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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
871

a series of U-shaped heat-circulating pipes or tubes, each
of which has one end connected to a flue from the hot-air
chamber below, and the other end to a flue leading to the
collecting-chamber above.
(Specification, 5s. 6d.)
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place
of the claims.]

No. 30711.—10th January, 1912.—CHARLES DUGALD
KENNEDY, of Napier, New Zealand, Solicitor (nominee of
Herbert Alexander Wanklyn, of 17 Manchester Avenue,
London, England, Merchant). Improvements in puncture-
sealing material, and in methods of inserting the same into
pneumatic tires or tubes.
Claims.—(1.) A puncture-sealing material for pneumatic
tires or tubes consisting of comminuted or powdered rubber
inserted in either a dry or liquid form. (2.) A puncture-
sealing material for pneumatic tires or tubes consisting of
comminuted or powdered rubber mixed with the usual powder
employed for this purpose and inserted in either dry or liquid
form.
(Specification, 3s.)
[NOTE.—Here follow two other claims.]

No. 30713.—10th January, 1912.—FREDERICK WATSON
WIGMORE, of 12 Smart Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Vic-
toria, Australia, Clerk. Improvements in candlesticks and
candleholders.
Claims.—(1.) An oblong base with a tapering tail, two
longitudinal converging slits and one small transverse slit
cut in the said base, a flat oblong locking-collar, a flanged
open-ended cylinder, all arranged substantially as described,
with reference to the drawings. (2.) A device having its
parts constructed, arranged, and adapted to act substantially
as described, and as illustrated in the drawings, for the pur-
pose specified.
(Specification, 1s. 9d.)

No. 30716.—11th January, 1912.—AXEL SABROE, Director
of Brick Works, of 12 Grossestrasse, Hadersleben, in the
Prussian Province of Schleswigholstein. Improvements re-
lating to milking-machines.
Claim.—(1.) In a milking-machine worked by suction,
thereby characterized that, in the contrivance by which the
suction exercised on the teat-cup is interrupted when the
flow of milk to a vessel has ceased by means of atmospheric
pressure, the closing-off organ dividing the chamber in which
it moves into two divisions which are both connected with
the suction-passage.
(Specification, 3s.)
[NOTE.—Here follow four other claims.]

No. 30724.—10th January, 1912.—HARRY RYLANCHE
HAIGH, of Darley Dene, Derwent Park, Derby, England,
Engineer. Improvements in or relating to valves used in
connection with train-lighting systems.
Claim.—(1.) A valve of the kind set forth wherein the
valve proper and its seating are of such a character and
are so arranged that when the valve rises on to its seating
any tar or foreign matter which may adhere to the valve or
its seating is cut through or penetrated for the purpose
specified.
(Specification, 6s.)
[NOTE.—Here follow five other claims.]

No. 30729.—16th January, 1912.—HAROLD JACKSON, of
the Oakenclough Paper-mills, Garstang, Lancaster, England,
Paper-manufacturer. Improvements in the manufacture or
preparation of pulp for paper-making and in apparatus
therefor.
Extract from Specification.—Consists in the process or
method of treating fibres for the preparation of paper-pulp
by subjecting the wet fibres, or fibres suspended in water,
to a gentle hammering or tapping action, and of a machine
constructed with a rotor fitted with a number of flexible
beaters rotating within a suitable casing, the surface of the
casing being formed with ribs, corrugations, or other rough
surfaces, against which the beaters successively come into
contact with a gentle hammering or tapping action as the
rotor revolves within the casing.
(Specification, 5s.)
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place
of the claims.]

No. 30730.—20th January, 1911.†—HERBERT WILLIAM
WAINWRIGHT, of 55 Highbury Gardens, Seven Kings, Essex,
England, Engineer. A mode of securing a thin foraminous
and flexible diaphragm within a relatively rigid tube, and
means therefor, applicable to the manufacture of cigarette-
mouthpieces.
Extract from Specification.—The diaphragm is frictionally
secured in position by a flanged or deformed portion thereof
being gripped between the inner surface of the tube and
a preferably flat clamping-ring. The diaphragm for this
purpose is of a larger diameter than the tube and is pressed

within the tube with the aid of the clamping-device so that
it has its outer edge deformed and pressed tightly against
the wall of the tube by said clamping-device.
(Specification, 5s. 6d.)
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place
of the claims.]

No. 30731.—16th January, 1912.—AXEL JULIUS LAURITS
LASSEN, of 5 Aaboulevard, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Den-
mark, Machine-manufacturer. Improvements in bottle-
closures.
Claim.—Bottle-closure comprising a metallic capsule pressed
into recesses in the bottle head or neck, characterized thereby
that the said recesses into which the capsules are pressed
consist of two or more separate annular grooves.
(Specification, 1s. 9d.)

No. 30737.—16th January, 1912.—CHRISTOPHER JAMES
CRAIG, Machinist, and HERBERT ANLEY CRAIG, Machinist,
both of Gisborne, New Zealand. An improved elbow-joint
for shearing-machines.
Extract from Specification.—According to our invention,
we use the sockets having the projecting lugs usually employed.
Instead, however, of screwing the pivot-pins into the inner
lugs as is usually the case, I use independent trunnion-pins,
the heads of which are carried in the outer lugs and kept in
position by keeper-screws.
(Specification, 1s. 9d.)
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place
of the claims.]

No. 30738.—17th January, 1912.—EUGENE ANTON
SCHWARZ, of Palmerston North, Motor Expert, and WILLIAM
CARRICK WEDDERSPOON, of North Terrace, Kelburne, Wel-
ington, Electrician, both of New Zealand. Improved ex-
tensible bracket for supporting electric-light burners, mirrors,
and the like.
Extract from Specification.—The invention comprises a
series of members pivotally connected together so as to be
extensible upon the lazy-tongs principle.
(Specification, 3s. 6d.)
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place
of the claims.]

No. 30739.—17th January, 1912.—LESLIE SYLVESTER
HACKNEY, of 1619 Wesley Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota,
United States of America, Manufacturer. Improvements in
motor-ploughs.
Claims.—(1.) In a device of the class described, the com-
bination of a frame having supporting wheels, a draw-bar
carried by said frame, brackets on said draw-bar, plough-
beams slidably mounted at their forward ends in said brackets
and capable of vertical movement therein, plough-blades on
said beams, and means for simultaneously adjusting said
beams in said brackets and for detaching the same there-
from. . . . (7.) In a device of the class described, the
combination of a frame having supporting wheels, a motor
on the frame, a draw-bar carried by said frame, plough-beams
connected to said draw-bar, ploughs on said beams, means
for adjusting said beams simultaneously on said bar, means
for raising the plough-blades by power and securing the
same in an elevated position, and means for releasing said
plough-blades and regulating the speed of their fall.
(Specification, 14s.)
[NOTE.—Here follow seventeen other claims.]

No. 30740.—17th January, 1912.—LESLIE SYLVESTER
HACKNEY, of 1619 Wesley Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota,
United States of America, Manufacturer. Improvements in
steering-devices for traction-vehicles.
Claim.—(1.) The combination with a traction-vehicle
having a rear steering-wheel, of a pilot-frame tilably mounted
on the frame of said traction-vehicle, a pilot-wheel on said
pilot-frame arranged to travel in a previously formed furrow,
and connecting-means between the pilot-wheel and steering-
wheel for synchronizing the movements of said wheels.
(Specification, 6s. 6d.)
[NOTE.—Here follow nine other claims.]

No. 30742.—16th January, 1912.—WILHELM BARTHOLDT
DIDRICK PONNINGHAUS, of 132 Toorak Road, South Yarra,
Victoria, Australia, Manufacturer. Improvements relating to
hot-water shower-baths and the like.
Claims.—(1.) Improvements relating to hot-water shower-
baths and the like, consisting of a shell having an inlet end
and an outlet end, a branch between said ends, and a hollow
cone projecting from the inlet end towards the outlet end,
said hollow cone bedding in said shell and secured therein by
solder. . . . (3.) In improvements relating to hot-water
shower-baths and the like, a shell having therein a cone-bed,
an outlet end to said shell having an outwardly diverging