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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 10

No. 29069.—31st January, 1911.—ANDREW YOUNG ROSS, of Tauranga, New Zealand, Land Agent. Operating pawls of a crank lever-jack.*

Claims.—(1.) In lifting-jacks of the class described, a projecting tooth upon the bottom end of each pawl, and a spring-controlled catch arranged in the lower portion of the path of movement of such tooth, substantially as and for the purposes specified. (2.) In lifting-jacks of the class described, the combination with the pawls for actuating the lifting-bar, of a lever-plate underlying the pawls and adapted when turned to lift the pawls from engagement with the bar, substantially as and for the purpose specified. (3.) The improvements in lifting-jacks constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as described and explained, as illustrated in the drawings, and for the purposes set forth.
(Specification, 4s.)

No. 29117.—11th February, 1911.—CHARLES SUTTIE, of Waharoa, New Zealand, Flax-miller, and MONTAGUE HARRISON WYNYARD, of Auckland, New Zealand, Solicitor. Improvements in flax-dressing.*

Claim.—(1.) A means for elevating flax-blades up to a stripper, comprising an endless moving belt furnished with lateral battens, forming a moving bench at a handy level, the battens forming compartments each of which will conveniently hold a “feed” of flax-blades laid longitudinally along such compartment, and conveying each such feed up to the level opposite the mouthpiece of a stripper ready to be fed therein, substantially as and for the purposes described.
(Specification, 14s. 6d.)
[NOTE.—Here follow eight other claims.]

No. 29199.—2nd March, 1911.—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 business at 205 Lincoln Street, Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in said United States of America (assignees of Ronald Francis McFeely, of Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts aforesaid, Inventor). Improvements in or relating to machines for use in the manufacture of boots and shoes.*

Claims.—(1.) A pulling-over machine having, in combination, grippers for engaging an upper at the toe and at opposite sides of a shoe, manually controlled means by which said grippers may be closed successively and actuated for initially pulling the upper, and power-driven means for further actuating said grippers in the same direction. . . . (10.) A pulling-over machine having, in combination, means for resting a last, grippers for seizing an upper at the toe-end and at opposite sides of the shoe, and means to actuate the grippers to pull the upper a measured distance, said machine having provision for simultaneously adjusting the limit of the pulling-movement for all the grippers. . . . (25.) A pulling-over machine having, in combination, devices for stretching the upper, actuating-means therefor, and means for predeterminately measuring the length of the longitudinal and transverse stretching-movements and having provision for relatively varying the lengths of said two movements.
(Specification, £2 14s.)
[NOTE.—Here follow thirty-seven other claims.]

No. 29235.—9th March, 1911.—WILLIAM CLAYTON JOEL, of 120 King Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Electrical Engineer. Improvements in and connected with flashing gas-signs.*

Claims.—(1.) In improvements in and connected with flashing gas-signs, a weight lifted by the inflation of a bag. . . . (5.) In improvements in and connected with flashing gas-signs, a see-saw valve-box operated by a connecting-rod and a weight situated above a gas-bag, loose weights above said bag. . . . (10.) In improvements in and connected with flashing gas-signs, a see-saw box provided with a cover, an inlet-port and a gas-to-burner port, and a gas-to-bag port, a see-saw valve pivoted above said see-saw box and operated by a ball, said see-saw valve controlling the gas-inlet port and the gas-to-burner port.
(Specification, 8s. 6d.)
[NOTE.—Here follow six other claims.]

No. 29304.—22nd March, 1911.—HERBERT HAY HEWITT, of 105 Highbury Quadrant, London, England, Manufacturer. Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of mineral waters or artificial saline waters, cordials, and similar preparations.*

Claim.—(1.) In a method of increasing the therapeutic activity of mineral or aerated artificial saline waters, cordials,

quinine concoctions, bitters, and imilar preparations, the application of carbon-dioxide under pressure to radium-treated water in which are dissolved mineral salts or other saline substances so as to render the radium emanations practically stable or fixed for reasonably long periods.
(Specification, 5s.)
[NOTE.—Here follow four other claims.]

No. 29344.—29th March, 1911.—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 business at 205 Lincoln Street, Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in said United States of America (assignees of Albert Edward Johnson, of Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts aforesaid, Inventor). Improvements in or relating to machines for forming insoles or to sewing-machines.*

Claims.—(1.) A machine for securing together the two contiguous upturned flaps of a channelled insole, having, in combination, work-feeding means, a work-support continuously in engagement with one of the flaps and acting to support the insole during the feed, provision for applying to the flaps a series of fastening-devices to secure them together and form a single lip, and a yieldingly mounted guide or other device constructed and arranged to bear on the unchannelled face of the insole and hold the flaps in fastener-receiving position. . . . (16.) A sewing-machine for securing together the two contiguous flaps of an insole, constructed and operating substantially as described, and as illustrated in the drawings.
(Specification, 16s.)

No. 29369.—3rd April, 1911.—WILLIAM HENRY DENTON, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Saddler. An improved blocked “bloomer” or protector for the legs of trotting or pacing horses.*

Claims.—(1.) A bloomer or protector for the legs of trotting or pacing horses constructed of a single piece of leather or other suitable material bent and blocked to fit round the horse’s leg, and secured together at its front edges by webbing or the like. (2.) The improved blocked bloomer or protector for the legs of trotting or pacing horses substantially as described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawings.
(Specification, 2s.)

No. 29389.—11th April, 1911.—JOHN VAN NOSTRAND DORE, of Equitable Building, Denver, Colorado, United States of America, Metallurgical Engineer. Improvements in settling-apparatus.*

Extract from Specification.—I interpose in the gearing, by which motion is transmitted to the mechanism referred to, a spring, and with such spring I may arrange an indicator by which the movement of the spring and consequently the resistance to the mechanism on the thrust of the worm-shaft can be ascertained, or an alarm which will be actuated when the spring is unduly compressed, but before breakage is likely to occur. Obviously, both indicator and alarm may be used if desired.
(Specification, 2s. 9d.)
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]

No. 29743.—20th June, 1911.—J. D. RIEDEL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, of 12–13 Gerichtstrasse, Berlin, Germany, Manufacturing Chemists (assignees of Dr. Robert Gans, of Pankow, near Berlin aforesaid). Improvements in and relating to the manufacture of zeolites or hydrated aluminosilicates.

Claim.—(1.) A new product of manufacture consisting of hydrated aluminosilicates or artificial zeolites of a hard granular structure, insoluble in hot water, substantially as described.
(Specification, 2s. 9d.)
[NOTE.—Here follow two other claims.]

No. 29744.—20th June, 1911.—J. D. RIEDEL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, of 12–13 Gerichtstrasse, Berlin, Germany, Manufacturing Chemists (assignees of Dr. Robert Gans, of Pankow, near Berlin aforesaid). Improvements in and relating to the softening of water.

Claim.—(1.) A process for the softening of hard water consisting in merely passing the hard water through hard crystalline zeolites or hydrated aluminosilicates until their softening-property has been exhausted, then cutting off the supply of water and regenerating the zeolites or aluminosilicates, by merely passing through them a solution of a regenerating-salt, until the zeolites are regenerated, and then again passing hard water through the zeolites, and so on, substantially as described.
(Specification, 5s. 3d.)
[NOTE.—Here follows one other claim.]