No. 28780.—23rd November, 1910.—FRANK MARSHALL FIELD, Mechanic, and DAVID ALEXANDER SKENE, Agent, both of 90 William Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Method of and means for stopping railway-trains in times of danger, and for providing against carelessness of drivers or signalmen.*

Claims.—(1.) The method set forth of stopping railway-trains in times of danger, consisting essentially in the employment of engaging-devices upon the permanent-way and the locomotive to bring into action the steam or other fluid motive power employed on the locomotive so as to move a piston to operate suitable mechanism to shut off the steam or other fluid-pressure from the engines, apply the brakes, and cause the whistle or other alarm to be sounded, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

(4.) In means for stopping railway-trains in times of danger, in combination, a metal arc mounted on a rod and capable of moving vertically, means upon the permanent-way to cause said arc and rod to rise, means communicating from the signal-box to control the locking and unlocking of the parts necessary, means to utilize the movement of the arc and rod to turn an actuating fluid into a cylinder, a piston therein, and means by which the forward movement of the piston shall operate to throttle the engines, close the brakes, and open an alarm on the locomotive, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

[Note—Here follow four other claims.]

(Specification, 8s. 3d.)

No. 28806.—24th December, 1909.†—ALEXANDER GILLIES, of Banksia Street, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, Dairyman. Improvements in teat-cups.

Extract from Specification.—The inner tube or inflation is accordingly flattened somewhat, or made of an approximately uniform elliptical shape in cross-section, and also made tapering at the lower end to facilitate an airtight connection with a flanged ferrule or metallic base plate after a tube, stretched and lengthened by wear, has been shortened.

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

(Specification, 4s. 6d.)

No. 28918.—21st December, 1910.—CECIL GEORGE McKELLAR, Assoc. Mech. Eng., C.E., of Christchurch, New Zealand, Consulting Engineer. Improvements in tennis-racquets.

Claims.—(1.) In an article of the class described, channel-shaped sections of sheet material adapted to fit upon and embrace the shoulders, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth. (2.) In an article of the class described, sleeves of suitable material adapted to envelop the shoulders, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth. (3.) In an article of the class described, channel-shaped sections of sheet material adapted to fit upon and embrace the shoulders and formed with slotted openings therein to receive the strings, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

(Specification, 2s.)

No. 28943.—4th January, 1911.—ASA NORMAN WHITNEY, of the Colonial Ammunition Company, Limited, of Auckland, New Zealand, and Melbourne Club, Melbourne, Australia, Captain, Marine Engineer, and Ammunition-manufacturer. Improvements in and relating to rifle ranges, targets, and the like.

Claims.—(1.) In a shooting-range, the combination with a track, of a trolley, a vertical and rotatable pivot thereon, a target-carrying device pivoted upon said pivot, targets on said device, means for automatically causing said device to move angularly about said pivot, means for propelling said trolly along the track, means for causing the targets to disappear, means for automatically stopping said trolly, means for protecting said propelling-means from projectiles, and means for allowing access to said propelling-means through said projecting-means, substantially in the manner set forth.

[Note.—Here follow six other claims.]

(Specification, 10s. 6d.)

No. 28998.—17th January, 1911.—WILLIAM THOMAS CARLING, of Tangley, Sydney Road, Guilford, Surrey, England, Hot-water and Electrical Engineer. Improvements in open stoves or grates provided with a water-heating fitting or attachment.

Claims.—(1.) In a fireplace which is fitted with a boiler having a plate mounted in front of the front plate thereof with an intervening space between said plates, constituting a flue communicating at the bottom with the fire-grate of such stove, preferably at a point below the top bar of the grate, mounting said plate in a stationary position in front of the boiler and so that the space between it and said boiler opens out at top into the chimney of the stove at a point preferably level with or slightly above the top of the central part of the boiler, substantially as specified.

[NorE.—Here follow five other claims.]

(Specification, 7s. 9d.)

No. 29012.—18th January, 1911.—RICHARD HENRY GULLIFORD, of Oxley Street, St. Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand, Bootmaker. Heel-grip for boots and shoes.*

Claim.—Means for the purposes set forth, consisting of a pad shaped to underlie the tongue of a boot or shoe and to extend up the instep of the wearer's foot, substantially as specified.

(Specification, ls. 6d.)

No. 29079.—1st February, 1911.—PETALUMA INCUBATOR COMPANY, a Californian corporation, whose address is 236–242 Main Street, Petaluma, County of Sonoma, State of California, United States of America (assignees of Lyman C. Byce, of the above address, Manufacturer). Incubator.

Extract from Specification.—In the present embodiment of my invention, A represents the walls or casing of an incubator, which is here shown as provided with a double bottom 2, forming a channel or subway 3, into which air may be admitted from the interior 4 of the incubator through a transverse screened opening 5 formed in one end of the incubator. The subway 3 communicates through a port or passageway 6 with a suitably disposed tubular connection 7, which is here shown as being secured to the cylindrical heater-casing 8, forming a portion of a suitable heater, as indicated at 9, and which has an interior flue 10 open at its bottom to receive heated gases generated by any desired form of lamp or other heating-device 11, supported adjacent the bottom of the heater 9 on an appropriate bracket 12. The bracket 12 is slidably adjustable along a back plate or hanger 13 suitably secured to the end of the incubator.

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

(Specification, 1ls. 3d.)

No. 29162.—23rd February, 1911.—ALBERT EDWARD TILBURN, of No. 34 Albert Street, St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia, Draper. Improved means for supplying suitable fluid to a brush, pad, or the like media for the polishing of boots or for other uses.

Claims.—(1.) In means for supplying a suitable fluid to a brush, pad, or the like media, in combination, a collapsible tube to contain the required matter and closed at its lower end, a head-piece on such tube, a perforation through such head-piece, a brush, pad, or other absorbent media in communication with such perforation, a cap-piece, and a rod, the end of which latter is screwed to engage in the said perforation, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

[Note.—Here follow three other claims.]

(Specification, 4s. 9d.)

No. 29232.—8th March, 1911.—PETER McDERMOTT and THOMAS McDermott, both of Drysdale, Victoria, Australia, Farmers. Improvements in ploughshares, and points therefor.

Claims.—(1.) A ploughshare of metal bent or curved to form in front a socket for a removable point, and with a bent or curved member at the socket-rear forming a butt or stop for the point-rear, as described. (2.) A reversible share-point consisting of a length of oval tool-steel or the like, with ends sharpened into chisel or edges suitable for ploughing and having each end adapted to be fixed in a socket in a share-front as described.

[Note.—Here follow three other claims.]

(Specification, 4s.)