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.

343—

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.

345—

Maydwell, Daniel

, Papanui, Christchurch.
  • Three Samples of Bonedust, fine, medium, and coarse; value, eight shillings per cwt.
346—

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.

347—

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.
348—

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.

350—

Arnold, Edwin

, Kuripenui, near Wellington.
  • Revolving Bee-hive made of straw, enabling keepers to obtain honey without destroying the bees
351—

Bagnall Brothers and Co.

, Thames.
  • Bar-framed Bee-hive; excellent hive for obtaining the maximum of honey without loss of bees.
352—

Burt

,

A. and

T., Dunedin.
  • 1 Oval Tube Refrigerator for Brewers
  • 2 Brewers' Mashing Machines
  • 1 Brewers' Bottling Syphon
  • 2 Brewers' Corking Machines
353—

Ellis, Thomas

, Wanganui.
  • Butter Churn, manufactured by Exhibitor of kauri wood; will churn from 5 to 45 lbs. of butter
353A—

Fisher, Hugh

, Thames.
  • Colonial Oven and Grate

Class 58.— Apparatus and Processes used in Paper-making, Dyeing, and Printing.

361—

Ffrost, John

W., Wellington.
  • Rubber Stamps
362—

Puschell, Jauncey and Co.

, Christchurch.
  • Paper Pulp, Papier-mache, and Short Stuff, made from New Zealand flax
363—

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.

364—

Moor, William, and Sons

, Christchurch.
  • Circular-fronted Brougham
365—

Robin, James, and Co.

, Dunedin.
  • Landau, fitted with patent automaton top and Colling's springs.

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

369—

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.

370—

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.

371—

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.

372—

Bardsley, John

, Westport.
  • Flooring Clamp, invented and patented by the Exhibitor
373—

Boyd, George

, Newton, Auckland.
  • Bricks
374—

Brown

, S., Wellington.
  • Model of Cape Farewell Lighthouse
375—

Burnside

, H., Dunedin.
  • Model of the Residence of the Hon. R. Campbell, Otekaika
376—

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
376A—

Canterbury Marble Company Limited

, Christchurch.
  • Nine Pieces of Marble
376B—

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
377—

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.
378—

Haast, Professor Julius Von, Ph.D., F.R.S.

, Director of the Canterbury Museum.
  • Building Stones of Canterbury—
    1 Trachyte, from a vertical dyke 16 feet broad. Cap Peak, Banks Peninsula; Butterfield's Quarry
    2 Trachyte, from a dyke 20 feet broad. Heath cote Valley, Banks Peninsula; Thompson's Quarry
    3 Trachyte, from a dyke 20 feet broad. Heathcote Valley, Banks Peninsula; Thompson's Quarry
    4 Porphyritic Dolerite, from a dyke 18 feet broad. Banks Peninsula; Teape's Quarry
    5 Porphyritic Dolerite Lava. Northern spur of Banks Peninsula (Hillock's Gully), Banks Peninsula
    6 Porphyritic Dolerite Lava. Northern spur of Banks Peninsula, Tait's Quarry
    7 Anamesite, from a lava stream (submarine) 26 feet thick. Timaru; Kirby's Quarry
    8 Quartziferous Porphyry. Governor's Bay, Banks Peninsula; Hodgson's Quarry
    9 Calcareous Sandstone (Oamaru formation). Mount Somers; Cox's Quarry
    10 Calcareous Sandstone (Waipara formation). Mount Brown; Sheath's Quarry
    11 Calcareous Limestone (Oamaru formation). Kakahu; Sheath's Quarry
    12 Calcareous Limestone (Oamaru formation). White Rock (near Ashley); Nelson's Quarry
    13 Calcareous Limestone (Oamaru formation). Coal Creek (near Timaru); Pavitt's Quarry
    14 Calcareous Limestone (Waipara formation). Castle Hill, West Const Road; Enys' Quarry
    15 Doleritic Tufa. Latter's Spur, Banks Peninsula; Latter's Quarry.
    16 Trachyte Sandstone. Governor's Bay, Banks Peninsula : Pott's Quarry.
    17 Carved Specimen of Castle Hill Stone; Enys' Quarry.

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.

378A—

Hacket

, T. R., Nelson.
  • Specimen of Marble
379—M'

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
380—M'

George, Leslie Duncan

, Clyde, Otago.
  • Plan of Suspension Bridge over River Clutha

381—M'

Lennan, William

, Dunedin.
  • Working Model of Self-discharging Silt Barge
382—

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.
383—

Munro, George

, Dunedin.
  • 6 Samples of Hydraulic Cement in its Native State
384—

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.

385—O'

Connor

, E., C.E., Hokitika.
  • Plans and Photographs of Nelson Creek Water Race
386—

Oamaru Stone Company Limited

, Oamaru.
  • Stone Column with Capital
  • Obelisk Block
The Oamaru stone is a white calcareous sandstone or granular limestone. According to the Government Analyst its chemical constituents are as follows :—
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.

387—O'

Neill, Charles

, C.E., Wellington.
  • Artificial Caithness Flagging, patented by the Exhibitor. Laid at the main entrance to the Exhibition, opposite the fountain
388—

Stansell, John Brough

, Christchurch.
  • Specimen of Marble
389—

Thomson, Thomas

, Bluff Harbour.
  • Method of Lifting Heavy Weights

Class 65— Navigation and Life Saving.

390—

Armstrong, C. C.

, Dunedin.
  • Model, "Samuel Plimsoll"
  • Working Model of Brig, with sails and all complete
391—

Blackett, John

, Marine Engineer, Wellington.
  • Lighthouse Chart, to show progress of lighthouse construction, and coast lighting in New Zealand
392—

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.
393—

Green, Henry James

, Boatbuilder, Dunedin.
  • Outrigger Wager Skiff
394—

George, Thomas

, Dunedin.
  • Plans and Soundings of Otago Harbour
395—

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.

397—

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.

Berthage Space for Vessels within the Inner Harbour, Lyttelton.—The berthage space at the wharves as shown in the model is as follows:—
Gladstone Pier 1740 feet.
Timber breastwork from Gladstone Pier westward to Naval Point 3850 feet.
Jetties—
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.
Which would be capable of berthing the following number of vessels :—
  • 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.

Graving Dock.—The Graving Dock shown on the model is now being constructed, and when completed will be capable of docking a first-class ironclad. The general dimensions of the dock are as follows:—
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
Value of Imports and Exports at the Port of Lyttelton:—
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.