18 SPECIFICATIONS OF PATENTS RECENTLY FİLED. position of white lead and boiled linseed oil mixed with any suitable colouring matter so as to produce a fictitious leather. HORNSBY, RICHARD, of Spittlegate Ironworks, Grantham, Lincoln, Improvements in portable thrashing machines. Patent dated June 16, 1854. (No. 1306.) This invention consists in suspending the ends of the shakers nearest the thrashing parts of the machine in links, and giving a rising and falling motion to the back ends of the shakers by means of a crank-axle or otherwise, so that the principal action is towards the back end of the shakers; and also in applying moveable riddles or screens at the back end of a thrashing machine beyond the dressing machinery in such manner that the pulse and matters blown from the dressing machinery may be driven against a perforated surface, which admits of the passage of air through it, but not of the pulse, which falls on a riddle below. FELL, THOMAS MARA, of King William. street, London, and WILLIAM COOK, of Cuzon-street, Hanover-square, Middlesex. Improvements in ventilators. Patent dated June 16, 1854. (No. 1307.) This invention consists in "the construction of ventilators having plates of perforated or gauzed material fixed to a rule joint or frame, or other contrivance, whereby the said plates are made to open or shut at an angle, with or without connection with the moveable portion of the sash or frame." HARGROVE, CHARLES, of Birmingham, Warwick, manufacturer. An improvement or improvements in the manufacture of certain kinds of iron. Patent dated June 16, 1854. (No. 1309.) Claim." Manufacturing malleable iron, or cast iron, capable of being annealed or rendered malleable by adding wrought iron to the ordinary malleable iron, either during or after the smelting of the same." JULYAN, FREDERICK JOHN, of Gerrardstreet, Soha-square, Middlesex, carpenter. Improved methods of producing musical sounds. Patent dated June 16, 1854. (No. 1313.) This invention consists in passing a current of air over or across a portion of a stretched string, or a membrane so placed as by its vibrations alternately to obstruct and clear the aperture through which the air passes. PIDDUCK, WILLIAM GILBERT, of Camberwell, Surrey, gentleman. Improvements in the construction of vent pegs. Patent dated June 16, 1854. (No. 1314.) . The inventor forms in the vent-peg an air passage, extending upwards from the bottom of the peg (or that part which is inserted into the barrel) to an opening in the side, the passage being governed by a pressure-valve, so constructed and applied, that when acted upon, to admit air into, or shut it off from the barrel, it will have no tendency to draw up the liquor, and get clogged. PARRAMORE, THOMAS, of Castle-street, Southwark. An improvement in the manufacture of air-tight seats, beds, and other articles required to be inflated and air-tight. Patent dated June 16, 1854. (No. 1316.) This invention consists in rendering woven fabrics water-tight on one of their surfaces by applying oil thereto, and water and air-tight on the other surface by means of India rubber. Improve LOWE, DAVID, of Leicester. ments in knitting machinery. Patent dated June 16, 1854. (No. 1317.) This invention consists in constructing machinery so that the thread carriers, in place of laying the threads on the needles as heretofore, lay them on instruments which correspond in number with the spaces between the needles, and which are caused to lay and sink the threads on and between the needles, and allow of other instruments coming in (whilst the preceding ones retire) and working the course on the needles. HINDE, GEORGE JAMES, of Wolverhamptop, Stafford, commercial clerk. A new or improved combination of materials to be used for the manufacture of pipes or tubes for drains, or such other purposes as the same is or may be applicable to. Patent dated June 17, 1854. (No. 1318.) This invention consists in "the application of enamel to articles made of clay, or mixtures composed mainly of clay." FONTAINMOREAU, PETER ARMAND LECOMTE DE, of South-street, London. Improvements in treating bitumen. (A communication.) Patent dated June 17, 1854. (No. 1319.) Claim Converting hard bitumen into soft bitumen by means of oil of petroleum, or pyroligneous oil, or a mixture of both. FOURDRINIER, JOSEPH, of Sherbournestreet, Islington, Middlesex. Improvements in machinery for washing, boiling, cleaning, and bleaching, rags, fibrous and textile substances. Patent dated June 17, 1854. (No. 1321.) This invention consists in constructing a vessel closed at each end and mounted on hollow axles. On the interior, near each end, is fixed a sieve of fine wire cloth or other suitable material. The vessel is provided with manholes for charging and discharging the materials, and to the two hollow axles of the vessel a pipe with branches is connected, by which water or washing or dyeing liquids can be caused to flow in one end, and away at the other. In the interior of the vessel are a number of spheres which, by the rotation of the vessel, cause PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATIONS NOT PROCEEDED WITH, the matters under process to be beaten and pressed. Steam pipes or a steam jacket, or both, are used for causing the fluids to boil.. NEWTON, ALFRED VINCENT, of Chancery-lane, Middlesex, mechanical draughtsman. Improvements in machinery for blockprinting. (A communication.) Patent dated June 17, 1854. (No. 1322.) This invention consists in a mode of arranging on flat surfaces consecutive portions of so much of a design as is intended to be reproduced in one colour, and giving rotary motion thereto; and in arranging in one machine a series of blocks or flat printing surfaces containing component parts of the same design, so as to print the latter in various colours upon a fabric. RAWE, JOHN, the younger, of Haverstock-hill, Middlesex, gentleman. Improvements applicable to stoves, stove-grates, or fire-places for domestic use. Patent dated June 17, 1854. (No. 1323.) This invention mainly consists in the application to stoves, stove-grates, or fireplaces for domestic use, for the purpose of feeding the same, of an apparatus or mechanical arrangement of the nature of a force. pump constructed to remove a small portion of coal at a time from a reservoir provided for the purpose, and force it into the lower part of the fire. HOLLOWAY, GEORGE, of the firm of Holloway, Brothers, of Stroud, Gloucester, clothes manufacturer. Improvements in sewing and embroidering machines. Patent dated June 17, 1854. (No. 1324.) Claims.-1. A mode of passing the thread as it leaves the bobbin over or around a wire twisted to the form of a spring, and attached to the frame of the machine. 2. The employment of springs for keeping the bowles of the rocking levers, which work the needles, in continuous contact with the working faces of their respective cams. 3. Certain described means of effecting the lateral adjustment of the cam by which the rocking lever of the circular needle is worked. WILLIAMS, JOHN ALLIN, of Baydon, Wilts, farmer. Improvements in machinery or apparatus for ploughing and cultivating land. Patent dated June 17, 1854. (No. 1325.) Claims.-1. A mode of arranging or disposing one or more ploughs, or other cultivating instruments, in one frame, each separate instrument being capable of adjustment at the will of the ploughman, or attendant, by means of lever handles and front pulleys, and chains connected to beams or bars. 2. A mode of forming the lever beams or bars for holding the ploughs, skim cultivators, and drags, with an eye or 19 joint, as described. 3. The peculiar arrangement and position of a hind running wheel, which is made to run always in the furrow last formed by the set of ploughs, though situated at or near the centre of the framework. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATIONS NOT PRÓ. CEEDED WITH. SKERTCHLY, JOSEPH, junior, of Kingsland, Middlesex, and Ansty, Leicester, engineer. Improvements in the manufacture of gates, hurdles, and fencing, in vehicles, wagons, carts, and trucks, for common roads and railways, and in facias, entablatures, windowheadings, parapets, and other mouldings projecting from the brickwork of buildings. Application dated June 8, 1854. (No. 1267.) This invention consists in facing or covering the surfaces of wooden mouldings with sheet iron or other metal, by the process of drawing, or by mechanical pressure. JOURNET, PIERRE, of Rue de Belzunce, Paris. Improvements in chucks for lathes. Application dated June 8, 1854. (No. 1268.) This invention consists in arranging lathe-chucks in such manner that the article to be fixed in the lathe is held between sliders placed in a circle, equidistant from one another, and which slide to and from the centre. MARGUERITTE, FRÉDÉRIC, of Paris France. Improvements in wet gas-meters. Application dated June 9, 1854. (No. 1272.) The inventor places above the cisterns used for gas-meters a reservoir, communicating with the cistern by means of a pipe descending into it, for the purpose of preserving the required level of the water in it. COOK, BENJAMIN, of Birmingham, Warwick, manufacturer. Certain improved means of ornamenting metallic bedsteads, chairs, and couches, which said improvement is also applicable for ornamenting standards for glass frames, tables, and fire-screens, cornice-poles, and other articles of furniture. Application dated June 9, 1854. (No. 1278.) This invention consists in passing over the iron or brass bars or tubes of which the parts of the articles above mentioned may be composed, glass or china tubes, which may be moulded in any desired form and in any number of parts. BUCHHOLZ, GUSTAV ADOLPH, of Hammersmith, Middlesex, civil engineer. Improved machinery applicable to the hulling or cleaning of grain, seeds, and other vegetable produce. Application dated June 9, 1854. (No. 1280.) This invention consists of improvements 20 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATIONS NOT PROCEEDED WITH. upon the machinery patented by M. Buchholz, December 24, 1853. BARCLAY, ANDREW, and JOHN BARCLAY, both of Kilmarnock, Ayr, engineers. Improvements in printing textile fabrics and other surfaces. Application dated June 9, 1854. (No. 1283.) This invention relates principally to certain improvements upon the printing machinery for which patents were obtained by Mr. James Melville, of Roebank-works, in 1852 and 1853. BOIS, LOUIS, stockholder, of Paris, France. Certain improvements in looms. Application dated June 10, 1854. (No. 1284.) These improvements consist in a system of thread-carrying needles. by which the weft is crossed through the shed, another set of needles holding the weft thus shot for the purpose of forming a selvage or fringed border. ALEXANDER EDWIN POWLEY, of Lincoln's-Inn-fields, mechanical draughtsman. Improvements in moulding. (A communication.) Application dated June 10, 1854. (No. 1286.) This invention consists in a mode of forming moulds for casting toothed-wheels without patterns. The circular portions of the wheels, such as the rims and bosses, are formed by a rotating arm with a scraper attached, and the spokes by suitably shaped scrapers, and the teeth by inserting small pieces of clay made hollow for the rim, such pieces or cores corresponding with the spaces between the teeth, and being put into their places by the aid of an apparatus similar to a dividing engine. PULS, FRANCIS, of Whitechapel-road, Middlesex, philosophical instrument maker. Improvements in electro- galvanic apparatus for medical purposes, parts of which improvements are also applicable to other electro-galvanic apparatus. Application dated June 10, 1854. (No. 1287.) The main feature of this invention consists in employing at the place of interruption, instead of points, flat or rounded plates, "which," says the inventor, "prove less liable to oxidation by the electric spark, and cause it to spread further. This arrangement also produces a more agreeable sensation than when the electricity springs from a point to a plate, or the reverse, at the place of interruption." BROOMAN, RICHARD ARCHIBALD, of 166, Fleet-street, London, patent agent. A method of producing plans in relievo. (A communication.) Application dated June 12, 1854. (No. 1289.) This invention consists in producing plans in relief by blowing air in between two sheets of caoutchouc, (parts of which are covered with silk or other similar material), and then hermetically closing the edges of the sheets. BROOMAN, RICHARD ARCHIBALD, of 166, Fleet-street, London, patent agent. An improvement in, or addition to, sugar-basins. (A communication.) Application dated June 12, 1854. (No. 1290.) This invention consists in so forming and combining two vessels that they register the quantity of sugar placed in or taken from them. COMPTON, CHARLES HENRY, of Bloomsbury, Middlesex, gentleman. An improved railway-break. Application dated June 13, 1854. (No. 1292.) This invention consists of a self-acting break for railway carriages, operated by the pressure of the buffers against each other, and by the drawing-rods. SOUTHALL, WILLIAM, of Swan-lane, London, gentleman. Improvements in revolving cutters. Application dated June 13, 1854. (No. 1293.) The main feature of this invention consists in "the application and use of revolving cutters of any kind, such cutters revolving in a direction at right angles with the movement of the machine." BARLOW, JAMES, of Accrington, Lancaster, machinist. Improvements in the mode or method of extracting gluten, and preparing the same for sizing purposes. Application dated June 14, 1854. (No. 1294.) The inventor takes flour, and makes it into dough or thick paste, and puts it into a barrel having a number of fine longitudinal slots, and fixes this barrel on suitable bearings, placing a perforated tube or pipe through it, into which he injects water, so that as the barrel revolves, the water acts upon the dough, and separates the gluten and starch, leaving the former in the barrel, and carrying the latter off with it through the slots. EDWARDS, JOSEPH, of Camberwell, Surrey, gentleman. An improved knife-cleaner. Application dated June 15, 1854. (No. 1297.) Within an oblong narrow box, standing on its narrow edge, the inventor places a wooden cylinder of about 9 inches diameter and 3 inches wide, covered with leather, fixed upon a spindle, and operated by a small winch; and round this cylinder is an endless leather band passing over a small roller, which, by means of a screw, can be made to cause more or less friction of the band on the main cylinder, as required, the band being pressed by a friction-roller. MARTINI, FREDERIC, of Elberfeld, Prussia, and Mumford-court, Milk-street, London. An improvement in steam engines. Application dated June 15, 1854. (No. 1298.) PROVISIONAL PROTECTIONS. This invention consists in surrounding the cylinders of steam engines with mantles, and filling the space between the cylinder and the mantle with steam of a considerably higher pressure and temperature than that used in the working cylinder. GEDGE, JOHN, of Wellington-street, South, Middlesex. Improvements in the construction of locks and latches, spindles and knobs, applicable to doors and other similar purposes. Application dated June 15, 1854. (No. 1301.) The inventor proposes to use a spindle, the under part of which is flat, and is fitted with two springs, either formed in the solid spindle, or affixed to the surface of it, so that the handle or knob slips over them and is retained by them, the springs being pressed back when it is required to take the handle off, by means of an awl or wire pushed through a hole in the handle. VARLEY, SAMUEL, of Stamford, Lincoln, engineer. An improved construction of haymaking machines. Application dated June 15, 1854. (No. 1302.) The inventor so constructs a hay-making machine that the tines in their rotation, as they pass over the hay field, meet with an obstruction that might cause them to break, fold back, and by thus yielding escape without injury. BRINDLEY, WILLIAM, of Moorgate-street, London, machinist. Improvements in applying steam for offensive and defensive purposes. Application dated June 16, 1854. (No. 1305.) This invention relates to modes of applying steam, particularly high-pressure steam, by means of metal and flexible tubing, to purposes of attack and defence. COOKE, WILLIAM, of Curzon-street, Hanover-square, Middlesex. Improvements to boots and shoes. Application dated June 16, 1854. (No. 1308.) The inventor proposes to attach portions of a second sole to such parts of boot or shoe soles as are liable to wear. EVANS, WILLIAM, of St. Leonard's-terrace, Chelsea, Middlesex. An improved tap for drawing off liquids. Application dated June 16, 1854. (No. 1310.) This invention consists in constructing taps or cocks, so that when they are driven into a cask or barrel, in the act of tapping it, the liquid shall be prevented from escaping. MARTINI, FREDERIC, of Elberfeld, Prussia, and Mumford-court, Milk-street, London. A new and improved construction of steam engines. Application dated June 16, 1854. (No. 1311.) The inventor's engine is formed of two moveable diaphragms, hermetically closed round their outer parts, the steam being 21 made to enter between them, producing a short but powerful motion which can be increased by leverage. MACNEE, JAMES, junior, of Glasgow, Lanark, merchant. Improvements in caps, hats, and other coverings for the head. Application dated June 16, 1854. (No. 1312.) This invention essentially consists in forming an inner framing separate from the outer covering of caps, hats, &c., in such manner that whilst it constitutes a stiff frame when set up, it can be rolled up or folded into an exceedingly small space. HUGHES, HESKETH, of Aldersgate-street, London, engineer. Certain improved machinery for cutting and embossing, either separately or simultaneously. Application dated June 16, 1854. (No. 1315.) This invention consists of a modification of Mr. Hughes's invention patented August 13, 1853, and described on page 208 of vol. lx. ASPINALI, JOHN, of Tavistock-square, Middlesex, civil engineer. An improved means of creating a vacuum, or partial va cuum, for evaporative purposes. Application dated June 17, 1854. (No. 1820.) This invention consists in creating a vacuum, or partial vacuum, in sugar and other like pans, by means of steam introduced through a blast-pipe. The documents of No. 1285 are with the law-officers, under objection. PROVISIONAL PROTECTIONS. Dated August 26, 1854. 1875. Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleetstreet, London, patent agent. Improvements in obtaining motive power. A communication. Dated October 19, 1854. 2236. Samuel Mason, shoe manufacturer, and William Beeby, clicker, both of Northampton. Certain improvements in the manufacture of coverings for the human leg and foot. Dated December 13, 1854, 2615. Jos Mayer, of Dale Hall Pottery, Longport, Stafford, manufacturer, and John David Kind, of Birmingham, Warwick, manufacturer. An improvement or improvements in door-knobs or handles, made of china, earthenware, glass, or other vitreous or semi-vitreous substance, and in attaching the said knobs or handles to their spindles. 2616. Charles Frederick Stansbury, of Cornhill, London. A machine for cutting keys. A communication. 2618. Auguste Edouard Laradoux Bellford, of Castle-street, London. Improvements in sewingmachines. A communication. 2619. Peter Armand Lecomte de Fontainemoreau, of South-street, London. An improved inkstand. A communication. 2620. Peter Armand Lecomte de Fontainemoreau, of South-street, London. Improvements in photography. A communication. 22 NOTICES OF INTENTION TO PROCEED. 2621. John Louis Jullion, of Combe-house, Tovil, Kent, analytical chemist. Separating certain vegetable fibres from mixed fabrics for various useful purposes. 2622. Charles William Grant, of Bath, Somerset, a lieutenant-colonel on the retired list of the Indian army. Certain apparatus for the production of draught, and prevention of smoke in domestic stoves and fire-places. 2623. Hiram Berdan, of New York. Compressible life-boat. 2624. Samuel Fisher, of Birmingham, Warwick, engineer. Certain improvements in ordnance and in machinery and apparatus to be employed in manufacturing the same. 2625. Christopher James Taylor, of Handsworth, Stafford, agent. Improvements in protecting underground telegraph wires. 2626. Thomas Finnemore Evans, of Philpotlane, London. Improvements in the manufacture of candles. A communication. 2627. Thomas Haimes, of Melbourne, near Derby. Improvements in warp machinery. 2628. William Crees Taylor, of Catherine-grove, Greenwich. Improvements in constructing the bearing parts of shafts and axles. 2629. John Court, junior, of Sheerness, Kent, builder. Improvements in rockets. Dated December 14, 1854. 2630. James Redgate, of Sneinton, Nottingham, lace manufacturer, James Thornton, of Nottingham, mechanic, and Edwin Ellis, of Sneinton, Nottingham, lace manufacturer. Improvements in machinery for the manufacture of lace and other fabrics. 2631. Richard Ruston, of Lansdown-villa, Northumberland-street, Vauxhall-road, Birmingham. Improvements in anchors. 2632. Llewellyn William Evans and James McBryde, of Saint Helen's, Lancaster, manufacturing chemists. Certain improvements in the burning of sulphuret ores for making sulphuric acid and for smelting. 2633. William Frederick Padwick, of Hayling Island, Hants, gentleman. An improvement in projectiles. 2635. William Charles Scott, of Warner-road, Camberwell, Surrey, gentleman. Improvements in paddle-wheels. 2636. Peter Edwin Henderson, of Trafalgarsquare, Charing-cross, Middlesex, civil engineer. Improvements in ventilating ships. 2637. Louis Cornides, of Trafalgar-square, Charing-cross, Middlesex. Certain improved apparatus for coating or covering surfaces of glass or other material with collodion. 2638. James Rose, of Ashford station, South Eastern Railway, Kent. An improvement in cunstructing the fire boxes of steam boilers. Dated December 15, 1854. 2639. John Rowley, of Camberwell, Surrey. Improvements in machinery or apparatus for embossing natural and artificial leather, and woollen, cotton, paper, silk, and other woven or felted fibrous materials, the said improvements being more particularly adapted to those machines in which heat is employed for effecting such said embossing. 2640. William Clark, of Upper-terrace, Islington, Middlesex, engineer. Improvements in an chors. 2641. Uriah Scott, of Duke-street, Adelphi, Middlesex, engineer. An improved method of constructing hollow and solid metallic bodies. 2642. Arthur Lyon, of Windmill-street, Finsbury, Middlesex, sausage-machine manufacturer. Improvements in machines for reducing or mincing neat and other solid edible substances. 2613. Luke Turner, of the firm of Hodges and Turner, of Leicester, manufacturers. An improvement in weaving elastic fabrics. 2644. Francis Archer, of Bishopsgate-street, London, and William Papineau, of Stratford, Essex, manufacturing chemist. Improvements in distilling peaty, schistose, bituminous, and vegetable matters. 2645. Robert Adams, of King William-street, London. Improvements in fire-arms called revolvers. 2646. Edward Strong, of Carstairs, Lanark, North Britain, engineer. Improvements in removing and replacing the wheels and axles of locomotive engines and other rolling stock of railways. Dated December 16, 1854. 2648. Peter Joel Livsey and William Weild, both of Manchester, Lancaster, engineers. Improvements in cartridges and projectiles, and in the construction, mounting, and working of ordnance. 2650. John Hickman, of Birmingham, Warwick, manufacturer, and Isaac Smith, of Birmingham, machinist. A new or improved stop-cock. 2652. Matthew Curling Friend, of Ashburnhamgrove, Greenwich, lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and William Browning, of Minories, Middlesex, philosophical instrument maker. An apparatus for determining the magnetic aberrations occasioned by local attraction. 2654. William Eassie, of Gloucester, railwaycontractor. Improvements in means of stopping or retarding vehicles used on railways. 2658. Leopold Wimmer, of Vienna, Austria, baker. Improvements in baking. Dated December 18, 1854. 2660. Charles Frderick Stansbury, of Cornhill, London. An improved life-car or buoy. A communication from F. Z. Tucker, of Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. 2662. William Hartley, of Bury, Lancaster, engineer. Improvements in safety-valves for steam boilers and in steam engines. 2664. Edwin Whele, of Birmingham, Warwick. Improvements in oil and other lamps. 2666. Louis Henri Frederic Melsens, of Brussels, Belgium, professor of chemistry and natural philosophy. Improved processes of saponification. 2668. John Henry Johnson, of Lincoln's-innfields, Middlesex, gentleman. Improvements in the extracting tannic acid from leather, and in preparing the leather for the manufacture of glue, A communication from Obadiah Rich, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America. PATENT APPLIED FOR WITH COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. 2683. William Donald and William Heginbotham, power-loom managers for John Ferguson and Co., of Carlisle, Cumberland. Certain improvements in looms. December 20, 1854. NOTICES OF INTENTION TO (From the "London Gazette," January 2nd, 1855.) 1800. Julian Bernard. Improvements in the manufacture of boots and shoes or other coverings for the feet. 1830. William Vitruvius Greenwood and John Saxby. Improvements in signal-lamps. 1854. Aristide Balthazard Bérard. Certain im |