The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 40
Department VI. — Machinery: Apparatus and Processes used in the Mechanical Industries
Department VI.
Machinery: Apparatus and Processes used in the Mechanical Industries.
Class 49. Agricultural Implements, and Processes used in the Cultivation of Fields and Forests.
Duncan
,P. and
D., South British Iron Works, Christchurch.- 1 Double-furrow Plough
- 1 Single-furrow Plough
These ploughs are distinguished for lightness of draught, and well-packed furrows and general excellence. They are better suited for colonial use than the imported implements.
Maydwell, Daniel
, Papanui, Christchurch.- Three Samples of Bonedust, fine, medium, and coarse; value, eight shillings per cwt.
Moorhouse, Thomas Carter
, Christchurch.- No. 2/1 Superphosphate of Lime, manufactured from bones by the Exhibitor
- No. 2/2 Artificial Bone Manure, manufactured from the superphosphate as seen in jar 2/1, and ready for use either by drill or broadcast
The superior excellence of this preparation over bone as applied in a crushed state consists in its superior adaptation for the immediate utilisation by the plant of all the fertilising properties in the bone, and its even and equal distribution of the same. For top dressing grass lands apply 300 lbs. per acre; for grain, potatoes, and turnips apply from 400 to 450 lbs. per acre.
Reid and Gray
, Dunedin.- Double-furrow Plough, with swivel coulters
The frame is made of best hammered scrap iron, and the coulters, mouldboards, and shares of best hard cast steel. These ploughs, of which we have made and sold over twelve hundred in one season, have taken, in actual trials in the field, more prizes than those of all other makers combined, besides having repeatedly taken the Champion Prize for the best ploughing in the field, when competing against the best single and double ploughs of other makers.
- 1 Set Iron Zig-zag Harrows
- An Assortment of Patented Machine-made Castings.
Walker, John
, C.E., Thames.- Designs for Farm Buildings
Class 50.— Apparatus and Processes used in Agricultural Works, and in Works for the Preparation of Food.
Arnold, Edwin
, Kuripenui, near Wellington.- Revolving Bee-hive made of straw, enabling keepers to obtain honey without destroying the bees
Bagnall Brothers and Co.
, Thames.- Bar-framed Bee-hive; excellent hive for obtaining the maximum of honey without loss of bees.
Burt
,A. and
T., Dunedin.- 1 Oval Tube Refrigerator for Brewers
- 2 Brewers' Mashing Machines
- 1 Brewers' Bottling Syphon
- 2 Brewers' Corking Machines
Ellis, Thomas
, Wanganui.- Butter Churn, manufactured by Exhibitor of kauri wood; will churn from 5 to 45 lbs. of butter
Fisher, Hugh
, Thames.- Colonial Oven and Grate
Class 52.— Machines and Apparatus in General.
Burt
,A. and
T., Dunedin.- 1 Station Pump, mounted on carriage, suitable for portable fire engine and other purposes about a sheep or cattle station
- 3 Brass Lift and Force Pumps, different patterns
- 1 Deep Well Pump
- 1 Copper Tee Piece, made from one piece of copper, shewn as example of marine copper work
- Sample Coils of Lead and Composition Pipes
- 1 Water Engine
Bush, Henry, Captain
, Thames.Crow, Alexander
, Dunedin.- Working Model Steam Engine
This model, made by the Exhibitor, is a copy of Watt's beam engine, with improvements in valves, &c.
Dungan, Patrick Joseph
, Timaru.- Box Mangle, for which a patent has been applied.
Lennan, William
. Dunedin.- Working Model of Condensing Atmospheric Engine
Thomson, Thomas
, Bluff Harbour.- Washing Machine
Class 58.— Apparatus and Processes used in Paper-making, Dyeing, and Printing.
Ffrost, John
W., Wellington.- Rubber Stamps
Puschell, Jauncey and Co.
, Christchurch.- Paper Pulp, Papier-mache, and Short Stuff, made from New Zealand flax
Stansell, John Brough
, Christchurch.- Half Stuff and Papier-mache, manufactured from New Zealand flax
- (4) Bottle of Saponacious Matter, from the treatment of flax for half stuff, &c.
- (5) Flax Waste
- (6) Tray for Half Stuff
- (7) Tray, with six specimens of papier-maché
- (8-9) Pieces of Half Stuff
Class 60.— Carriages and Wheelwrights' Work.
Moor, William, and Sons
, Christchurch.- Circular-fronted Brougham
Robin, James, and Co.
, Dunedin.- Landau, fitted with patent automaton top and Colling's springs.
Class 61.— Harness and Saddlery.
Brown, Colin, and Son
, Invercargill.- Riding Saddle, with improved knee-pad
- The fancy work represents New Zealand.
Dunbar, Alexander
. Christchurch.- 2 Ladies' Saddles
- 2 Steeplechase Saddles
- 2 Gents' Saddles
Class 62.— Railway Apparatus.
368— Alves, John, Dunedin.
Working Model of Alves' Patent Aërial Tramway, with specimen full-size clip and hanger for 2-inch rope, capable of carrying 2 cwt. per basket, and as now working at Fernhill Colliery, near Dunedin
Reid and Duncan
, Civil Engineers, Dunedin.- 1 General plan of Wire Rope Railway now constructing between Dunedin and Roslyn
- 2 Separate Sheet, showing enlarged details of various portions of works
Class 63.— Telegraphic Apparatus and Processes.
Hayes
, J. E., Lambton Quay, Wellington.- Electric Office Indicator, designed for mercantile and other purposes
- It enables the occupier, without rising from his chair, to indicate on the outside of his room or office door, whether he is engaged or otherwise. New invention (patented).
Class 64.— Apparatus and Processes of Civil Engineering, Public Works, and Architecture.
Alves, John
, Dunedin.- Model of Alves' Patent Silt Elevator and Carrier
This is a machine, or rather a combination of two machines, for raising stuff from a punt and afterwards carrying it to almost any distance required, at any rate within reason. Messrs. Alves and Howorth are the patentees, and patents have been taken out in New Zealand, the Australian colonies, and America.
The working model exhibited is on a scale of 1½ inchs to the foot, and the carrier, as it stands, can take the stuff nearly a chain—that is, proportionately to scale.
In full-size machine the ropes will be crucible steel, flat or round, as may be required for the special work to be done.
The clips will be made of steel moulded to fit strands of ropes. (See clips screwed to top rail of model.) Each clip will be fastened by bolt and nut, and will bear a strain on each bucket of two tons without slipping.
The buckets will be made of steel-plate and capable of holding 2 cwt. of material. The lifting buckets will be fastened to the ropes with 4 clips to each to resist a strain on each bucket of 4 tons. The carrying buckets are reversible and easily adjusted.
Whenever it becomes necessary to extend the carrying ladder, a wire rope is stretched over the trestles to the distance required.
The bucket-ladder can be made of sufficient length and strength to dredge direct from bottom of docks or rivers instead of lifting the material out of punts, as shown.
By fixing the lifting-ladder in front of the machine, a canal can be cut and the material carried and deposited by one and the same operation.
There being no pins to wear as in pitch chains, and the ropes passing smoothly over the pulley-wheels, the wear and tear is reduced to a minimum, great rapidity of speed is gained, and a great saving of engine-power is effected.
Bardsley, John
, Westport.- Flooring Clamp, invented and patented by the Exhibitor
Boyd, George
, Newton, Auckland.- Bricks
Brown
, S., Wellington.- Model of Cape Farewell Lighthouse
Burnside
, H., Dunedin.- Model of the Residence of the Hon. R. Campbell, Otekaika
Burt
,A. and
T., Dunedin.- Two Show Cases containing Finished Brass-work, consisting of steam and water fittings, valves, hydrants, branch-pipes, Couplings, &c. Several Brass Castings
Canterbury Marble Company Limited
, Christchurch.- Nine Pieces of Marble
Daniel, William
, Oreti, Southland.- Specimens of Stone from quarry at Dipton, Southland—
- 1 Bluestone, a good building Stone, supply unlimited
- 2 Good Stone for building or ornamental work
Ellis, John
C., Merrivale, Southland.- Two Exhibits of easily worked Durable Stone
- When first quarried this stone can be cut very easily, but it hardens on exposure.
Haast, Professor Julius Von, Ph.D., F.R.S.
, Director of the Canterbury Museum.- Building Stones of Canterbury—
Building Stones of Canterbury.
The building stones of Canterbury are principally derived from two very distinct sources, of which the first, furnishing freestones of excellent quality and generally of considerable hardness, is of volcanic origin.
These are mostly obtained from Banks Peninsula, and are probably of middle tertiary age. The rest of the building stones, mostly of a calcareous nature, are derived from the upper portion of two well defined sedimentary deposits, named the Waipara and Oamaru formations, the first being of cretaceo-tertiary, and the latter of upper eocene or lower miocene age. The hard building stones of volcanic origin quarried in Banks Peninsula are derived either from basaltic lava streams, in which case they are generally used for rubble and for dressed ashlar work, or they are taken from dykes generally of a trachytic character. These dyke rocks, for every kind of architectural work, are very useful, and form in many instances beautiful building stones of rich colour and fine texture.
The calcareous sandstones usually called limestones are of light colours, from brownish-grey to a creamy white, and of a varying degree of hardness, but they can all be cut with a saw when taken from a quarry. Afterwards they gradually become much harder when being exposed to the air, an excellent quality for a building stone of that class. An almost unlimited supply of this building material can be obtained.
Hacket
, T. R., Nelson.- Specimen of Marble
Caffrey, Edward
, Sculptor, Queenstown, Otago.- Building and Ornamental Stone; one obelisk, showing the dress and polish this stone will take. No chemical preparation has been used; the gloss comes out of the stone.
- Base for same in Natural State, from Frew's Creek, Lake Wakatipu; cost of stone, 2s. per cubic foot
George, Leslie Duncan
, Clyde, Otago.- Plan of Suspension Bridge over River Clutha
Lennan, William
, Dunedin.- Working Model of Self-discharging Silt Barge
Munro, George
, Dunedin.- New Zealand Marble
- 2 Pieces of White Marble cut and polished from Caswell Sound.
- 2 Pieces of Dove-coloured Marble from Caswell Sound.
- 2 Blocks of Kakanui Stone from Caswell Sound.
Munro, George
, Dunedin.- 6 Samples of Hydraulic Cement in its Native State
New Zealand Government
, Wellington.- Carved Panels of an Ancient Maori Runanga House
These are the principal carved panels of the famous house "Matatua," and are so placed as to form the lining of the machinery annexe of the New Zealand Court.
The house itself was originally built at the suggestion of Hohaia Matatehokia, chief of the Ngatipukeho tribe, for the purpose of representing therein all their ancestors. It was completed in 1874, and in March, 1875, was formally opened by the late Sir Donald M' Lean with great demonstrations, in the presence of many hundreds of native and European visitors. The image on each post represents the ancestor of some tribe or sub-tribe.
Connor
, E., C.E., Hokitika.- Plans and Photographs of Nelson Creek Water Race
Oamaru Stone Company Limited
, Oamaru.- Stone Column with Capital
- Obelisk Block
Carbonate of lime | 90.15 |
Alumina | 1.55 |
Oxide of iron | .55 |
Soluble silica | .45 |
Insoluable matter | 7.15 |
Loss | .15 |
100.00 |
This places it in the same class as the oolites of England and the Caen stone of France.
The Oamaru stone has a remarkable uniformity of colour and texture, and can be obtained in large blocks. Like all stones of this kind it is quite soft when quarried, but hardens rapidly on exposure to a dry atmosphere. This enables it to be worked into the most elaborate ornamentation at little cost.
The stone is rather porous for use in a damp situation, but it answers well in ordinary walls and columns in a moderately dry climate, and it is unexcelled for internal decorations.
Neill, Charles
, C.E., Wellington.- Artificial Caithness Flagging, patented by the Exhibitor. Laid at the main entrance to the Exhibition, opposite the fountain
Stansell, John Brough
, Christchurch.- Specimen of Marble
Thomson, Thomas
, Bluff Harbour.- Method of Lifting Heavy Weights
Class 65— Navigation and Life Saving.
Armstrong, C. C.
, Dunedin.- Model, "Samuel Plimsoll"
- Working Model of Brig, with sails and all complete
Blackett, John
, Marine Engineer, Wellington.- Lighthouse Chart, to show progress of lighthouse construction, and coast lighting in New Zealand
Forster, William
, Christchurch.- Life-saving Vest, to be worn on board ship under any ordinary vest. Can be inflated at will, and can be used as an air cushion or pillow.
Green, Henry James
, Boatbuilder, Dunedin.- Outrigger Wager Skiff
George, Thomas
, Dunedin.- Plans and Soundings of Otago Harbour
Hargreaves, Thomas
, Nelson.- Model Wave Power Machine
This machine could be used to compress air, to drive an air engine, or to work the electric light at any lighthouse, or for other purposes on the sea coast. No difference would be made in the forward motion by the irregularity of the waves. With a cylinder 20 ft. in diameter and 8ft. wave per minute, the machine would be equal to 19 horse-power; and with three waves per minute, each 5 ft., it would give 22 horsepower. It has been favourably reviewed in "The English Mechanic and World of Science" of 22nd October, 1875.
396— Holliday, Captain J., Wellington.
Plan of Wellington Harbour.
Lyttelton Harbour Board
, Christchurch.- Works and Improvements at the Port of Lyttelton, Canterbury, illustrated by a model of Lyttelton Harbour
Breakwaters.—The breakwaters are formed of rubble stone blasted from the quarries at Naval and Officer's Points, and deposited on the respective sites as shown in the model—the outer slopes of both breakwaters are protected or faced with huge blocks of stone. The Officer's Point, or Eastern Breakwater, is some 2010 feet in length, with a width of 40 feet on top, and having an elevation of 6 feet above high water spring tide. The Naval Point Breakwater is 1400 feet in length. The former breakwater has also a timber breastwork built along its inner face for nearly its entire length—known as the Gladstone Pier.
Water Area Enclosed.—The area of water enclosed within the breakwaters is about 110 acres.
Dredging.—Dredging operations have been proceeding almost uninterruptedly for the past four years, during which period nearly a million and a-half tons of dredged material, consisting of stiff clay and mud, have been removed, at an average cost of 6¼d. per cubic yard. The dredging plant used has been a single ladder dredge and two steam hopper barges, the holding capacity of the latter being 250 tons each. The dredged material is removed by them to a distance of three and a-half miles, and then deposited. The present depth of water inside the breakwaters and at the wharves varies from 16 feet up to 23 feet at low tide. The rise of tide being about 7 feet, vessels up to 2700 tons can now be safely berthed at the wharves.
Moorings.—Eight sets of Mitchell's patent screw moorings are laid down in the inner harbour, capable of holding vessels up to 2000 tons.
Gladstone Pier | 1740 feet. |
Timber breastwork from Gladstone Pier westward to Naval Point | 3850 feet. |
Screw Pile Jetty | 1030 feet. | |
No. 1 Intermediate | 800 feet. | |
No. 2 Intermediate | 800 feet. | |
No. 3 Intermediate | 800 feet. | |
Tunnel Mouth Jetty | 440 feet. | |
Peacock Jetty | 800 feet. | |
4670 feet. | ||
Making a total of | 10,260 feet. |
- 20 ocean ships and steamers
- 20 barques and brigs
- 6 intercolonial steamers
- 30 schooners, &c.
This berthage space is capable of very considerable extension, by the construction of additional jetties.
Expenditure on Harbour Works in Lyttelton.—The total amount expended upon harbour works in Lyttelton is not far short of half a million sterling, which includes the purchase of the dredging plant, and also of a powerful steam tug, built to the special order of the Lyttelton Harbour Board by Messrs. Laird, of Birkenhead.
Railway Lines on Wharves and Jetties.—The whole of the wharves and jetties in Lyttelton have lines of rails laid down upon them, and are worked by the Railway.
Length on floor | 400 feet |
Width on floor | 46 feet |
Width on top | 82 feet |
Width of entrance | 62 feet |
Depth on sill at high water | 23 feet |
The value of Imports for year ending 30th June, 1870 | £2,013,193 | 0 | 0 |
(Which includes large imports of Railway Material and American Harvesting Machinery) | |||
The value of Exports (exclusive of interprovincial exports) | £1,695,194 | 0 | 0 |
Total Customs Revenue at Lyttelton (exclusive of interprovincial exports) | £228,011 | 0 | 0 |
Wool Exported from Lyttelton (exclusive of interprovincial exports) | 53,000 bales | ||
Grain Exported from Lyttelton (exclusive of interprovincial exports) | 52,387 tons. |
Panoramic Photograph of the Harbour of Lyttelton.—A photographic view of the harbour of Lyttelton accompanies the model, and shows the works already carried out by the Lyttelton Harbour Board.
General.—The port of Lyttelton, which is situate on the north-western side of Banks Peninsula, having an opening to the north-east, is the chief seaport town of the Provincial District of Canterbury. This district comprises some 8,693,000 acres, a large proportion of which is fine agricultural land, intersected by lines of railway, some 400 miles in length. The population of Canterbury, by census taken in the early part of the year 1878, was 91,922.
Canterbury Agricultural Statistics for the past Four Years:—
The number of sheep now depastured within the Canterbury District is 3,500,000.
Three years and a-half ago the Lyttelton Harbour Board was constituted, and since that time all matters connected with the harbour have been dealt with by the Board.
Lyttelton Harbour Board
, Christchurch.- Plan of Lyttelton and Inner Harbour, showing the harbour improvements, railway lines, &c.
Luxford
, G. H., Wellington.- Model of a Maori Canoe
Lennan, William
, Dunedin.- Working Model of Boat with Propeller, capable of being converted into life-boat, pleasure-boat, or for other marine purposes
Thomson, Thomas
, Bluff Harbour.- Models of Ships' Compasses, Ships' Anchors, Wind-power, Water-power
Union Steamship Company of New Zealand Limited
, Dunedin.- Steam Navigation in New Zealand Waters, illustrated by statistics and models of steamers.
- Model of the Company's s.s. "Rotomahana"
- Model of the Company's s.s. "Wakatipu"
- Model of the Company's s.s. "Te Anau"
- Model of the Company's s.s."Rotorua"
- Model of the Company's s.s. "Arawata"
- Model of the Company's s.s. "Ringarooma"
- Model of the Company's screw steam yacht
- Model of Tug Steamer for the Otago Towing Company Chart, shewing the ocean tracks of the Company's steamers Shield
Fleet of Steamers Belonging to the Union Steamship Co.
Gross Reg | I.H.P. | |
---|---|---|
Rotomahana | 1727 | 2000 |
Wakatipu | 1796 | 1250 |
Te Anau | 1652 | 1500 |
Arawata | 1098 | 1250 |
Ringarooma | 1096 | 1250 |
Rotorua | 926 | 900 |
Albion | 806 | 800 |
Tararua | 828 | 750 |
Penguin | 749 | 900 |
Hawea | 720 | 850 |
Wanaka | 493 | 600 |
Taiaroa | 469 | 500 |
Lady Bird | 421 | 450 |
Waitaki | 412 | 450 |
Wellington | 383 | 400 |
Maori | 174 | 500 |
Beautiful Star | 176 | 150 |
Waymouth, John
, Auckland.- Models of five Celebrated Yachts, and five modified from these by being designed on a diagonal line of geometrical construction
The method adopted by the Designer and Exhibitor is a practical development of Scott Russell's wave-line theory. It is an immense stride forward in yacht designing, as it gives geometrical certainty to what has hitherto been mere matter of taste or rule of thumb.
Warburton, Piers Eliot
, Palmerston North, Manawatu.- One Canvas Boat, to fold up for one person; can be made to carry any number.