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No. 28855.—8th December, 1910.—ETIENNE WILLIAMS KUHN, of 133 Tooley Street, London S.E., England, Engineer. An improved process relating to the manufacture of beers or beverages.

Extract from Specification.—According to the invention, in the manufacture of beer a quantity of malt is separately mashed for the production of a solution of fermentable matter determined according to the amount of alcohol to be contained in the finished beer, while the rest of the mashing is effected under such conditions that the starch contained in the grain is transformed into unfermentable dextrine; while the fermentation is effected within a closed vessel whereby the carbonic-acid gas evolved enters into solution in its nascent state with the special substances contained in the wort, the presence of which is due to this particular method of mashing, while the liquid is filtered and sterilized under pressure.

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

(Specification, 5s. 3d.)

No. 28863.—10th December, 1910.—CHARLES MARTIN BURRELL, of 7 Wickstead Place, Wanganui, New Zealand, Plumber. Improvements in and relating to domestic and the like baths.

Extract from Specification.—According hereto, the water is conveyed from a common source of supply to the bath, and to a shower and douche attached to the bath, the means by which the water is conveyed to these respective parts of the bath serving at the same time to support the said shower and douche, and to retain a screen for them in position. A cast or stamped-metal roll is provided upon the top edge of the said bath for the purpose of giving greater rigidity to the bath by which to support the different parts of said bath.

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

(Specification, 6s. 3d.)

No. 28865.—9th December, 1910.—WOODS-GILBERT RAIL PLANER COMPANY, LIMITED, carrying on business as Engineers at Broken Hill Chambers, 31 Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (assignees of John Little, of 9 Nelson Road, Camberwell, Bourke, Victoria aforesaid, Engineer). An improved machine for planing rails upon their tracks.

Claims.—(1.) In improvements in machines for dressing rails, a platform provided with undriven dressing-elements adapted to treat the rails by passing over them with the travel of said platform. . . . (4.) In improvements in machines for dressing rails, a platform having undriven dressing-elements for each rail, means for guiding said elements by their rails independently of the platform, means for automatically adjusting said elements to varying levels of their rails independently of the platform.

[NOTE.—Here follow eight other claims.]

(Specification, 10s. 3d.)

No. 28870.—13th December, 1910.—MUREX MAGNETIC COMPANY, LIMITED, of Baltic House, Leadenhall Street, London, England, Merchants (assignees of Alfred Arthur Lockwood, of Baltic House aforesaid, Chemist). Improvements in the treatment of auriferous and argentiferous ores.

Claim.—The treatment of auriferous or argentiferous ores (especially copper-ores) or the like with a solution of a silicate of an alkaline nature preparatory to or during the usual cyanide process, substantially as and for the purpose described.

(Specification, 1s. 9d.)

No. 28888.—17th December, 1910.—DONALD ELDER, of Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand, Sheep-farmer. An improved wire-wrapping machine.

Extract from Specification.—According hereto, a binding-wire is fed by a pair of rollers through a jaw which receives the wires to be bound together. By the turning of a handle a wheel mounted in the jaw, and having a gap which admits the wires to approximately its centre, is revolved and a laterally projecting pin caused to engage the binding-wire and coil it the desired number of times around the wires to be bound together. A cam-operated cutter then severs the binding-wire, and the machine is removed to another place and the operation repeated.

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

(Specification, 6s. 9d.)

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No. 28890.—17th December, 1910.—GEORGE LOMAS, of Byron Street, Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand, Harbour Board Overseer. Improved means for use in the haulage of trucks by horses.

Extract from Specification.—The invention designed provides a frame for attachment to the rear of the truck, and in which the horse is harnessed in such a manner that the pull of the horse on the frame will be transmitted forwardly as a push upon the truck, and thus to propel it in that manner. The frame is adapted to be easily disconnected from the truck so that the necessary run free from the horse may be provided for. The frame is also adapted to be connected at its back end to the truck, so that it may with the horse in it be turned round and connected, and thus allow of the truck being drawn back along the track.

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

(Specification, 3s.)

No. 28907.—20th December, 1910.—CHARLIE TOOTELL, of The Engineers’ Depot, Alexander Avenue, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Commercial Traveller. Improved contrivance to provide for the free exit of flies from buildings, and to prevent their re-entrance.

Extract from Specification.—The essential feature of this invention consists in the use of conical or funnel-shaped projections 1 as illustrated in the drawings, permanently or temporarily fixed in the window, door, fanlight, fly-door, fly-blind, ventilator, or other desired part of a dwelling or other building construction in such a way that the smaller diameter of said conical or funnel-shaped projection projects outwardly, said end being provided with a small hole 2 which allows the flies to escape from the interior of the building or other structure to which it is applied, whilst the larger diameter 3 or base of the conical or funnel-shaped projection is set in or is flush with the surface of the gauze 4, piece of wood, sheet of glass, metal, or other material to which it is attached, or upon or from which it is formed.

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

(Specification, 6s. 6d.)

No. 28914.—6th January, 1910.—MATTHEW HENDERSON, of Onehunga, New Zealand, Sawmiller. An improved life-saving boat.

Claims.—(1.) A life-saving boat characterized by being made of horizontal cylindrical form and having watertight weight compartments in its lower half and doors opening outwards in its upper half, substantially as specified. (2.) In a life-saving boat constructed as described in claim 1, a telescopic mast mounted in an opening in the cylinder and adapted to be drawn in through such opening, and a cover for covering the opening, substantially as specified. (3.) In a life-saving boat constructed as described in claim 1, a conning-tower mounted in the upper half thereof and adapted to be drawn into the space within the boat, or to be projected above it, substantially as specified. (4.) The improved life-saving boat constructed and operating as described and explained.

(Specification, 4s.)

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J. C. LEWIS,
Registrar.