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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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ings. (4.) In a skylight of the kind described, a sash made
in sections, joined together by angle-pieces and bolts and
fitting around the vertical walls of the skylight-frame, sub-
stantially as specified, and illustrated in the drawings.
(5.) The combination and arrangement of parts comprising
the improved skylight, substantially as and for the purposes
set forth, and illustrated in the drawing.
(Specification, 3s. 9d.)

No. 28250.—12th August, 1910.—WILLIAM ACEY STEPHEN-
SON, of Waikino, New Zealand, Engineer. An improved
machine for use in the manufacture of lead-headed nails.*
Claims.—(1.) A machine for use in the manufacture of
lead-headed nails consisting of a wheel having a rim formed
with radial apertures, each adapted to receive a nail and to
position the nail’s head upon the outside of the rim, means
for feeding nails into the apertures as the wheel rotates,
moulding blocks or plates adapted to overlie the rim and
formed with moulds upon their inner faces corresponding in
position with the positions of the nails and with runner-
apertures leading into such moulds, and a nozzle beneath
which the runner-apertures pass as the wheel rotates and
connected to a supply of molten lead, substantially as speci-
fied.
[NOTE.—Here follow two other claims.]
(Specification, 5s. 9d.)

No. 28278.—17th August, 1910.—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 busi-
ness at 205 Lincoln Street, Boston, in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, in said United States of America (assignees of
William Herbert Borden, of Winchester, in the County of
Middlesex and said Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Machinist). Improvements in or relating to machines for use
in the manufacture of boots and shoes.*
Claims.—(1.) For a fastener-inserting or other machine
for operating upon boots and shoes in which the work is fed
intermittently, the provision of cutting-means (for example,
a trimming or a randing cutter, or both) that during their
cutting stroke move in a direction opposed to that in which
the work is fed. . . . (4.) The combination with the
subject-matter of preceding claiming clause No. 1 or No. 2,
of means whereby the trimming-cutter can be given a move-
ment at an angle to its normal movement to effect a cut
through the waste material to the line in which its normal
cut is to occur, with or without a device (for example, 58)
normally to prevent the operation of said means.
[NOTE.—Here follow eight other claims.]
(Specification, £1 1s.)

No. 28279.—17th August, 1910.—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 busi-
ness at 205 Lincoln Street, Boston, in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, in said United States of America (assignees of
Thomas Briggs, of Leicester, in the County of Leicester,
England, Engineer). Improvements in or relating to machines
for inserting fastenings.*
Claims.—(1.) For nailing or like machines provided with
a reciprocating puncturing tool or awl and a reciprocating
nail-driving tool, the combination with either or both of the
said tools of (a) a circular rotatable member at one side of the
axis of rotation of which a tool is secured, in order that
rotative adjustment of the said member in its support shall
adjust the tool bodily across its direction of reciprocation, or
(b) a sliding wedge-bar (for instance, the bar 25 guided to
move in a direction aslant the axis of the tool) or other
adjustable stop to bear against a tool and resist the end-
thrust thereon.
[NOTE.—Here follow two other claims.]
(Specification, 5s. 3d.)

No. 28280.—17th August, 1910.—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 busi-
ness at 205 Lincoln Street, Boston, in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, in said United States of America (assignees of
Arthur Bates, Engineer; Joseph Gouldbourn, engineer; and
Ernest Albert Cridland, Operator, all of Union Works, Bel-
grave Road, Leicester, in the County of Leicester, England).
Improvements in or relating to sole-leveUing and like
machines.*
Claims.—(1.) A machine of the class described having, in
combination, a rotary tool, and a cleansing-pad arranged
in contact with the surface of said tool. (2.) A machine of
the class described having, in combination, a rotary tool, a
pad of absorbent material arranged in contact therewith,
and means for supplying moisture to said pad. (3.) A
machine of the class described having, in combination, a
rotary tool movable over the work for acting on different
portions thereof, an absorbent pad supported for movement
with the tool, and a reservoir also movable with the tool
and arranged to supply moisture to said pad. . . . (10.) A
machine of the class described having, in combination, a rotary
tool, driving-means therefor, a tool-support, and connections
between said means and support constructed and arranged to
disconnect the tool from said means when it is placed on the
support and to connect the tool with said means when it is
removed from the support.
[NOTE.—Here follow twenty-six other claims.]
(Specification, £1 12s. 3d.)

No. 28282.—17th August, 1910.—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 busi-
ness at 205 Lincoln Street, Boston, in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, in said United States of America (assignees of
Erastus Edwin Winkley, of Lynn, in the County of Essex
and said Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Engineer). Im-
provements in or relating to lasting and like machines.*
Claims.—(1.) For a lasting or like machine having me-
chanism for imparting lateral and turning movements to the
pincers, an arrangement of the said mechanism such that
the lateral and the turning movements of the pincers can
operate independently of each other. . . . (3.) For a
lasting or like machine, a construction of the subject-matter
of preceding claiming clause No. 1 or No. 2 comprising an
oscillatory shoe (for example, 48) carrying a block (for ex-
ample, 49) operatively connected to the pincers for imparting
a lateral movement thereto, a cam (for example, 42), a cam-
lever (for example, 44) connecting the cam and shoe, a second
oscillatory shoe (for example, 64) carrying a block (for
example, 66) operatively connected with pincers for impart-
ing a turning movement thereto, a connection between the
cam-lever and the second shoe (for example, 58), and inde-
pendent devices (for example, 55, 84) for moving said blocks
in their respective shoes to vary the movements imparted
thereby to the pincers.
[NOTE.—Here follow three other claims.]
(Specification, 19s.)

No. 28966.—10th January, 1910.†—AUGUSTIN EMILIO
BOURCOUD, of 113 Kennington Park Road, London, England,
Civil Engineer. Improvements in and relating to the manu-
facture of iron and other metal.
Claims.—(1.) In a closed cyclic reduction process of the
kind referred to for the reduction of iron or other ores, and
wherein the reduction process and the regenerative process
can, at will, take place either both in a single closed cycle,
or the regenerative process can take place separately in a
closed and independent cycle, or the two processes can go on
together at any desired proportionate rate, so as to produce
a reducing-gas in which carbon-monoxide and carbon-dioxide
may be present in any desired proportion, supplying the
charge of ore and flux in a comminuted or granular condition
to and causing it to travel slowly and with continuous agita-
tion through the reducing-zone of a reducing-furnace and
causing the reducing-gas to flow over the agitated stream so
that the two are brought into intimate and effective contact
with each other.
[NOTE.—Here follow ten other claims.]
(Specification, 11s. 3d.)

No. 29042.—1st December, 1910.†—COLVILLE CHRISTIE, of
Royal Insurance Buildings, at Pitt and Spring Streets,
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Public Accountant
(assignee of Henry Rawes Marcham Whittell, of Beescroft,
near Sydney aforesaid, Customs and Shipping Agent). Im-
provements in lifting-cranes.*
Extracts from Specification.—This invention refers to lift-
ing-cranes with a derrick-arm extruding from a pillar and
preferably a revolving pillar, and it has been specially devised