commercial Traveller). An improved method of combining leather and rubber.

Claims.—(1.) An improved method of combining leather and rubber consisting of perforating a hide of chrome leather with holes of any desired size and placing at the back thereof a mass of rubber dough, subjecting both articles to pressure by rolling and then to a vulcanising process, so as to fill with the rubber the said perforations as described and explained. (2.) The method of combining leather and rubber as described and explained.

(Specification, 3s. 6d.)

No. 26229.—13th July, 1909.—GEORGE VINCENT BARTON, of “Shirley,” Queen’s Drive, Mossley Hill, Liverpool, England, Chemical-manufacturer. Improvements in salts or oxides of lead.

Claims.—(1.) The process of making red-lead consisting in submitting melted metallic lead in a closed chamber to stirring and the action of a blast of air and steam, heating the effluent dust and gases until the entire content of lead is oxidized, allowing the air and gas to escape, but delivering the oxide into a second heated closed chamber until it is reduced to the requisite colour. (2.) The step in the system of making red or white lead which consists in heating the metallic lead in a closed chamber with stirring, and subjection to air and steam, and then heating the effluent materials en passant until all the metallic lead is thoroughly oxidized.

[NOTE.—Here follow five other claims.]

(Specification, 10s. ; drawing, 3s.)

No. 26232.—13th July, 1909.—HERMANN JOHN SCHMIDT, of Auckland, New Zealand, Photographer. Improvements in photography.

Claim.—The improvements in photography consisting in taking a bromide print having a purely white background, toning the print, working up the photograph and the background with pastel chalks, and applying a fixture consisting of mastic and amyl acetate to preserve the chalk from damage, substantially as set forth.

(Specification, 1s.)

No. 26250.—19th July, 1909.—GEORGE LEZINSKY, of 115 Broadway, New York, United States of America, Attorney at Law. Improvements in explosive compounds and manufacture of the same.

Claims.—(1.) A product, entire in itself or intended to form part of an explosive compound, consisting of a pulverised, unwashed homogeneous mass resulting from the combination of nitric acid with a mixture, in substantially the proportions specified, of pulverised resin and pulverised vegetable material, such as pulverised whole wheat or other cereal, the product containing, as a permanent part thereof, water-soluble material in itself or rendered water-soluble by the action of said acid, the acid being limited to a quantity sufficient to put the mixture of resin and wheat flour in the form of a porous cake.

[NOTE.—Here follow four other claims.]

(Specification, 11s. 6d.)

No. 26251.—19th July, 1909.—GEORGES SCHAULI, of 63 Harberton Road, Upper Holloway, London, England, Electrochemical Engineer. Improvements in and connected with electric batteries.

Claims.—(1.) An electric galvanic battery composed of a negative element consisting of a number of zinc plates formed from pressed-zinc sheet, corrugated on one side or not and connected together by a cast-zinc frame or zinc strips, a positive element composed of plumbago or charcoal and manganese-oxide (natural or artificial metallic), surrounding which is a paste or mixture composed of ammonium-chloride or other metallic chloride or lime-salts and zinc-chloride, the whole being carried by a carbon rod, and an electrolyte composed of an amylaceous substance, such as amylon, flaked rice, acacin, bassorine, cerasin, dextrin, lignin, lichenin, cellulose, tragacanth, phytocolla or gluten, paramylone or inulin, soaked in cold water and admixed with chloride of zinc, to which is added aluminium-chloride, manganese-chloride, or metallic chloride salts, the whole being combined in the manner described and contained within a casing and sealed therein, substantially as set forth. (2.) In an electric galvanic battery of the kind set forth in claim 1, the employment of an artificial metallic manganese-oxide as a depolariser, such artificial metallic manganese-oxide being prepared by melting chemically pure metallic manganese in a plumbago crucible until the heat of the metal dissolves part of the crucible so that a proportion of plumbago becomes mixed with the metal, substantially as set forth.

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

No. 26253.—25th November, 1908.—GEORGE EDWARD SMITH, of 215 Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand, Boot and Shoe Manufacturer. Improvements in rubber footwear.

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

Extract from Specification.—According to my invention, I employ a flanged metal plate which is located within the heel of the golosh between the insole and the outer sole. This metal plate is secured in position during the construction of the golosh.

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

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