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No. 26801.—27th October, 1909.—EDWARD DUNNING HOLT,
of Cape Runaway, Thames, New Zealand, Farmer. An improved tool for use with wire fencing.

Claims.—(1.) A combination tool for wire-fencing operations comprising a hammer-head having a barrel on one end and sharpened claws on the other, and a projection between them with an eye formed transversely therein, and a hollow handle secured at one end to the head and provided with a screw cap or cover upon its other end, substantially as specified. (2.) In means for use in straining fencing-wires, a combination tool such as that described in claim 1, and an S-shaped hook adapted to enter an eye upon the end of the handle of such tool and to hook upon the fencing-wire, substantially as specified.

(Specification, 3s.)

No. 26802.—27th October, 1909.—EDWARD JAMES MAHOOD,
of 90 Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Engineer. Improvements in apparatus for raising and lowering the propeller in that class of agitating apparatus in which a propeller is used as the agitating medium.

Claim.—(1.) In an apparatus of the class described, the combination with a vertically disposed shaft having a propeller at its lower end and rotating mechanism near its upper end, of a cross-head fitted with a bearing for rotatably supporting the upper end of said shaft, and having its outer ends slidably engaging vertical guide-posts, a revolvable shaft mounted in bearings on said cross-head and fitted with pinions gearing with racks on or adjacent to the said guide-posts, and means such as a handle or wheel for operating said shaft, as and for the purpose set forth.

[NOTE.—Here follow three other claims.]

(Specification, 8s.)

No. 26803.—27th October, 1909.—CHARLES WESLEY NANCE,
of 18 Bridge Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Engineer. Improvements in and relating to exhausting-appliances.

Claims.—(1.) In a vertical aspirator, the combination with a suitably proportioned high-pressure chamber, air-vessel, and pressure-gauge, of a delivery-pipe, a diminished bend fixed in said chamber at end of said delivery-pipe, a funnel, and friction-tube forming the bottom and outlet part of said chamber, and a ferrule secured with an enshrouding nut on the end of said friction-tube, substantially as set forth. (2.) In a vertical aspirator, an induction chamber having at its upper part an entering-funnel and friction tube, in combination with a high-pressure chamber at its body part, an internally screw-threaded barrel, and at its lower part an externally screw-threaded trumpet tube made adjustable in said barrel, substantially as set forth.

[NOTE.—Here follow seven other claims.]

(Specification, 9s.)

No. 26804.—27th October, 1909.—ALFRED WEAVER, of Riverslea, Taranaki, New Zealand, Wool-scourer. Improved apparatus for drying wool and the like.

Extract from Specification.—According hereto a cluster of tubes is heated upon the exteriors by a furnace, and air drawn by a fan is heated as it passes through the tubes on its way to an air-chamber, where it is mixed with cool air to regulate its temperature. From this chamber the air passes to drying-chambers provided with roofs of wire netting, below which canvas blinds may be drawn or withdrawn to throw one chamber out of operation and bring another into action. The chambers communicate with each other by doors operable from the exterior of the apparatus.

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

(Specification, 5s.)

No. 26809.—28th October, 1909.—ARTHUR JOSEPH HUTCHINSON, of Hopetown, Park Avenue, Gordon, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. A novel hat clip or shaper.

Claim.—A hat-clip by which the dent in the ordinary soft felt hat is kept in its proper shape, and consisting of a partially cylindrical spring body with suitable wings or extensions thereto, all for the purpose of and as fully described, and as illustrated by the drawings.

(Specification, 2s.)

No. 26827.—2nd November, 1909.—FRANTS CHRISTIAN STOCKEL, of 72 Ryesgade, Copenhagen, Denmark, Mechanical Engineer, and JONAS LUDVIG THEODOR POPP, of 27 H.P. Oerumsgade, Copenhagen, Denmark, Mechanical Engineer. Improved machine for filling and stoppering bottles.

Claim.—(1.) In a machine for filling and stoppering bottles wherein the filling takes place as the bottles in inclined position rotate about a perpendicular axis, the arrangement in which the bottles when filled are automatically received by oscillatable cups or similar contrivances, which are thereupon caused to assume a perpendicular position and raise the bottles to the stoppering-piston. (2.) In a machine as described in claim 1, the combination of cups W rotatably mounted upon horizontal trunnions X in bearings Y open above, carried by a rotatable table A, the said cups being arranged below bearings R, in which the bottles rest during the filling operation, and being provided with rollers Z which at suitable intervals engage upon an inclined plane 1, with a piston 5 travelling up and down immediately below the stoppering-piston, a resilient pin T by means of which the bottle is held in the filling position, and a lever 2 connected to said pin and carrying a roller 3, which at suitable intervals engages an inclined plane 4, whereby the bottle is released and can slide into the respective cup W.

(Specification, 4s. 6d.)

No. 26831.—2nd November, 1909.—JOHN JOSEPH SPILLANE,
of Masterton, New Zealand, Cycle Agent. An improved seat for bicycles and the like machines.

Claims.—(1.) A bicycle-seat of the kind described, comprising a solid base of suitable material, coil-springs attached to the upper face of the said solid base, and a covering of suitable material attached to the edge of the base, substantially as set forth. (2.) A bicycle-seat of the kind described, comprising a solid base, coil-springs attached to the upper face of the said base, a covering of suitable material attached to the edge of the base, and the interior of the seat packed or stuffed with a suitable material, substantially as set forth. (3.) The improved bicycle-seat substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawings.

(Specification, 2s. 6d.)

Copies of drawings may be obtained at the uniform price of 1s. each. In exceptional cases this price may be increased at the discretion of the Office.

An asterisk (*) denotes the complete specification of an invention for which a provisional specification has been already lodged.

NOTE.—The cost of copying the specification has been inserted after the notice of each application. An order for a copy or copies should be accompanied by a post-office order or postal note for the cost of copying.

The date of acceptance of each application is given after the number.

Extracts from the drawings accompanying the foregoing complete specifications appear at the end of this Gazette.

J. C. LEWIS,
Registrar.

Provisional Specifications accepted.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 17th November, 1909.

APPLICATIONS for Letters Patent, with provisional specifications, have been accepted as under:—

No. 26313.—J. N. Griffin, spring-wheel.
No. 26540.—W. P. Nolan, railway-ticket dater.
No. 26568.—H. O. Bioletti, door-holder.
No. 26620.—E. C. Isaac, mail-bag seal.
No. 26655.—D. L. Cochrane, reinforced walls.
No. 26679.—J. E. McLachlan and E. Yates, cable-joints.
No. 26688.—J. R. L. Freeman, tree-spray.
No. 26720.—A. McFarlane, gold-saving apparatus.
No. 26724.—R. S. Rutherford, electro-magnetic governor.
No. 26744.—A. E. Moore, laundry-drainer.
No. 26759.—G. S. Langford, clip for attaching trucks, &c., to ropes.
No. 26765.—W. Beamish, water-flushing apparatus.