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flexible-steel tongue-piece, to which a number of separate clips having engaging-means is attached, and which slide into and engage with other clips secured to the upper of a boot, and additional means in an uppermost pair of clips for engaging and locking with a corresponding pair of clips in the fastening, as set forth and explained. (3.) The combination for the purposes indicated of a number of clips arranged closely together so as to slightly overlap end-to-end in the upper of a boot, a hook upon one end of a clip and an eye in the other end, the whole forming a nearly continuous flexible engaging-means for a number of corresponding positive clips as specified. (Specification, 5s.)

No. 25416.—7th January, 1909.—UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, of Paterson, in the State of New Jersey, United States of America, a corporation duly organized under the laws of 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 Karl Engel, of Arlington Heights, Massachusetts aforesaid, Shoe-manufacturer, and Louis Manuel Brown, of Salem, Essex, Massachusetts aforesaid, Draftsman). Improvements in or relating to machines for use in the manufacture of boots and shoes.*

Claims.—(1.) A machine of the class described having, in combination, heel-forming mechanism and toe-forming mechanism arranged to operate in succession, means for automatically actuating said mechanisms, and means for automatically controlling the order of operation of said mechanisms. (2.) A machine of the class described having, in combination, heel-forming mechanism and toe-forming mechanism arranged to operate in succession, means for operating said mechanisms, and means for governing the order of operation of said mechanisms, constructed to stop the operating-means after the operation of one of said mechanisms to permit the work to be adjusted to the other mechanism. (3.) A machine of the class described having, in combination, heel-forming mechanism and toe-forming mechanism arranged to operate in succession, a single driving-shaft, a clutch for effecting connection between said shaft and a source of power, operative connections between said shaft and said forming mechanisms, and means for automatically controlling the amount of operative movement imparted to said mechanisms, constructed to effect a disconnection of said shaft from the source of power at the end of the operation of one of said mechanisms to permit the work to be adjusted to the other. [NOTE.—Here follow sixty-two other claims.] (Specification, £2 10s.)

No. 25657.—8th March, 1909.—SAMUEL JAMES GIBSON DOUGLAS and WALTER JAMES SHEPHERD, both of Temuka, New Zealand, Threshing-mill Owners. Improved means for use in removing the cavings from threshing-machines.*

Claims.—(1.) In means for use in removing the cavings from threshing-mills, an opening formed in the top of the chaff-spout and a hood extending rearwardly from the forward end of such opening, in combination with a chute extension upon the lower end of the cavings-riddle, overlying the opening in the chaff-spout and extending to beneath the hood thereon, substantially as specified. (2.) The general arrangement, construction, and combination of parts in our improved means for use in removing the cavings from threshing-machines, substantially as described and explained, as illustrated in the drawings, and for the several purposes set forth. (Specification, 2s. 6d.)

No. 25861.—22nd April, 1909.—ROBERT WAITE, of Auckland, New Zealand, Sheet-metal Worker. Improved gas-generator.*

Claims.—(1.) In apparatus for generating gas of the kind described, in combination with an oil-reservoir and a mixing-chamber having a pipe connection between them, gauge-glasses fitted in said oil-reservoir and mixing-chamber, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (2.) In apparatus for generating gas of the kind described, a mixing-chamber divided by a partition into two compartments with a narrow communicating opening at one end, and an air-supply pipe for said mixing-chamber having its outlet near the bottom of and at the end of said mixing-chamber opposite to said opening, substantially as described. (3.) Apparatus for generating gas comprising, in combination, an oil-reservoir, a mixing-chamber having a partition dividing it into two compartments with a small communicating opening at one end, a pipe connection between said oil-reservoir and mixing-chamber, an air-supply pipe having its outlet at the bottom of said mixing-chamber at the end opposite to said communicating opening between said compartments, a gas-holder, a gas-outlet pipe leading from said mixing-chamber to said gas-holder, a pipe connecting said air-supply pipe to said gas-outlet pipe, and means for pumping air into said mixing-chamber through said air-supply pipe, substantially as described. (4.) The complete apparatus for generating gas, substantially as described. (Specification, 4s.)

No. 25938.—12th May, 1909.—HARRY GODFREY WELLS, of 29 Primrose Street, Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Australia, Draper, and ALEXANDER ANDERSON, of 14 Scott Street, East St. Kilda, Victoria aforesaid, Wool-classer. An improvement in the manufacture of jute bagging.*

Claim.—In the manufacture of jute bagging, coating both sides thereof after it has left the loom with a solution composed of algin, glue, and water, submitting said bagging so coated to pressure to force the solution into and through the bagging, and subsequently drying it, as and for the purpose described. (Specification, 3s. 6d.)

No. 26118.—23rd June, 1909.—ARTHUR BERNARD TAYLOR, of Morwell, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, Farmer. Improvements in and relating to feed-troughs, principally for pigs.

Extract from Specification.—A trough according to this invention consists of several elements, including a substantially or approximately circular, semi-circular, or sector-shaped compartmented dish, a feed conducting or storing chamber, and other details about to be explained by reference to the drawings. [NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.] (Specification, 6s.)

No. 26186.—2nd July, 1909.—MICHAEL ALEXANDER KINNEY, of Rockvale, Hyde, Central Otago, New Zealand, Farmer. Improvements in animal-traps.*

Claims.—(1.) In an animal-trap of the type described, a box attached to the trap provided with lugs at top and bottom, a loose tray adapted to work up and down within the box, and a trigger one end of which when the trap is set bears on the undersurface of the tray so as to support it at the top of the box while the other end of the trigger engages the usual catch, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (2.) An animal-trap having its parts combined, arranged, and adapted to operate substantially as and for the purposes set forth, or illustrated in the drawings. (Specification, 3s. 6d.)

No. 26271.—7th December, 1908.—JOHN MINOT LYNCH, of 24 Abbott Street, Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America, Assistant Superintendent. Improvements in methods of making dies.

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

Claims.—(1.) That improvement in the art of making dies which consists in providing a plurality of strips having an aggregate length greater than the length of the outline of the die to be made therefrom, making in succession a plurality of separated and distinct bends in one or more of said strips to form die-sections, after each bending fitting the strips to pattern, and butt-welding together the ends of said sections, and at the same time forcing said ends together to reduce the die thus formed to pattern, during said butt-welding operation maintaining in alignment the edges of the strips which are to form the cutting-edges of the die. (2.) That improvement in the art of making irregularly shaped