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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 77

No. 28003.—9th August, 1909.—GEORGE ALFRED JULIUS, of Ocean Street, Woollahra, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Engineer. Improvements in and relating to apparatus for printing and issuing tickets or checks of different denominations, and for registering and totalling numbers and indicating the totals.

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

Extract from Specification.—This invention consists in mechanical apparatus of an automatic type, driven by an electric motor or other convenient source of power, for printing and issuing tickets or checks of different denominations from a continuous roll of paper, and for registering and totalling separately the number of issues of the several denominations of such tickets or checks, and the grand total of all issues thereof. The said apparatus is designed to be used in connection with other apparatus for registering and totalling separately and in the aggregate groups of separate totals of numbers and the grand total thereof, and indicating totals of such groups, and the total of the sum of such groups. The printing, numbering, totalling, group-totalling, grand totalling, and indicating apparatus are severally constructed on the unit principle. The printing and issuing devices consist of separate units, any required number of which may be associated together in one case, so that there may be issued from the one case tickets or checks of two or more different denominations. The computing and total-indicating devices (which are more particularly described in another application for letters patent filed by me simultaneously with the present application) are also constructed on the unit principle—that is to say, a computer for any particular group contains a unit member or element for introducing into such computer the total of issues from any particular printing or issuing unit which is to be contained in the total to be ascertained by means of such computer.

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

(Specification, £2 10s.)

No. 28005.—26th July, 1909.—CHARLES PROUDFOOT, of 17, Point Street,* Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia, Clerk. Safety-cage for protecting the manipulator of railway couplings.

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

Claims.—(1.) Improved means for enabling the couplings of railway rolling-stock to be safely manipulated, consisting of a footplate designed to be suspended from the end of the vehicle, in combination with a protecting-frame or body-guard and the necessary attachments and connections, all for the purpose herein set forth, and substantially as described and illustrated. (2.) Improved means for enabling the couplings of railway rolling-stock to be safely manipulated, consisting of a protecting-cage comprising a footplate and body-guard such as described, designed to be secured to the end of a vehicle, for the purpose set forth.

(Specification, 3s.)

No. 28014.—29th June, 1910.—HERBERT ALFRED HUMPHREY, of 38 Victoria Street, Westminster, London, England, Consulting Engineer. Improvements in methods of raising or forcing liquids and in apparatus therefor.

Claims.—(1.) A method of raising or forcing liquid, which consists in applying the energy of expansion of a combustible mixture ignited in a combustion-chamber to one end of a column of liquid so as to propel the column along a discharge-pipe, and to cause it to oscillate therein under such conditions of energy of the moving liquid that everything necessary for preparing for the next ignition is performed during one or more oscillations, and wholly or partly owing to it or them, substantially as described. (2.) The modification wherein the liquid which has been propelled outwardly by the energy of expansion of the ignited combustible charge returns towards the combustion-chamber under the action of the head or pressure to which the outwardly propelled liquid has been raised or forced, substantially as described. (3.) The modification wherein some of the kinetic energy of the moving liquid is utilised to suck a fresh combustible charge into the combustion-space, substantially as described.

[NOTE.—Here follow twenty other claims.]

(Specification, £2.)

No. 28017.—1st July, 1910.—WILLIAM JOHNSON SPENCE, of 557 Castle Street, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Student. Improved hat-rack.

Claims.—(1.) A device for the purpose indicated, constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as specified and illustrated. (2.) A hat-rack composed of a single piece of wire bent to provide two members upon which the hat-brim rests, return loops to provide passage for said brim, and eyes by which the rack is secured to a seat, substantially as specified and illustrated. (3.) A hat-rack of wire having the side members and eyes substantially as specified.

(Specification, 1s. 6d.)

No. 28030.—5th July, 1910.—FREDERICK JOHN TURNER BELL, Pattern-maker and Mechanic, of 313 Thornton Terrace, Bolton Road, Bury, Lancaster, England, and HARDY CECIL BELL, of St. Leonard’s Mount, Padiham, Lancaster, England, Pattern-maker. Improvements in sewing-machines.

Claims.—(1.) In a two-reel sewing-machine, a reel casing for the underthread of the form shown, and driven by means of pins H and H1 which intermittently engage with and disengage from the casing as described. (2.) In a two-reel sewing-machine having a casing and driving-means of the nature claimed in claim 1, a reel-carrier M by means of which the reel is introduced into the casing A, and a gate O engaging with the outer face of the carrier in such a way as to permit the passage between them of the needle thread-loop. (3.) In a two-reel sewing-machine having a reel casing and driving-means of the nature claimed in claim 1, a guard-plate R to prevent the needle thread-loop flying or bulging outwards and becoming entangled with the driving-pin which is not in engagement with the reel casing.

(Specification, 7s. 6d.)

No. 28031.—30th July, 1909.—SANDYS STUART MACASKIE, of 17 Grove End Road, London, England, Gentleman (assignee of William Frank Pettigrew, Engineer, of Barrow-in-Furness, England). Improvements in or relating to superheaters.

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

Claims.—(1.) In a steam-generator of the locomotive type, the combination with superheater tubes bent to the inner contour of the smoke-box, and communicating with steam drums on either side thereof, of an intermediate chamber with which the tubes connect disposed between the blast-pipe and chimney, and having a central passage for the products of combustion around which steam can pass from one group of tubes to another group, as set forth. (2.) In a steam-generator of the locomotive type, the combination with superheater tubes disposed in the manner described, of an intermediate chamber divided into compartments corresponding to the grouping of the tubes, these compartments encircling an opening through which pass the exhaust steam and products of combustion, as set forth. (3.) The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete superheater for locomotive steam-generators, with or without a baffle, as described, and illustrated in the drawings.

(Specification, 5s.)

No. 28035.—7th July, 1910.—ROBERT FOWLER, of Australia and George Streets, Camperdown, near Sydney, State of New South Wales, in the Commonwealth of Australia, Works-manager. Improvements in jars for the storage of liquids.

Claims.—(1.) A jar or receptacle adapted to store liquids under gaseous pressure or otherwise, provided with a chamber furnished with a side discharge-port, and closed at the inner end for the purpose of protecting the end of the draw-off tap seated or contained therein from pressure. (2.) In a jar or receptacle adapted to store liquids under gaseous pressure or otherwise, a chamber closed at its inner end, and furnished with a draw-off port, the closed end being designed to exclude pressure from the end of the plug-tap seated therein. (3.) In a receptacle for the purposes specified, an air-duct formed by slotting or grooving the barrel of the draw-off plug tap, which slot or groove puts the atmospheric air into communication with the interior of the chamber through an air-duct when the plug tap is rotated to the “discharge” position.

(Specification, 3s. 9d.)