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which fits the cylinder. A cap 8 fits as a cover upon a cylindrical extension 9 which serves as an inlet for the milk, and has a strainer, preferably removable, and which may be provided with a loop to enable it to be removed and suspended. The bottom of the cylinder has inclined rectangular sockets 11, 12, and 13, which receive the upper ends of inclined supports 14, 15, and 16 respectively.

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

(Specification, 2s. 3d.)

No. 29101.—17th February, 1910.†—BERNHARD JACQUES FLÜRSCHHEIM, of Rushmoor, Fleet, Hampshire, England, Doctor of Philosophy and Research Chemist. Improvements relating to explosives.

Claims.—(1.) An explosive charge or composition consisting of or containing tetra-nitro-aniline or one of the derivatives of the kind mentioned. (2.) Explosive mixtures containing tetra-nitro-aniline in addition to oxidizing and combustible bodies, substantially as described. (3.) Explosive or detonating composition prepared or composed substantially as indicated by the examples.

(Specification, 3s. 6d.)

No. 29158.—24th February, 1910.†—JAMES ERNEST TATHAM, of 2 Margaret Lane, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Engineer. Means for preventing the combustion of the films in cinematograph and other similar appliances.

Claim.—In relation to cinematographs and analogous machines, one or more nozzles directed towards the exposed part of the film within the gate, and/or towards that part of the gate exposed to the heat-rays from the lamp, and means for supplying a current of air or non-inflammable gas under pressure to be projected through the nozzle or nozzles against the exposed part of the film within the gate, and/or the frame of the gate, as and for the purposes specified.

(Specification, 3s. 9d.)

No. 29183.—27th February, 1911.—BENJAMIN HENRY BERRY BISHOP, Blacksmith, and EDWARD JOHN MALCOLM MILLER, Farmer, both of Waverley, New Zealand. Improvements in acetylene-gas generator.

Claims.—(1.) An improved acetylene-gas generator, the combination of a carbide-chamber, with a water-tank and gas-holder alongside and attached thereto, a purifier fitted within water-tank, and the particular style of automatic water-supply to carbide. (2.) The improved acetylene-generator constructed and operating substantially as described and explained in specification, and as illustrated in the drawings. (3.) The hermetically sealed vertical gas-generating or carbide chamber, its particular style of applying the automatic supply of water, the cooling-jacket to gas-generating chamber and gauge. (4.) The improved style of gas-holder. (5.) The pressure of gas being given by head of water only. (6.) The particular safety of handling of all parts. (7.) The particular style of purifying by water only. The whole of the above claims being substantially specified, and illustrated in the drawings.

(Specification, 2s. 6d.)

No. 29288.—20th March, 1911.—WILLIAM GLOYN, of Whangarei, Auckland, New Zealand, Carpenter. Improvements relating to lifting bridges.

Claims.—(2.) In lifting bridges, the employment of a counter-balancing arrangement in which a series of weights are one after the other lifted from and delivered upon a platform as the bridge is raised or lowered, as the case may be, substantially as specified and illustrated. (3.) In lifting bridges, the employment of a chain or a plurality of chains or ropes connected to one end of the bridge, passing over guide-sheaves, and bearing a series of counter-balanced weights arranged at suitable intervals, substantially as and for the purposes set forth and illustrated.

(Specification, 1s. 9d.)

No. 29302.—18th March, 1911.—ALEXANDER STORRIE, of Invercargill, New Zealand, Engineer and Agricultural-implement maker. Improved milking machinery.

Claims.—(1.) In milking machinery, the combination of a motor consisting of a double-headed piston working in a cylinder by the action of air at a different pressure from the atmosphere, said piston reversing automatically at each end of each stroke by positive tappet action within and between the said double heads of the piston, which motions produce the pulsating on the teats by alternate make and break with the atmosphere and vacuum, with a can exhausted from the main vacuum tube, which is sufficiently separated from the pipe that works the motor, all substantially as shown on the drawing, and as described and as explained.

[NOTE.—Here follow six other claims.]

(Specification, 6s. 3d.)

No. 29377.—6th April, 1911.—ISAAC HARRISON, of Tauhinu Road, Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand, Condiment-manufacturer. Apparatus for corking bottles.

Claims.—(2.) Apparatus for the purpose indicated characterized by having a vertical frame and interchangeable die-blocks fitting guides in said frame and removable laterally therefrom, substantially as and for the purpose specified, and illustrated in the drawing. (3.) In apparatus for the purpose indicated, a slide-rod carrying a vertically reciprocating plunger, and a guide for said slide-rod carried in guides in the vertical frame and removable laterally therefrom, substantially as and for the purpose specified, and illustrated in the drawing. (4.) In combination, a vertical frame, a lever fulcrumed at the upper end thereof, the slide-rod connected by a link with said lever, and a tension-spring connected to the vertical end of the lever, substantially as and for the purpose specified, and illustrated in the drawing.

(Specification, 2s. 6d.)

No. 29381.—7th April, 1911.—ARTHUR HENRY HALE and FREDERICK JOSEPH NATHAN, both of Palmerston North, New Zealand, Inventors. Improved heating and pasteurizing apparatus for dairy factories and the like.

Claims.—(1.) Apparatus for the purpose indicated, comprising, in combination, a water-heater, a cylindrical vessel, a series of tubes passing therethrough, dome covers (one at each end), pipes connecting said vessel with the heater, and means for delivering milk through the cover at one end of said vessel and discharging it through the opposite cover, substantially as specified, and illustrated in the drawing.

[NOTE.—Here follow four other claims.]

(Specification, 3s. 3d.)

No. 29398.—13th April, 1911.—WILLIAM EGGLETON, of Bunnythorpe, Palmerston North, New Zealand, Engineer. An improvement relating to spanners for screw nuts.

Claims.—(1.) A spanner comprising a handle flexible in one direction, and a head to receive a screw nut, substantially as and for the purposes specified, and illustrated in the drawing. (2.) A spanner comprising a head to receive a screw nut, and a handle composed of a plurality of hinge-jointed links, substantially as and for the purposes specified, and illustrated in the drawing.

(Specification, 2s. 3d.)

No. 29408.—13th April, 1911.—HENNING PROCESS SUGAR EXTRACTION COMPANY, a corporation duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of California, having its principal place of business at No. 419 California Street, San Francisco, California, United States of America (assignees of William Henning, of Lahaina, Island of Maui, Hawaii Territory, United States of America, Sugar-boiler). Process of manufacturing sugar.

Claims.—(1.) That step in the process of the manufacture of sugar which consists in adding molasses-residue from one strike, diluted to a syrup, to a second strike when the sugar of the latter is almost finished and its grains well developed. (2.) In the process of the manufacture of sugar, those certain steps which consist in adding molasses-residue from one strike, diluted to a syrup, to a second strike when the sugar of the latter is almost finished and its grains well developed, and then carrying the mass to a finish.

[NOTE.—Here follow two other claims.]

(Specification, 6s.)