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attach a special baffle-plate or other suitable device or devices
for baffling the entering gas or making the route of the enter-
ing gas more devious. In conjunction with the foregoing
we may or may not use an indicator or dial for observation
exteriorly of the apparatus; and in those cases where such
indicator or dial is employed, the indicator arm or an arm
rigidly connected thereto may be provided with a suitable
weight or counterbalance, or otherwise provided with the
aforesaid means for producing varying pressure on the afore-
said valve.

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

(Specification, 12s.)

No. 27201.—25th January, 1909.—FRANCIS CASEY, of 143
Cromwell Street, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia, Engineer.
A direct-acting auto-gyral steam-engine.

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

Claims.—(1.) In an engine of the character described, the
combination of the disc with its diametral axis moving in an
inclined plane with the cylinder having its diametral axis
moving in a vertical plane, whereby steam-chambers form
obliquely as steam is admitted through the “outer set”
of ports in the valve-face for the forward rotation of engine,
or through the “inner set” of ports for the reverse rotation,
as specified and as illustrated. (2.) In an engine of the
character described, the combination of the cylinder, the
hollow partitioned piston-blades fixed diametrally therein,
and the disc provided with radial slots in which are dis-
posed the piston-blades and the slotted ends of the rocking-
pin of the central sphere of disc, as specified and as illustrated.

[NOTE.—Here follow three other claims.]

(Specification, 7s.)

No. 27209.—26th January, 1910.—ALBERT ALONZO PAULY,
of Youngstown, Ohio, United States of America, Engineer.
Apparatus for forming artificial stone.

Claim.—(1.) The combination in a cement-moulding
apparatus of a plurality of outer die members, a core member
for each outer member, pallets between the said outer and
core members, upwardly tapering supports for the pallets,
a cross-head, and means carried by the cross-head for strip-
ping the articles simultaneously from the moulding-apparatus.

[NOTE.—Here follow nine other claims.]

(Specification, 9s.)

No. 27214.—27th January, 1910.—SAMUEL HARDLEY, of
Hamilton, Auckland, New Zealand, Tinsmith. An im-
proved milk cooler and aerator.

Claims.—(1.) The improved milk cooler and aerator speci-
fied consisting, in combination, of the lower vessel shaped as
stated, and fitted with an inlet water-pipe and outlet water-
pipe, and the upper vessel having its bottom recessed to
form a hollow with perforated holes made around the inside
of said hollow, and constructed to fit to said lower vessel in
the manner and for the purpose set forth, as described and
illustrated.

(Specification, 3s.)

No. 27228.—1st February, 1910.—HYDROCARBON CON-
VERTER COMPANY, a corporation organized and existing
under the laws of the State of Delaware, one of the United
States of America, located and doing business at 37 Wall
Street, New York, United States of America, Manufacturers
(assignees of Elijah Bailey Benham, of 6 Central Avenue,
New London, Connecticut, United States of America, En-
gineer). Improvements relating to the manufacture of gas
from hydrocarbon-oils and the like.

Claims.—(1.) The process of producing gas from hydro-
carbon-oils (such as specified) which consists in passing through
a high-temperature zone and in close proximity to heated
porous material (such as specified) an intimate mixture of
an oxygen-supplying gas such as air and hydrocarbon-oil or
its vapour or the gas formed by initial heating of such oil
prior to its entry into said zone, and thereby producing a
partial or restricted combustion together with decomposition
of the complex hydrocarbon-compounds present in the oi
in the first instance and the formation of simpler compounds
of a gaseous nature (as set forth), the process being con-
ducted in such manner that substantially no tarry deposits
or the like are formed, the gas produced being collected and
carried off. . . . (8.) An apparatus for carrying out the
process of making gas from hydrocarbon-oils and the like,
comprising a casing having within it a combustion-passage
containing porous material, and which during the operation
of the apparatus is maintained at high temperature, in con-
nection with means for passing oil to be gasified, and oxygen-
supplying gas such as air, intimately mingled together through
such passage, whereby partial combustion occurs in said pas-
sage, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

[NOTE.—Here follow eleven other claims.]

(Specification, £1 7s. 6d.)

No. 27235.—1st February, 1910.—SUBMARINE SIGNAL COM-
PANY, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of
Maine, one of the United States of America, of 88 Broad
Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
(assignees of Robert Longfellow Williams, of Newton, Massa-
chusetts aforesaid, Gentleman). Sounders for submarine
signalling.

Claim.—(1.) A submerged sounder characterized by a
chamber to confine liquid under pressure, but having ports
which are opened and closed in rapid succession to allow the
efflux of jets of liquid therefrom, the liquid-pressures on said
sounder being at all times balanced to prevent undue friction
on the moving parts.

[NOTE.—Here follow three other claims.]

(Specification, 14s.)

No. 27236.—19th April, 1909.—RONALD FRANCIS McFEELY,
of 12 Columbus Avenue, Beverly, Massachusetts, United
States of America, Inventor. Improvements in pulling-over
machines.

[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.) A machine of the class described having, in
combination, means for pulling an upper over a last, means to
fasten the upper, and means to hold the upper while the
pulling-means gives place to the fastening-means, said hold-
ing-means comprising connected upper clamping-devices
arranged one above the other in position for the upper one of
the devices to engage the shoe first, and actuating-mechanism
for forcing the lower member obliquely upwardly to press
against the upper in the direction in which it is pulled. (2.) A
machine of the class described having, in combination, side-
clamps comprising a horizontally sliding member and an
obliquely moveable member connected therewith, and con-
necting-mechanism for causing the horizontally sliding
member to engage the shoe first, and thereafter to actuate
the other member upwardly and inwardly in the direction
to press the upper toward the edge of the last as the shoe is
clamped. (3.) A machine of the class described having, in
combination, a carrier movable horizontally toward the shoe,
a contact member arranged to yield backwardly in the carrier
after it engages the shoe, a second member arranged to engage
the shoe later, and to be actuated by such backward move-
ment of the contact member to press the upper upwardly
toward the edge of the shoe.

[NOTE.—Here follow forty-three other claims.]

(Specification, £1 10s.)

No. 27259.—5th February, 1910.—AMERICAN AUTOMATIC
TELEPHONE COMPANY, a corporation of the State of New
York, with an office at Rochester, New York, United States
of America, and also an office and place of business at Urbana,
Ohio, United States of America (assignee of Charles Lane
Goodrum, of Urbana, United States of America, Electrical
Engineer). Automatic telephone systems.

Extract from Specification.—This invention has for its
primary object to provide circuits and apparatus at a central
exchange for automatically interconnecting subscribers’
telephone-lines for conversation, the arrangement and con-
struction of the circuits and apparatus being such that all
the operations may be effected over the two wires which
ordinarily constitute a subscriber’s line and without the use
of grounded connections. A further object of the invention
is to reduce the number of switches generally employed in
automatic systems by employing finder-switches less in