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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 91

No. 30204.—13th September, 1911.—MICHAEL FREEMAN LOUNDAR, GEORGE FREEMAN LOUNDAR, and WILLIAM FREEMAN LOUNDAR, all of 62 Sussex Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Shop-fitters. Improvements in movable shelf-brackets.

Extracts from Specification.—According to our invention, the bracket consists of a filleted plate, which may be made with a flanged overhanging portion to facilitate attachment thereto of a shelf. . . . The rear upper part or heel of the bracket is bent and hooked back upon itself to form a grip slidable on a rectangular pillar or standard. The lower part of the bracket forming the toe thereof is similarly bent around so as to form a sliding grip on either side of said pillar or standard, the toe portion being brought to an edge engageable with any one of a number of V notches cut in the front edge of the pillar or standard before mentioned. (Specification, 3s. 3d.)

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

No. 30206.—13th September, 1911.—CHARLES ARTHUR GREEN, of “Chatsworth,” Juliett Street, Marrickville, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Traveller. Improvements in overhead electrical trolley-line ears.

Extract from Specification.—The essential feature of my invention is the combination with a permanent carrier of a light envelope forming a clip for round wire, said envelope being clamped in and supported by the carrier.

(Specification, 4s. 3d.)

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

No. 30209.—13th September, 1911.—JEFFREY DENNISS, of Fore Street, Canterbury, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Tanner, and WILLIAM LESLIE FIDLER, of “Ravenswood,” Gordon, Sydney aforesaid, Gentleman. Fluid-enveloped vacuum chambers.

Claims.—(1.) A fluid-enclosed vacuum vessel, chamber, or container, composed of concrete and metal reinforcement, a bottle-neck attachment secured thereto having a channelled seating-ring thereon, and a flexible insertion in the channelled seating-ring to seat a removable access-door. (2.) In a fluid-enclosed vacuum vessel, chamber, or container, the combination, with a bottle-neck attachment forming part of such vessel, of a removable access-door, and the means for securing said door, consisting of supporting-hangers having a bridge-piece suspended thereon and a clamping-screw to seat and secure said access-door.

(Specification, 7s. 9d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow six other claims.]

No. 30210.—12th September, 1911.—THE PEAT COAL INVESTMENT COMPANY, LIMITED, of 34 Nicholas Lane, Lombard Street, London E.C., England, Manufacturers (assignees of Thomas Rigby, Station Hotel, Dumfries, Scotland). Improved method and apparatus for gathering and transporting peat.

Claims.—(1.) A method of gathering or transporting peat hydraulically, consisting in cutting the peat from the bog or other source, then disintegrating or pulping the same to a more or less uniform condition, and then conveying the watery disintegrated peat to the desired spot, as by pumping through a pipe-line or other duct, substantially as described. (2.) Apparatus for carrying out the method of claim 1, consisting of a peat-excavator supplying a disintegrating-device and a pipe-line through which the substance leaving the disintegrator is caused to pass to the desired spot by a suitable pumping-device, substantially as described.

(Specification, 6s. 3d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow three other claims.]

No. 30211.—13th September, 1911.—CAMPBELL ERNEST McCAY, of 7 Kalimna Street, Essendon, Victoria, Australia, Accountant. Means for raising, lowering, or conveying cargo or other weighty material from one level or position to another.

Claim.—(1.) In raising, lowering, or conveying cargo or other weighty material from one level or position to another, means by which a synchronous transfer of brake-action is effected from one cable or rope to the other in such a manner that a carrier may be moved along the suspension cable or rope whilst the weight-supporting cable or rope is gripped by its respective brake, and alternately that when the suspension cable or rope is gripped by its respective brake the weight-supporting cable or rope is freed so that said weight may be lifted or lowered, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

(Specification, 8s. 6d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow five other claims.]

No. 30213.—14th September, 1911.—HENRY SELBY HELESHAW, LL.D., Fellow of the Royal Society, and FRANCIS LEIGH MARTINEAU, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, both of No. 64 Victoria Street, London S.W., England. Improvements in hydraulic transmission apparatus.

Claims.—(1.) In hydraulic transmission apparatus for power-driven vehicles, the combination of a continuously driven variable-stroke pump carried by the vehicle and a motor or motors in a closed liquid circuit, the motors essentially forming the bodies of vehicle-wheels. (2.) The hydraulic-motor wheel for use in combination with a variable-stroke pump, said wheels comprising the combination of an axle constructed to form a valve radiating cylinders rotatable relative to the axle-valve and occupying position usually occupied by the wheel-spokes, pistons associated with the cylinders, devices carried by the pistons and co-operating with fixed cams or eccentrics, and a felloe or enclosing rim surrounding the cylinders, substantially as specified.

(Specification, 8s. 9d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow nine other claims.]

No. 30222.—14th September, 1911.—HARRY HUDSON SHAW, of Hamilton, Auckland, New Zealand, Farmer. An improved water-power developer.*

Extract from Specification.—The wheel is constructed and mounted in the usual way, provision being made for shutting the water off from it by means of a hinged door in the floor of the floating platform which forms the bottom of the race or chute. Attached to the forward end of the race or chute is a funnel-shaped fluming for the purpose of catching the running water and concentrating it on to the paddles of the wheel.

(Specification, 4s. 9d.)

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

No. 30226.—19th September, 1911.—HARRY WOOD DOWNING, of Gloucester Street, Christchurch, New Zealand, Saddler. Improvements in riding and harness saddles.

Extract from Specification.—According hereto, a saddle is made of green hide moulded to shape upon a block, and stretched in superposed thicknesses over a tree made of compressed fibre, leather, or thin wood. The head of the tree, made of a thin steel plate or thin wood or compressed fibre stiffened with a metal plate, is connected to the tree by the green hide, and in the case of heavier saddles by plates extending along the sides of the tree. “D” or other fastenings for the girth are dispensed with, the girth-straps being merely stitched to the green hide and the leather or compressed-fibre tree.

(Specification, 4s.)

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

No. 30232.—20th September, 1911.—WALTER TAINE, of Crawford Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, Manager, Taines’ Chemical Stores Company (assignee of James Sinclair, of Barrack Street, Sydney, Australia). Improvements in containers for boot-blacking and the like.

Extract from Specification. — According hereto, a lever pivoted upon the side of the container has a thumb-piece at the end of its long arm and a right-angled projection at its short end. A recess allows the said projection to pass below the rim of the lid.

(Specification, 2s. 3d.)

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

No. 30246.—22nd September, 1911.—WILLIAM GEORGE JAMES, of Stratford, New Zealand. An improved cigarette-holder.

Extract from Specification.—The invention consists in the combination with a mouthpiece of suitable material made of uniform diameter throughout its length and adapted to receive the cigarette, of a grip attached to and extending beyond the outer end of the mouthpiece and shaped to encircle and hold the cigarette, and thus to keep it in position in the mouthpiece. This grip is preferably formed of two semicircular frames one of which is fixed to the mouthpiece and forms a rest in which the cigarette will lie, and the other one of which is hinged along one of its edges to the corresponding edge of the first half. It is thus capable of turning in over the top part of the cigarette, and thereby to hold it firmly between itself and the lower half.

(Specification, 2s. 9d.)

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

No. 30249.—23rd September, 1911.—ERNEST WILLIAM HURSTHOUSE, Wellington, New Zealand, Mechanical Engineer. Improvements in vacuum cleaning-machines.

Extract from Specification.—According hereto, a dirt-receptacle is fitted with a filter in the form of a diaphragm comprising sand, gravel, quartz, polarite oxidium, or a similar