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THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN.

March 13, 1911.

5386. Apparatus used in purification of gas. P. C. Balcon
and Ashmore, Benson, Pease and Co. Limited.

5414. Electrode holders for electric furnaces. Pried.
Krupp Akt.-Ges.

5434. Treatment of mineral oils and residues. C. White.

5437. Grinding, pulverising, and like mills. W. H.
Kniskern.

5455. Protective devices for alternating-current electric
generators. British Thomson-Houston Company
Limited and E. B. Wedmore.

5480.	Radial-arm drilling and boring machines of the

vertical type. Joshua Buckton and Co. Limited
and J. H. Wioksteed.

5481.	Brick kiln. J. Lewis.

5509. Alternating-current motors. L. J. Hunt and Sandy-
croft Limited.

5564. Appliances for breaking down rock, coal, and the
like. W. Davies, M. Davies, and A. Morgan.

5586. Portable drilling apparatus. H. Shaw and J. Young.

5596. Greasing pit tubs. W. Samuel.

5603. Coke ovens. J. Rosen.

5648. Tool chucks or sockets. Electric and Ordnance
Accessories Company Limited and L. M. Ellis.

5651.	Siemens-Martin furnaces. Eickworth and Sturm

G.m.b.H.

5652.	Heat accumulators. Maschinenbau Akt.-Ges. Baloke.

5658. Automatic device for starting and stopping the
cutting tool in brick-cutting machines. C. Ruetz.

5664. Melting furnaces. I. Hall.

5734. Method of and apparatus for the manufacture of
lime and fuel gas. R. Pearson and Chalk Fuel,
Power Gas and By-Products Corporation Limited.

5736.	Explosives and process for producing same. H.

Stoltzenberg.

5737.	Process for stabilising explosives. H. Stoltzenberg.

5746. Respiratory apparatus. A. B. Drager.

5774. Truck couplings. W. Schilling.

5824. Machinery for cutting and removing the runners,
heads or risers of steel, or iron or other metal
castings, or catting lengths off bar iron, steel or
other metal. W. Livingstone.

5845. Apparatus for heating peat pulp or the like. Inter-
national Nitrogen and Power Company Limited,
E. A. Buckle and 0. D. Lucas.

5850. Automatic or like couplers for railway and similar
vehicles. C. Watson.

5853. Utilisation of peat. T. Rigby, N. Testrup and Wet-
carbonising Limited.

Complete Specifications Accepted.

To be published on March 26, 1914.

1912.

27615. Processes and apparatus for refining oils by distil-
lation. Domes.

27641. Galvanising or like coating of wire, hoops, sheets
and the like. Field, Howarth and Atkins.

1913.

160. Central buffing and draw gear for [railway and like
vehicles. Spencer.

2754. Machinery for compressing air and other electric
fluids in several stages. Reavell and Co., Reavell
and Jones.

5292. Method for the discovery of minerals. Williams.

5741. Fluid-pressure apparatus. Walker.

5858. Pit cage arresters. Yates and Heyes.

5906. Utilisation of steam in steam turbines and other
engines. Parsons.

6674. Coupling head for railway and like vehicles. Till-
manns.

10066. Apparatus for washing or scrubbing gas. Williams.
10180. Clinometer. West.

10413. Means for removing scrap from sheet-metal
stampings. Timings.

11073. Method of and means for preventing the formation
of carbon monoxide in cupola furnaces. Schur-
mann.

12838. Packing devices for centrifugal pumps compressors,
and the like. British Thomson-Houston Company,
and Collingham.

12902. Self-adjusting back centre and brake for rock and
the like hand-drilling machines. Brown.

13737. Gas-producers. Jolly.

14241. Gas-inlet nozzles for coke ovens. Gossler.

14726. Melting-pot furnaces. Coppee.

15411. Boxes for holding accumulators and battery cells.
Worsnop.

16162. Adjustable cutter for boring bars and the like.
Pattinson,

16822. Apparatus for the purposes of artificial respiration.
Davis and Allday.

17010. Nozzles or mouthpieces for apparatus for washing
coal and other minerals. Habets and France.

17611. Feeding and distribution of charges in vertical
distillation retorts. Aarts.

17612. Method of and apparatus for discharging carbonised
products obtained in vertical retorts. Aarts.

17798. Automatic coupling for railway vehicles and the
like. Rossetto (Soo. Agganciamento Crescimibeni).

18204. Hand-drilling machines for use in mines. Marrow.

20030. Ambulance wagons. Nagel.

20580. Centrifugal pumps, blowers, compressors and the
like. Eisenwerk (vorm. Nagel and Kaemp) Akt.-
Ges., and Schneider.

21158. Metal-melting furnaces. Hall.

22189. Method of and apparatus for draining and concen-
trating coal and other slimes and materials of a
like, nature. Hunter and Simon - Carves By-
Product Coke Oven Construction and Working
Company.

23021. Apparatus for the resuscitation of asphyxiated
persons. Davis and Hill.

24822. Roller and ring mills for grinding, crushing, pul-
verising and the like. Johnson (Geb. Pfieffer).

26990. Tipping wagon. Poepel.

27954. Grading or screening apparatus. Engels.

28682. Materials for purifying producer and like gas.
Wallwinn and Sinnatt.

29666. Means for charging and discharging furnaces.
Ferman and Ferman and Co.

1914.

1269. Processes and apparatus for refining oils by distilla-
tion. Domes.

2631. Means for preventing the creeping of railway rails.
Bodkin.

Complete Specifications open to Public Inspection before
Acceptance.

1914.

379. Washing, cooling and drying apparatus for suction
gas locomotives. Hungarian Banking and Trading
Company.

3466. Steam turbines. Soc. Anon, pour 1’Exploitation des
Procedes Westinghouse Leblanc.

4334. Stamping machine, particularly for coals, with a
belt or chain like device for the stampers, which
run over pulleys or sprocket wheels. Franz
Meguin and Co. Akt.-Ges. and another.

4805. Process for making soil or rocks impervious.
Abraham.

An action has been entered in the court of the Railway
and Canal Traffic Commissioners by a body of Sheffield
traders to test the legality of the action of the railway
companies in increasing their charges for carrying special
traffic by 4 per per cent.

GOVERNSSEHT PUBLICATIONS.

#** Any of the following publications may be obtained
on application to thia office at the price named post free.

Bills, 1914: University of Sheffield, l|d. ; Factory and
Workshop, 1901, Amendment, Id. ; Companies’ Annual
Returns, Id.; Eight Hours Working Day, Id.

Royal Commission on Railways, Seventh Day’s Evidence,
February 6, 1914, 2s. Id.

Civil Service Estimates, 1914-15 ; Class 7, Old Age
Pensions, Labour Exchanges, and Insurance, 4|d.

Town Planning: Procedure Regulations, 2d. ; Procedure
Circular, lid.

Returns of Life Assurance Companies for 1913, Part A,
7s. Id. ; Part B, 5s. 6d.

Trade and Navigation Returns for February, Is. lOd.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Thb Akt ob Lithography. By H. J. Rhodes. London :
Scott, Greenwood and Son. Price 10s. 6d.

“ The Employers’ Magazine,” January (published by the
Lehigh Valley Coal Company, America) ; “ Annales des
Mines ” (tome 5, No. 2) ; “ Cassier’s Engineering Monthly ”
(Vol. 45, No. 3), March, price Is.; “ Bulletin of the
American Institute of Mining Engineers,” February
(No. 68) ; “ British Columbia Bureau of Mines, Bull.No. 1
1914, ‘ Preliminary Review and Estimate of Mineral Pro-
duction, 1913,’ by W. Fleet Robinson ”; “ Annual Report
and Balance-sheet of the Barnsley Chamber of Commerce
for 1913 ” (J. Lodge and Sons, Barnsley) ; “ The Inter-
national Review of Commerce and Industry ” (Vol. 1,
No. 4), March, price 2s.

Shipment of Bunker,Coals.—-There was an increase in the
shipment of coal, &c., used by steamers engaged in the foreign
trade during the month of February, as compared with the
corresponding month of last year. During the month
1,615,132 tons were so shipped, as against 1,539,410 tons in
February 1913 and 1,550,319 tons in February 1912. The
aggregate shipment for the first two completed months of
the year was 3,346,144 tons, as compared with 3,297,089
tons and 3,066,978 tons in the corresponding periods
respectively of 1913 and 1912.

Hull Coal Imports.—According to the official return
made by the Hull Corporation coal inspector, Mr. W.
Herbert Truman, the quantity of coal imported into the
port during the month of February was 518,393 tons, of
which 482,145 tons was conveyed by rail, and 36,248 tons by
river. The amount imported in the corresponding month
of 1913 was 582,098 tons. The total imports for the first
two months of the year were 1,028,430 tons, as against
1,225,384 in the corresponding period of the previous year.
The quantity of coal exported coastwise was 81,921 tons.
The figures for the first two months were 151,457 tons. The
exports during February amounted to 261,646 tons, as
against 262,747 in February, 1913. The exports during the
first two months totalled 485,211 tons, as against 538,151
tons.

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apparently asphyxiated is to administer Oxygen by a simple form of
apparatus, as shown, and at the same time use the Schafer method of
resuscitation which is known to all St. John Ambulance and Red

Cross Students. BEWARE of Automatic Suction
Appliances. — Vide Eminent Physiologists’
REPORTS.

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