870
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 18

No. 30657.—22nd December, 1911.—HOWARD BUTTERS, of Tudor House, West Overcliff Drive, Bournemouth, England, Mechanical Engineer. An improved fencing-dropper.

Claims.—(1.) A fencing-dropper consisting of a galvanized thin resilient steel strip having holes through which staples are passed and clinched, the said staples being arranged zigzag upon the fencing-wires, as set forth. (2.) A resilient fencing-dropper which recovers its original shape, when free to do so, after being bent, as set forth.

(Specification, 2s. 3d.)

No. 30681.—3rd January, 1912.—HENRY COOCH, of Commercial Street, Northampton, England, Engineer. An improved separator machine or sorter for potatoes, roots, fruit, and the like.

Claim.—(1.) A separator machine or sorter for potatoes, roots, fruit, and similar globular-shaped produce, consisting of the combination of a suitable supporting frame, a riddle-frame movably suspended thereon, an upper riddle in said riddle-frame, an under riddle, and a lower compartment below said under riddle, separate delivery-outlets for the under riddle and for the lower compartment, mechanism such as chain and sprocket gear operable by a handle and connected with a shaft, crank, and connecting-rod attached to the said suspended riddle-frame for actuating same, an inspection and conveyor platform connected to and leading from the riddle-frame and actuated by gearing from the crank-shaft, as described.

(Specification, 6s.)

[NOTE.—Here follow two other claims.]

No. 30683.—3rd January, 1912.—CHARLES ANSTRUTHER GORDON, of the Criterion Hotel, George Street, Brisbane, State of Queensland, Australia, General Agent. Improvements in regulating and measuring taps.

Extract from Specification.—I provide in a barrel or plug two measuring chambers or compartments, each provided with a port. The said plug is rotated within a shell having openings leading to a reservoir and discharge receptacle respectively, said openings registering with a port on every half-revolution of the plug so that when one compartment is filling the other is discharging.

(Specification, 3s. 3d.)

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

No. 30689.—30th January, 1911.—HORACE KEEBLE, of Wareham Hall, Stoke Ferry, in the County of Norfolk, England, Gentleman. Improved treatment of ironsands or other finely divided material.

Extract from Specification.—According to the present invention, there is employed an agglomerating agent of the kind referred to that comprises a finely divided carbon and hydro-carbon composition obtained by so carbonizing organic matter, as peat, together with liquid, either separately supplied or yielded by the substance itself.

(Specification, 3s. 6d.)

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

No. 30691.—4th January, 1912.—BLAUGAS’ PATENT-GESELLSCHAFT, m.b.H., of Augsburg, Germany, Manufacturing Company (assignee of Hermann Blau, Chemist, of Augsburg, Rothenbauerstrasse 2, Germany). Improvements in or relating to the manufacture and treatment of distillation-products for illuminating purposes.

Claims.—(1.) A process for the manufacture and treatment of distillation-products for illuminating purposes, characterized by the fact that the distillation-gases are produced at relatively low retort-temperatures and are then compressed to a high pressure, the gaseous constituents thereby separated out in liquid form being stored under the high pressure, whilst the unliquefied constituents of the gas are previously removed and otherwise utilized, substantially as and for the purpose specified. (2.) A process of manufacture of the kind set forth in which the multi-stage compression of the distillation-gases is interrupted at one of the earlier pressure-stages in order that the benzene-like bodies may be separated out and removed at this pressure-stage, whereupon the compression of the gas is continued to a high pressure, substantially as and for the purpose specified. (3.) A process of manufacture of the kind set forth in which the temperature at which the distillation-gases are produced is 600° C., or less, and the pressure to which they are compressed for storage and transport purposes is about one hundred atmospheres, substantially as and for the purpose specified. (4.) The process of manufacture and treatment of distillation-products of liquid form suitable on vaporization for illuminating purposes, substantially as described and for the purposes specified.

(Specification, 5s.)

No. 30692.—4th January, 1912.—ALBERT ALONZO PAULY, of 935 Poland Avenue, Youngstown, County of Mahoning, Ohio, United States of America, Engineer. Improvements in moulding-apparatus.

Claim.—(1.) In a moulding-apparatus, a mould-body having mould-spaces with open lower ends, a pallet to close the bottom of the mould-spaces, a support for the pallet, means for giving a yielding upward tendency to the pallet, and an ejector to push the moulded article downwardly through the mould-body.

(Specification, 11s. 6d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow six other claims.]

No. 30695.—11th February, 1911.—ELIZABETH MILTON SWANSON, of 352 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia, Married Woman. An improved device for brushing and polishing boots or shoes, harness, or metal articles.

Claim.—(1.) In a device for brushing and polishing boots or shoes, harness, or metal articles, the combination with the flanged holder, of two hinged side flaps provided with detachable polishing-pads and adapted to be turned up and gripped for brushing-purposes, or turned down for the pads to meet together for the operation of polishing, as also to permit of a slidable sheath being slid over or upon same for covering the pads and closing up the ends of device when not required for use, as described, and as illustrated in my drawings.

(Specification, 6s. 6d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow three other claims.]

No. 30701.—9th January, 1912.—JOHN LYSAGHT, LIMITED, St. Vincents Ironworks, Bristol, England, Ironmasters and Galvanized-Iron Manufacturers (assignees of Henry William Foan, of 171 Avondale Road, Bristol, England, Engineer). Improvements in wire-netting machines.

Extract from Specification.—According to this invention, there is provided between the usual draw-off roller and the slide-bars containing the split pinions through which the wires are drawn a roller having upon it longitudinal projections or strips, which are transversely slotted at suitable intervals according to the mesh of the netting to be woven. The roller is continuously rotated by suitable gearing so that the transverse slots may receive the wires as the twists are being formed and may hold the twists while the sliding or parting of the wires takes place, thus ensuring uniformity of mesh and straightness of the twisted parts.

(Specification, 1s. 9d.)

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

No. 30702.—9th January, 1912.—RICHARD ALBERT CANFIELD, of 66 Burnett Street, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Capitalist (assignee of Harry Melville Brown, of 79 Washington Street, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America). Improvements in stoppers.

Claims.—(1.) A stopper of the character described having its locking-ring provided with an upstanding locking-flange which is relieved at the corner of its attached end, for the purpose set forth. (2.) A stopper of the character set forth in which the locking-flange of the locking-ring is depressed at its upper edge at its junction with the web connecting it to the cap, substantially as shown and described.

(Specification, 4s.)

No. 30708.—4th October, 1911.—ISAAC HENRY STOREY, Manufacturer, of White Cross Mills, and WILLIAM EDWARD McCALLA, Manager of Queens Mill, both of Lancaster, England; and ARTHUR GRIFFITHS, Accountant, of Burton Grange, Burbage Road, Herne Hill, London, England. Improvements in and relating to facing-plates for attaching to the surface of walls and the like.

Claim.—(1.) A plate for attaching to the surface of walls or the like having one or more of its edges turned over substantially at right angles to the remainder of the plate, one or more of the edges so turned over then extending outwardly in a direction substantially parallel to the plate.

(Specification, 5s. 3d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow four other claims.]

No. 30710.—10th January, 1912.—WALTER LEITCH, of 413 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Manager. Improvements in bakers’ ovens.

Extract from Specification.—An oven which comprises three chambers, the lower one of which is the heating or hot-air chamber, being in communication with the furnace or fire-box; the upper one being a collecting-chamber in communication with the duct or chimney; the middle one being the baking-chamber having a stationary sole or floor upon which the goods to be baked are placed, and provided with