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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Claims.—(1.) For a machine for attaching the heels of boots and shoes, and in which there are relatively movable clamping members, the employment of a hydraulic lock for the purpose described. . . . (5.) The combination of devices which control the hydraulic lock and comprise a yielding element or a lost motion which enables the lock-controlling devices to be operated after they have actuated the lock for the further purpose of starting the machine.

[NOTE.—Here follow nine other claims.]

(Specification, 14s.)

No. 26120.—23rd June, 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 Cyrus Dyer Foye, of Beverly, Massachusetts, aforesaid, Foreman). Improvements in or relating to mechanisms for inserting fastenings.*

Claims.—(1.) In a machine for inserting fasteners, a tack-holder, movable between tack-receiving and tack-driving positions, in combination with a driver and actuating mechanism, constructed and arranged first to lower said driver into position so as to prevent the escape of the tack from the said holder during the tack-delivering movement, and then further to operate said driver to insert said tack. (2.) In a machine for inserting fasteners, a tack-holder, movable between tack-receiving and tack-driving positions, having yielding tack-supporting jaws, in combination with a driver and mechanism (such for example as 10, 72, 58, 56, 55, 52, 60, 62), constructed and arranged to actuate said driver first to force the point of a tack between said jaws so as to be held thereby during the tack-delivering movement, and then, after the tack-delivering movement, to insert the tack into the work. (3.) In a machine for inserting fasteners, a tack-holder with tack-holding jaws, in combination with a driver and actuating mechanism for the same, constructed and arranged first to lower said driver so as to close the mouth of the tack-holder temporarily with or without pressing a tack into gripped position between said jaws, then to lift said driver, and finally to depress the same so as to insert said tack by a full-length stroke. (4.) In a machine for inserting fasteners, the mechanism for insuring delivery of a tack constructed and arranged substantially as described, with reference to the drawings.

(Specification, 10s.)

No. 26142.—28th June, 1909.—JOHN TRAPSKI, of Wyndham, Southland, New Zealand, Blacksmith. Improved lifting, deepening, and widening gear for ploughs and the like.*

Claims.—(1.) In a plough, a bifurcated frame mounted slidably upon the stalk of the plough, a quadrant pivoted in the bifurcation, a worm gearing with teeth upon the quadrant, a shaft upon which the worm is mounted, and having a hand-wheel within reach of the operator, a pivot secured to the quadrant, an arm integral with the pivot, a rod connecting the arm to a washer mounted upon the stalk of the plough, and collars secured to the stalk above and below the washer, substantially as set forth. (2.) An improved lifting, deepening, and widening gear for ploughs and the like, consisting of the parts constructed, arranged, combined, and operating substantially as set forth, and illustrated in the drawing.

(Specification, 2s. 3d.)

No. 26208.—8th July, 1909.—FRED JIRA, of Raki Raki, Fiji, Chief Engineer of Penang Sugar Estate. Improved endless travelling-table filter.

Extract from Specification.—This improved filter then comprises essentially an endless travelling material or table of filtering quality, whereon a continuous sweetening-out process and a continuous washing of the filtering material or table will take place.

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

(Specification, 8s.)

No. 26692.—10th January, 1910.—ROBERT WAIN WIGHT, of Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand, Farmer. An improved Potato-harvester.

Extract from Specification.—The machine is made with a platform mounted on travelling wheels with division boxes over right side of platform with wire grating in the bottom; a shaker acts as a receiving-platform as well, on to which the potatoes are landed, an elevator is provided to receive the potatoes from the platform, hoppers and shoots are fitted in the machine to further receive the potatoes, and a riddle is placed to operate the potatoes prior to their being bagged. The different parts of the machine which give action thereto and provide for the raising the potatoes from the ground and dealing with them on the way to the sacks are particularly set forth in the description given.

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

(Specification, 6s. 6d.)

No. 26957.—25th November, 1909.—CHARLES EDWARD HONEYFIELD, of Tataraimaka, Taranaki, New Zealand, Farmer. Improvements in milking-machinery.*

Extract from Specification.—This invention consists in inserting in the pulsating system, at any position between the pulsator and the teat-cups, a suitable non-return valve in communication with the milk-pail, which, when the vacuum is connected to the system and is withdrawing the air from the linings of the teat-cups, will at the same time allow the air to be drawn out of the milk-pail.

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

(Specification, 4s. 6d.)

No. 27272.—9th February, 1910.—ENOCH RICHARDSON, of Hawthorne, Victoria, Australia, Engineer, and JAMES THOMPSON MARSHALL, of 17 Francis Street, Leeds, York, England, Engineer. Improvements in slide valves for fluid, pressure, steam, and other engines.

Claims.—(1.) In a piston or slide valve for steam and like engines having a simple cavity in the middle adapted to receive live steam, the arrangement of auxiliary exhaust ports or passages in the valve which communicate with the end or exterior of the valve, whereby the steam can exhaust rapidly from the cylinder at all speeds and back pressure is minimised, substantially as described. (2.) The improved piston slide valve for locomotive steam-engines hereinbefore described with reference to Fig. 1, or the flat slide valve described with reference to Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings.

(Specification, 5s.)

No. 27279.—10th February, 1910.—FRITZ BAUMGAERTNER, of “Oriana,” Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Civil and Mechanical Engineer. Improved locomotion-recorder for road-vehicles.

Extract from Specification.—According to this invention an improved locomotion-recorder for road-vehicles has two main portions, one operated by clockwork and the other by the vibration or shaking of the vehicle in its transit, and is mounted upon a suitable frame-plate. The clockwork portion revolves a drum holding or winding a suitable record-medium while the vibration portion consists of a pendulum carrying a point or pencil adapted to mark upon the moving record-medium and to widen the mark laterally whenever the pendulum vibrates.

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

(Specification, 6s.)

No. 27304.—15th February, 1910.—HARRY HOPE GUNSTONE, of 59 Bawtry Road, Tinsley, Sheffield, England, Foreman Pattern-maker. Improvements in buffer and central draw-bar gear for railway, tramway, and the like vehicles.

Claim.—In buffer and central draw-bar gear for railway, tramway, and the like vehicles, the arrangement and combination of parts and appliances, comprising a socket a to carry the draw-bar b, the socket a being attached to a cross-bar c carried from a cantilever d, supported on an axle-box at each side of the vehicle boxes e, e¹, and slides f being provided in the buffer-plank, headstock, or frame of the vehicle, in the manner and for the purposes substantially as described and illustrated on the sheet of drawings.

(Specification, 3s.)