1 Mar., 1902.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 215 
Agricultural Patents Accepted. 
Firtrr Press anp Process ror Grape Sucar.—Classes 23, 24, 25, 30, 31 
—6217: The Cereal Sugar Company, of No. 828 Gratiot street, St. Louis, Mis- 
-souri, United States of America (Assignees of William Rilea Long). “‘ Improve- 
ments in and relating to Process and Apparatus for Refining Grape Sugar.” 
Dated 17th September, 1901. Instead of refining grape sugar by moistening in 
a centrifugal, the dry non-pasty crude sugar is cut up by a revolving drum 
-shredder, and re-compacted into suitably shaped cakes bya preliminary pressing 
in canvas wrappers. These cakes (with the wrappers) are then sandwiched 
with iron plates in an hydraulic press, each plate having rubber borders to 
prevent lateral spreading. Under a pressure of 2,500 to 5,000 lb. per square 
inch, at a temperature of 90 degrees Fahr., the impurities are expressed in a 
Aiquid form, and a supe marketable product is obtained in about one-twelfth 
_of the time required f 
or the centrifugal process. 
Tonic AnD Draesttve Mepitcrne.—Class 81—6233: Edward Silver, of Horse 
‘Creek road, Mount Morgan, Queensland, Australia, miner. ‘“ An Improved 
Medicine for the Treatment of Indigestion and other Diseases of the Stomach.” 
Dated 21st September, 1901. Two ounces of dried leaves of Prostanthera 
rotundifolia* are extracted with 12 oz. of boiling water. One ounce of dried 
‘bark of Atherosperma moschatumt is extracted with 10 oz. of boiling water. Mix 
10 oz. of the first infusion with 1 oz. of the second infusion, and with L oz. of spirits 
-of wine. The recommended dose is one tablespoonful an hour before each meal. 
Maize Husker and Dresser.—Class 29.—(8 Figures).—5739 : Robert 
Gustav Miinchow, of Templin, near Boonah, Queensland, farmer and mechanic. 
“An Improved Corn Sheller, Husker, Winnower, and Bagger.” Dated 29th 
October, 1900. (Drawings, 10s.; specification, 4s.) The corn-cobs are fed 
into a shoot and fall revolving between a spiked drum and. spiked base-plate, 
where the husking takes place; the base-plate having a hinged spring adjust- 
«nent provides for the irregularity of the size of the cobs; the crushed cobs 
and the husked corn fall on to a jigger or shaking table, the corn and dust 
passes through the upper screen to the lower screen thereof, and the crushed 
cobs are discharged at the mouth of the jigger from the upper screen, whilst 
the corn is discharged from the mouth of the jigger from the lower screen, 
_after which it is raised by elevator buckets into a storage receptacle and thence 
discharged into bags or other desired receiving agent; whilst the corn is falling 
from the jigger to the elevator the dust is blown away by a fan. 
Corron-sEED Pant; GRINDER AND CARDER.—Classes 24, 25, 31, 39.— 
(5 Figures).—5959: The Cotton Seed Company, Limited, of 37 Old Jewry, - 
London, England (Assignees of John Charles William Stanley, of 8 Drapers’ 
‘Gardens, London, England, engineer.) ‘‘ Improvements in or relating to the 
Treatment of Cotton-seed.” Dated 9th April, 1901.” (Drawings on applica- 
‘tion; specification, 22s.) A plant is described for treating cotton-seed, 
‘separating the fibre, and reducing the seeds to two grades of meal. After 
preliminary sifting to remove refuse, the seeds are cracked between rollers, 
thrashed and screened in shaking sieves three or more times, giving two grades, 
cone of kernels with a little hull and the other hulls with a little kernel, both 
haying some adhering cotton fibre. The kernels are further sifted, and the 
hulls treated in a special screening carder consisting of two conical peg drums 
in series revolving against fixed teeth and above fixed screens; in this stage the 
products are classed in three grades, as (1) nearly clean kernel meal, (2) mixed 
fragments, and (3) hulls with most of the cotton. The middle grade is 
recrushed in three-deck rolls, alternated with shaking sieves; the kernels are 
mow nearly all crushed to meal, but with traces of fibre; the hulls are now 
further ground under millstones, and finally the cotton is all separated by 
shaking sieves, in the form of balls or rolls of fluff suitable for paper-making or 
packing. The fine and coarse meals are suitable for oil pressing, cattle foods, 
cand the like. (20 Claims.) 
*One of the Mint family found in New South Wales. +The Black Sassafras of New 
South Wales.—Ed. Q.4.J. 
