1296 THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN. June 18, 1915. 8590. Elastic fluid turbines. British Thomson-Houston Company Limited. (General Electric Company, U.S.A.) 8606. Blasting cartridges. W. Weber. 8607. Method of manufacturing explosive charges by means of liquid air. W. Weber. 8609. Coke quenching bench for coke ovens. Carl Still (firm of). 8612. Hoods for smiths’ fires, forges, furnaces, and the like. 'Soc. Ateliers Air et Eeu, J. Vivez, nee Lou vet, and J. Conor. 8635. Handles of picks, mandrills, and hammers. B. Llewellyn. 8654. Brake mechanism for use in connection with cranes and the like. T. B. Charlton. 8655. Signalling apparatus. M. H. Galsworthy. 8660. Apparatus for coating metal plates with tin, terne, or other metal or alloy. P. B. Taylor. 8680. Method of treating cores and moulds for casting and moulding phosphor bronze, molten metals, alloys, slag, and the like, also for coating and lining vesels to contain molten metals, slag, and the like, and for coating metal or other bodies so as to resist great heat, such as incendiary bombs and other sources of great heat and fire. H. Levy. 8705. Coke quenching bench for coke ovens. Carl Still (firm of). 8706. Explosive composition. J. F. Buckingham. 8713. Thermo-electric pyrometers. H. G. C. Fairweather. (Deutsche Gasgluhlicht Akt.-Ges. (Auer Ges.), Germany.) 8716. Portable conveyors. V. W. Sinton. 8722. Explosive, and applications and methods of using the same. F. N. Mainetty. (L. A. Genard, France.) Complete Specifications Accepted. To be published July 1. 1913. 17732. Process for converting coke into graphite. Plauson. 18357. Method of, and apparatus for separating suspended particles from gaseous bodies by means of high- tension electricity. Moller. 18858. Turbine installations. Vulcan-Werke Hamburg und Stettin Akt.-Ges. 19191. Method of and apparatus for producing cement and the like from blastfurnace slag and like smelting products. Lessing. 19732. Process and apparatus for electrically separating sus- pended bodies from electrically non-conducting, especially gaseous, fluids. Moller. 19789. Water tube boilers. Vulcan-Werke Hamburg und Stettin Akt.-Ges. 20188. Process for the manufacture of hydrocarbons. Hense. 20254. 'Safety devices for mine cages. Tillack. 20488. Manufacture of hydrocarbons and derivatives thereof. Johnson. (Badische Anilin and Soda Fabrik.) 20496. Apparatus for the manufacture of blasting cartridges. Laszczynski. 20497. Turbine installations. Vulcan-Werke Hamburg und Stettin Akt.-Ges. 20736. Apparatus for producing artificial respiration. Neufeldt and Kuhnke (firm of). 1914. _ 1738 and 1739. Method of and means for sinking wells and making holes in the ground for piles, posts, and the like.. Wilhelmi. 5150. Begulation for injection air for internal combustion -engines. Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nurnberg Akt.-Ges. 5853. Utilisation of peat. Bigby, Testrup, and Wetcar- bonizing Limited. 6211. Apparatus for untwisting worn ropes for the purpose of re-making same. Debievre-Bobert. 6311. Ball pivot joints for link work. Mannesmann. 6328. Degeneration of impure air, particularly for use in connection with respiratory apparatus. Drager. 6345. Method of separating and purifying ,solid paraffin hydrocarbons. Justice. (Allgemeine Ges. fur Chemische Industrie.) 6347. Couplings. Trager and Weiss. ' 6601. Process and apparatus for effecting the preliminary crushing and fine grinding of hard substances. Marks. (Kretzmann.) 6760. Fuel feeding devices for furnaces. Anschutz. 6767. Means for use in the quantitative analysis of gaseous mixtures. Siemens Brothers and Company. (Siemens and Halske Akt.-Ges.) 6783. Manufacture of expanded metal lattice work for use in building construction. Van den Daele. 7356. Steam engines. Minue. 13440. Production of rust preventing agents. Mannes- mannrohren-Werke. 13708. Bope railways. Thunhart. 13852. Centrifugal and screw pumps. Auld jo. 13890. Machines for shearing metal or other sheets. Bhodes and Webb., 14013. Composite fuel briquettes for heating and produc- tion of cement, clinker, or ash. Eaton. 14022. Cooling of electric portable drilling machines. Siemens-Schuckert Werke Ges. 14030. Electric transformers. Berry. 14039. Utard. Foundry moulding machines. Utard. 14043. Armatures of dynamo electrical machines and the like. . Scott. 14108. Centrifugal compressors. British Thomson-Houston Company Limited. (General Electric Company, .U.S.A.) 14138. Steam and other elastic fluid turbines. Bonom. 14449. Means for operating and securing the bottom doors of railway wagons and the like. ■ Gloucester Bailway Carriage and Wagon • Company, Went- worth, Slack, and Cornish. 14726. Draught installations for furnaces. • James Howden and. Company, and Hume. 15101. Manufacture of rolls for use -in manufacturing rolled bars. Stahlwerk Thyssen Akt.-Ges. - 15484. Steam turbines. Vereingte Dampfturbinen-Ges. 17802. Means for cooling and purifying the air in railway tunnels. Farley. $ ' . 18116. Audible alarms and signalling apparatus. Gratze. 18622. Apparatus for feeding ores to stamping batteries and other pulverisers * and mixers. Standen. 18837. Coal and other delivery wagons. . Batkin. 19544. Bope clips for haulage purposes. Bates. 19831. Haulage clip for coal or other hutches or, corves. Galbraith. 20549. High voltage insulated cable. Beaver and Clare- mont. 22916. Botary disc, bit drills., Molidor and Harris. • 1915. 2844. Apparatus for the water-concentration of ores or the like. Martin. Complete Specifications Open to Public Inspection Before Acceptance. 1915. 6681. Botary suction and compression pump or blower. Thoreau. 8195. Water tube boilers suitable for marine installations. • Schmidt’sche Heissdampf Ges. Applications to Avoid or Suspend Patents or Licences. No. and year of patent. Name of grantee. Name and address of applicant . Date of hearing. 8487/06 Rogl er & Hoerbiger (Automatic valve). The Lilleshall Co. Ltd., Oakengates, Shropshire. June 24. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS. Any of the following publications may be obtained on application to this office at the price named post free. Begistrar-General’s Beport for Scotland, 1913, 2s. 9d. GOAL MINING OBGANISATION COMMITTEE BEPOBT, 7|d. Statutory Bules and Orders, 1915 : Contraband of War, lid. BETAIL COAL PBICES COMMITTEE;' Evidence, 2s. 8d. Great North of Scotland Bailway Order, 4d. Board of Education : Beport, 1913-14, Is. 6d.; Welsh Department Beport for 1914, 2d.; Statistics in Wales, Part 1, 1912-13, Is. 3d. Manual of Emergency Legislation re Financial Interests, Is. 4d. Ministry of Munitions Act, 1915, l^d. Shipments of Bunker Coals.—The quantity of coal, etc., shipped for the use of steamers engaged in the foreign trade during May was 1,180,147 tons / as against 1,840,950 tons in May 1914, and 1,618,844 tons in May 1913. The aggregate so shipped during the five months ending May 31 was 6,334,542 tons, as compared with 8,500,680 tons and 8,366,021 tons in the corresponding periods respectively of 1914 and 1913. Imports of Pit Props in May.—During May 252,798 loads of pit props were imported into the United Kingdom, the value being £421,712. The imports in May last year amounted to 212,800 loads, and the value £260,856. The total imports during the first five completed months of the year were 904,076 loads, valued at £1,489,381, as coippared with 857,445 loads, valued at £918,612, in bhe corresponding period of 1914. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. The By-Products of Coal Gas Manufacture. By K. B. Lange (translated from the German by Chas. Salter). London : Scott, Greenwood and Son. Price, 5s. net. Investigation of the Peat Bogs and Peat Industry of Canada, 1911-12 (Bulletin No. 9 of the Department of Mines, Canada). By A. von Anrep. Ottawa : Govern- ment Printing Bureau. Mineral Production of Canada, 1913. By John McLeish. Ottawa : Government Printing Bureau. A Treatise on Hand Lettering.. By W.. J. Lineham. London : Chapman and Hall. Price, 7s. 6cL net.. “ The Journal of the Franklin Institute ” (Vol. 179, No. 6), June, price 50c.; “ Bulletin of the American Institute of Mining-Engineers ” (No. 102), June; “ Transactions of the North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Ship- builders ” (Vol. 31, Part 2), June, price 5s.; “ The Iowa Engineer,’’ May; “ Transactions of the Mining Institute of Scotland ” (Vol. 37, Part 5), “ Annual Beport of the British Chamber of Commerce, Paris, 1914”; “ Bubber Facts and Figures (No. 12), 1915 ” (London : F. C. Mathieson and Sons), price Is.; “ Bulletin of the British Chamber of Commerce for Italy,” May (Vol. 4, No. 6); ‘ “ The Mining Magazine ” (Vol. 12, No. 6), June, price Is.; ‘‘Preliminary Beport on the Bituminous Sands of Northern Alberta,” by S. C. Ells (Department of Mines, Canada); “Notes on Clay Deposits near McMurray, Alberta,” by S. C. Ells (Bulletin No. 10 of the Depart- ment of Mines, Canada); “ Summary Beport of the Mines Branch of the Department of Mines, Canada, for 1913,” price 15c. Collieries Re-started in Poland. — Factories and work- shops are gradually being re-opened in that part of Busman Poland at present occupied by Germany. In the Dombroff basin work is being resumed at the coal mines and metal- lurgical works, for'example, at the Count Benard, Saturn, and Chelyads collieries; whilst at the Hutte Ka tarshin a Iron Works about 1,000 men are employed. Exports and Imports of Coal Tar Products.—During May there were no imports into the United Kingdom of alizarine and anthracene dyestuffs, aniline and naphthalene dyestuffs. The imports of synthetic indigo amounted to 6,191 tons, the value being £72,946. Imports of other coal tar dyestuffs were 50 tons, and the value £605. The, values of the coal products exported in May and the ;first five months ended therewith were as follow :— May. Jan.-May. 1914. Coal products, not dyes— £ Aniline oil and toluidine 2,204.. Anthracene .............. 76.. Benzol and toluol ..... 20,260.. Carbolic acid ......... 11,914.. Coal tar, crude ........ 1,677.. ,, refined & varnish 5,275.. Naphtha ................ 2,240.. Naphthalene ............ 2,257.. Pitch ................ 93,327.. Tar oil, creosote, &c ...100,163.. Other sorts ........... 19,147.. 1915. 1914. 1915. <£ £ £ . 6,813... 14,663... 42,011 . — ... 76... 749 . 37,554... 104,772...133,123 . 18,938... 57,667... 98,179 247... 4,884... 2,518 . 4,750... 28,899... 22,622 . 2,890... 10,986,.. 8,400 . 2,816... 14,465... 17,252 . 46,763... 544,455...211,522 .110,153... 274,617...272,165 . 53,852... 134,142...155,774 Total ...............258,540.. .284,776.. 1,189,626.. .964,315 Coal tar dye stuffs.......:... 16,088... 19,912... 80,6*4... 73,581 The following quantities of the above products were exported in May Coal products, not dyes -: Aniline oil and toluidine, 172,6341b.; benzol and toluol, 730,604 gals.; carbolic acid, 12,781 cwt.; coal tar, crude, 1,013 cwt.; ditto, refined and varnish, 206,737 gals.; naphtha, 49,145 gals.; naphthalene, 5,565 cwt.; pitch, 763,384 cwt.; tar oil, creosote, etc., 6,254,517 gals.; other sorts, 68,478 cwt.; coal tar dyestuffs, 3,199 cwt. The values of sulphate of ammonia exports were as follow :— May. Jan.-May. A 1914. 1915. 1914. 1915. x To— £ £ £ £ Germany :. 298... — ... 39,641... — France 2,229... 31,359... 18,329... 84,193 Spain and Canaries 47,675...137,506... 467,293... . 443,218 Italy 3,700... 11,612... 22,941 62,304 Dutch East Indies 92,016... 38,947... . 264,570... . 283,434* Japan 86,206... 23,931... . 522,751.. .; 86,440 United States of America 4,763... 6,119... 236,709... 135.247 British W. India Islands (including Bahamas) and British Guiana 16,335... 28,371.. . 57,689.. . 58,185 Other countries 16,578... 46,068.. . 195.212.. . 548,217 Total............269,800.. 323,913..1,825,135..1,701,238 The following were the quantities exported in May :— France, 2,302 tons; Spain and Canaries, 10,336 tons; Italy, 811 tons; Dutch East Indies, 2,942 tons; Japan, 1,885 tons; United States, 453 tons; British West Indies, 2,156 tons; other countries, 3,354 tons—making a total of 24,239 tons, as against 21,650 tons in May 1914. The “PROTO” C“±v') Rescue Apparatus. 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