FLAXDRESSING MACHINERY.
PATENTS APPEIED FOR.
The current issue of the New Zealand Gazette contains particulars m connection with two applications for Tetters Patents for improved processes of treating flax.
Mr Daniel McGill, engineer, of Te Puni street, Petone, has applied lor a patent for an improved chemical process of treating flax consisting iu subjecting the flax, first, to the action of an alkaline bath, then to the action ot a second bath containing chloride of lime, then to the action of a third bath containing minted sulphuric add, dually washing the hbics in water and crying the same. An application has also been filed by Frank Victor Raymond, solicitor, and James E- Rough,, flaxmiller, both of Foxton, and Wyuford Ormsby Beere, surveyor, of Wellington, m connection with improvements iu machines for treating flax by the combination of a series ot superposed pairs of rollers, pipes delivering jets of water to each pair iu the direction of travel of fibre through the rollers and compressisu-springs to each pair ot rollers tor keeping me peripheries of each pair of rollers in contact.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1041, 9 May 1912, Page 2
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180FLAXDRESSING MACHINERY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1041, 9 May 1912, Page 2
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