344 THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN February 15, 1918. COAL, IRON AND ENGINEERING COMPANIES. REPORTS AND DIVIDENDS. Bessemer (Henry) and Company Limited.—The directors regret that the report and accounts cannot be submitted owing to the company’s liabilities for special taxation being still in a position of uncertainty. They are satisfied that the profits will admit of the payment of a further dividend of 12^ per cent, on the ordinary shares, making 15 per cent., less tax. Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited. — The directors announce that although the accounts have not yet been issued, they are in a position to recommend a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum for the half-year to December 31 on the ordinary shares and a bonus of 5 per cent, for the year, making 15 per cent, in all. Fife Coal Company Limited.—The directors recommend, in respect of the half-year ended December 31, 1917, a dividend of 2^ per cent, (actual) on the preference shares, less income tax, and a dividend of 17^ per cent, (actual) , on the ordinary shares, free of income tax. An interim dividend of 7^ per cent, (actual) was paid on the ordinary shares in September 1917, and thus the return on these for the year 1917 is 25 per cent. For 1916 the distribution was 35 per cent., free of tax. Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Limited. — The directors have declared an interim dividend for the six months ended December 31, 1917, at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum on the preference shares, and Is. per share on the ordinary shares, both free of income tax. Mather and Platt Limited.—The directors recommend a final dividend of 12^ per cent, on the ordinary shares, making 17^ per cent, for the past year. The ordinary shares received 17^ per cent, for 1916, 12^ per cent, for each of the two preceding years, and 15 per cent, for 1913. Otis Steel Company Limited.—Dividend of 2£ per cent, on the common stock, same as for the previous year. Wankie Colliery Company Limited. — Profits for 1917 were £71,203. A final dividend of 5 per cent, is proposed, making 15 per cent, for the year. The issue of new shares at 10s. 6d. per share is recommended. Yorkshire Electric Power Company (Incorporated).—The year’s net profit, after payment of mortgage and other interest, amounted to £33,258, excluding £3,866 brought forward. The directors recommend a dividend (less tax) at the rate of 6 per cent, on the preference shares (includ- ing the amount paid up to June 30, 1917), and 5 per cent, on the ordinary shares. After transferring £12,000 to the reserve fund, they propose to carry forward £4,391. In 1916 only 3 per cent, was paid on the ordinary shares. Yorkshire Railway Wagon Company Limited. — The report for the year states that the gross profits, including the balance brought forward, amounted to £51,461; £25,459 is required to pay interest on the debentures and loans, leaving £26,001. An interim dividend was paid on August 1 last, and the directors now recommend a further dividend of 2s. per share on 75,000 shares (£2 paid) and Is. per share on 37,500 shares (£1 paid). After adding £5,000 to the reserve fund (making the reserve £107,500), the balance of £1,766 is carried forward. NEW COMPANIES. Associated Tar Distillers Limited.—Private company. Registered January 31. To carry on the -business of tar distillers. Nominal capital, £100 in £1 shares. Sub- scribers (one share): J. A. Fuller (Wood Green), and J. H. Chapman (Lewisham). Fortluminium Limited. — Private company. Registered January 24. To carry on the businesses of alloys and o«f metals and metallic and other things capable of forming an alloy, etc. Nominal capital, £10,000 in 9,500 £1 ordi- nary shares and 10,000 Is. deferred shares. Directors: F. R. Raud and J. T. Lane. Qualification of directors, 2,500 deferred shares. Higginson (G. S.) Limited.—Private company. Regis- tered February 5. To carry on the business of engineers, iron and brass founders, etc. Nominal capital, £1,000 in £1 shares. Director, G. S. Higginson (London). Qualifi- cation of directors, £50. Knox Manufacturing Company Limited.—Private com- pany. Registered January 29. To carry on the business of mechanical and general engineers, etc. Nominal capital, £2,000 in £1 shares. Directors : J. Knox (Westcliff-on- Sea), and C. N. Knox (Manchester). Qualification of directors, £50. Low Temperature Distillation Limited. — Private com- pany. Registered February 7. To carry on the business of distillers, extractors, producers, manufacturers, and suppliers of all solid, liquid, and gaseous substances, etc. Nominal capital, £100 in £1 shares. Directors shall be appointed by the subscribers. Subscribers : W. R. Smith (Clapton) and E. J. Burrows (Chingford). Mechanics Limited. — Private company. Registered February 5. To carry on the business of mechanical engi- neers, etc. Nominal capital, £4,000 in 3,900 £1 ordinary shares and 2,000 Is. deferred shares. Directors shall be appointed by the subscribers. Qualification of directors, one share. Subscribers (one ordinary share) : E. A. Rey- nolds (Clapham) and F. H. Wyrill (Crouch End). Tipton Foundry Limited. — Private company. Regis- tered February 2. To carry on the business of iron founders, mechanical engineers, etc. Nominal capital, £5,000 in £1 shares. Directors: W. and M. Elwell. Qualification of directors, £150. Tubes (Equipment) Limited.—Private company. Regis- tered February 5. To carry on the business of manufac- turers and factors of and dealers in metal tubes of every description. Nominal capital, £1,000 in £1 shares. Directors : J. A. Aston (Wlyde Green), G. Beesley, A. Chamberlain, and two others. Qualification of directors, 100 shares. Vulcan Iron and Metal Works (1918) Limited.—Private company. Registered office, 4, Great Marlborough-street, W. Registered February 7. Nature of the business is indicated by the title. Nominal capital, £30,000 in £1 shares. Subscribers (one share) : S. J. Roberts and G. Marsh. West Butterknowle Colliery Company Limited.—Private company. Registered office, West Butterknowle Colliery, Butterknowle, Durham. Registered January 31. Nature of business indicated by the title. Nominal capital, £2,500 in £1 shares. Directors: E. Corker, R. Summerson, and two others. Qualification of directors, £200. This list of new companies is taken from the Daily Register specially compiled by Messrs. Jordan and Sons Limited, company registration agents, Chancery-lane, E.C. ABSTRACTS OF PATENT SPECIFICATIONS RECENTLY ACCEPTED. the belt or with a looped portion 111427. Improvements in Apparatus for Raising and Conveying Coal, etc. F. L. Stuart, Glenville Road, Greenwich, County of Fairfield, Connecticut, U.S.— This invention relates to apparatus for conveying, storing and reclaiming material which has been stored. In the accompanying drawings fig. 1 is a view of an improved reclaiming elevator. . Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the reclaiming elevator moved to one side when not in use, and this figure also shows means by which material may be delivered to a pile for storage. Figs. 1 and 2 show the reclaiming elevator A hung from a bridge B of any suitable construction and provided with rollers b adapted to traverse a track whereby the bridge with the parts which it supports may be moved from place to place. Material may be brought to the bridge by a conveyor C which, by means of a tripper D1, delivers to a hopper D. The tripper D1 is so connected with the bridge that it moves coincidently therewith from place to place and is so associated with the main con- veyor belt C that it receives material from said belt con- tinuously while the belt is being moved, the tripper being reeved with thereof in the usual way, so that without stopping the belt the bridge may be moved from place to place carrying with it the tripper D1 and may deposit materia] on the bridge conveyer through its hopper. The hopper D deposits the material on a horizontally arranged belt con- veyer E provided with a tripper F which may deliver to a hopper G through which the material passes by means of a chute g to a pile X. The tripper F is of the usual con- struction. It is reeved with a looped portion of the bridge conveyer belt in the usual way and the arrangement is such that the tripper F while still in operative relation with the looped portion of the bridge conveyor belt may be moved from one end of the bridge to the other and may deliver the material conveyed at any desired point between the ends of the bridge. As before stated the tripper F may deliver to a hopper G through which the material passes by means of a chute to a pile X below the bridge. Or the tripper and hopner may be moved to the position shown in fig. 1 and deliver to a hopper H mounted on a truck Hl connected with the bridge and moved coincidently therewith. This bonder m«»v deliver to a belt conveyer H2 for carrying the material to any desired point. Any suitable means mav be provided for moving the tripper F and hopner G bank and forth across the bridge so as to deliver the material in any desired plane. The reclaiming elevator A comprises an endless series of buckets having a suitable housing extending from its upper to its lower end. Any suitable means mav be emuloyed for supporting the upper end nf the reclaim- ing elevator and for moving it back and forth on the bridp-e. (Three claims.) 111502 Improvements in Appliances used in Winding, etc. A. Hanley, 21, Alpha Road, Bristol.— Consists of altered rope casing and contact parts causing them to exert a corrugated (or positive) griphold of ropes (as mining or like ropes), automatically detach such ropes when overwinding takes place and the casing parts meet an obstruction as a mining detach plate usually in the pit head stocks and retain mining cages and like. Fig. 1 shows a side view of the appliance as applied to colliery winding ropes and cages. The parts above U are in section, Fig. 2 shows release of rope R when part D is obstructed by detach plate, P2, usually in the headstocks. Fig. 4 shows grip of part C4 on cage guide rope G, owing prin- cipally to the rope casing turning part H over if the rope R breaks. Fig. 5 shows plan sections of the gripping corrugations. The parts A1 A2 form a rope cappie, or shell, and are made extra long; have serrated side extensions, K, plan boundary extensions, formed at top, and end extensions, J1, formed on them on end extension J2 fitted to the lower end of A1 fig. 1. A1 A2 have recesses fitted with liners, Q, held by shearable pins N1, W. A1 A2 are held horizontally by clamp, or collar, D, and are conm I1, I2, and pins L1, N2, N3, and L2. N2 N3 are shearable. A1 A2 have shrouded concave - convex surfaces or cor- rugations, C1, formed on them, or contain sliding wedges C7, C8, with such corruga- tions formed on them as C2, or fitted to them, as C3 by key F, or by screws, as C4, C7 has slot M1 to grip rope strands S1; C8 has double slot M2 and screw plug at their lower ends by cross pieces FIG3 top by shearable bolt B1. The usual rope strands S3. Strands S2 and part U are gripped by parts C1, C8. C7 C9 are connected at core of the rope is taken out and a soft rod, U, is hooked (or knotted) through a hole O1, in centre plate H, the upper end of U passing through the rope. U connects R to H. A key, E, effects tightness of C7 to R. Between A1 A2 is centre plate H connected to cage shackle Z, its upper end attached to rod U and its lower end resting on pin L3; its cranked end containing part C4 to grip rope G. H is also connected to cage chains T by spring V. All parts thus form a single mechanic link connecting rope R to cage pin L3. The top extensions of A1 A2 prevent D mounting during work. The corrugations are either semi-circular, as C9 fig. 5, or pulley thread, as C10 fig. 5, in plan section. During normal work, rope R is held by being bent by the corrugations gripping it (as distinct are strained off, screened liquid only p. Reference to the accompanying from a rope being first bent for curved surfaces to fit a bent rope) which grip is automatically adjustable by the sliding of C7 C8. Rod U keeps physical contact with cage forces in L3. If, whilst in motion, the rope R is over wound, the detacher P2 obstructs D but allows A1 A2 to pass through the hole of P2; D is depressed, contacts with the shears N1, I1, I2; squeezes J1, J2, horizontally, thereby shearing bolts B1 and pins N2, N3, opening A1 A2, releasing rope R. In the act of falling, projections K catch and remain on P2, thus retaining the cage. If the rope R breaks, all parts fall, but H. turns principally due to the physical design and disposition of the rope holding parts and partly due to the spring V, the gripping part C4 grips G and retains the cage. (Two claims.) 111529. Improvements in Pumping Apparatus. C. H. Adams, White House, Fulford, York.—By means of this invention an ordinary centrifugal or other pump will pump the screened liquid without choking and at the same time will drive the screenings up the discharged pipe which takes the screened liquid, the screenings being washed off the face of the screen by the force of the liquid, the direction of which is suit- ably controlled for the purpose. With this object in view two or more screening receptacles are used, directing the flow of the liquid through each alternatively in opposite directions by means of suitable valves. When the liquid is passing to the pump through a screen in one direction the soli flowing to the p drawings shows at fig. 1, a simple lay out designed so that the operations may be readily followed :—a is the source of supply from which the liquid is drawn up the suction pipe b through the re- flux valve c into the screen- ing receptacle d, through the screen e and screen / and the discharge pipe g, through the butterfly valve h, through pipe j to the centri- fugal pump k from which it is discharged through pipe I and the inlet port m and the outlet mx of butterfly valve h and thence down pipe n and o into screening receptacle p and through screens Z1 and e1 from which the screenings (which were strained off when the flow was in the reverse direction) are washed and carried with the screened liquid and pump into the rising main u through the non-return valve r, screw down valve s, and pipe t, which is connected to the pipe u. When it is desired the dividing plate x is turned over in the opposite direction, as shown by dotted lines, when the flow of water will be directed in the opposite direc- tion, i.e. up pipe b through reflux valve q into receptacle p, through the screens e1 and fr thence up pipe o down pipe n through the butterfly valve into pump and from thence through pipe I and through butterfly h down pipe g and into screening receptacle d, through screens f and e and thence through valve r1 and screw down valve s1 and pipe t1 to outgo rising main u. The pump is shown driven by a motor v and belt w. At fig. 2 is a section where like parts are lettered to correspond with those shown at fig. 1. (Two claims.) NEW PATENTS CONNECTED WITH THE COAL AND IRON TRADES. Applications for Patents. February 4 to 9 (inclusive). [Note.—Applications arranged alphabetically under the names of the applicants (communicators in parentheses). A new number will be given on acceptance, which will replace the application number.] Allen, M. H. P. Lifting devices. (1992) Anderson, P. D. Utilising rise and fall of liquids for pumping, etc. (2037) Baradat, C., and Lleo, A. Multi-cylinder internal combus- tion engines. (2263) Baxter, W. H., and Baxter Limited, W. H. Machinery for crushing, granulating, or powdering stone, ore, etc (2223) Blanchford, H. H. Heating chamber for tubular, etc., boilers. (2279) Bowen, H. E. Steel melting, etc., furnaces. (2273) Bowman, L. M. Hydrocarbon burners. (2336) Bramson (nee Adeler), K. Utilising dead leaves as stock for making paper pulp, fuel, etc. (2258) British Thomson-Houston Company (General Electric Com- pany). Elastic fluid turbines. (2310) British Thomson-Houston Company (General Electric Com- pany). Electric furnaces. (2368) British Thomson-Houston Company (Newton). Elastic fluid turbines. (2309) Brown and Company, J. Steam turbines. (2142) Carey, R. F. Hydraulic pumps, etc. (2023) Carlson, O. F. S. Furnaces. (2247) Clark, F. W. Water-gas manufacture. (2259) Clerget, Blin et Cie. Rotary and/or radial internal com- bustion engines. (2190) Conor, J., and Vivez, J. Apparatus for feeding sprayers for heavy oils, etc. (1999) Davies, E. G. Mechanical feed to tinning or terne machines, etc. (2138) Domestic Engineering Company. Internal combustion engines. (2108) General Briquetting Company. Machines for manufacture of briquettes. (2082) Gibson, V. J. Internal combustion engines. (2013) Haggie, J. D. Furnaces for boilers. (2198) Hampton, J. Pit prop. (2121) (Continued on page 346.)