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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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No. 31227.—27th April, 1912.—JULES HIPPOLYTE CORTHESY, Sen., of 50 Thornhill Houses, Barnsbury, Engineer; JULES HIPPOLYTE CORTHESY, Jun., of 72 Hemberton Road, Clapham, Librarian; and WILLIAM KENNEDY LAURIE DICKSON, of 4 Denman Street, Piccadilly Circus, Engineer; all of London, England. Improvements in and relating to turbines.

Extract from Specification.—According to the invention, we provide a chamber having a passage opening into it which serves both as an inlet for the air for the explosive mixture and for the discharge of the exploded gases against the turbine rotor, the said passage being so formed that the air will pass to the chamber without affecting the rotor and will be cut off from the chamber by each explosion.

(Specification, 5s.)

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

No. 31228.—27th April, 1912.—CHARLES ASHTON HENRY BULLOCK, of No. 11 Ludgate Square, London E.C., England, Publisher, and the INTERNATIONAL STAMPING MACHINE COMPANY (LIMITED), of No. 231, Strand, London W.C., England, Manufacturers. An improved machine for delivering and affixing postage-stamps and the like.

Extracts from Specification.—Feeding-device wherein when the plunger is depressed the stamp-strip is automatically gripped and fed forward the required distance, a pin or tooth (or a plurality thereof), adapted to always spring back to a definite point, automatically operating in conjunction with the perforations in the stamp-strip to regulate and correct the feed. . . . Jets or sprays of moisture are ejected from the machine, preferably intermittently, in such a manner and in such a direction that the moisture is sprayed on to the adhesive side of the stamp to be affixed as the stamp moves into position for affixing. . . . Plunger-pad which presses the damped stamp on to the surface to which it is to be applied, the arrangement being such that instead of a vertical pressure only being available there is a slight horizontal movement of the pad, such as will cause a more firm adherence. . . . Means for rendering a complete stroke of the plunger imperative at each operation, and means for ensuring the proper application of the stamp to the surface designed to receive it.

(Specification, 11s. 6d.)

[NOTE.—The above extracts from the specification are inserted in place of the claims.]

No. 31229.—27th April, 1912.—KARL HEINRICH WIMMER, of Holzhafen, near Bremen, Germany, Manufacturing Chemist, and ERIC BERKELEY HIGGINS, of 12 Elleray Park Road, Wallasey, England. A process for the reduction or hydrogenation of organic compounds, such as fatty acids and the glycerides.

Claim.—(1.) The process for the reduction or hydrogenation of organic compounds which consists in treating the said compounds with hydrogen at a suitable temperature and with the aid of organo-metallic compounds, such as organic metal salts, substantially as described.

(Specification, 3s. 9d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow two other claims.]

No. 31235.—26th April, 1912.—ALBERT HENRY BENNETT, residing at Menzie’s Hotel, Bourke Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Chief Chef. An iceless refrigerator.

Extract from Specification.—The invention consists, briefly, in providing an hermetically closed vessel, which is surrounded by a cooling-jacket, and provided internally with a helically coiled pipe, through which water is passed to assist in cooling the contents of said vessel.

(Specification, 10s. 6d.)

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

No. 31236.—26th April, 1912.—NIELS OHMS, of Ponsonby near Auckland, New Zealand, Builder. Improved fireproof partition for houses and the like.

Extract from Specification.—This invention provides for a fireproof partition, built of plaster-of-paris slabs secured together, by means of either separate keys adapted to engage in the key-recesses formed in the adjacent edges of the slabs, or by forming horizontal keys on the edges of the slabs to engage in the key-recesses on the adjoining slabs. The slabs are formed either of solid plaster-of-paris or with a plaster-of-paris casing or shell filled with packing, such as coke, scoria, sand, pumice-stone, metal, stone, marble, or granite chips, or ashes, which is cast into the slabs when they are being formed.

(Specification, 3s. 9d.)

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

No. 31238.—24th April, 1912.—JOHN HOBBS BEAMISH, of 27 Regent Street, London S.W., and of 40 Marine Parade, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand, Architect. An improved game apparatus.

Claim.—(1.) Game apparatus comprising a board having raised edges lined with resilient cushions, cups or pockets in its surface or at the edges, and a raised cushion or deflector made of or covered with resilient material at a point in its body or central part, substantially as described.

(Specification, 2s. 6d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow five other claims.]

No. 31263.—7th May, 1912.—THEODOR FRANKE, of Wartburgstrasse 24, Schoneberg, Berlin, Germany, Civil Engineer. Improvements in machines for pressing liquids from materials containing the same.

Claim.—(1.) Machine for pressing liquids from materials containing the same, in which the material is compressed by pistons in a compressing-chamber provided with strainers for enabling the liquid to escape, characterized by the strainers being provided with teeth projecting into the chamber and adapted to tear open the surfaces of the material in contact with the strainers.

(Specification, 8s.)

[NOTE.—Here follow nine other claims.]

No. 31265.—7th May, 1912.—HANS VON KRAMER, of 21 Wood End Road, Erdington, juxta Birmingham, (England) Electrical Engineer. Improved means for the regulation and control of railway and like traffic.

Claims.—(1.) In an inductive railway-signalling system, automatic means whereby immediately before and when a train enters a block it is caused to induce an alternating current in a line wire laid parallel to the track, and to thereby (through a relay) indicate its entry to the signalman, to restore its own apparatus to a condition ready for receiving signals, and to restart its alternating-current sending-apparatus, whereby when it passes out of the block it will indicate its entry into the next block in the same manner. (2.) In an inductive signalling-system, the employment of a main section, a current-restoring section, and a clearing section in the stationary part of the apparatus, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

(Specification, £1 5s.)

[NOTE.—Here follow five other claims.]

No. 31282.—7th May, 1912.—ALEXANDER MCKINLAY, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Groom (assignee of the said Alexander McKinlay and Frederick George McKinlay, of Dunedin aforesaid, Fitter). Improved egg-beater.

Claims.—(1.) The egg-beater as a whole, substantially as described, and illustrated in the drawing. (2.) An egg-beater characterized by means for aerating the shelled eggs during the process of beating them, substantially as described. (3.) An egg-beater comprising means for forcing air through the shelled eggs, and, in conjunction therewith, means for simultaneously beating the shelled eggs, substantially as described.

(Specification, 2s. 6d.)

No. 31284.—26th May, 1911.†—GOGU CONSTANTINESCU, of 11 Hart Street, Bloomsbury, W.C., London, England, Engineer. Improvements in carburettors for internal-combustion engines.

Claim.—(1.) A carburettor comprising a horizontal conduit for motor-exhaust gases, a carburation-chamber extending along said conduit, a percolation-layer in said chamber, partly filling the cross-section thereof and placed upon the wall of said conduit, and a device for feeding fuel to said percolation-layer so that delivery of fuel from said feed-device is distributed along the length of the said layer.

(Specification, 6s.)

[NOTE.—Here follow five other claims.]

No. 31285.—13th July, 1911.†—GOGU CONSTANTINESCU of 11 Hart Street, Bloomsbury, W.C., London, England, Engineer. Improvements in carburettors for internal-combustion engines.

Claim.—(1.) A carburettor comprising, in combination with a horizontal conduit for motor-exhaust gases, a carburation-chamber extending along the said conduit, a body of non-absorbent heat-conducting material filling the cross-section of said chamber and having interstices adequate to give passage to the entire quantity of air to be carburetted in said chamber, and means for discharging liquid hydrocarbon into the interstices in said body, so that there is a substantially uniform delivery of the liquid along the length of the carburation-chamber.

(Specification, 7s. 6d.)

[NOTE.—Here follow six other claims.]