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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 18

Complete Specifications filed after Provisionals.

LIST of complete specifications filed after provisional specifications, from the 5th to the 18th February, 1910, inclusive:—
No. 25690.—E. A. Earnshaw, life-saving at sea.
No. 25929.—R. Beattie and G. Croxford, snow-board.
No. 25947.—Milburn Lime and Cement Company, Limited, Portland cement manufacture. (F. Oakden.)
No. 26979.—A. J. Cotton, imparting power from motor-car engine.

Notice of Acceptance of Complete Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 23rd February, 1910.
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.
The copies of claims and extracts from the specifications and drawings are merely intended to give some further indication of the invention than is disclosed in the title, and the complete specifications and drawings should be referred to for a description of the invention.

No. 25617.—25th February, 1909.—MARY THERESA BRAIK, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Married Woman. Improved fireless cooker.*

Claims.—(1.) In a fireless cooker of the type described, a dish-supporting frame arranged and adapted to operate substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (2.) A fireless cooker of the type described having a plurality of compartments lined with hay and separated by sheets of felt or brown paper, with independent lids to the compartments seated on bars fixed across the box at the boundaries of the compartments, each of said compartments having a dish-supporting frame therein, and provided with a second lid covering the independent lids, substantially as described. (3.) An improved fireless cooker constructed, arranged, and adapted to operate substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
(Specification, 2s. 6d.)

No. 25670.—11th March, 1909.—TOM ERNEST WOODROFFE, of Cromwell Street, Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand, Warehouseman. Improvements in incubators.*

Extract from Specification.—According to my invention water is entirely dispensed with. The eggs are supported upon wires or the like in chambers surrounding a centrally located well in which is placed a lamp which supplies the necessary heat direct within the incubator itself. The bottom of the well, under the lamp, is perforated for the admission of air.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 2s. 6d.)

No. 25683.—12th March, 1909.—AMBROSE RIDD, of Waipuku, New Zealand, Farmer. Improvements in milking-machines.*

Claim.—(1.) In milking-machines, a teat-cup comprised by an outer rigid casing and an inner flexible lining arranged to leave an annular space between it and the casing, and formed with sides gradually increasing in thickness towards the bottom end, and with three projecting ribs upon its internal surface arranged at equal circumferential distances apart, and extending down such surface in parallel helical lines, in combination with means whereby the annular space surrounding the lining is alternately placed in communication with different degrees of air-pressure, substantially as specified.
[NOTE.—Here follow five other claims.]
(Specification, 9s. 6d.)

No. 25706.—18th March, 1909.—ARTHUR REGINALD ANGUS, of Barry Street, Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia, Solicitor. Improvements in the running-gear of railway-cars.*

Extract from Specification.—A divided axle or semi-axle for each wheel within independent bearings, one on each side of each wheel, and disposed so that each pair of semi-axles is prevented from departing up or down from the straight line, or practically so, formed by each pair of semi-axles under conditions mentioned, which straight line, or practically so, I term the axial line. And, secondly, a rigid connector or frame for holding or maintaining the bearings of two corresponding semi-axles of a “car” in their proper positions relatively one to the other, and preventing the semi-axles within their bearings from being thrown out of their axial line.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, £1 5s.)

No. 25771.—1st April, 1909.—QUENTIN WOODBURY BOOTH, of 22 Brown’s Race, Rochester, New York, United States of America, Manufacturer (assignee of Louis William Garnett Flynt, of Rochester aforesaid, Machinist). Improvements in or relating to machines for skiving leather and the like.*

Extract from Specification.—A machine whereby the knife can be maintained at its maximum or proper speed of rotation at all times, and in connection therewith the work-support and feed can be independently governed or varied in its movement, thereby overcoming the objections to the machines heretofore in use.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, £2.)

No. 25776.—30th March, 1909.—CHARLES SUTTIE, of Waharoa, New Zealand, Flaxmiller, and MONTAGUE HARRISON WYNYARD, of Auckland, New Zealand, Solicitor. Improvements in apparatus for operating a mechanical flax-catcher.*

Claim.—(1.) In apparatus for operating a mechanical flax-catcher, a spindle carrying or connecting movement to the cam or other contrivance which actually moves the mechanical “catcher,” in combination with a loose-driven sleeve faced with teeth revolving round such spindle, a tension-spring exerting pressure on such sleeve, a collar fast to such spindle and having teeth corresponding to the teeth on such sleeve, a collar clamped to such spindle and having a slide-slot cut out of it, a collar loose on such spindle between the last-mentioned two collars having a slide-tooth corresponding with the before-mentioned slide-slot, and having also a stop on its periphery, contacting with a “lift” stop which is raised by communicated movement when flax is fed into the stripper, and a push pin or pins running through the fast collar to the smooth face of the sleeve inside the teeth, substantially as and for the purposes described.
[NOTE.—Here follows one other claim.]
(Specification, 4s. 6d.)

No. 25806.—8th April, 1909.—THOMAS OLDHAM BENNETT, of Greenbank Street, Marrickville, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Mechanical Engineer. Improvements in certain machine sheep-shears.*

Extract from Specification.—The minor short lever is rocker-shaped second-class lever, and has a convexity or fulcrum in a concave recess in the top of the major long lever, and it has its rear end bearing under the end of a tension-screw through a boss on the major lever and obtruding through the top of the machine, and by which a vertical movement is imparted direct to the rear of said tension-lever.
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 6s. 6d.)

No. 25822.—8th April, 1909.—WILLIAM PETER SWAN MACGREGOR, of Wendonside, New Zealand, Farmer. Improvements in reels for wire-tighteners.*

Claim.—In combination with wire-tightening devices, the introduction of lugs fixed to or cast integral with the flange of the reel at specifically stated positions, substantially as and for the purposes described in the specification.
(Specification, 1s. 3d.)