SPECIFICATIONS OF PATENTS RECENTLY FILED. of Bradford, York. Improvements in apparatus for combing wool, cotton, silk, flax, or other fibrous substances. Patent dated March 15, 1854. (No. 627.) Claims.-"The novel mode set forth of performing the operation of hand combing, by so placing two of the combs employed in such operation as that the teeth or brackets of one of the said combs are maintained cross-wise of the teeth or brackets of the other and fixed combs, whilst the workman is operating with a third comb upon the fibrous material in the two first-mentioned combs; or any other arrangement of two of such said combs, provided the teeth or brackets thereof cross each other as above stated." WEARE, ROBERT, of Prince's-road, Woolwich, Kent. Improvements in the construction of galvanic batteries, and in apparatus connected therewith. Patent dated March 16, 1854. (No. 629.) The inventor claims a mode of inclosing the positive and negative plates in porous cement or any other suitable porous material; a mode of turning up the edges of the plates for the purpose of fixing cement to them; and a mode of constructing the exterior cells of batteries, reservoirs, and decomposition vessels with marine glue, paper, calico, or similar substances, &c. BETHUNE, DONALD, of Toronto, Canada West. Improvements in the construction of vessels propelled by steam. Patent dated March 16, 1854. (No. 630.) Claim. "Constructing the holds of vessels with bells or separate compartments communicating with each other, and the use and employment of such said bells for the stowage of fuel and cargo, as set forth, or any modification thereof, by which the dividing of the bulk of the weight is effected." EMERSON, FREDERICK WILLIAM, of Trereiffe Chemical-works, near Penzance, Cornwall, manufacturing chemist. Improvements in machinery for pulverizing, washing, and amalgamating quartz and matters containing gold and silver. Patent dated March 16, 1854. (No. 631.) The inventor claims "combined machinery whereby double coned rollers are used in a rotating-trough, the bottom of which is composed of two inclines, corresponding with the conical form of the rollers used." CAVANAH, JAMES, of Liverpool, Lancaster, builder. Improvements in sails for navigable vessels, and in the apparatus for working them. Patent dated March 16, 1854. (No. 632.) This invention consists of a vertical roller, mounted on suitable bearings, on which the sail is wound when not in use. When the 379 sail is required to be reefed or reduced it is partially rolled up on the roller. LILLEY, JOHN, of Birkenhead, Chester, merchant. A new material suitable for spinning, either alone or combined with other fibres, and suitable to the manufacture of pulp; also certain machinery employed in the preparation thereof. Patent dated March 16, 1854. (No. 633.) A full description of this invention formed the first article of No. 1624. MARSHALL, JAMES GARTH, of Leeds, York, flax-spinner, and PETER FAIRBAIRN, of the same place, machinist. Improvements in machinery for combing tow, flax, wool, hair, and other vegetable or animal fibres. Patent dated March 16, 1854. (No. 634.) The main objects of this invention are1. To impart to the drawing-off rollers of combing machines, constructed on Heilmann's principle, an intermittent rotary motion, by means of gearing instead of by friction of contact, as heretofore; and 2. To apply thereto a means of condensing the combed fibres into a firm sliver or ribbon. By the addition to Heilmann's machine of these improvements the inventors propose to increase its working capacity, and materially to add to its durability. GERARD, JOHN, of Guernsey, soap-manufacturer. Machinery for cutting and stamping soap. Patent dated March 17, 1854. (No. 635.) The inventor claims certain described cutters and stampers fitted to frames and gearing, so as to cut a block of soap into any required number of slabs at one operation, and to cut the slabs into any required number of bars or cakes at one operation; and also a stamper for stamping or making the whole or any given number of the bars or cakes at one operation. HOLT, WILLIAM, of Bradford, York, organ builder. Improvements in reed-pipes for organs. Patent dated March 17, 1854. (No. 636.) This invention consists in the application of a pneumatic lever or valve to the reedpipes of organs in such manner, that on the wind being admitted to the same, it immediately dilates, and by means of suitable apparatus the reed or tongue is struck, and is thereby caused to vibrate instantly, the wind at the same time acting upon the reed, keeping it in vibration. HARRIS, RICE WILLIAM, of Birmingham, Warwick, glass manufacturer, and THOMAS PATSTONE, of Birmingham, aforesaid, warehouse clerk. An improvement or improvements in shades or glasses for gas and other lamps. Patent dated March 17, 1854. (No. 637.) Claim." Covering the tops of shades or glasses of gas and other lamps with a cap or 380 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATIONS NOT PROCEEDED WITH. dome, through lateral perforations or indeutations in which, or in the shade or glass, the heated air and products of combustion are allowed to escape." HERAPATH, THORNTON JOHN, of Bristol, analytical chemist. Improvements in the manufacture of manure from sewage, which are also applicable to the preparation of other artificial manures. Patent dated March 17, 1854. (No. 638.) Claim. The employment of the coke of Boghead coal or Torbanehill mineral in the manufacture of sewage manure and other artificial manures, as a means of deodorising, drying, and absorbing them, and thus of rendering them more portable and less offensive than by any treatment they now undergo. HENDRY, ALEXANDER, of Port Glasgow, Renfrew, baker. An improvement in heating bakers' ovens. Fatent dated March 17, 1854. (No. 640.) Claim. The heating of bakers' ovens by passing flame, heated air, and other hot products of combustion, through one or more pipes, or other suitable conductors placed within the oven itself. BARTH, GEORGE HARMAN, of Mornington-crescent, Hampstead-road, Middlesex, medical galvanist. Improvements in the mode of supplying and administering gases for the alleviation and the cure of certain diseases. Patent dated March 17, 1854. (No. 641.) Claims.-1. The supplying of gas to be used for curative purposes in a portable form by compression in a strong vessel. 2. The attaching the vessel containing the condensed gas to any apparatus in which it can be measured and diluted, and from which it can be inhaled for medical purposes. 3. A mode of including the vessel containing the condensed gas in the gore or cylinder of the tank of the gasometer. 4. The use for medical inhalation of a bag of flexible material instead of the gasometer, in connection with a strong vessel to hold the condensed gas. REYNOLDS, GEORGE WAIDE, of Birmingham, Warwick, manufacturer. A new and improved fabric to be used in the manufacture of stays or corsets. Patent dated March 18, 1854. (No. 644.) Claim." A new or improved fabric to be used in the manufacture of stays or corsets, the said fabric being a double loom stitched 'cordel,' the weft of the upper cloth, or the weft and warp of the upper cloth of which are composed of linen." HICK, JOHN, of the Soho Ironworks, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancaster, Engineer. Improvements in apparatus for heating the cylinders of steam engines. Patent dated March 18, 1854. (No. 646.) Claim. -"Heating of the cylinders of steam engines by means of a continuous current of hot air." DANTEC, WILLIAM, of New Quay, Liverpool. Improvements in purifying water. Patent dated March 18, 1854. (No. 648.) This invention "consists in the purification of water containing earthy salts in solution, such as sulphates or carbonates of lime and magnesia, or other impurities, by mixing with such water a quantity of hydrate of barytes, either in the solid state of solution sufficient to decompose such salts, which together with the barytes, are precipitated, the barytes being added till no more impurities are thrown down thereby." PARSONS, PERCEVAL MOSES, of Dukestreet, Adelphi, Middlesex, civil engineer. Certain improvements in the construction of the permanent way of railways. Patent dated March 18, 1854. (No. 649.) Claims. "Securing, supporting, and connecting the rails of railways, by means of chairs made with ribs or flanges on their under side, for the purpose of increasing their strength. The application of blocks or cushions, of suitable elastic material (particularly wood, with the fibres in the direction before described), in the chairs, to receive the pressure of metal keys or wedges between the rails and the elastic cushions or blocks," &c. MARS, EDOUARD DE, of Paris, France, gentleman. Certain improvements in windlasses or capstans. (A communication.) Patent dated March 20, 1854. (No. 651.) A full description of this invention will hereafter be given. ESNOUF, EDWARD, and CHARLES MANGER, jun., both of Jersey, and GEORGE WASHINGTON LEWIS, also of Jersey, carpenter. Improvements in portable dwellings and vehicles for travellers or emigrants. Patent dated March 20, 1854. (No. 655.) Claims.-1. Constructing the walls or sides of tents of a series of frames hinged or otherwise secured together, and a telescopic pole for supporting the cover. 2. The application of certain frames to form a chest or box, and a cart or other form of vehicle. 3. A clip or fastening for securing the frames, and the application of parts of the chest or vehicle to form articles of furniture. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATIONS NOT PRO CEEDED WITH. RUSSELL, FREDERICK, of Clarence-gardens, Regent's-park, Middlesex, mechanic. Improvements in apparatus for clearing obstructions on railways. Application dated March 14, 1854. (No. 609.) These improvements consist in fitting to the front of the engine, or leading carriage, PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATIONS NOT PROCEEDED WITH. or truck of the train a peculiar shield, made either pointed, or sloping back from the centre on each side. This shield is nearly the width of the line, leaving a clearance of about two inches on each side between the edge of the shield and the inner side of the rails. PEAD, GEORGE, and CORNELIUS WYATT, both of Conduit-street, Regent-street, Middlesex. An instrument for readily ascertaining the wear of the bearings of railway carriages. Application dated March 15, 1854. (No. 626.) This invention consists in the employment of an instrument for the purpose of gauging the amount of wear which has taken place in the bearing brasses, or those parts which bear upon the axles upon which the running wheels are fixed, and by which the weight of the carriages is supported." POISSON, CYPRIEN, gentleman, of Paris, and LOUIS JACQUES MARTIN, engineer, of Paris. Improvements in printing fabrics. (Partly a communication.) Application dated March 16, 1854. (No. 628.) "Preparation of the fabrics.-1. In a pint and three quarters of water mixed with a pint and three quarters of liquid ammonia or volatile alkali, we steep the fabrics for ten minutes and then dry them; after which we imprint with colour as follows. Preparation of the said colour.-2. We take five parts of baked linseed oil and one part of liquid ammonia; we saponify the five parts of oil with the one part of liquid ammonia. We grind the colour and then imprint the fabrics, either in the manner used by lithographers, or with the ordinary machines of cotton printers. 3. When the fabrics have been prepared and printed, as above di rected, two days after the printing we make two separate baths, one composed of four ounces and a half of rock alum, dissolved in a pint and three quarters of water, and the other composed of a pint and three quarters of liquid ammonia, mixed in a pint and three quarters of water. 4. The fabrics, when printed, are passed through the alumbath, and immediately afterwards through the alkali-bath, in order to obtain a precipitate of alumina upon the fabrics, which perfectly fixes the colour. We reserve the right of using all the alkalies, either in crystal or liquid, either in the preparation of the colours or for saponifying or steeping the fabrics." SCOTT, THOMAS WALKER, of South Devon-place, Plymouth, Devon, esquire, B.A., limestone merchant. Improvements in the preparation or manufacture of Devonian limestone. Application dated March 17, 1854. (No. 639.) These improvements consist in the manufacture of hydraulic lime from those por 381 tions of the Devonian stone which contain a proportion of clay, and which hitherto have been useless, or nearly so, for the purposes of commerce. The stone is burnt in the ordinary way, and is then ground to a powder and may be employed in the usual manner. BASSNETT, THOMAS, of Liverpool, Lancaster, optician and nautical instrument maker. An improved mode of compensating for the deviation of the needle of ships' compasses occasioned by local attraction. Application dated March 17, 1854. (No. 642.) 66 In carrying out this invention, the amount of deviation having been ascertained, it is carefully marked on a plain card, and allowance having been made for the deviation, the card is divided all round into points or degrees. "For instance," says the patentee, supposing the standard compass on shore indicates N. 45 E., and the binnacle compass on board, N. 30 E., I, in adjusting or correcting the compass, mark N. 45 E. on the plain card at the point corresponding to N. 30 E., and so on all round the card." HUGHES, JAMES, of James-street, Bethnal-green-road, Middlesex, designer. An improved mode of operating the Jacquard apparatus of looms employed in figure-weaving. Application dated March 17, 1854. (No. 643.) The object of this invention is to render the employment of a second Jacquard apparatus (now used for producing the ground work) unnecessary. This is effected by applying two sets of cards to the same Jacquard cylinder, one set for producing the ground and the other the figure. HYDE, JOHN, of Stockport, Chester, spindle and flyer maker, and JOHN HARPER, of the same place, manager. Improvements in the construction of spindles and flyers for roving and slubbing frames. Application dated March 18, 1854. (No. 645.) This invention consists in an improved mode of shaping the top of the spindle and the socket of the flyer for the purpose of attaching the one to the other. THORNE, WILLIAM, of Barnstaple, Devon. Improvements in reducing metallic ores. Application dated March 18, 1854. (No. 647.) This invention consists-1. In the employment of an annular gutter or hollow vessel placed and supported vertically, and revolving round its axis. 2. In the employment of hollow spheres or balls of metal, partially filled with quicksilver, either separately or in combination with other metals, for the purpose above mentioned. 3. The discharging of a current of electricity through the ores during the processes of crushing and amalgamation. 382 PROVISIONAL PROTECTIONS. HODGE, PAUL RAPSEY, of Moorgatestreet, London, civil engineer. Improvements in reducing metallic ores. Application dated March 20, 1854. (No. 650.) "The machine I use," says the inventor, "is of a dish or vaseous form, with a large mouth revolving on a hollow axis or shaft fixed to the machine at the opposite side to its mouth. Through this axis it is fed with water, balls are placed within the machine, and when fed with ores and set in motion, the ores are crushed by the balls." TEMPEST, ROBERT, and JAMES TOMLINSON, machinists and co-partners, and HENRY SPENCER, manager, all of Rochdale, Lancaster. Certain improvements in the method of cleansing sheeps' wool, and in the machinery or apparatus connected therewith. Application dated March 20, 1854. (No. 652.) These improvements consist in cleansing the wool from all burrs or impurities by passing it through machinery provided with revolving beaters and knives, or blades placed at a suitable angle, and in almost immediate contact with the beaters. BIRD, JOHN, junior, of Manchester, machinist. Improvements in the manufacture of silk into threads required for woven fabrics, for sewing, and for other purposes, and in machinery to be used for these purposes. Application dated March 20, 1854. (No. 653.) This invention "relates only to the manufacture of threads from the natural thread or filament of the silk-worm, formed by combining and twisting the natural thread; and its intention is to accomplish this object in a more direct manner, and by fewer operations than are at present practised." PROVISIONAL PROTECTIONS. Dated May 31, 1854. 1209. Julian Bernard, of Club Chambers, Regent-street, Middlesex, gentleman. Improvements in the manufacture or production of boots, shoes, and other protectors for the feet, and in the materials, machinery, or apparatus employed in such manufacture. Dated September 13, 1854. 1989. William Muir Campbell, of Glasgow, Lanark, furnace builder. Improvements in furnaces or fire-places, and in the prevention of smoke. 1991. John Brookes, of Birmingham, Warwick, manufacturer. A new or improved waistcoat. 1993. Joseph Betteley, of Liverpool, Lancaster, anchor manufacturer. Improvements in giving elasticity to ships' standing rigging. Dated September 14, 1854. 1995. John Hossack, of Manchester, Lancaster, engineer. Improvements in machinery or apparatus for measuring the flow of water, or other liquids and fluids. 1999. Alfred Wilson and George Wilson, of Nottingham, hosiery manufacturers. Improvements in knitting machinery. 2001. William Bramwell Hayes, of Manchester, Lancaster, manufacturer. Certain improvements in looms for weaving. 2003. Thomas Purdon, of Hull, ironmonger. Improvements in safety lamps. 2005. George Frederick Evans, of Hanoverlodge, Kew-bridge, Middlesex, gas engineer, and Frederick John Evans, of the Gas-works, Horseferry road, in the same county, gas-engineer. Improved apparatus to be used in the distillation of coal and other bituminous or resinous substances. Dated September 15, 1854. 2007. John William Perkins, of Poplar-terrace, High-street, Poplar, Middlesex, analytical chemist. Improvements in purifying gas, the resi duum arising from which forms a new artificial manure. Dated September 16, 1854. 2009. Samuel Collins, of Birmingham, Warwick, brass-founder. A new or improved castor for furniture. Dated September 18, 1854. 2012. John Ashworth, of Bristol, manager of the Great Western Cotton Works. Certain improvements in sizeing and stiffening textile materials or fabrics. 2014. George Thorne and Samuel Lemon, both of Fore-street, London, gas-light furniture manufacturers and brass founders. Improvements in facia-boards, sign boards, or name-boards. 2016. Oscar Delloye Smal, manufacturer, Huy. A new system of oven for metals. 2018. Thomas Lewis and Abraham Bartle, of Birmingham, Warwick, machinists. Improvements in apparatus for purifying water. Dated September 19, 1854. 2020. George Piercy and George Collins, of Judd - place West, New-road, Middlesex, bath manufacturers. Improved apparatus for heating and supplying heated liquids to baths, useful also for supplying heated liquids for other purposes. 2022. Joseph Porter, of the Salford Screw Boltworks, near Manchester, Lancaster, engineer and tool maker. Improvements in machinery for cut. ting, punching, forging, and forming nuts, bolts, screws, and various other articles in metal. Dated September 20, 1854. 2026. Martin Billing, of Birmingham, Warwick, stationer, and Walter George Whitehead, of Bimingham, aforesaid, accountant clerk. A new or improved waterproof paper. 2028. William Garnett, of Low Mor, near Clitheroe, Lancaster, spinner and manufacturer. Improvements in and applicable to machines for warping and sizeing yarns or warps. 2030. John Henry Johnson, of Lincoln's-innfields, Middlesex, gentleman. Improvements in ovens or furnaces for melting or manufacturing glass. (A communication from P. Hutter and Co., of Rive de Gier, France, glass manufacturers.) 2032. Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford, of Castle-street, London. Certain improvements in machines for drilling stone. (A communication.) 2034. Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford, of Castle-street, London. A new and improved governor for engines and machinery. (A communication.) 2036. Augus'e Edouard Loradoux Bellford, of Castle-street, London. A new mathematical instrument, to be termed the "horometer," for the purpose of solving problems in plain and spherical trigonometry, one feature of which invention is or may be applicable in the construction of other mathematical instruments. (A communication.) WEEKLY LIST OF PATENTS. Dated September 21, 1854. 2038. William Prior Sharp and William Weild, of Manchester, Lancaster, machinists. Improvements in machinery for winding, cleaning, doubling, spinning, and throwing of silk. 2010. Matthew Moneyment, of Lamb's Conduitstreet, Holborn. Improvements in hat, bonnet, and other boxes. NOTICES OF INTENTION TO (From the "London Gazette," October 10th, 1165. Edward Everall and Thomas Jones. Waterproofing all kinds of cloth, clothing, silk, and leather, without injury to their respiratory properties, flexibility of fabric colour, or appearance. 1184. Thomas Bazley. Improvements in and applicable to furnaces and vessels used in connection therewith, for the manufacture of glass. 1193. Richard Tomlinson. The application of a new material or fabric to the manufacture of plasters for medical or surgical purposes. 1200. Hall Colby. Improvements in instruments for taking altitudes, levels, and angles, which he designates "Colby's Altimeter, or selfadjusting quadrant or sextant." 1206. William Edward Wiley and Edward Lavender. Improvements in the manufacture of certain kinds of metallic pens. 1209. Julian Bernard. Improvements in the manufacture or production of boots, shoes, and other protectors for the feet, and in the materials, machinery, or apparatus employed in such manufacture. 1214. John Arrowsmith. Improvements in steam boilers. 1223. Charles Maschwitz. A new or improved instrument for paring and slicing apples, potatoes, and other fruits and roots. (A communication.) 1229. John Mason and Louis Christian Koeffler. Improvements in scouring and in washing wool, hairs, and yarns, and in machinery or apparatus for effecting the same. 1233. Thomas Lenox. A novel mode of reefing topsails, jibs, and other sails, from the decks of ships whilst at sea. 1247. Napoleon Néron. Improvements in muskets, carbines, fowling-pieces, and other fire-arms. (A communication.) 1262. John Wilson. An improved pump, applicable to mines, wells, ships, fountains, and domestic purposes, and raising melted metals in foundries, so constructed that it cannot lose water, draw grit, draw air, or freeze. 1263. Joseph Kaye. Certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for slubbing, roving, spinning, and doubling wool and other fibrous materials. 1291. Antoine Louis Peter. Improvements in treating a certain kind of indigo. 1321. Joseph Fourdrinier. Improvements in machinery for washing, boiling, cleaning, and bleaching rags, fabrics, and textile substances. 1337. Joseph Oliver. An improved construction of signal lantern. 1381. David Clovis Knabb. Certain improvements in the production of carburets of hydrogen. 1466. George Daniell Bishopp. Improvements in the construction and arrangement of engines to be driven by steam, air, gases, or water. 1589. Francis Herbert Wenham. Certain improvements in steam-engines. 1608. Richard Archibald Brooman. An improvement in treating raw silk fabrics, while being 383 dressed and dyed. (A communication from Messrs. C. Jandin and A. Duval, of Lyons, France.) 1629. William Grundy. Certain improvements in the manufacture of " drugget." (A communication.) 1784. Francis Higginson. Effecting certain improvements in the mode of laying, directing, and aiming with ordnance, ship, garrison, and battering guns and field-pieces of every description. 2003. Thomas Purdon. Improvements in safetylamps. Opposition can be entered to the granting of a Patent to any of the parties in the above List, who have given notice of their intention to proceed, within twenty-one days from the date of the Gazette in which the notice appears, by leaving at the Commissioners'-office particulars in writing of the objection to the application. |