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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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No. 29071.—1st February, 1911.—THOMAS EDWARDS, of Webster Street, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Metallurgist. Improvements in means for and mode of filtering and otherwise treating metalliferous material.

Claims.—(1.) An agitation-vat for metalliferous material having side and bottom filtering-screens forming parts of superimposed chambers for receiving filtered liquor, and means for producing suction through one or more of said chambers, as indicated. (2.) In an agitation-vat for metalliferous material, a chamber situated in part below a filter-screen on the vat-bottom and in part behind a filter-screen extending up the vat-side, and means to draw filtered liquor into and through the said chamber by suction.

[NOTE.—Here follow eight other claims.]
(Specification, 8s.)

No. 29073.—1st February, 1911.—THOMAS FRANCIS BROADFIELD, of Grong Grong, New South Wales, Australia, Farmer. Improvements in toothed wheel masks and attachments.

Extract from Specification.—I provide a mask or shell which has as its foundation the worn-out or old pinion or toothed wheel, or an unworn one, the rigidity of said foundation being utilized, and the mask or shell being so applied as to be removable readily so that a new one may take its place when required.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 10s.)

No. 29077.—1st February, 1911.—UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, of Paterson, in the State of New Jersey, United States of America, a corporation duly organized under the laws of said State of New Jersey, carrying on business as Shoe-machinery Manufacturers, and having a place of business at 205 Lincoln Street, Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in said United States of America (assignees of George Bryant and William Underwood, both of Leicester, England, Engineers). Improvements in or relating to machines for inserting fastenings.

Extract from Specification.—In the preferred embodiment of the invention herein illustrated, the stationary part 4 has formed upon it the side wall 8 and the back wall 10 of the nail-guiding opening, and the movable part has formed upon it the other side wall 12 and the front wall 14. The front of the movable part 6 has a lateral projection 16 which fits between forward projections 18 and 20 upon the stationary part 4. The side of the movable part extends bodily into a recess 22 in the stationary part 4, and is provided with an extension 24, which is guided in a guide-opening 26 extending along the side of the stationary part 4. At the rear end of the extension 24 is an offset portion 28, which overhangs the rear end of the part 4, and abuts against a spiral spring 30 socketed in the part 4 and surrounding a pin 32 in the overhanging part 28. The extension 24 has formed in it a slot 34, through which passes a screw 36 screwed into the part 4, a leaf spring 38 being confined under the head of said screw, and serving to press the extension 24 against the part 4.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 8s. 3d.)

No. 29085.—30th January, 1911.—GAVIN STRUTHERS, Tailor, and JAMES BROWN, Farmer, both of Christchurch, New Zealand (nominees of William McMillan, of Larkhall, Scotland). Improvements in and connected with washing-machines.

Claims.—(1.) In washing-machines, the combination with a semicircular or like shaped tub of an oscillating spar-bottomed curved cradle or rubber and a flexible spared band carried on rollers, by which its position is adjusted by means of a ratchet wheel and pawl, substantially as described, and illustrated by the drawings. (2.) Washing-machines constructed and arranged substantially as described, and illustrated by the drawings.

(Specification, 2s. 9d.)

No. 29107.—14th February, 1910.†—THOMAS BARRETT, of 179 Jones Street, Ultimo, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Blacksmith. Improved horse-shoe shaping and forming machine.

Extract from Specification.—A heated metal bar of requisite width, thickness, and length is fed to a table where blanks of the required length are cut therefrom, and bent to form the heel-calks thereon, and then bent or shaped to the usual horse-shoe or U shape. The blanks are then automatically transferred to a travelling die or anvil block, and carried between a resistance or supporting wheel and a forming-wheel, where the forming of the nail-channel and the inside dishing takes place, and they are then discharged from the machine by an ejector operating in the forming-die.

[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]
(Specification, 11s. 3d.)

No. 29110.—9th February, 1911.—SAMUEL THOMAS ASHTON, of Castlecliff, near Wanganui, New Zealand, Settler. An improved tip-trolly.

Claims.—(1.) The improved tip-trolly as described, comprising a truck, a carriage pivoted centrally upon said truck and adapted to rotate to any position, and a body pivoted at its centre at or near the front end of the said carriage to enable the said body to be tipped, substantially as set forth. (2.) The improved tip-trolly as described, the parts combined, constructed, and arranged substantially as specified, and illustrated in the drawings.

(Specification, 2s. 3d.)

Copies of drawings may be obtained at the uniform price of 1s. each. In exceptional cases this price may be increased at the discretion of the Office.

An asterisk (*) denotes the complete specification of an invention for which a provisional specification has been already lodged. A dagger (†) denotes a prior date under the International and Intercolonial Arrangements.

NOTE.—The cost of copying the specification has been inserted after the notice of each application. An order for a copy or copies should be accompanied by a post-office order or postal note for the cost of copying.

The date of acceptance of each application is given after the number.

Extracts from the drawings accompanying the foregoing complete specifications appear at the end of this Gazette.

J. C. LEWIS,
Registrar.

Provisional Specifications accepted.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 17th February, 1911.

APPLICATIONS for Letters Patent, with provisional specifications, have been accepted as under:—

No. 28978.—L. Shaw, wool-scouring preparation.
No. 28986.—C. Timms, advertisement-displaying. (T. E. B. Poole.)
No. 29006.—G. C. McKellar, closet-flush.
No. 29012.—R. H. Guilleford, boot-heel grip.
No. 29013.—C. C. Odlin, A. Johnston, and T. D. Glover, closet-flush.
No. 29029.—T. B. Jacobsen, aerial ship.
No. 29030.—J. R. Howard, telephone system.
No. 29037.—J. J. Keppel and S. A. Lyttle, flax-blade sorter.
No. 29038.—N. C. Macpherson, bi-plane.
No. 29039.—W. A. Rawson, bicycle dress-guard.
No. 29040.—C. Christie, earth-excavator. (H. R. M. Whittell.)
No. 29045.—J. Peters and T. Lindon, harness and connecting-means.
No. 29053.—C. E. Thompson, jun., and W. F. Dane, fruit-case and filler.