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No. 30490.—11th November, 1911.—HUEBNER-BLEISTEIN PATENTS COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of the State, New York, United State of America, of No. 180 Kensington Avenue, in the City of Buffalo, New York, United States of America (assignees of William Carl Huebner, of No. 180 Kensington Avenue aforesaid, Manufacturer). Improvements in photographic-printing machines.

Claims.—(1.) A photographic-printing machine comprising a light chamber for illuminating a negative or positive printing-plate, a holder for a sensitized plate or stone, and adjusting-mechanism provided with a controller which automatically controls said adjusting-mechanism and can be set to produce different adjustments of the printing-position. . . . (9.) A photographic-printing machine comprising a holder for a sensitized plate or stone, a light-chamber for illuminating a negative or positive printing-plate, a pressure-device for said plate or stone, both the light-chamber and pressure-device being movable toward and from said plate or stone, and automatic mechanism by which the light-chamber is first moved against the same, the pressure-device is next moved against the plate or stone, the pressure-device is returned to the initial position after the exposure has been made, and the light-chamber is next returned to the initial position. . . . (14.) A photographic-printing machine comprising a light-chamber containing one or more lamps, and mechanism for circulating the lamp or lamps in the light-chamber, which mechanism can be placed into and out of action at will.

(Specification, £2 7s. 6d.)

No. 30501.—16th November, 1911.—GEORGE JOHN HOSKINS, A.M.Inst.,M.E., of Wattle Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. A travelling tilting-ladle to be used in casting metal in moulds, and means for operating same.

Claim.—(1.) A ladle for pouring molten metal into mould-casings, comprising an approximately square frame, with two pairs of corner trunnions projecting therefrom, a basket riveted within the frame, a removable ladle within the basket, two pairs of fixed sockets to receive the corner trunnions, and a pair of long trunnions intermediate between and below the corner trunnions, whereby the basket may be tilted, as specified.

(Specification, 6s. 6d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow three other claims.]

No. 30510.—18th November, 1911.—RICHARD PARK, of Hairini, New Zealand, Farmer. An improved hand-saw.

Claim.—A saw-blade having its cutting-edge made convex longitudinally with the blade, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

(Specification, 1s. 6d.)

No. 30518.—20th November, 1911.—THOMAS FIRTH, of 69 Tasman Street, Wellington, New Zealand. Improved candlestick.

Claim.—(1.) A candlestick having two sockets on a vertical line in an opposite direction, substantially as illustrated in drawings and described in specification.

(Specification, 1s. 3d.)

[NOTE.—Here follows one other claim.]

No. 30521.—21st November, 1911.—JAMES TALBOT NORTON, of 13 and 15 Oxford Street, Lyttelton, New Zealand, Baker. An improved yeast, food, and bread improver.

Claim.—(1.) The improved yeast, food, and bread improver, consisting of white flour, invert sugar, magnesia, potassium-carbonate, phosphoric acid, castor sugar, and malt flour, substantially as described.

(Specification, 1s. 6d.)

[NOTE.—Here follows one other claim.]

No. 30524.—22nd November, 1911.—FREDERICK MALCOLM DOSSOR, of 14 Auckland Road, Wheatley, and of St. Catherine’s Works, Balby, both in Doncaster, in the County of York, England, Seedsman and Manufacturer of Seed-dressing machines. Improvements in apparatus for cleaning and separating seeds and the like.

Extract from Specification.—My said invention consists mainly in a vertical main frame of improved construction, on both sides of which cleaning sections are arranged, also in an improved method of constructing and mounting the brackets which carry the various parts of which the cleaning sections are composed, in such a manner that the sections can be adjusted and varied as to their working-angles either simultaneously or separately as desired, the vertical position of the main frame being still maintained.

(Specification, 5s. 3d.)

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

No. 30525.—22nd November, 1911.—ROBERT THOMSON, Architect, and WILLIAM AFFLECK THOMSON, Student, both residing at 164 Nithsdale Road, Pollokshields, Glasgow, Scotland. Improvements in the reinforcement of columns, ferro-concrete pillars, and the like.

Extract from Specification.—According to the invention, the reinforcing means consist essentially of a series of rings or ring-like members arranged in horizontal planes eccentrically, or spiral windings arranged eccentrically about the vertical axis of the column embracing a central axial metal core (or a plurality thereof disposed about the axis), or otherwise interconnected in or about the axis either by interconnection or intermeshing of two or more of the rings themselves, or by their interconnection of bonding masses of concrete.

(Specification, 9s. 6d.)

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

No. 30526.—22nd November, 1911.—ROBERT THOMSON, Architect, and WILLIAM AFFLECK THOMSON, Student, both residing at 164 Nithsdale Road, Pollokshields, Glasgow, Scotland. Improvements in ferro-concrete floors.

Claim.—(1.) A ferro-concrete floor-structure comprising column, or substructure, supported anchor-devices, and between the anchor-devices primary tensional reinforcing-rod members attached to the anchor-devices in groups radial thereto, with or without secondary unanchored reinforcing-rod members subdividing the areas between the primary members, and concrete around and between the members reacting in compression, and without metallic members in compression between the anchor-devices.

(Specification, 11s. 6d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow twelve other claims.]

No. 30527.—22nd November, 1911.—MARK BARR, of 3 Gloucester Mansions, London S.W., England, Engineer; ROBERT ARTHUR BELL, of 116 Worple Road, Wimbledon, Surrey, England; and HENRY RAMIE BEETON, of 9 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, London N.W., England, Gentleman. Improvements in and relating to calculating-machines.

Claims.—(1.) In a calculating or computing machine of the type referred to, the employment of separate objects, such as balls, to represent the partial products stored in the machine. . . . (10.) A calculating or computing machine comprising a typewriter machine, and means operated by depressing the typewriter-keys for finding and delivering the correct number of separate objects, such as balls, required for any calculation, to counting, weighing, or measuring mechanism, substantially as described. . . . (16.) In a calculating or computing machine as claimed in the preceding claims, adapting cams or the like to govern the timing of the various operative parts of the machine, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

(Specification, £3 5s.)

[NOTE.—Here follows one other claim.]

No. 30528.—22nd November, 1911.—TURBO AMALGAMATOR AND EXTRACTION COMPANY, LIMITED, of 65 London Wall, London, England, Manufacturers (assignees of Alfred Andrew Lockwood, of 46 Marmora Road, Honor Oak, Surrey, England, Mining Engineer). Improvements in apparatus for the extraction of the precious metals from pulps and solutions.

Claim.—(1.) In apparatus for the extraction of the precious metals from a pulp or solution, the combination of a vessel, revolving copper plates therein, the surfaces of which pass through or are inclined at a small angle to the axis about which they revolve, and means for circulating the pulp or solution through the vessel, substantially as described.

(Specification, 3s. 9d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow two other claims.]

No. 30529.—22nd November, 1911.—WILHELM MEYER, of 118 Prinz Regentstrasse, Berlin Wilmersdorf, Germany, Engineer. Improvements in detonating-compounds for use in rim-fire cartridges.

Claim.—A method of manufacturing a non-corrosive detonating-compound for use in rim-fire cartridges and percussion-caps, &c., replacing the potassium-chlorate (KClO₃) contained in the usual mixture, consisting of fulminate of mercury, antimony, sulphur, powdered-glass, and so forth, by barium-nitrate either alone or mixed with peroxide of lead.

(Specification, 1s. 3d.)

No. 30530.—22nd November, 1911.—HANS EDGAR, of Karangahake, Auckland, New Zealand, Machine-fitter. Improvements in rock-drills.

Extract from Specification.—According to my invention the cylinder in which the drill-piston reciprocates is divided into two parts by a partition near its middle, and the motive fluid is employed upon each side of this partition instead of upon the outer face of each end of the piston as has hitherto usually