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the other in parallel planes, the periphery of one pulley approximately coinciding with the periphery of the other. An endless chain passes around one of these pulleys and around a guide and tension pulley, and the flax, which is gripped between this chain and the pulley, conveyed to a scutcher, a wall, table, or the like being used to divide the fibre so that only one end of it is acted upon in the scutcher. The other pulley is also provided with an endless chain passing around a guide and tension pulley, rotated in the opposite direction to the guide-pulley previously referred to.
(Specification, 4s. 6d.)

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

No. 28974.—10th January, 1911.—ALFRED SEIFERT, of Masterton, New Zealand, Flax-miller. Improved apparatus for sorting blades of flax.*

Extract from Specification.—The flax-blades are gripped by a plurality of superposed endless travelling chains, ropes, or the like, and are carried thereby for varying distances according to the length of the blade, and are then released, and fall into bins or upon trolleys or the like. A travelling band or table beneath the chains at the place where the blades are fed in brings the butts of the blades into line, and a revolving beater-drum separates the blades and removes waste material.
(Specification, 4s. 3d.)

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

No. 28986.—12th January, 1911.—CHARLES TIMMS, of Sockburn, near Christchurch, New Zealand, Caretaker (nominee of Thomas Ewen Baldwin Poole, Clerk, travelling in Borneo). Improved means for use in displaying advertisements or other matter.*

Claim.—(1.) Means for use in displaying advertisements and other matter, consisting of a disc having a hollow or concave surface adapted to receive the matter, a pillar extending outwardly from the centre of the disc, a lamp supported in the outer end of the pillar, and a reflector-shade supported in front of the lamp and shaped to throw the light thereof back over the surface of the disc, substantially as specified.
(Specification, 2s. 3d.)

[NOTE.—Here follows one other claim.]

No. 29040.—25th January, 1911.—COLVILLE CHRISTIE, of Royal Insurance Buildings, at Pitt and Spring Streets, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Public Accountant (assignee of Henry Hawes Matcham Whittell, of Beecroft, near Sydney aforesaid, Customs and Shipping Agent). Improved earth-excavator.*

Claim.—(1.) Improved excavator, comprising essentially a plurality of revolving boring-tools, a plurality of revolving trimming-discs, and an endless conveying apron or belt, substantially as described and explained. (Specification, 13s.)

[NOTE.—Here follow twenty-seven other claims.]

No. 29329.—31st January, 1911†.—WILLIAM HENRY GREGORY GEAKE, of Monomeath Street, Bexley, Sydney, Australia, Manufacturers’ Agent. Improvements relating to the manufacture of shirts and like garments.

Claim.—(1.) In an improved method and means of shortening the length of sleeves of shirts or similar garments, the use of a suitable piece of braid or other stiffened material, of a torpedo shape if desired, substantially as described, and as illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawings. (Specification, 3s. 3d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow two other claims.]

No. 29555.—17th May, 1911.—ROBERT BURN, of Petone, Wellington, New Zealand, Engineer. Improvements in apparatus for folding telegraph forms, circulars, and the like.*

Claims.—(2.) In a folding-machine of the class described, a framework, an upwardly disposed former supported upon a horizontal axis journaled therein, a plurality of leaf-springs secured against the forward face of said former, a downwardly operating-blade coacting with said former, means for deflecting said former rearwardly, a forwardly operating-blade coacting with said former, and means for advancing last-said blade between said former and said springs, substantially as and for the purpose specified. (3.) In a folding-machine of the class described, a framework, a carriage adapted to oscillate upon a horizontal axis therein, a former supported upon said carriage, a coacting blade operating in guide-slots in said framework, a plate or plates secured upon said carriage, and a slot formed in said plate or plates adapted to align with said guide-slots, and with them to receive said blade when said former is in the upward position, substantially as and for the purpose specified. (Specification, 15s. 9d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow four other claims.]

No. 29641.—31st May, 1911.—HERBERT CHAPMAN, of Tayforth, near Wanganui, New Zealand, Dairy-farmer. Improved mechanical milk-releaser.*

Extract from Specification.—My invention consists of a suitably shaped receptacle supported upon a rocking shaft, and is formed into two chambers by means of a central partition. Milk from the units of the milking plant passes to the apparatus by a common pipe through a suitably constructed two-way inlet-valve, which admits milk to the uppermost receptacle and cuts off the milk to the lower receptacle. A similar valve is provided on the opposite side of the receptacle, and is connected to the usual vacuum-pipe, and operates synchronously with the inlet-valve. The receptacle is provided with a valve at its outer ends, through which the milk flows from the chambers into a suitable vessel.
(Specification, 6s.)

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

No. 29698.—5th June, 1911.—JOHN ROBERT BULLEN, of Tararua Terrace, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand, Engineer. An attachment for a garden or other syringe for efficiently spraying to combat orchard and garden pests.*

Claim.—(1.) In an improved attachment for garden and other syringes, a valve of the kind specified, formed integral with an adjustable nozzle by means of a hollow connection, and fitted within the elbow and kept normally pressed against the cap containing the inlet-holes by means of a coiled spring, in the manner and for the purpose set forth as described and illustrated.
(Specification, 3s. 9d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow four other claims.]

No. 29953.—4th August, 1910†.—BENJAMIN SEDGELY SMITH, of Martin Place, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Gentleman. Improvements in the wet dressing of sulphide ores.

Extract from Specification.—Several inclined troughs or tables, each of progressively increasing width, are arranged in series in a descending order, a settling-box being provided between the foot of every such trough or table and the head of the next succeeding trough or table, whilst near the bottom of the lowest trough or table in the series a narrow transverse slot is made, through which the underlying strata of the flowing water and portion of the ore-contents moving therewith are withdrawn.
(Specification, 10s.)

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

No. 29971.—3rd August, 1911.—JAMES STEWART, of Invercargill, New Zealand, Whitesmith. An improved metal label.

Extract from Specification.—The invention consists in the provision of a piece of sheet lead, preferably of fine gauge, partially encased in zinc or the like metal, or in any suitable material, to form a backing and to permit the name or mark being written with a pencil or stylus or with any suitable marker.
(Specification, 1s. 9d.)

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

No. 29996.—9th August, 1911.—SIMON McDONALD BOWER, of 18 Heads Road, Wanganui, New Zealand, Engineer. Automatic milk-sampler for milking-machines.

Claims.—(1.) The milk-sampler with tee-cock and bottle, substantially as and for the purpose specified. (2.) The milk-sampler as described and explained, as illustrated in the drawing, and for the purpose set forth.
(Specification, 1s. 6d.)

No. 30033.—10th November, 1910†.—JOHN GLEN NEWMAN, of 302 Park Road, Moore Park, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Engineer. Spark-igniting device for gas- and oil-engines.

Claim.—(1.) A spark-striker igniting device for an internal-combustion engine, comprising a rotatable disc and a fixed pencil in light frictional contact with said disc, one of such striker-elements being constructed of pyrophoric material and the other of abradent hard metal. (Specification, 14s.)

[NOTE.—Here follow nine other claims.]

No. 30127.—14th March, 1911†.—WILLIAM HART, of “Langside,” Jeffrey Street, New Farm, Engineer, and JOSEPH MARK DESCHAMPS, of 360-362 Queen Street, Manager, both of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Improvements in retorts for burning charcoal and other analogous substances.

Extract from Specification.—The invention consists of a retort, preferably cylindrical in shape, provided with controllable draught and discharge door at the bottom, and a series of controllable draught and sight vents arranged around the circumference of the retort at regular intervals, each series being at a given distance apart, and disposed at al-