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pump for pumping the petrol or the like spirit from the source
of supply to the carburettor, and the gas-holder, of a plurality
of devices for collecting air and delivering it to the car-
burettor to be mixed with the petrol or like spirit, comprised
by a tank or vessel divided into a plurality of compartments,
each having an inner compartment or tank enclosed by a
bell or suitably shaped inverted vessel, capable of an up-and-
down movement, of means for driving simultaneously the
pump and the air collectors and deliverers, and of means
for automatically stopping the production of gas when the
gas-holder contains a predetermined quantity of gas.
(Specification, 8s. 9d.)
[NOTE.—Here follow five other claims.]

No. 29212.—3rd March, 1911.—GEORGE EDWARD COLLINS,
of the Excelsior Woodware, Dickens Street, Napier, New
Zealand, Inventor and Manufacturer. Improved automatic
adjustment for easy-chairs and other furniture.
Claims.—(1.) The iron check action for locking the seat
and back in any position off either of the centres automatic-
ally. (2.) The holes made in back legs forming different
centres for the back to work upon, thus giving different
angles of seat and back. (3.) The working of back off either
of the different centres made in back legs of chair.
(Specification, 3s. 6d.)

No. 29422.—21st April, 1911.—ROBERT WILLIAM D’ARCY
ROBERTSON, of New Plymouth, New Zealand, Produce-mer-
chant. Improvements in milking-machine teat-cups.*
Extract from Specification.—The teat-cup is formed of two
main portions—viz., a mouthpiece for holding the appliance
upon the teat and also for intermittently squeezing the teat,
and a teat-cup proper for fitting on the point of the teat
to draw the milk therefrom and convey it away.
(Specification, 3s. 6d.)
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place
of the claims.]

No. 29428.—25th April, 1911.—ALEXANDER WALKER REID,
of Stratford, New Zealand, Engineer. Improvements in
milking-machine teat-cups.*
Claim.—(1.) In milking-machine teat-cups of the class de-
scribed, a lining formed with its wall increasing in thickness
towards its lower end and open at such end, in combination
with a cup provided with a nipple-attachment and adapted
to fit within the lower end of the lining and to wedge it with-
in the casing, substantially as specified. (Specification, 3s.)
[NOTE.—Here follows one other claim.]

No. 29461.—28th April, 1911.—FRANCIS JOHN SCOTT CAVER-
HILL, of 143 Hereford Street, Christchurch, New Zealand,
Shearing-machine Expert. Improvements relating to driv-
ing-gear for sheep-shearing machines and the like.*
Extract from Specification.—A counter-shaft at the end of
the bracket parallel with the main driving-shaft, the pulley
on the counter-shaft being vertical, instead of horizontal
as in my previous invention. The pulley is in two portions,
so that they may be divided for the insertion of a washer.
(Specification, 3s.)
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place
of the claims.]

No. 29509.—6th May, 1911.—ROBERT HENRY BARTLETT,
of Kaponga, New Zealand, Farmer. Improvements in the
milk-receiving buckets of milking-machines.*
Claim.—(1.) In milking-machines, the combination with
a milk-receiving bucket having a connection leading to a
source of vacuum, of a valve-chamber arranged within such
connection, and a ball valve placed within the chamber
and adapted by its weight to seal the passage from the bucket
into the chamber and to open such passage by the draw of
the vacuum in the connection, substantially as specified.
(Specification, 3s. 6d.)
[NOTE.—Here follow three other claims.]

No. 29527.—11th May, 1911.—THOMAS GRACE, of 80
Glebe Street, Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia,
Inventor. Improved resilient wheel for road-vehicles.
Extract from Specification.—Consists essentially of an outer
rim having a solid rubber or an ordinary iron tire, and affixed
to an inner concentric rim that is supported from the wheel-
hub by springs coiled under tension about spokes, having one
end rigidly secured to or integral with the wheel-hub and the
other end protruding through or terminating in slots in
said inner rim to permit of a fractional radial movement of
said spoke without lateral movement. (Specification, 3s. 9d.)
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place
of the claims.]

No. 29603.—25th May, 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 busi-
ness at 205 Lincoln Street, Boston, in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, in said United States of America (assignees
of Joseph Brooks Gilbert, of Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts
aforesaid, Clerk). Improvements in or relating to blocks
or tables for use in clicking or analogous operations.*
Claim.—(1.) A block or table for clicking or analogous
operations, or for use in cutting-out or similar machines,
that comprises a plurality of sections, each composed of a
base part carrying a layer of cutting-block material, the
said sections being interchangeable and reversible for the
purpose of bringing all parts of the surface of the table into
the area of greatest wear, with or without a layer of cushion-
ing material between the base part and the cutting-block
material of each block.
(Specification, 13s.)
[NOTE.—Here follow seven other claims.]

No. 29604.—25th May, 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 busi-
ness at 205 Lincoln Street, Boston, in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, in said United States of America (assignees of
Arthur Bates, Engineer, and Arthur Caselton, Engineer,
both of Union Works, Belgrave Road, Leicester, England).
Improvements in or relating to lasting and tacking machines.*
Claims.—(1.) A lasting-machine having, in combination, a
pincer, and mechanism for actuating it to seize, pull, and
release the upper, and a tacker co-operating therewith to fasten
the pulled upper, said machine having provision for adjust-
ment to cause the tacker to insert a plurality of tacks or a
single tack alternatively for each cycle of the pincers. . . .
(22.) A lasting-machine having, in combination, a pincer,
means to actuate it, additional means to cause plaiting move-
ments to be given to the pincers, a raceway, a tacker, an
adjustable edge-gauge, a manually shiftable member (10),
and connections to start the plaiting movements, and a con-
nection therefrom to the raceway to stop delivery of tacks,
said latter connection including the rack-bar (46) and cam-
bar (42) pivoted together and held in alignment and operative
by the edge-gauge when the latter is forward.
(Specification, £1 15s.)
[NOTE.—Here follow fifty-seven other claims.]

No. 30208.—13th September, 1911.—GEORGE LEWIS GIL-
BERTHORPE, of Claude Street, Chatswood, near Sydney, New
South Wales, Australia, Carpenter and Joiner, and HEDLEY
CHARLES MARSHALL, of Fuller’s Road, Chatswood aforesaid,
Builder. Improvements in adjustable sliding gates and
barriers.
Claim.—(1.) In the construction of adjustable gates and
barriers, the extensible stay, consisting of two flat metallic
pieces formed straight for the greater part of their length,
which centrally overlap each other, the inner ends of each
piece forming a guide-clip for its companion piece to slide in,
and the outer ends of each pierced to receive a pin-attachment,
as described.
(Specification, 7s.)
[NOTE.—Here follow eight other claims.]

No. 30394.—21st October, 1911.—JOHN RICHARD TEMPLIN,
of Christchurch, New Zealand, Electrical Engineer. Improve-
ments in electric-light signs.*
Extract from Specification.—The invention consists in the
employment of a number of sets of ordinary electric glow-
lamps arranged upon a suitable framing, and the lamps in
each of which sets are so positioned in relation to each other
that any letter or symbol of the alphabet may be formed
and displayed by the ignition of certain of the lamps in the
set. Any desired number of these sets may be arranged in
a row or a number of rows alongside the other according
to the number of letters or words or phrases to be displayed
at one time. Combined with the lamps thus arranged are
special means whereby any particular number of the lamps
in each set may be illumined so as thus to exhibit a letter
or symbol and in combination with the other sets to exhibit
a word or phrase. These means are such that changes will
be made automatically at regular intervals of time so as
thereby to alter the signs and the matter displayed.
(Specification, 5s. 6d.)
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place
of the claims.]