MAY 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1735

No. 29394.—4th July, 1910.†—SIMS LEVER, of No. 229 Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Manufacturer. Improvement in neckbands of shirts and like garments.

Claims.—(1.) Improvement in neckbands of shirts and like garments, consisting in making said neckbands in overlapping sections, substantially as described and explained. (2.) Improvement in neckbands of shirts and like garments, consisting in making said neckbands with telescoping sections, substantially as described and explained.

[NOTE.—Here follow three other claims.]

(Specification, 3s.)

No. 29399.—13th April, 1911.—ALFRED HUDSON and FRANK S. SMITH, both of Te Hopai, Featherston, New Zealand, Flax-cutter and Flax-scutter respectively. Improved apparatus for treating flax.

Extract from Specification.—According hereto, the usual endless chain employed for conveying flax from a stripper is made to carry the flax through a steamer. From this steamer the chain conveys the flax to vertical brushes which revolve in directions opposite to the travel of the conveyor-chain. The brushes are mounted in a casing provided with combs, which remove the vegetable matter from the brushes. The flax is then conveyed through troughs supplied with running water and through other revolving brushes.

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

(Specification, 4s.)

No. 29410.—29th April, 1910.†—WILLIAM FREDERICK KEATING STOCK, of 9 Houndgate, Darlington, Durham, England, Analytical and Consulting Chemist. An improved fertilizer, insecticide, and fungicide.

Claims.—(1.) The manufacture of an improved fertilizer, insecticide, and fungicide by the compounding together of spent oxide, carbon-waste, and crude drained naphthalene. (2.) The use of carbon-waste from the manufacture of paper or other sources yielding a similar product, in the compounding of the said fertilizer, insecticide, and fungicide.

(Specification, 1s. 6d.)

No. 29411.—19th April, 1911.—IRVING RUDOLPH VAN WART, of 106 and 108 Queen Victoria Street, London, England, Manufacturer. Improvements in cattle-branding instruments.

Extract from Specification.—The instrument of my invention comprises a divided dismountable holder adapted to clamp one or more groups of needles in the form of one or more numerals or characters, or combination of same.

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

(Specification, 4s. 6d.)

No. 29412.—19th April, 1911.—PASCAL MARINO, of 41 Wellington Street, Gloucester Crescent, London N.W., England, Chemist. Improvements in the manufacture of separators for use in electrical batteries and electrolytic apparatus.

Claims.—(1.) The process of rendering fabrics or materials of animal or vegetable origin suitable for use as separators in electrical batteries or electrolytic apparatus which consists in immersing the material or fabric in an alkaline silicate bath, then in a bath of dilute phosphoric or sulphuric acid, and subsequently coating the fabric with a film of gutta-percha, indiarubber, or celluloid, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

[NOTE.—Here follow three other claims.]

(Specification, 4s. 9d.)

No. 29414.—19th April, 1911.—EDMUND SEAL DONISTHORPE, of 189 Hammersmith Road, London, England, Gentleman. Improvements in or relating to apparatus for synchronizing the working of machinery.

Extracts from Specification.—This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for synchronizing the working of machinery such as bioscopes, kinematographs, or other picture-projecting machines, and phonographs or other talking-machines. . . . According to this invention, a weaker but faster-running machine is associated with a stronger but slower-running machine in such a manner that, when the two machines are in actual working, owing to the tendency of the one machine to overrun the other, a member connected with the former is maintained in close relationship with an engaging-member connected with the latter, and the movements of the faster-running machine are thereby regulated or governed. Assuming the invention to be applied to the working of a kinematograph and phonograph or talking-machine, two members or discs operatively connected with the respective machines are capable of relative angular movement, the disc pertaining to the talking-machine being adapted to overtake, engage, and rotate with the other disc. The disc which is operated by the kinematograph serves to retard the movement of the disc operated by the talking-machine, but should the speed of the kinematograph disc be accelerated, the speed of the other disc will also increase; the arrangement is such that the talking-machine disc is capable of rotating at a speed greater than the maximum speed of the kinematograph disc. The aforesaid machines may be operatively connected to intermediate shafting adapted to transmit motion from one machine to the other, or to actuate or help to actuate or to govern the respective machines.

[NOTE.—The above extracts from the specification are inserted in place of the claims.]

(Specification, 12s. 9d.)

No. 29419.—21st April, 1911.—CLEMENS GRAAFF, of 17 Linkstreet, Berlin, Germany, Merchant. Improvements in methods of and apparatus for extinguishing fires.

Extract from Specification.—The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for extinguishing fires. The method is characterized in a container filled with the extinguishing-fluid, being connected with a pipe conduit, a flexible hose-line, a pipe system, or the like, and placed under gas-pressure in case of a conflagration, thereby forcing the extinguishing-fluid into the pipes, the flexible hose, the pipe system, or the like, so that the said fluid may be drawn from said pipes at suitable points.

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

(Specification, £1 14s. 9d.)

No. 29431.—25th April, 1911.—ELI LEONARD STRAWBRIDGE, of Palmerston North, New Zealand, Farmer. Improvements in or relating to gate-hinges.

Extract from Specification.—According to my invention, the pin of the pintle is strengthened by connecting its upper free end directly to a gate-post, the said means also preventing the lifting of the gate from its hinges.

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

(Specification, 1s. 6d.)

No. 29434.—26th April, 1911.—SYDNEY MOODY, of Plenty Road, Preston, Victoria, Australia, Mechanical Engineer. Improved cycle handle-bar stem, and lamp-bracket for use therewith.

Claims.—(1.) A cycle-lamp bracket fitted with a split tube, a conoidal jamb-nut or expander carried by a set-screw which passes through said tube and bracket, said tube being adapted to fit into the forward end of a tubular handle-bar stem extension, substantially as described and illustrated, and for the purposes set forth.

[NOTE.—Here follows one other claim.]

(Specification, 2s. 6d.)