COMPLETE SPECIFICATIONS FILED WITH APPLICATIONS. this combination each thread of the warp FASE, BERKELEY WILLIAM, of Charles- This invention consists in so constructing Celtic brooches, that the pins do not project beyond the frames. ENGLAND, WILLIAM, of Dudley, Worcester, engineer. Improvements in pneumatic and hydraulic wheels and fans. Patent dated May 22, 1854. (No. 1134.) The inventor employs plans similar to those used for blast furnaces, and wheels similar to those employed in marine propellers, the principle in the use of both being, that by means of the improved apparatus 66 a uniform current of air is maintained by the fan, without producing even a partial vacuum; and when used for hydraulic purposes, its action is direct upon the whole column of water presented to the fans or paddles." SAUTTER, LOUIS, of Paris, engineer. Improvements in lighthouses, and in lamps for lighthouses and other places. Patent dated May 22, 1854. (No. 1135.) The inventor claims an arrangement of the optical parts of lighthouses, so that they rotate on a central pivot; placing the apparatus for giving motion to the optical parts of lighthouses within the supporting column; and arranging lamps in which the oil is raised to, and caused to flow over at the burner, by the descent of a weighted piston in such manner, that the oil is maintained at a constant level in the supply vessel. ROCHETTE, ANDRE PROSPER, of Brighouse, York, soap manufacturer. An improvement in the manufacture of soap. tent dated May 22, 1854. (No. 1138.) Pa This invention consists in the application of greasy or oily matters obtained from suds and soapy waters in the manufacture of hard soap, by causing such matters, when melted, to be mixed with soda ley, and avoiding the boiling process, by which means a hard soap will be produced. ÖRAM, ROBERT, and WILLIAM ORAM, both of Salford, Lancaster, machinists. Certain improvements in hydraulic presses. Patent dated May 22, 1854. (No. 1140.) Claims.-1. The construction and use of an inner stationary ram having such a longitudinal proporton to the bore or chamber within which it works, that the limits of the traverse of the table or bed may not allow the intermediate or common ram to rise above the orifice or opening of the stationary ram. 2. The use of a certain double-stop or supply valve, and shutting the valves simultaneously by means of a screw. BOSTOCK, CHARLES, of Manchester, Lancaster, manager, and STEPHEN GREENWOOD, of the same place, spindle maker. Certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for cleaning and doubling silk. Patent dated May 22, 1854. (No. 1141.) This invention consists-1, in the use of a certain cleaner; and, 2, in the employment of elliptical or other springs in conjunction with spindles for the purpose of attaining steadiness and regularity in the revolution of the bobbins or spools, and also in a particular arrangement of the apparatus for stopping the supply-bobbins as required, and the use of a longitudinal lath or rail brushed with brass, or any other suitable material, for the purpose of carrying and lifting the bobbins, and thereby obtaining a high velocity. COMPLETE SPECIFICATIONS FILED WITH CAULFIELD, WILLIAM BEARE, of Cole Harbour, Blackwall, Middlesex, steamboat owner. The manufacture of brushes to be used in cleaning the small tubes of steam boilers, and for other purposes. Application dated July 27, 1854. (No. 1653.) The improved brush is formed as follows: -Two metal plates, of equal dimensions, and perforated with a convenient number of corresponding holes, are fitted to receive a spindle passing through their centres. In the holes of one plate are fixed rods, among which steel wire or other material is to be interlaced in small bunches; and in the other plate the holes are widened, so as to allow it to slide up or down upon the ribs. The spindle is provided with a shoulder and a screw-nut, between which the material contained within the plates is powerfully compressed and retained in its place. By relaxing the screw the material can be removed and replenished when necessary. HARRIS, PETER GEORGE, of Buckingham-street, Adelphi, Middlesex, engineer. Improvements in locomotive engines. (A communication.) Application dated July 29, 1854. (No. 1671.) The inventor describes certain means of combining or disjoining two parts of a locomotive at pleasure, &c., for the purpose of distributing the weight over several wheels, or of concentrating it upon a few, as occasion may require. BURKE, EDMUND, of Upper Thamesstreet, London, gentleman. Certain improvements in instruments for withdrawing corks PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATIONS NOT PROCEEDED WITH. and in uncorking bottles. Application dated July 29, 1854. (No. 1673.) This invention mainly consists in combining, in a certain manner, a lever of the first order with a cork-screw, for the purpose of affording a readier means of withdrawing the cork. LAWRENCE, THOMAS, of Birmingham, Warwick, manufacturer. An improvement or improvements in the manufacture of bayonetblades, and in machinery or apparatus to be employed for that purpose. Application dated August 11, 1854. (No. 1756.) This invention consists in forging the grooves of bayonet-blades by means of a tilt-hammer and suitable hammer-blocks. BAUCKHAM, HENRY, of New-walk, St. John's, Southwark, Surrey, engineer, and HOWARD GLOVER, of the same place, engineer. Certain improvements in constructing an apparatus or instrument for securing or fastening corks or stoppers into bottles or other vessels used to contain effervescing or other liquors, or wet or dry ingredients, and for other similar purposes. Application dated August 19, 1854. (No. 1823.) The inventors employ a collar or ring and a band, which passes over the former from one side to the other, and which is fitted to it by means of rivets or hinges, so that the band may be swung from over the cork and back into its position when necessary. SCHWANN, THEODORE, of Neuss, Prussia, doctor in medicine. Improvements in machinery or apparatus worked or actuated by helicals or spirals. Application dated August 23, 1854. (No. 1850.) The inventor describes certain forms of spirals, and employs "a syphon combined with a propulsive centrifugal or helical spring apparatus that shall give an impetus to the water contained in the syphon, causing it to ascend a little above the positive level of the two waters," &c. SICARD, PIERRE AMABLE DE SAINT SIMON, of Paris, chemist. Improvements in apparatus for raising and destroying sub. merged vessels, rocks, and other bodies; and also an apparatus to facilitate the examination of submerged bodies. Application dated August 29, 1854. (No. 1894.) These improvements consist-1. in constructing apparatus for attaching chains to submerged bodies by means of a screw put in rotation from the surface of the water, and apparatus for boring submerged bodies for the purposes of blasting, &c. 2. In forming apparatus for passing chains under submerged bodies, for the purpose of raising or moving them. 3. In combining an arrangement of apparatus for passing a chain round a submerged body, so that by means of other chains attached to the first, the 595 body may be raised or moved. 4. In arranging certain apparatus to assist in the examination of submerged bodies. HEATHER, JOHN, of Bedford-court, Covent-garden, Westminster, surgeon's instrument-maker and cutler, carrying on business under the name of William Blackwell. An invention consisting of sugar-nippers combined with sugar-tongs, to be used for the purpose of cutting or breaking lumps of loaf and crystallized sugar, and distributing the same at the tea and breakfast table, to be called "Blackwell's combined sugar-nippers and tongs." Application dated August 31, 1854. (No. 1904.) The inventor places steel or other hard blades or wedges on the inner sides of sugar. tongs near their upper parts. PROUST, PIERRE ETIENNE, of Orleans, department of Loiret, France. A new system of apparatus for greasing or lubricating axles and other rotating portions of carriages and of machinery. Application dated October 11, 1854. (No. 2173.) The lubricator described by the inventor consists of an air-tight reservoir containing water, which being heated by the friction of the rotating portion, is caused to pass through a syphon into a box containing the lubricating matter, and there to mix with it and form a soapy compound which is fed to the axle. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATIONS NOT PRO. CEEDED WITH. COULSON, WILLIAM, of Fetter-lane, York. Improvements in machinery for mortising and tenoning. Application dated May 18, 1854. (No. 1102.) This invention consists in the construction of mortising machines, in which the knife or cutter is made to descend by a hand lever, which actuates it by the intervention of a screw-wheel furnished with a counterbalance weight. MILLER, WILLIAM, of Mussleburgh, Midlothian, starch manufacturer, Improvements in bleaching flax, hemp, and other fibrous substances. Application dated May 18, 1854. (No. 1107.) This invention consists in dispensing with the ordinary preliminary process of steeping or boiling the materials intended to be bleached or cleansed, and in putting them at once into a simple solution of chloride of lime instead of the ordinary solution of chloride of lime and vitriol used as a secondary process. MAGGS, OLIVER, of Bourton, Dorset. An improvement in applying shafts to agricultural implements and carriages. Application dated May 18, 1854. (No. 1108.) In this invention the shafts are attached 596 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATIONS NOT PROCEEDED WITH. by pin-joints to the implements or carriages, and they have each a curved bar passing through them perforated with holes; and when the shafts are to be adjusted to a higher or lower horse, or other animal, they are raised or lowered to and fixed at a suitable position. ROBERTSON, JAMES CURLE, of Glasgow. Lanark, merchant. Improvements in the preparation and roasting of coffee and other substances. Application dated May 18, 1854. (No. 1113.) The inventor constructs a roaster consisting of the ordinary revolving roasting cylinder, in which the coffee is placed, actuated in the usual manner; but instead of being exposed to the dried heat of the fire, it is encircled by another fixed cylinder, to which the heat is applied, leaving an airspace between the two. HINCHLIFFE, JOSEPH, junior, of Dam Side, near Halifax, York, cotton spinner. Certain improvements in apparatus for regulating or governing the speed of steam-engines. Application dated May 18, 1854. (No. 1114.) In connecting the governor to the valve, the inventor employs two short rods, each being furnished at one end with a screw, the one left, the other right-handed, working in a box or tube containing corresponding right and left-handed female screws; the box or tube being acted upon by appropriate gearing from the shaft, or any other moveable part of the ordinary go vernor. FEUILLATRE, ETIENNE JACQUES, gentleman, of Paris, France. An improved apparatus for cleansing the wheels of carriages. Application dated May 19, 1854. (No. 1119.) The inventor forms a trough covered on the interior with brushes. This trough is passed under the wheel, which is raised up for the purpose, and which is then allowed to come in contact with the brushes. Water is poured into the trough, and the wheel is turned round until the tire and felloes are cleansed. GLADSTONE, THOMAS MURRAY, of the Irwell Works, Salford, Lancaster, engineer. An improved traverser or machine for shifting railway carriages from one set of rails to another. Application dated May 19, 1854. (No. 1121.) This invention consists in mounting on suitable bearings, sunk beneath the level of the rails, four or more sets of traverser rails, which are connected by an endless chain or band, and each of which sets, when in the proper position, presents itself on a level with the permanent way. The endless chain being worked, causes the shifting traverser rails to travel over and under, or round the bearings upon which they are supported. RANDS, CHRISTOPHER, of the Steam Flour Mills, Shad Thames, Surrey, miller. Certain improvements in machinery for regulating the feed of millstones. Application dated May 18, 1854. (No. 1122.) The inventor transfers the grain or other substance, as it falls from a hopper, by means of a rotating screw, to the shute which guides it to the eye of the runner or upper stone, and this screw is driven by a friction wheel on the screw-shaft running in contact with the face of a disc keyed to the spindle of the runner, and is adjustable on its shaft, and may be set by means of a forked lever to any required position. ALLETSON, Thomas, of Moorgate-street, London, gentleman. Improvements in the construction of flues and chimneys for steam engine boiler furnaces, and other furnaces. Application dated May 22, 1854. (No. 1123.) This invention consists in forming flues which alternately ascend and descend on their way to the shaft. ROSE, KOSMAN, of Commercial-road, Stepney, Middlesex, japanner. Improvements in buttons. Application dated May 22, 1854. (No. 1124.) The inventor attaches to buttons metal stems, which are passed through the material to which the buttons are to be attached, and then expanded. BELLFORD, AUGUSTE EDOUARD LORADOUX, of Castle-street, London. Certain improvements in pianofortes. A communication.) Applicationdated May 22, 1854. (No. 1126.) The inventor arranges, among other things, for playing in octave accompaniments with the same key and hammer, and for playing one or more octaves at the same time, by introducing for the upper octaves extra strings and bridges, arranged in front of, or within those at present in use. CHURCH, WILLIAM, of Birmingham, War-wick, engineer. A new improved projectile. Application dated May 22, 1854. (No. 1127.) The inventor so arranges his projectile that the first effect of the ignition of the gunpowder is to urge forward a sabot, so as to bring the edge of the shot nearer to the bottom of a groove in the sabot. By this action an inclined outer face of the edge of the shot wedges against an inclined face of a groove, and causes the expansion of the sabot. A certain ring is thereby made to engage in the rifle-grooves, and thus a rotary motion is given to the projectile. BLAKE, JOHN, of Greenock, Renfrew, engineer. An improved shackle-hook. Application dated May 22, 1854. (No. 1131.) PROVISIONAL PROTECTIONS. The object of this invention is to support | the joint of the hook, and thus to prevent it from unbending when exposed to a great strain. This is effected by means of a loop, link, or tie-rod, which forms part of the shackle, and is so placed that when the strain is upon the hook, the point of it enters the loop or link, and is thus supported. BALBIRNIE, ROBERT ANSTRUTHER, of Great Malvern, Worcester, gentleman. An improved mode of mounting ships' compasses. (A communication.) Application dated May 22, 1854. (No. 1132.) The object of this invention is to neutralize the effect of local attraction upon compasses. For this purpose, the compass is encased in a covering of wire gauze, "which," says the inventor, "attracts the needle equally at all points, and yet renders its movements visible to the steersman or other person." ROGERS, HENRY, of New Oxford-street, Middlesex. Improvements in fire-arms. (A communication.) Application dated May 22, 1854. (No. 1136.) The inventor's fire-arm contains one barrel and several chambers. The back end of the metal frame is made to form part of the stock, and in it are fixed the mainspring, and also a spring which acts on the sear, which is formed in one piece with the locking-bolt that locks the revolving chambers, and prevents movement at the time of the discharge. CLARK, FREDERICK, of King - street, Whitehall. An improvement in fixing the spindles of door and other knobs and handles. Application dated May 22, 1854. (No. 1137.) This invention consists in forming the spindle of a lock with a slit or opening at one or both ends, and with ratchet or inclined teeth, so that the spindle can be introduced into a handle, the inclined teeth passing a spring catch or pall, till the length of spindle is adjusted, and then the spring catch retains the spindle. SPENCER, JOSEPH BLAKEY, of the Shooter's-hill-road, Kidbrook, Kent, and ARTHUR JAMES MELHUISH, of Bowaterplace, Greenwich. Improvements in photographic apparatus. Application dated May 22, 1854. (No. 1139.) The inventor constructs apparatus by means of which a person may more conveniently carry out and use any quantity of prepared paper, so as to obtain in succession a series of photographic pictures, the parts of the paper-surface not in use being rolled up within the frame for the camera, STOREY, THOMAS, of the Phoenix Foundry, Lancaster, engineer. Improvements in stench traps. Application dated May 22, 1854. (No. 1142.) 597 This invention consists in the employment of an inclined spout placed immediately under the grate, and attached thereto by small rivets. This spout consists of a dished plate, with an oblong opening in the centre, formed with a mouth-piece underneath projecting into the cess-box, and acting, when the latter is full, or nearly so, as a stench-trap. No. 1112 has not yet been allowed. PROVISIONAL PROTECTIONS. Dated October 10, 1854. 2168. George Wigzell Knocker, of Bushy Ruff, Dover, Kent, gentleman. Improvements in obtaining motive power by means of water. Dated October 17, 1854. 2216. George Scheutz, of Salisbury-street, Middlesex, gentleman, and Edward Scheutz, of the same place, civil engineer. Improvements in machinery or apparatus for calculating, and printing the results of such calculations. Dated October 18, 1854. 2225. William Eassie, of Gloucester, railway conAn improved means of securing goods or loading in or on railway trucks or wagons. tractor. Dated November 9, 1854. 2374. John Halliday, of Stocks-street, Cheethamhill-road, Manchester. An improved carding-machine for the purpose of carding cotton, wool, alpacca, mohair, flax, tow, silk, or any other fibrous material. A communication. 2379. John Berry, Richard Berry, and Thomas Berry the younger, all of Rochdale, Lancaster, machinists, and Thomas Royds, of Salford, in the same county, manager. Certain improvements in machinery for spinning, commonly known as mules. Dated November 10, 1854. 2390. Eugene Antoine Lépine, chemist, of Madrid, Spain. Certain powders and collyrium for curing the diseases of the eyes without the use of surgical operations. to which invention he has given the name of "Lépine's Ophthalmological Powders and Collyrium." 2393. John Wain, of Greenacres Moor, Oldham, Lancaster, mechanic. Improvements in certain machines for spinning and doubling cotton and other fibrous substances of the kinds commonly known as mules and twiners. Dated November 17, 1854. 2431. Richard Peters, of Union-street, Borough, Surrey, engineer. Improvements in steam engines. Dated November 20, 1854. 2450. John Cumming, of Glasgow, Lanark, pattern-designer. Improvements in looms for weav ing. 2452. Richard Keefe, of Nock-mills, near Trim, Ireland, miller. Improvements in dressing flour. 2454. William Bridges Adams, of Adam-street, Westminster, engineer. Improvements in projectiles, projectile weapons, and their appurtenances. Dated November 21, 1854. 2456. Thomas Craig and Alfred Daniels, both of Manchester, Lancaster, warehousemen. Improvements in the mode or method of communicating signals on railways. NOTICES OF INTENTION TO PROCEED. 2458. Fisk Russell, of Massachusetts, United States of America. A new and useful machine for mowing grass. 2460. Alfred Tylor, of Warwick-lane, Newgatestreet, London. Improvements in crimping-ma chines. 2462. William Lynall Thomas, of Anderton, Devon, gentleman. An improvement in projectiles and in gun-wads. Dated November 22, 1854. 2464. Richard Terrett, of Hercules - buildings, Lambeth, Surrey, machinist. An improved machine or apparatus for cleaning knives. 2464. John Henry Johnson, of Lincoln's-innfields, Middlesex, gentleman. Improvements in the preventing or removal of incrustation in steam boilers. A communication from Nicholas Augustin Baudoux, of Paris, France, merchant. 2468. Charles Gibson, of Draycott, Wilne, Derby, gentleman. Improved machinery for manufacturing bricks, tiles, and drain pipes. Dated November 23, 1854. 2469. William Hurst, of Salford, Lancaster, engineer. Improvements in railway chairs. 2470. James Wright, of Alfred-place, Newingtoncauseway, and John Walmsley, of the same place. Improvements in the construction and adaptation of bedsteads. 2471. William Aristides Vérel, of Macduff, Banff, merchant. Improvements in grinding or pulverizing bones. 2472. Edmund Eaborn and Matthew Robinson, engineers, and John Kendrick, accountant clerk, all of Birmingham, Warwick. Certain apparatuses or contrivances for holding hats in churches, chapels, and other public assemblies. 2474. George Collier, of Halifax, York. provements in the manufacture of mohair plush. Im2475. George Collier, of Halifax, York. Certain improvements in the manufacture of pile fabrics and other weavings. An 2476. Stephen Shaw, of Plaistow, Essex. improved mode of marking metal plates for riveting or bolting, and the application of a new material as a template for receiving such marks. 2477. Jean Baptiste Heiller, manufacturer, of Schelestadt, French empire. ments in machinery for throwing or twisting cotCertain improveton, wool, flax, silk, and other fibrous substances. 2478. Charles William Ramié, of Jersey, gentleman. An improvement in straps for sharpening razors, surgical instruments, and other like articles. 2479. Henri Jules Duvivier and Henri Chaudet, both of Rue de la Glacière, Paris. Improvements in treating gutta percha. 2480. Erik Edlund, of Stockholm, Sweden. Improvement of electro-magnetic telegraph apparatus. Dated November 24, 1854. 2481. Samuel Alfred Carpenter, of Birmingham, Warwick, manufacturer. buckle or substitute for a buckle. A communicaA new or improved tion. 2483. Riley Cunliffe, of Accrington, Lancaster, surveyor. Improvements in machinery or apparatus for making or manufacturing bricks and tiles or other similar articles. 2484. Robert Willan and Daniel Mills, of Blackburn, Lancaster, machine-makers. Improvements in looms. 2485. James Hartley, of Sunderland. An improvement in the manufacture of perforated glass. 2486. Cyprien Marie Tessié du Motay, of Paris, chemist. An improvement in treating soap to obtain back the fatty or oily matters in their original state. 2487. William Eley, of Broad-street, Golden square, Middlesex. An improvement in the manufacture of ball-cartridges. 2488. John Davie Morries Stirling, of Blackgrange, Clackmannan. Improvements in the manufacture of metallic tubes. 2489. Henry Bessemer, of Old St. Pancras-road, Middlesex. Improvements in projectiles, and in guns or ordnance used for discharging the same. 2490. Thomas de la Rue, of Bunhill-row. An improvement in the manufacture of compositions suitable for printing - rollers, printing - ink, and flexible moulds. Dated November 25, 1854. 2493. John Henderson, of Lasswade, Midlothian, gentleman. Improvements in the manufacture of carpets. Dated November 27, 1854. 2497. Peter Armand Lecomte de Fontainemoreau, of South-street, London. Improvements in the construction of inkstands. A communication. 2499. Félix Delacour, of Paris, France. provements in fire-screens. Im 2501. John Crofts. of Birmingham, Warwick, manufacturer, and William Cartwright, of Birmingham, manufacturer. A new or improved cannon and projectile. NOTICES OF INTENTION TO (From the "London Gazette," December 12th, 1704. Henry Gerner. Improvements in the construction of omnibuses, parts of which are applicable to carriages generally. 1708. Edward Hallen. Certain improvements in chairs, chair-bedsteads, and other seats and bedsteads. 1716. Charles Frederick Stansbury. Improvements in machinery for making rope. A communication from William Robinson, junior, of Warsaw, New York, United States of America. 1717. Charles Frederick Stansbury. Improvements in locomotive and steam boiler furnaces. A communication from Jonathan Amory and William Parrott, of Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. 1718. Charles Frederick Stansbury. Improvements in cut nail machines. from Thomas H. Barlow, of Lexington, Kentucky, A communication United States of America. 1719. Charles Frederick Stansbury. Improved air-tight vessels. A communication from Robert Arthur, of Washington, United States of America. 1721. James Gathercole. Improvements in bordering or producing devices upon the edges of envelopes, letter paper, or other articles of stationery. 1724. Edouard Alexandre. concertinas. Improvements in 1734. Joseph Hulme. Improvements in apparatus for preventing the explosion of steam boilers, for measuring the pressure of steam and other fluids, and in heating water for the supply of steam boilers. 1738. Antoine Corvi. Improvements in musical instruments. 1745. William Armand Gilbee. Improvements in hydraulic machines. A communication. 1752. Edward Monson. New or improved machinery for manufacturing, cleaning, and polishing daguerreotype plates. Improve 1755. Peniston Grosvenor Greville. ments in the manufacture of cards for working wool and cotton. A communication. 1768. Henri Louis Edmond Désiré Hennebutte. Improvements in the manufacture of varnishes. 1812. Peter Armand Lecomte, de Fontainero |