May 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1381

No. 26989.—3rd December, 1909.—CHARLES ALEXANDER KIDD, Engineer, GEORGE BERRY RITCHIE, Solicitor, COLIN HERBERT FLAVELL, Accountant, MAJOR FLAVELL, Manager, and ARTHUR BAILEY, Land Agent, all of Christchurch, New Zealand. Improvements in trotting-sulkies.

Claims.—(1.) In trotting-sulkies, the construction comprising an arched member terminating in forks to receive the carrying-wheels, shafts extending over and secured upon the arch, a stay-bar attached to the central portion of the arch on the under-side thereof and extending downwardly at each side, where it is securely fastened to the respective inner members of the forks, an upward and forward extension of the stay-bar at each side secured to the shaft, such extension being formed with two branches for attachment to each member of the wheel-fork, substantially as described and as illustrated in the drawing. (2.) In trotting-sulkies, the construction substantially as described and explained and as illustrated in the drawing.

(Specification, 2s 6d.)

No. 27091.—23rd December, 1909.—EDWARD JOHN PRICE, Commercial Traveller, of 274 Pitt Street, Sydney; MICHAEL PATRICK CONSIDINE, Labourer, of 37 Stanley Street, Sydney; and CHARLES CEDERBERG, Mechanic, of Broad Road, South Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Improvements in filtering-appliances attachable to ordinary water-taps.*

Extract from Specification.—The essential features of our invention consist of a cylindrical casing having fitted into an upper recess a plurality of concentric packing-rings, or strips curved into the form of rings, so constructed and arranged that the diameter of the central opening will approximately equal the outside diameter of the nozzle of a tap, and the arrangement in the lower portion of the casing of one or more horizontal layers of cotton-wool, or other suitable filtering material, supported by wire-gauze screens and held in position as above indicated.

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

(Specification, 6s.)

No. 27164.—15th January, 1910.—ARTHUR WILLIAM PIRIE, of Napier, New Zealand, Plumber. Improvements in skylights.

Extract from Specification.—The invention consists in the use of flaps of metal-plate hinged to the outside surfaces of the skylight sides, and adapted to lie closely against such surfaces or to be turned upwards and outwards away therefrom. The sides of the skylight are formed with a number of apertures therein, which will thus be closed when the flaps are turned down, and opened to allow of free ingress or egress of air when the flaps are turned up.

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

(Specification, 3s.)

No. 27241.—3rd February, 1910.—CHARLES LESLIE DE JERSEY, of 483 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Engineer. Improvements in paper-bag-making machines by mechanism for inserting card or like bottoms.

Claims.—(1.) In machines for making paper-bags, the method and means of fitting to each bag a card or like bottom, by supplying, pasting, and inserting the same during construction, substantially as described. (2.) In machines for making paper-bags, a magazine containing a supply of cardboard bottoms, herein called “boards,” a slot in the top mould-bar adapted to allow the passage of boards from the magazine to the front end of the mould-bars, and means at the said end for placing the foremost board in the tube (partly formed bag), substantially as described. (3.) In machines for making paper-bags, in combination with a magazine and a slot such as hereinbefore referred to, a tiltable plate hinged near the end of the plunger-rod, and means for actuating said tilting-plate to place a board in the bottom of the tube before it is completed to form a bag, substantially as described.

[NOTE.—Here follow four other claims.]

(Specification, 17s. 6d.)

No. 27311.—16th February, 1910.—GEORGE HENRY BENBOW STEELE, of 220 Lake Street, Perth, Western Australia, Engineer, and ARTHUR HAROLD BOULTER, of 221 Park Street, Subiaco, Western Australia, Carpenter, and JOSEPH HARGREAVES, of Kimberley Street, Leederville, Western Australia, Carpenter. An improved spark-arrester.

Extract from Specification.—A rotatable fan, which is driven by the action of the exhaust steam, rotates in a horizontal plane, and is suitably held in position above the exhaust steam-pipe exit and within the chimney or funnel. We may use one, two, or more of these rotary fans. A cone diverts and guides the steam-blast, and consequently the sparks, on to the under-side of the fan-blades, while an annular or partly annular passage around the funnel receives the dead sparks.

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

(Specification, 3s.)

No. 27312.—19th February, 1909.—EDWARD CHATTERTON HENNEQUIN, of 232 Thorold Road, Ilford, Essex, England, Surveyor, whose present address is 82 Nicholson Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Improvements in or relating to devices for turning the leaves of music or other publications.

[NOTE.—This is an application under the International and Intercolonial Arrangements, the date given being the official date of the application in Great Britain.]

Claim.—(1.) In connection with devices for turning the leaves of music or other publications, the employment of a stop rod or bar, hinged, fixed, or otherwise connected to the apparatus, preferably to the central pivot, and capable of being positioned to arrest and prevent the vibrating movement of the arm or lever connected with and operating the mechanism for releasing the arms carrying the leaves, substantially as set forth, for the purpose of preventing two or more arms carrying leaves escaping or being turned at the same time.

(Specification, 8s. 6d.)

No. 27380.—2nd March, 1910.—PATRICK JAMES GRIFFIN, Miner, and THOMAS PETER EUSTEGE, jun., Carpenter, both of “Whitehall,” Plimmer’s Steps, Wellington, New Zealand. Improvements in tea-cans.

Claims.—(1.) In a tea-can of the kind described, the employment of a cork traversed by a wire having a loop at its lower end, an infusor made of perforated tin plate or wire gauze, and detachably connected to the said loop by a hooked wire secured to the infusor, the said infusor being adapted to pass through the neck of the can, substantially as set forth. (2.) The combination, with a tea-can, of an infusor suspended by a wire from the cork of the can, a lid fitting the top of the infusor and slidable on the wire, and adapted to turn aside for the introduction of tea-leaves into the infusor, substantially as set forth. (3.) The combination and arrangement of parts comprising the improvements in tea-cans, substantially as and for the purposes set forth and illustrated in the drawing.

(Specification, 2s.)

No. 27443.—18th March, 1910.—JOSEPH WATTERSON, of 21 Cambridge Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand, Blacksmith, FRANK PHILLIPS, of Oriental Crescent, Wellington, aforesaid, Fitter, and THOMAS TURNER, of 21 Cambridge Terrace, Wellington, aforesaid, Joiner. Improved antifriction device for bull-ropes and the like.

Claims.—(1.) For the purpose indicated, a bracket carrying horizontal and vertical revolvable rollers arranged in the form of a cross, substantially as and for the purposes specified and illustrated in the drawing. (2.) For the purpose indicated, in combination, the bracket carrying the T piece with the vertical member, the vertically arranged revolvable rollers and the horizontally arranged revolvable rollers, substantially as specified and illustrated.

[NOTE.—Here follows one other claim.]

(Specification, 2s. 6d.)