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ternative vertical positions to each other, the number of series depending upon the height of the retort. The retort is provided with a removable revolving or sliding top for feeding as required, and may be removed by a derrick and blocks and tackle, or by any other suitable means.
(Specification, 4s. 6d.)

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

No. 30183.—13th September, 1910†.—LOUIS JOSEPH, of Gipps Street, Pyrmont, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Wire-mattress Manufacturer. Improvements in bedsteads.

Claim.—(1.) In knock-down bedsteads, posts each composed of a main part, to which a side rail of a mattress is secured, and top and bottom parts detachably secured in or hinged to said main part, substantially as described and illustrated.
(Specification, 3s. 9d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow three other claims.]

No. 30195.—12th September, 1911.—VALENTINE HENRY MACKINNEY, of 24 the Parade, Golders Green, Lighting Engineer, and STEPHEN DRUMMOND CHALMERS, of 25 Cornwall Road, Stroud Green, Optician, both of London, England. A new method of and apparatus for illuminating objects.

Claim.—(1.) A reflector for the distribution of light, so constructed that the direction of the reflecting surface changes continuously so that the rate of change of the direction from the source to a point on the mirror bears, to the rate of change of the direction of the beam reflected from this point, a ratio which is a function of the inclination of the reflected ray to the surface illuminated.
(Specification, 6s. 3d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow eight other claims.]

No. 30260.—27th September, 1911.—JACOB DONGES, of Drayton, Queensland, Australia, Farmer. Improvements in screening-mechanism.

Claims.—(1.) In screening-mechanism, a suitable frame in combination, with a plurality of rollers, having, for grading purposes, between them zigzag or like spaces of different widths, and means for the rotation of the said rollers in the same direction, all substantially as set forth.
(Specification, 3s. 9d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow two other claims.]

No. 30266.—29th May, 1911†.—JOHN CHRISTOPHER FERRY, of 241 Parramatta Road, Leichhardt, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Master Tailor. An improved hip-pocket for mens and youths’ trousers, breeches, and such-like garments.

Claim.—(1.) A hip-pocket, with no opening at back of trousers, the upper-part fabric of which is in one piece with or joined to the corresponding part of side pocket, substantially as described.
(Specification, 2s.)

[NOTE.—Here follow five other claims.]

No. 30287.—24th October, 1910†.—WALTER MARKS, of 60-62 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Agricultural Implement-manufacturer (assignee of Richard Thomas Park, of 60-62 Clarendon Street aforesaid, Engineer). Improved application of driving-gears to feed-rollers for chaffcutters, also for fish- and flesh-choppers and the like.

Claim.—(1.) A drive gear for the feed-rolls of chaff-cutters and like machines, comprising a drive wheel operating the fixed roller, a link mounted upon the spindle of said drive wheel, and connected with another link adapted to move with the adjustable roller, in combination with a gear wheel mounted upon said connected links and meshing with said drive wheel, and the gear wheel operating said adjustable roller, substantially as and for the purposes specified, and as illustrated in the drawings.
(Specification, 5s. 6d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow two other claims.]

No. 30301.—4th October, 1911.—WILLIAM SUTHERLAND LOGAN, of 604 Cumberland Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, Coppersmith. Improved water-mill.

Extract from Specification.—A series of buckets of triangular cross-section is arranged upon carrying-rings in such manner that the lowermost bucket is at right angles to the current, while the buckets entering and leaving the water are respectively at angles to produce the most effective result and to have little effect in retarding the wheel. (Specification, 2s.)

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

No. 30302.—2nd October, 1911.—GEORGE DAVID WHITE, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Contractor. Improved bagless paper cooker.

Claim.—(1.) In the class of cooking known as “paper-bag cookery,” a receptacle (formed preferably of thin metal per-

forated all over) capable of being lined with paper and covered with same, the said papers being turned outwards and downwards, and clipped with a clip, all substantially as shown on the drawing and as described and explained.
(Specification, 3s.)

[NOTE.—Here follow two other claims.]

No. 30303.—2nd October, 1911.—ERNEST HAYES, of Oturahua, New Zealand, Millwright and Engineer. An improved machine for coiling wire or rope.

Claim.—(1.) In reels for winding or coiling ropes or wire, a reel mounted on a stand so as to revolve, having the back arms fixtures and the front ones capable of disappearing below the surface of the body of the said reel, by one of the bosses being capable of being given part of a turn to one side, thus taking all the front arms down as required, all substantially as shown on the drawing and as described and as explained.
(Specification, 2s. 9d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow two other claims.]

No. 30306.—24th January, 1911†.—HERBERT GEORGE PENNINGTON, of Lulic Street, Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia, Engineer. Improvements in teat-cups of milking-machines.

Extract from Specification.—A teat-cup consisting of an inner flexible lining or casing (preferably of rubber) having a rib or bead at its upper edge adapted to engage an externally grooved metal ring, upon which sits an annular cap, which is held in position by a flange screwed on the top of the outer casing, the said inner casing or lining being held in position at the bottom of the cup by a nipple having a screw nut or washer.
(Specification, 5s.)

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

No. 30324.—7th October, 1911.—RALPH E. HARRISON, of Kohukohu, New Zealand, Settler. Improvements in window-sashes.

Extract from Specification.—The invention consists in constructing the window-sash with a narrow opening extending horizontally across it, and combining therewith a plate arranged to extend inwardly and downwardly from the top edge of the opening. The opening may be made in the top horizontal member of the sash-frame, or in the pane of glass, and the plate employed may be hinged, so that when desired it may be turned down to cover the opening against the entry of draughts, &c.
(Specification, 2s. 3d.)

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

No. 30328.—6th October, 1911.—WILLIAM HENRI LUTHER, of Frederick Braby and Company, Limited, of Petershill Road, Glasgow, Scotland, Manufacturer. Improvements in and relating to roof-lights and the like.

Claim.—(1.) In roof-lights and the like, a ventilating opening at the lower end closed by an oscillating plate or frame actuated to open or close by a chain, cord, or the like connected to the end of an arm or lever secured on the oscillating plate, substantially as described and illustrated by the drawings.
(Specification, 2s. 9d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow two other claims.]

No. 30338.—5th November, 1910†.—RALPH SANDERSON, of off Grey Street, West Brunswick, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Glass-bottle Finisher. Improvements on producer-gas furnaces for smelting and heating purposes.

Claim.—(1.) In a regenerative producer-gas furnace, flues by which the waste gases are led in contact with the walls of the producers, as well as with the walls of the flues which carry the air of combustion, as and for the purposes described.
(Specification, 4s. 6d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow two other claims.]

No. 30341.—11th October, 1911.—WILLIAM LAMBERT IMLAY, of 9 South 16th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Inventor. Improvements in apparatus for the recovery of gold, silver, and other precious metals from their ores.

Extract from Specification.—My invention more particularly consists in the employment of some point, between the stamp-battery and the slimes department, of the lixiviating apparatus embodying my improvements, the said apparatus comprising a slowly rotating cylinder having one end arranged for receiving the pulverized ore and cyanide-solution and the other end arranged for the automatic delivery of the pulp containing the slimes, sands, and solution, the said cylinder having upon its interior wall a helical inwardly extending flange, supplemental by a plurality of longitudinal inwardly directed ribs or bucket structures, which operate, during its rotation, to slowly convey the contents from the feeding to the discharge end of the cylinder, and at the same time to carry up the pulp and spill it downward through the air with