June 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1661

No. 27678.—4th May, 1910.—GEORGE JOHN HOSKINS, of Wattle Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Engineer. A machine for bending the plates for locking bar pipes of small diameter.

Extract from Specification.—Consists in a bracketed girder, the downwardly projecting brackets carrying a longitudinal shaft upon which are threaded an indefinite number of short rollers that are adapted to freely rotate upon the axial shaft when the girder is depressed, preferably by mechanical means, and the rollers are thereby brought into contact with the plate to be bent. Means are provided for preventing the girder from being diverted, to any appreciable extent, from the vertical line when it is being depressed.

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

(Specification, 5s. 6d.)

No. 27686.—3rd May, 1910.—FRANCIS WILLIAM PAYNE, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Consulting Engineer. Improved method of and apparatus for mounting current-wheels attached to banks.

Extract from Specification.—I place the bearings of the wheel on the outer ends of pivoted girders, the said pivots having their bearings on the bank or other fixed supports. The gearing and machinery to be driven are disposed on the said girders as much as possible to have them together, and the ultimate power may be transferred to the shore in any well-known manner.

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

(Specification, 3s. 9d.)

No. 27688.—5th May, 1910.—ARTHUR INNES JONES, of Feilding, New Zealand. Improvements in flax-dressing machinery.

Extract from Specification.—The invention comprises an endless band or apron passing around rollers of different diameters, and frames made of round iron pivoted or secured to the band or to wire ropes, chains, or the like travelling with the band. The end of the fibre as it falls from the stripper or other part of the apparatus descends through one or other of the frames which project beyond a roller of small diameter and away from the band as they revolve around such roller. The end of the fibre is gripped between the band and the frame which is held against the band by means of guide-bars. The fibre is carried round and falls over a roller of large diameter. The fibre is discharged at the termination of the guide-bars, and may be made to fall across a travelling chain and be released when its middle part lies over the chain.

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

(Specification, 3s. 6d.)

No. 27689.—5th May, 1910.—HARRY STENT, of Goodooga, New South Wales, Australia, Farmer. A thatching-needle for sewing thatch on to hay or sheaf stacks.

Claim.—A curved thatching-needle having an eye at either or both ends for the purpose set forth.

(Specification, 3s.)

No. 27698.—6th May, 1910.—HARRY WILSON DAVIES, of 139 Adelaide Road, Wellington, New Zealand, Plumber. Improved means for attaching handles to buckets and the like vessels.

Claims.—(1.) The improved means of attaching handles to buckets and the like vessels, comprising plates adapted to be located upon the exterior and interior respectively of the bucket, conical or the like-pointed projections on the face of a plate, correspondingly shaped recesses in the face of an opposing plate to receive the said points, and a set-screw securing the said plates together, substantially as set forth. (2.) The combination and arrangement of parts comprising the improved means of attaching handles to buckets and the like vessels, substantially as specified, and illustrated in the drawings.

(Specification, 2s. 6d.)

No. 27702.—5th May, 1910.—GEORGE WALKER and CECIL ROBERT BELL, both of Tuakau, Auckland, New Zealand, Gentleman and Stationmaster respectively. The utilisation of flax-gum, stripper-waste, and other vegetable matter of Phormium tenax for the production of alcohol.

Claims.—(1.) In the production of alcohol from flax-gum, stripper-waste, and other vegetable matter of Phormium tenax, the mixing the same with about half its bulk of water and with from 1 to 2 per cent. of hydrolysing-acid (such as hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid) in a closed vessel (such as a rotary cylinder or digestor), and the hydrolysing the gum and other glucosidal constituents of the mass by heat, and by concentrating the fermentable constituents of the mass by diffusion-batteries, for the purpose set forth as described. (2.) The method specified of producing alcohol from flax-gum, stripper-waste, and other vegetable matter of Phormium tenax applied in the manner and for the purpose set forth as described.

(Specification, 1s. 9d.)

No. 27703.—7th May, 1910.—ANGUS JAMESON BELL, of Geraldine, Canterbury, New Zealand, Cycle Agent. Improved means for use in attaching parcels or other articles to cycles and the like.

Claim.—Means for use in attaching parcels and other articles to cycles consisting of a clip adapted to encircle and to be fastened upon a member of the cycle-frame provided with a loop or eye attached thereto and adapted to receive a strap or cord, substantially as specified.

(Specification, 1s. 9d.)

No. 27716.—11th May, 1910.—HARRY KERSHAW, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Electrician. Improved station-indicator for trams, trains, and the like.

Extract from Specification.—A sided roller, preferably hexagonal in section, is mounted in a frame having an open or closed front, and has passing over it a series of plates linked together, each or some of the plates having a name of a station or section written upon it so as to be visible through the front of the frame. The roller is revolved by ratchet and pawl apparatus through the medium of a hand-lever from either end of the vehicle.

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

(Specification, 4s.)

No. 27718.—25th February, 1910.—ERNEST HOSKING, of 145 Clarence Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Advertising Expert. Improvements in packing confectionery and fragile articles.

[NOTE.—This is an application under section 98 of the Act, the date given being the official date of the application in Australia.]

Claims.—(1.) In packing confectionery and other fragile articles, the combination with a containing-box of one or more sheets of cardboard, paper, or other thin material cut out or stamped to form parallel uprights, between which the articles are placed, substantially as described and explained and illustrated. (2.) In packing confectionery and other fragile articles, the combination with a containing-box of one or more sheets of cardboard, paper, or other thin material which are cut out or stamped to form a number of parallel slots and parallel uprights, between which the articles are placed, substantially as described and explained and illustrated.

(Specification, 2s. 6d.)

No. 27723.—12th May, 1910.—JAMES EDWARD O’NEILL, Gardener, and ALEXANDER RICHARDSON, Blacksmith, both of Island Cliff, Otago, New Zealand. Adjustable candle-extinguisher.

Extract from Specification.—According to our invention an extinguishing cap, slidable upon an adjustable frame, bears against the candle under influence of a spring.

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

(Specification, 1s. 6d.)