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number than the subscribers’ lines, which are automatically started in initiating a call to automatically find a calling subscriber’s line, and without further operation connect it with a second or subsequent switch to be operated by subsequent manipulations at the subscriber’s station. There is also provided means by which a plurality of finder-switches may be operated simultaneously to find the called subscriber’s line, in order to shorten the time required in making a connection, and to render doubly sure the making of the connection. There is also provided means for disconnecting from the talking-circuit the apparatus for operating the switches after connection has been made.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, £2 7s. 6d.)

No. 27276.—10th February, 1910.—EDWIN PHILLIPS, of 264–268 Flinders Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Patent Attorney and Engineer (the nominee of the Gesellschaft fur drahtlose Telegraphie m.b.H., of Tempelhofer Ufer 9, Berlin, Germany, Manufacturers—the assignees of George Graf von Arco, Direktor, of Paulstrasse, 21A, II, Berlin, Germany, and Ragnar Hakan Rendahl, Oberingenieur, of Flanufer 32 hpt., Berlin S.W., Germany). Apparatus for producing rapid and but very slightly damped electrical oscillations.

Extract from Specification.—Making the spark-gap of parallel plates or disks of good conducting metal having a coefficient of conduction of heat at least equal to that of gold, such as copper or silver, or alloys which contain these metals as their principal constituents. The electrodes may also be made of other optional material suitable for the mechanical requirements, having only the operative faces coated with copper or silver. The coatings must be as uniform and plane as possible, and it is preferable to apply them as sheet metal by rolling or soldering. Preferably, before the soldering operation, holes are drilled in the supporting plates or discs, through which the gases generated during the soldering operation can escape.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 17s. 6d.)

No. 27278.—10th February, 1910.—ABRAHAM LINCOLN SMITH, of 1402 Broadway, Manhattan, New York, United States of America, Draughtsman. Improvements in cartons.

Extract from Specification.—The main object of the invention is to provide an improved means whereby a container of the kind above referred to may be opened and closed at the top without tearing of the latter, so that the container shall have a closure that is permanently available as well as easily applied and operated. A further object is so to shape and construct the closure that it may be utilised as a scoop, trough, or spout, by means of which the contents of the container can be poured out, measured, or dispensed without spilling, and the box securely closed whenever desired, thereby insuring neatness for the package and a method of handling it in a cleanly, economical, and sanitary manner at all times.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 5s.)

No. 27291.—11th February, 1910.—JACOB SAMUEL KRUSKOFF, of Hindon, New Zealand, Inventor. Improvements in ventilating sash windows.

Extract from Specification.—I attach one or more plates of thin metal to the top bar of the upper sash in such a manner that it can slide up between the blind-roller and the architrave. The plate to be of sufficient depth according to the amount of ventilation needed, and it may be made of finely perforated plate if required. Where the roller is close to the architrave, the plate can be guided up between them.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 3s.)

No. 27294.—14th February, 1910.—ARCHIBALD GARDINER, of Willow Bank, Plimmer’s Steps, Wellington, New Zealand, Farmer, and EDWARD STEPHENS, of 11 McFarlane Street, Wellington, New Zealand, Warehouseman. An improved milk-cooler.

Extract from Specification.—I mount cooler on top of an ordinary milk-can I by means of legs G¹. Milk is poured into dish A and sprays through perforations H (see Fig. 3) on to tinned-copper coil C, and thence to bottom of cooler, straining through strainer J and spraying through bottom of cooler into milk-can I. Water is led to copper coil C at E, and run through and discharged at D.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 2s.)

No. 27301.—15th February, 1910.—JOHN WILLIAM MILLER, Engineer, and JAMES ROBERT MCKERIHAN, Storekeeper, both of Barker Street, Casino, New South Wales, Australia. An improved butter-cutter.

Extract from Specification.—The block of butter is placed on a holder-plate and is pressed for the purpose of forming it into an approximate cube. The press-frame is then removed, and the block cut into portions by means of three frames hinged to a base-plate and having cutting wires or blades maintained tight by tension-screws. Two of the frames are adapted to make vertical cuts at right angles to each other, while the other frame makes a horizontal cut. In the holder-plate and in a flap hinged thereto are slits for the wires to pass into, thereby insuring a clean cut.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 4s.)

No. 27313.—16th February, 1910.—ALBERT HENRY SIMS, of High Street, Echuca, Victoria, Australia, Butter-factory Proprietor. Improved combined churn and butter-worker.

Extract from Specification.—The improved machine comprises, briefly, a cylindrical churning chamber or barrel having a hinged flat door arranged the full length thereof, and secured by approved clamps. The inner periphery of the barrel is provided with a multiplicity of radially projecting dashers for agitating the cream, and for raising the butter, when formed, to an inclined table, where it is worked by means of an axially disposed roller which revolves in an opposite direction to that of the barrel.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 8s.)

No. 27336.—21st February, 1910.—SAMUEL ANDERSON, of Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand, Boot-manufacturer. Improvements in the construction of boot-uppers.

Claims.—(1.) In the manufacture of boot-uppers, a back or heel portion formed of a single length of leather shaped with a cut having concaved edges extending down its middle from the top edge, and with such concaved edges joined together in combination with a leather tongue having tapering sides that is passed outwards through a slot formed in the back so as to wedge therein, and is secured over the joined edges of the cut, substantially as specified. (2.) The improvements in the manufacture of boot-uppers substantially as described and explained, as illustrated in the drawings, and for the purposes set forth.

(Specification, 2s. 6d.)

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J. C. LEWIS,
Registrar.