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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 27

No. 29516.—9th May, 1911.—GEORGE WRAY DAVIES, of Wellington, New Zealand, Builder. Improvements in explosive compounds.*

Claims.—(1.) In explosive compounds, the treatment of a base of oxidizing metallic salts with a combustible compound consisting wholly or partly of any of the liquid amido compounds, or amines of the aromatic hydrocarbons, or of their salts, or additive or substitution products, or of mixtures thereof, substantially as specified. (2.) The improvements in explosive compounds substantially as described and explained and for the purposes specified.
(Specification, 2s. 6d.)

No. 29530.—5th May, 1911.—PHILIP HENRY BEST, of Applely, Nelson, New Zealand, Machinery Agent. An improved teat-cup for milking-machines.*

Claims.—(1.) A teat-cup for milking-machines characterized by an annular channel on the outside of the metal casing, having an externally projecting tube, and having the inner side of the channel provided with a series of holes opening into the space between the rubber inflation and the metal casing, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. (2.) A teat-cup for milking-machines constructed, arranged, and adapted to operate substantially as described and illustrated in the drawings.
(Specification, 2s. 3d.)

No. 29539.—12th May, 1911.—WALTER GILBERT FOUNTAIN and WILLIAM JAMES PATERSON, Agent and Engineer respectively, both of Hamilton, Auckland, New Zealand. An automatic milk-releaser.*

Extract from Specification.—The apparatus consists, briefly, of a revolving and a stationary casting, mounted on a horizontal spindle, which castings act as a distributor to the milk, by means of ports formed in each casting being caused to correspond at the right time and so allow the milk to escape to the distributing-chambers. (Specification, 4s. 9d.)
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]

No. 29582.—20th May, 1911.—JOHN MICHAEL ROWE, of Rangiora, New Zealand, Concrete-pipe Manufacturer. Improved bridge for street side-channels.*

Claim.—A bridge for side channels comprising a pair of flat vertically disposed side walls, one of which is adapted to form an abutment with the curbstone and surmounted by a flat upper surface at right angles thereto, and on a level with the footpath, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
(Specification, 2s. 6d.)

No. 29717.—13th June, 1911.—EDWIN PHILLIPS, of 264-268 Flinders Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Patent Attorney and Engineer (nominee of the National Machine Recorder Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Maine, and having an official at Marquette Building, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Manufacturers of Machine Recorders, who are the assignees of Peter Albert Cooney, of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, United States of America, Inventor). Improvements in machine recorders.

Claims.—(1.) A machine of the character specified in which the record-sheet has obscuring longitudinal markings and the markers lie in constant contact with the sheet and are shifted laterally to and from the obscuring markings, so that the clock movement is subjected to uniform load. . . . (5.) In a machine of the character specified, the two switches on the machine whose work is to be recorded, both of which must be moved to one position to show one state of the machine and either of which in the other position will show another state of the machine. (6.) A device of the character specified having a totalling-device associated with each marker and moving when the same is in one position.
(Specification, £1 2s. 6d.)
[NOTE.—Here follow five other claims.]

No. 29777.—24th June, 1911.—WALTER SINTON, of Auckland, in the Dominion of New Zealand, Warehouseman. Improved means for use in fastening window-sash cords to the sashes.*

Extract from Specification.—The invention consists in the employment of a device of special form in which the sash end of the cord is fastened. This device is then adapted to be inserted in a hole formed in the face of the sash-frame, which hole is connected with the usual cord-groove in the edge of the sash by means of a passage extending between them and of a size sufficient to receive the cord.
(Specification, 3s. 3d.)
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]

No. 29878.—17th July, 1911.—JAMES STEUART WEARN, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Machinery Expert. Improvement relating to the destination-boards of tram-cars and the like.*

Claim.—(1.) A device of the character indicated, comprising a casing, a mirror upon the under-surface of the upper end thereof, a convex lens provided with a reflecting backing arranged within said casing and adapted to sight an object exterior to such casing and to reflect the image on a reduced scale upon said mirror, and means for permitting said mirror to be viewed from beneath said casing, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. (Specification, 3s. 6d.)
[NOTE.—Here follows one other claim.]

No. 29887.—18th July, 1911.—JOHN LEE SCOTT and GEORGE SCOTT, both of Christchurch, New Zealand, Engineers. An improved air-valve for gas-producers.

Extract from Specification.—This valve is used in connection with the auxiliary air-inlets into what are known as suction-gas producers, and consists of a valve-body “A,” having through it an aperture “B,” the outer orifice of which is closed by a self-acting hinged-flap door “C,” which automatically shuts off the admission of air unless purposely kept open by some special device. As the valve is free to open outwards should there be an increase of pressure within the producer, it will act as a safety-valve should an explosion at any time take place within the producer.
(Specification, 2s.)
[NOTE.—The above extract from the specification is inserted in place of the claims.]

No. 30026.—9th September, 1911.—JOHN REES JONES, of Wainui Road, Gisborne, New Zealand, Manager, Freezing-works. Improved tumbler-switch for meat-rails and the like.*

Claims.—(1.) Apparatus for the purpose indicated in which a rocker carrying rail-sections is pivoted in a casing, substantially as specified and illustrated. (2.) In apparatus for the purpose indicated, the combination of a casing, a rocker pivoted therein upon pivot-spindles, independent rail-sections upon the rocker, and means for maintaining the rocker in position relatively to the casing, substantially as specified and illustrated.
(Specification, 3s.)
[NOTE.—Here follow two other claims.]

No. 30074.—23rd August, 1911.—MACPHERSON ROBERTSON, of Argyle Street, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, Confectionery-manufacturer. Improvements in and relating to making coated confectionery.

Claims.—(1.) A confection of the crystallized class having cooked on around a gum-drop or other suitable core, a sugar coating, substantially as described. (2.) In making confections of the class indicated, such as crystallized gum-drops, and so forth, the use of steam to cook on a sugar coating applied to the core. (3.) The mode of attaching a coating to a core by steam applications, as described, to produce a crystallized confection or the like.
(Specification, 4s. 9d.)

No. 30282.—28th September, 1911.—JOHN BOURKE SALMON, Boot-factory Manager, and EBENEZER WILLIAM ROY, Warehouse Manager, both of Dunedin, New Zealand. Improved mounting for the cylindrical cutters of skiving-machines.*

Claim.—(1.) The combination with the cylindrical cutter of a skiving-machine when so worn as to have been hitherto unusable, of a cup-shaped mounting attachable to the driving-spindle of the machine, so constructed and arranged that the cutter may be used until it is wholly worn out, substantially as described.
(Specification, 2s. 6d.)

No. 30464.—9th November, 1910.†—GIANNI BETTINI, of 35 Avenue de l’Opera, Paris, France, Gentleman. An improved method of taking and projecting cinematographic pictures.

Claim.—(1.) A method of taking and projecting animated photographs in which an optical system is displaced in front of a photographic plate or film, characterized by the fact that the objective connected with reflecting-prisms located on either side of the photographic plate or film, which is fixed and located in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the views to be taken or of the projection-screen, moves in front of the plate or film with these prisms, in such a manner that one of the components of its movement is constantly directed in the direction of the object to be photographed or of the projection-screen.
(Specification, 11s.)
[NOTE.—Here follow six other claims.]

No. 30492.—11th November, 1911.—GEORGE GIBBS, of Motueka, New Zealand, Hotelkeeper. An improved cooler for beer and other liquids.

Claims.—(1.) A cooler for beer and other liquors consisting in a cooling-chamber adapted to contain ice or other cooling-medium, a pipe coil situated therein and connected with the