No. 27539.--12th April, 1910.--THOMAS JAMES FRANCIS RYLAND, of 252 Camberwell New Road, London, England, Engineer, and EDWARD STANISLAUS LOUIS, of 57 Penwortham Road, Streatham, London, England, Engineer. Improvements in or relating to expanding pulleys.

Claims.--(1.) An expanding pulley of the interpenetrating cone type in which the interpenetrating portions of the pulley engage with a screw action such that the pull of the belt is always tending to screw the two parts of the pulley together and thereby causing said parts to automatically grip the belt, substantially as described. (2.) An expanding pulley of the interpenetrating cone type characterised in that the arms or members comprising the interpenetrating portions of the pulley are set helically with relation to the nave or boss of the pulley to cause the pulley-halves to engage with a screw action whereby the pull of the belt operates to cause the pulley-halves to automatically grip the belt, substantially as described.

[Note.--Here follow three other claims.]

(Specification, 11s. 6d.)

No. 27546.--11th April, 1910.--WILLIAM HENRY LAWRENCE, of 35 Melville Street, Pollokshields, Glasgow, Scotland, Engineer, and ROBERT KENNEDY, of 346 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow, Scotland, Dairyman (nominees of Frederic Almon Lane, of D. H. Burrell and Co., of Little Falls, New York, United States of America). Improvements in teat-cups for milking-machines.

Claims.--(1.) In a teat-cup for milking-machines, the combination of a body adapted to receive the lower portion of the teat, an enlarged top chamber forming an air-space around the upper portion of the teat and having its bottom arranged substantially at right angles to the axis of the cup, and means arranged at the upper end of said enlarged chamber for making airtight connection with the teat.

[Note.--Here follow seven other claims.]

(Specification, 9s.)

No. 27548.--13th April, 1910.--NICHOLAS BARNEWELL, of 174 Mile, Queensland North Railway, via Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Railway Employee. Improvements in herbage and scrub destroyers.

Claims.--(1.) In herbage-destroyers of the class set forth, the combination with an oil (or gas-producing liquid) reservoir of a compressor for supplying pressure within such reservoir, connecting-pipes to burners or vaporisers within a hood, a guide and support for said hood, and a lever for raising and lowering same, substantially as described and explained. (2.) The combination and arrangement of mechanical parts or integers all together forming an improved herbage-destroyer, substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawings.

(Specification, 2s. 9d.)

No. 27549.--13th April, 1910.--ALBERT EDWARD PARTINGTON, of 389 Riley Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Instrument-fitter. An improved multiple fusible cut-out for electrical circuits.

Extract from Specification.--This improved multiple fusible cut-out for electrical circuits comprises essentially a reel or barrel of non-conducting material consisting of a pair of parallel discs which are centrally and removably secured thereto by a through-bolt acting as a spindle that is rotatably and removably mounted in a frame constructed preferably of non-conducting material. Secured to and bridging between the inner faces of said discs and equidistant from one another and parallel to the spindle are provided a series of cylindrical fuses of the enclosed type, the metallic contact-ends of which protrude through orifices in the said discs so that one or more of the fuses may make contact with the spring contacts of a circuit affixed to the base-plate, and on the partial rotation of the said barrel a burnt-out fuse or fuses will be withdrawn from said spring contacts and replaced by a complete fuse or fuses. The spindle of the barrel is manually operated.

[Note.--The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]

(Specification, 6s.)

No. 27550.--13th April, 1910.--WILLIAM ALEXANDER SHEPHARD, of Walter Street, Granville, New South Wales, Australia, Engineer. An improved stop for doors.

Extract from Specification.--The essential features of this improved stop for doors comprise a vertical rod having at its lower end a square shank having a recessed foot for a resilient pad and passing through bearings in brackets secured to the door, and adapted to be raised by means of a handle at the top end and held in such position clear of the floor by means of a pivoted spring-controlled trigger automatically engaging in a notch or recess in said rod. This rod is adapted to jamb the foot-pad on the floor by means of a coiled spring by the releasing of the pivoted trigger from engagement with the said rod.

[Note.--The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]

(Specification, 3s. 6d.)

No. 27551.--13th April, 1910.--GUSTAF EMIL ANDERSON, of Bjorngardsgatan, 8 Stockholm, Sweden, Mate. Improvements in milking-apparatus.

Claims.--(1.) In a milking-apparatus, the combination, with a central driving-shaft and a set of cams thereon, of milking-members each consisting of a set of pivoted arms and an outer adjustable plate, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. (2.) In a milking-apparatus, the combination, with a central driving-shaft and a set of cams thereon, of milking-members each consisting of a set of pivoted arms and an outer adjustable plate, and means for adjusting said outer plates simultaneously, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

[Note.--Here follow six other claims.]

(Specification, 7s. 6d.)

No. 27582.--17th July, 1909.--GEORGE SAMUEL BAKER, of the firm of Joseph Baker and Sons, Limited, Engineers, of Hythe Road, Willesden Junction, London, N.W., England. Improvements in bakers' ovens.

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

Claims.--(1.) In a bakers' oven, the combination of a baking-chamber, a travelling support therein for the goods to be baked, flues above and below said chamber adapted for passage of gases for heating same, and series of tubes within said chamber also adapted for passage of a heating-medium, one series being above said support and the other series below same.

[Note.--Here follow seven other claims.]

(Specification, 8s. 6d.)

No. 27583.--19th April, 1910.--THOMAS WILLIAM SIMPSON, of Whitwood House, Castleford, York, England, Glass-bottle Manufacturer. Improvements in or connected with machines for the manufacture of glass bottles.

Claims.--(1.) In a machine for the manufacture of glass bottles of that type in which several complete bottle-forming mechanisms are carried from and revolved around a vertical column, each bottle-forming mechanism so carried being mechanically operated to produce a bottle during a single revolution, providing a plurality of sections or frames, each carrying a complete bottle-forming mechanism, each frame being supported by a central vertical column, and each frame being supported loosely and independently there-on, a constantly revolving member or sleeve, and means for consecutively connecting and disconnecting each frame from said constantly revolving member as each frame arrives at a common stopping-station at which the parison-mould of its bottle-forming mechanism is to receive its supply of molten glass, and again locking that frame after such operation to the revolving portion of the machine, but not in the same angular relation to the adjacent frames, the next frame in its turn arriving at the stopping-station being similarly released from the revolving member and held stationary during the supply of molten glass, and being again locked to the revolving member likewise in a different angular position in relation to its adjacent frames, and so on; and means for operating the bottle-forming mechanism of each frame during its continuous revolving motion, to effect the complete formation of a bottle.

[Note.--Here follow seven other claims.]

(Specification, £1 7s. 6d.)