Meetings for the Week.

MON.-Royal United Service Institution.-"The Combined End-on and Broadside System," by Cap tain T. E. Symonds, 8.30. Society of Engineers.-"Discussion On Water Tube Boilers," by Mr. V. Pendred, 7.30. Royal Geographical Society.-Papers to be read: -1. "On Chinese Tartary," by Captain Sherard Osborn. 2. "On Dr. Livingstone's Last Journey and the Sources of the Nile," by Mr. A. F. Findlay, 8.30.

TUES.-Royal Institution.-"On Spectrum Analysis,"

by Professor Miller, 3.

Institution of Civil Engineers.-1. Discussion on Mr. Chance's Paper "On Optical Apparatus used in Lighthouses," 2. “ Experiments on the Removal of Organic and Inorganic Substances in Water," by Mr. E. Byrne, 8.

THURS.-Royal Institution." Ethnology," by Professor

Huxley, 3.

Chemical Society, 8.

FRI.-Royal Institution. On the Absorption of Gas

by Metals," by Professor Odling, 8. Royal Institution.-"On Military Law," by Captain G. F. Blake, 3. SAT.-Royal Institution." Ethnology," by Professor Huxley, 3,

It is stated that the inefficiency of some of the brigadiers at the last review was most conspicuous. One excellent gentleman, says the Army and Navy Gazette, conceived he could do his duty on foot. It need not be said how much such a course prevented his being in any way in command of his brigade Other brigadiers had no brigade-majors-if they had, the generals' aides-de-camp could not find them. There were some brigadiers who did not understand the orders, others who understood but could not execute them, and one at least spent a good deal of his time in wrangling with his sub. ordinates. It is hard to find a remedy for these evils. The amour propre of the volunteers must not be hurt, and they like to have their own brigadiers—so the brigadiers say.

The Progres of Lyons publishes a letter from a chemist of Marseilles, who suggests a mode of opposing the needle-guns by a Greek fire he has invented. He says:-"To give an idea of the efficacy of my discovery, I declare, and I am ready to prove, that I can, at a distance of 1,000 metres, envelope an army of 100,000 men in a sea of flame within less than five minutes. If a town has to be taken by assault I have no need of a rotopschine, as I can set it on fire in very nearly the same period. In a naval battle I would run into the enemy, and in less than 15 seconds cover all the deck of the vessel with a torrent of flame which would burn the rigging, The MECHANICS' MAGAZINE is sent post-free to sub-penetrate between the decks, and instantaneously stifle all the crew. scribers of £1 1s. 8d. yearly, or 10s. 10d. half-yearly, pay could burn the town and arsenals within range with In an attack on a seaport, I Advertisements are inserted in the MECHANICS' MAGA- the rapidity of lightning. With such means no ZINE at the rate of 6d. per line, or 5d. per line for 13 in- war is possible, as neither victors nor vanquished sertions, or 4d. a line for 26 insertions. Each line con- would return from the field of battle. As to the sists of about 10 words. Woodcuts are charged at the same fortress of Luxemburg, the subject of dispute at rate as type. Special arrangements made for large adver- the present moment, I undertake to rid it of its adds that if there is no Marseillaise exaggeration in garrison in a quarter of an hour." The Progres the above description, such an invention would certainly put an end to all war.

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Nabal, Military, and Gunnery Items.

The Governor-General of India has authorised the immediate payment of the first instalment of the Banda and Kirwee prize money, at the rate of £50 a share.

An Admiralty return shows that the number of lieutenants on the active list of the Royal Navy has been reduced from 1,207 in 1856 (the last year of the Crimean war) to 754 in 1867, and the number employed from 860 to 588.

There are now six daily postal deliveries in Calcutta, and there will be a similar number in Bombay immediately the increased expenditure is sanetioned.

After ten years' warfare, the Great Western and Grand Trunk Railways of Canada have come to a mutual understanding for the adjustment of rates and fares.

An Act for the regulation of printing presses and newspapers, and for the registration and preservation of copies of all books printed in British India, has received the assent of the Governor.

General.

A return from the War Office, moved for in the House of Lords, and dated the 8th of April, gives an abstract of the recommendations of the Royal treaties of friendship, commerce, and navigation The final interchange of the ratifications of the Commission of 1866, on recruiting, and adds:"No final steps have as yet been taken for carry-between the Italian and Hawaiian kingdoms, by ing out the recommendations of the Commission, the whole subject being still under consideration at the date of this return.

The statistical committee of Lloyds' have issued an elaborate analysis of wrecks and casualties reported in Lloyds' List during the year 1866. The total number of casualties was 11,711, resulting in he total loss of 2,234 ships and steamers, the constructive loss of 270, and to the great damage of 1,295. The number of lives lost is iput down at 2,644, but the committee believe the returns are naccurate, and that the loss must be greatly in xcess of that stated.

the respective plenipotentiaries, took place at the Italian Legation on the 3rd inst.

Major R. M. Smith, R.E., Acting Director of the Persian Telegraph, in reporting the progress made in erecting the second wire of that line, states that the double line from Bushire to Teheran will probably be completed by the beginning of May, and from Teheran to the Turkish frontier by the end of June.

With the close of the present year expire all German copyrights, the term of which has been extended by special privilege. This sets free the writings of Goethe, Schiller, Wieland, Herder, Korner, Burger, Jean Paul Richter, and others. Cheap reprints of many of these are already announced at Berlin.

The announcement in the Owl, that "the whole f the infantry in the army in the United Kingom are at this moment supplied with the Snider ifle," has nowhere created more surprise than at The company formed last year for the utilisation hatham, as not a single rifle of the new breech- of the iron-sand of New Zealand has delayed its ading Snider pattern has been yet distributed to operations pending negotiations with the Provinny of the infantry troops at that station, and not acial Government, in connection with the official nider rifle has been received at the garrison. The atement, therefore, that "the reports from all istricts announce a perfect satisfaction with the rm as a practical weapon" must be illusory. The total cost of works connected with harbours f refuge throughout the United Kingdom for the ear 1867-8 is estimated at £106, 100. Of this sum 28,500 is required to extend the pier-head at Dover, and to insure the safety of the existing ructure, £42,200 for works at Alderney, and $6,000 for the harbour at Portland. A sum of 29,400 is required for works at and about Holyead, of which £27,000 will be employed in the onstruction of the harbour, £1,493 for the harour-masters department in connexion with the acket service, £682 for Portpatrick harbour, and $300 for the works at Spur Point.

report of Dr. Noad, professor of metallurgical chemistry, St. George's Hospital, on the success of the process of smelting patented by the Company. The report of Dr. Noad being highly satisfactory, operations are to be at once commenced.

At a recent meeting of the Academy of Sciences, M. Henri Sainte-Claire Deville presented a note, by M. Cailletet, on an amalgam of sodium with which he has already obtained considerable success. He called to mind the important results obtained by the modern researches of Messrs. Crookes, Matthiessen, Reguault, &c., on alloys. Mr. Crookes, for example, had rendered great service to metallurgical operations by proving that the addition to mercury of a small quantity of sodium renders incomparably more easy and profitable the

extraction of the precious metals.

The following gentlemen were elected Members at the last meeting of the Society of Engineers. Benjamin S. Fisher, Edward Buckham, Benjamin Cooke, Henry Shield, John B. Palmer, Fred. C, Danvers, Thos. Greenhill, and John Watson, F.G.S., Esqrs. Associates: Charles M. Barker, Richard Gunning, William Sandison, Douglas H. Ashbee, and F. Ireland Rumble, Esqrs.

We are informed that the president, vice-presi. ent, members of council, and other members of the Society of Engineers have made arrangements to proceed to Paris on June 1, to visit the Exhibition. A meeting of the Society and a dinner will take place in Paris during the first week in June.

The last accounts from Brazil state that the

receipts of the San Paulo Railway were daily increasing, and that the traffic was likely soon to be much in excess of the capacity of the rolling stock at present on the line. Additional engines, &c., it is said, are consequently to be sent out with all possible dispatch.

The "Isabella Ridley" (from Liverpool), and the "Haidee," from Oporto, are reported as having arrived at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. Both vessels had encountered severe risks from the masses of ice which prevailed in their route. The "Isabella" was icebound for sixteen, and the "Haidee" for thirty-six days. The copper was completely stripped off the bulls of both vessels, not have kept afloat much longer. and the Isabella" was so leaky that she could The other damage they sustained was slight, the outwater and stern of both having been only a little in. jured.

A silver cup has been presented to the commander of the "City of Baltimore," by Captain W. B. Seymour and Son, Queenstown, agents to Seymour, with the following inscription :-" From the Inman line, to Captain M'Guigan, of the Inman steamship City of Baltimore,' for having steamed 390 miles in 24 hours when crossing the Atlantic, being the fastest rate on record."

At the general monthly meeting of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, held on Monday last, Sir Henry Holland, Bart., M.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., president, in the chair, Henry Cosmo Bonsor, Esq., Colonel Charles Douglas, R.A., Frank Clarke Hills, Esq., and Arthur Thompson, Esq., were elected members of the Royal Institution. The following professors were re-elected:-John Tyndall, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., as Professor of Natural Philosophy; Edward Frankland, Esq., Ph.D., F.R.S., as Professor of Chemistry.

At the last monthly ballot of the Institute of Civil Engineers, the following candidates were balloted for and duly elected :-As Members-Mr. Harry Footner, and Mr. William Aubone Potter; as Associates-Mr. Henry Slingsby Bethell, Mr. Armand Bonquié, Mr. George Brown Murdoch, Mr. Joseph Smith, Mr. Henry Waugh, and Mr. Sydney William Yockney.

The directors of the Pestarena United Gold

Mining Company have received the following tele gram:-"1,300 ounces of gold remitted to office. Machinery working well, and the field increasing." This is the first remittance of the amalgamated As far as can be at present ascertained, it is the companies, and is fully equal to all anticipations. result of not more than five weeks' operations, and speaks well for the progress of enterprise in Italy. It is intended to hold an industrial exhibition at Coventry during the ensuing summer. The scheme has been taken up with spirit, and a large guaran tee fund has been raised by the citizens. În addition to examples of the Coventry trades propersilk ribbons and watches-some splendid specimens of art manufacture in ecclesiastical and mediæral metal work will be shown from the Skidmore Com. pany's celebrated works at Coventry.

The waters of the Bradford Canal, which unites with the Leeds and Liverpool in the valley of the Aire, about four miles from Bradford, have been run off, and the canal closed to traffic. An injane tion from the Court of Queen's Bench, involving penalties of £10,000, against the continuance of the canal in a polluted condition, for its waters had long formed an intolerable nuisance, has led to this result. The proprietors, finding no mode of purifying the polluted waters of the canal received as they were from the Bradford brook, have put an end to further difficulty, so far as the nuisance is concerned, by ceasing to take water from that the only source, and have closed the canal.

The coal traffic of the great French systems of railways appears to be steadily extending; thus the Orleans carried last year 1,063,500 tons of coal, as compared with 945,000 tons in 1865, and 821,000 tons in 1864. The Western of France Railway carried last year 499,000 tons of coal, as compared with 430,000 tons in 1865. The increase arose principally in English coal in consequence of the advance which took place last year in French and Belgian coal. The port of Dieppe, which gave the company's a coal movement in 1:65 of 102,000 tons, yielded a traffic of 141,000 tons in 1866, showing an augmentation of 39,000 tons, or 38 per cent.

2628 D. CRICHTON, W. DONBAVAND, and D. CRIGHTON. Improvements in looms for weaving. Dated October 11, 1866.

This invention relates, first, to the taking up motions of looms, and consists in improved arrangements of machi nery or apparatus for combicing oscillating leverage having compensating diminishing motion with ratchet wheel arrangements of a compound nature, for the purpose of giving intermediate speeds between the regular changes of the ratchet wheel, in order that the various diameters of the beam with cloth made by weaving multiplied by the velocity of the beam at that time will always give the same product, thereby ensuring uniform surface motion to the cloth during the process of weaving and making the cloth even throughout the piece. The application of the invention to the loom will remedy the defects which exist in the ratchet wheel and paul taking up motions now in use, which give different products when the various diameter, of the beam with cloth are multiplied by their corresponding velocity, and, therefore, the cloth is uneven throughout the piece. Secondly, instead of the ordinary swell motion of the shuttle boxes, the patentees employ at each end of the latter or batten a parallel oscillating pressure mechanism, actuated by the shuttle when it boxes clear of the way, so as to receive, press against, and travel with the shuttle to assist in checking its progress before meeting the pickers, and enable it to have an easy entrance and delivery from the boxes one to the other when driven by the pickers, thereby considerably reducing the power required to work the loom, and diminishing the wear in the parts that ope. rate the shuttle action. Patent completed.

2629 D. Rowe. An improved toy. Dated October 11, 1866.

According to this invention a carriage of any suitable form is mounted upon wheels, and provided with a handle or cord by which it may be drawn along the ground. Fixed in this carriage is an upright wire (or wires), and upon the wire (or each of the wires) is placed a circular horizontal table, in such a way that the said table can revolve upon the wire, and rests upon one of the running wheels of the carriage, or upon a wheel fixed upon the axle for that purpose. It will be evident that, as these tables rest upon the wheels, whenever the carriage is drawn along, the table will be caused to revolve; and upon these tables the inventor proposes to fix toy soldiers, animals, or other small toys, which are thus set in motion whenever the carriage is drawn along. Patent abandoned.

2630 A. V. NEWTON. Improvements in sewing machines. (A communication.) Dated October 11, 1866.

This invention is not described apart from the drawings. Patent completed.

2631 R. H. BOLLANA. Improved apparatus for ad. ministering vapour baths and fomentations. Dated October 11, 1866.

This apparatus may be described as a gauze, or it may be a glazed lantern, fitted with a removable spirit lamp, having any given number of burners, say three or four, which burners surround the pointed termination of an inverted conical boiler. This boiler is supported by the frame of the lantern, and it is provided at top with a steam supply pipe, and with a self-acting ball escape-valve for regulating the pressure of the steam within the boiler. For the purpose of medicating the steam a closed box is fitted to the steam supply pipe, provided with a gauze or other porous diaphragm for supporting the medicinal substance tɔ be volatilised, and the steam is admitted t› and passed through the box. A flexible tube fitted to a pipe in the top or lid of the box, and terminating in a dish-shaped vessel, conducts the seam to the patient, who may be subjected in any approved manner to the action of the vapour. The dish will catch the condensed steam. When it is required to administer fomentations there is fitted to the end of the flexible tube a dish-shaped metal shield, of any desired form, to suit the part to be subjected to fomentation, and to the dish is affixed a wire gauze Steam is admitted to the space between the shield and the cover, and the shield being inserted in a flannel bag, or swathed in flannel, will transmit heat and moisture thereto, which may be maintained for any given time, thus rendering it unnecessary to remove or chauge the flannels until the administration of the fomentation is completed. Patent abandoned.

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2632 W. WATSON. Improvements in prevision safes. Dated October 11, 1866. For the purposes of this invention the inventor constructs a safe of wood or any other suitable material, in such way as to cause a current of air to pass up through the bottom of the safe, and thence out at suitable openings in the top thereof. A framework of wood, or of other suitable material is employed, provided with doors in the front or other suitable part thereof, the sides being formed of two sheets of metal placed a short distance apart, the inner sheet of metal being perforated. Patent abandoned.

2633 H. MESSER. Improvements in heated air engines.

Dated October 11, 1866,

This invention consists, first, in the novel construction of the furnace and its casing, whereby a more perfect combustion of the volatile products of the fuel is effected, and the removal of the lining of the said furnace when required is greatly facilitated. Second, in the construction of the supply pipe leading from the furnace to the valve chest containing the induction and eduction valves, whereby the air is caused to travel a greater distance in passing from the furnace to the said valve-chest. Third, in arranging the said valves in such a manner that more ready access is allowed thereto for repairing or other purposes. Fourth, in the arrangement of the air passages (leading from the air pump to the furnace and cylinder) and dampers for closing the said passages. Fifth, in the mode of driving the governor, whereby the speed of the engine may be regulated by an attendant from any desired part of a house or other building wherein the engine is placed. Patent abandoned.

2634 I. M. EVANS. An improved upparatus for preventing explosions in steam boilers. Dated October 11, 1866. This invention consists in inserting a tube or small pipe inside the boiler in the manner hereafter explained, One end of the said pipe or tube passes through the shell of the boiler, and presents its orifice to the fire. The tube rises shrough the water and steam space to nearly the top of the boiler, where it may be secured by an eyebolt, and bends down so as to bring its other end to the level of the lowest point at which it is intended to let the water stand. The end of said pipe is opened, and should any danger arise by reason of the water sinking too low the steam rushes through the pipe and drowns the fire. This arrangement,

it is seen, acts as a safety-valve, and is specially applicable to flued and waggon boilers. To give warning that the water is sinking in the boiler two or more small holes may be placed near the end of the pipe, one above the other, so that the gradual damping of the fire would draw the atten tion of the person in charge before the water really sank to the level of the orifice of the tube. There may be more than one of such tubes, so as to eject the steam on the fire at different points. Patent abandoned. 2635 H. JONES. A portable bath. Dated October 11,

1866.

It is

This portable bath is constructed by preference of the textile waterproof fabric known by the name of "Macintosh," but any other waterproof fabric that will answer the silk, tarpaulin, or any other waterproof material. purpose may be used, as, for instance, india-rubber, oiled cut circular, or of any other desired form. Slits are then cut for a short distance in the line of the diameter, and the edges thereof are then gathered up and made to overlap, and are secured so as to mak: the joints watertight; cr the edges may be gathered up without slits being made. The edges being gathered up as aforesaid, the sides of the bath are made by stiffening the portion down which the slits are cut, or the gathers made with ribs of tin, zinc, sheet-iron, steel, ebonite, vulcanised rubber, leather, wood, wire, cane, whalebone, or other similar material. These are secured cemented down. by slips of waterproof material laid over them, and The sides may, however, be made in a plain separate piece, and joined to the bottom. To give the bottom additional stiffness the patentee sometimes inserts thin ribs of caue, steel, sheet iron, or, by preferance, whalebone, which serve to keep the bottom flat by meeting in the centre, or reaching some way towards the centre, while other pieces are placed up the sides as above stated, strips of waterproof fabric being secured over them and rendered watertight. By cutting two circular or other shaped pieces of waterproof fabric, and placing the ribs between them, and then cementing them together, a more complete and durable bath may be constructed. The bath may also be strengthened by attaching a circular piece of sheet india rubber to the bottom, rising an inch or two up the sides. This india rubber bottom may have a circular piece cut out of its centre for convenience in folding. Patent completed.

2636 H. J. CooKE. An improved bolt and rivet and nut making machine. Dated October 12, 1866. We cannot here give space to the details of this invention. Putent abandoned.

2637 J. M. BANCROFT. Certain improvements in canisters or receptacles for containing tobacco. Dated October 12, 1866.

This invention consists in the employment and use of an internal cell or receptacle for the tobacco which is enclosed within an outer casing, a space being left between, which is filled with cocoa-nut fibre or other material, which is a good non-conductor of heat, and this space is enclosed at the top by bending and soldering or securing the upper edges of the two cells together, so that the inner cell or tobacco receptacle is surrounded with a coating of nonconducting material, by which means the tobacco may be kept much longer in the canister so formed than in any other without detriment. The top of the inner cell is closed by a hingel lid. Patent abandoned.

2638 D. EVANS. Certain improvements in the manner of papering needles, and in wrappers or envelopes for the same. Dated October 12, 1866.

The object of this invention is so to secure or place needles in their wrappers or envelopes that whilst held securely therin they may at the same time be so arranged that the point and eye, or the point and shank, may be seen at one view, and so that in case of need one or more of the needles may be removed from the said wrapper or envelope without Patent comit being necessary to disarrange the others. pleted.

2639 E. C. DAWSON. Improvements in cases for holding preserved meat and other substances. Dated October 12,

1866.

In performing this invention the case is composed of wood and is lined with plaster of Paris, so as to protect the preserved meat or other substance from the action of the air. After the preserved meat or other substance has been packed in the case, a covering of paper, leaves, or other suitable material is placed over the preserved meat or other substance, and a coating of plaster of Paris in a state of suitable consistency is spread over such covering and allowed to se. The lid of the case is then fastened down in the usual manner. Patent abandoned.

2640 E. T. HUGHES. An improved system of spinning the silk from the cocoons of silkworms, and for the machinery or apparatus employed therein. (A communication.) Dated October 12, 1866.

This invention consists in the employment of improved flyers in connection with ro ating or movable globes or vessels containing water on which the cocoons float, and in improved modes of softening and dissolving the gummy resinous matter which envelopes the cocoons. Patent abundoned.

2641 W. GRUNE. A miraculous cigar pipe or apparatus for holding and smoking cigars and tobacco. Dated October 12, 1866.

Having discovered that the ammonia vapours evolved when tobacco or cigars are smoked are capable of reproducing or redeveloping silvered photographs on papers, discoloured or bleached with chloride of mercury, the inventor has contrived cigar or tobacco-holders which will hold the papers and allow them to be acted upon by the said ammonia vapours. In each cigar tube or holder the inventor forms a transverse opening, over which the prepared paper is fastened with gum, starch, or other glutinous matter, so that when the cigar is lighted and the smoke drawn inwards the ammonia vapours will act upon the paper, and cause the photograph to be developed. For tobacco pipes he adopts a similar plan, taking care that the aperture shall be at sufficient distance from the lighted end of the pipe, to prevent the paper from burning; or he modifies the arrangement by placing behind the chamber which holds the tobacco another chamber having an opening in which is placed a slide holding the pape, there being a space or perforation around the slide to prevent the draught from being impeded. Putent abandoned.

ing, crushing, splitting, and hulling or shelling grain and other substances. Dated October 12, 1866. This invention has reference to a peculiar construction and arrangement of mills for grinding, crashing, splitting, and hulling or shelling grain and other substances and consists in the combination of a revolving ring or hoop, and a revolving drum or roller arranged to work together in such a manner as to effect the above named objects in a superior manner. The ring or hoop, the inside of which constitutes one of the grinding surfaces, may consist of a short cylinder of iron or other suitable material fixed to the end of a shaft or spindle, or placed with its outside diameter upon two or more antifriction rollers, which support its weight and pressure, and revolve in contact with it. The drum or roller, the outside or periphery of which forms the other grinding surface, is fixed upon a shaft or spindle, and being of considerably less diameter than the ring or hoop is placed so that it may revolve inside the latter, the distance between the grinding surfaces being regulated as may be required for the different operations of grinding, crashing, splitting, hulling, or shelling. The grain or other by a spout into the angular space between the grinding ur material to be operated upon is conducted from a hopper discharged from the lower part of the inside of the ring or faces on the upper side, and the crushed or ground stuff is hoop by a brush or scraper. Either one or both of the grinders may be driven by belts and pulleys, or otherwise as may be convenient. Patent abandoned,

2644 J. POLLARD, T. and J. WHITEHEAD, and V. WIL LIAMSON. Improvements in machinery for combing wool and other fibrous substances. Dated October 12, 1866. This invention consists of an upright cylinder circu. lar brush at the heel or hind part of the dabbing brush ordinarily used on combing machines. This upright cylinder circular brush is connected with or attached to a rack or toothed wheel, which, when moving, causes the brush to revolve and dab the wool or other material at the point of contact of the two circular combs, so that as the rack or toothed wheel moves along or over each tooth, the upright cylinder circular brush is caused to dab the wool or other material in the circular combs. The upright cylinder circular brush is placed or fixed at right angles with the circular combs. Patent abandoned.

2645 E. BEANES. Improvements in refining or decolour ising sugar and syrup. Dated October 12, 1866.

In performing this invention the patentee submits sugar, either in a dry or moist state, cr in solution, to the action of ozone, but either with or without pressure, until the sugar, syrup, molasses, or other saccha ine solution is decolorised to the desired point. To effect this object it is not necessary that the ozone should be absolutely pure, though should it be desirable to use pure ozone, it may be obtained, as is well known, by passing dry oxigen gas through an ozone tube or generator in connection with an induction coil and galvanic battery, or by various other mean?. He only finds it necessary for his object to pass atmospheric air, by preference previously dried, instead of explained, and from which the zone is conveyed by a pipe oxygen, through the ozone pipe or generator, as above to a vessel containing the sugar, syrup, molasses, or other saccharine solution to be acted upon. Patent completed. 2646 J. E. BUERK. for registering the time of watchmen, mechanics, and other An improved detecting apparatus

employes. Dated October 12, 1866.

This invention consists, chiefly, in the combination with the ordinary parts of a watch or clock of certain registering devices, which are operated by suitable keys to form impressions or perforations upon dials or indexes of card, paper, or other similar material, the exact time at which each impression is formed being shown by figures or other characters upon the said dial representing the hours and other usual divisions of time. Patent completed.

2647 W. CLARK. Improvements in heating and warming rooms and other buildings, and in apparatus for the same. (A communication.) Dated October 12. 1866.

This invention relates to the application of an air chamber, in combination with an air stove or heating apparatus. This chamber contains a reservoir of water, over which the air heated in its passage through the metal or other flues is caused to pass, the water being heated by reason of its position. In this manner the air is supplied with frese oxygen and hydrogen to compensate for that which has become absorbed in its passage through the flaes of the air stove. This chamber also serves as a receiver of all impurities, and of the denser or noxious gases prejudicial to health. Patent completed.

2648 T. SAGAR and T. RICHMOND. Improvements in looms for weaving. Dated October 13, 1866. cloth in looms when weaving. This invention is an im, rovement in the taking-up of the Now the inventors propose

to apply a roller, by preference of iron, against the driving beam, and resting upon brackets, so that in the event of the cloth being unwound or liberated the roller will not fall

away from the beam. Patent abandoned.

2649 L. R. BODMER. An improved machine for cleaning and carding wool, cotton, and other fibrous substances. (A communication.) Dated October 13, 1856.

In performing this invention the wool or other fibrous material is supplied in the usual manner by an endless belt or sheet to the feed rollers, and is by them passed to the main drum or cylinder, and through one, two, or more pairs of working and clearing rollers. It next passes a fancy roller, by which it is raised from the main drum, in order to facilitate its being taken up by an intermediate This doffer is in contact and offer, which it next passes. face to face with a heater, and in front of and between the is to carry the wool against the knife edge, where straw doffer and beater is fixed a knife. The action of this doffer burrs and other impurities will be arrested, seized by the beater blades, and thrown into a trough or receptacle. After passing this knife the wool is taken off the doffer by a clearer, once more passed to the main drum, and again subjected to the action of working cylinders and clearers, and then raised by a fancy roller, and it is finally remored from the main drum in the usual manner by the deffer. Between this doffer and the feed rollers a second beater is placed for removing such particles of straw and other rub bish as may have been left on the main dram. The several working and clearing rollers, the two fancy rollers, the doffer, and the second beater revolve in a direction contrary to that of the main drum, whilst the intermediate doffer, with corresponding beater, revolve in the same direction

2642 A. WYLEY. Improvements in breechloading fire-with it. The beaters may be furnished with either straight arms and bayonets for the same. Dated October 12, 1866. We cannot here give space to the details of this invention. Patent abandoned.

2643 J. PATTERSON. Improvements in mills for grind

suitable substance; or the beaters may be composed of or helicoidal blades, made of wood, metal, leather, or other cylinders furnished with teeth, needles, or cards. The knife to be placed in contact with the intermediate doffer

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ing, crushing, splitting, and bulling or a other substances. Dated October 12 1

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may consist of a solid plain blade, or it may be a toothed blac or a bar furnished with needles. Patent completed. 2650 L. R. BODMER. The application of enamel to certain frictional surfaces of looms for weaving. (A communication.) Dated October 13, 1866.

This invention consists in providing those metallic surfaces which are exposed to a rubbing action or friction against leather, as, more especially, the guide bars for the buffalo hide drivers or pickers, with a covering or coating of enamel, glass, or other vitreous substance, whereby the friction is reduced, and the application of a lubricant rendered unnecessary. Patent completed.

This invention has reference to a and arrangement of mills for grinding c and balling or shelling grain and consists in the combination of a teminga and a revolving drum or roller manga such a manner as to effect the above perior manner. The ring hoop, stitutes one of the grinding surtum A short cylinder of iron or other sabe the end of a shaft or spindle, or placed meter upon two or more antitration mana its weight and pressure, and revalve in me drum or roller, the outside or perchen den other grinding surface, is fixed upon a stach cy being of considerably less diameter than is placed so that it may reveling inde thei tance between the grinding surfaces halte van be required for the different opera ing, splitting, huling, or shelling Det material to be operated upon 19 contacte by a spout into the angular spate bewa faces on the upper side, and the ex discharged from the lower part of the meat, hoop by a brush or scraper. Ether grinders may be driven by belts and ou may be convenient. Patest ended

2644 J. POLLARD, T. and J. WITH
LIAMSON. Improvements in machary brea
and other fibrous substances. Duel Omel

This invention consists of an etis
lar brush at the heel or bind parts.
ordinarily used on combing machin
cylinder circular brush is content VÁZQ
a rack or toothed wheel, which, in STE
trash to revolve and dab the wor
point of contact of the two circolar
rack or toothed wheel mores along or
upright cylinder circular brush is YA
or other material in the circular on
cylinder circular brush is placed rig
with the circular combs. Patent bendrai

2645 E. BEANES. Improvement i
ising sugar and syrup. Dated Opaar İk
In performing this invention the paten
either in a dry or moist state, or in EZ, 2,
of ozone, but either with or withom you
sugar, syrup, molasses, or other radi u s
decolorised to the desired paint. Dades
is not necessary that the ozone should
though should it be desirable to e
obtained, as is well known, by pastag mit
through an ozone tube or gezerity in stat
induction coil and galvanic battery, cla
I mean.. He only finds it necessary bris
atmospheric air, by preference previSRS) CA
Oxygen, through the one per part.
explained, and from which the me
to a vessel containing the suŢAZ, PILI DA
saccharine solution to be acted upto. Pas 1
2646 J. E. Bucak. Asemi desar
for registering the time of watrian, ČES
employes. Dated October 11, 1866-

This invention consists, chief, in the man
the ordinary parts of a watch or tack d
ing devices, which are operated by mount
impressions or perforations toontiTS
paper, or other similar material, the eza
each impression is formed being short by pr
characters upon the said dial represent
other usual divisions of time. Paistin

2647 W. CLARK. Improvementy in lactago
rooms and other buildings, and in opporum"
(A communication.) Dated One E
This invention relates to the
chamber, in combination with aste
apparatus. This chamber oxtains & Th
over which the air heated in its ca
or other flues is caused to pass, the øur 9.
In this mar
reason of its position.
with frese oxygen and hydrogen in nam
which has become absorbed in
This chamber AC HTML
of the air store.

all impurities, and of the denser OS BIDS P
cial to health. Patent completed

2648 T. SAGAR and T. R.
looms for weaving. Dated OctoberÄ
This invention is an im rrezet
cloth in looms when weaving. N
to apply a roiler, by preference of un, 15
beam, and resting upon brasses #

2651 T. GREENWOOD. An improved manufacture of

trenail. Dated October 13, 1866.

The object of this invention is to remove the defects of the ordinary compressed trenail or wooden pin used in securing railway chairs to their sleepers. These trenails depend for their holding power mainly on their tendency to expand to their original bulk when exposed to the

weather, but if exposed before being used their value is lost, and when used in their compressed state they are liable in swelling to split the sleeper, as they put an internal strain upon the sleeper not only in the direction but transversely of the grain of the wood. In making trenails according to this invention the inventor turns the head or conical part round to fit the round hole in the chair, and the remainder of the trenail he turns with parallel sides, and of an oval form in cross section. The traversing cutting tool which he uses he makes of such form that it leaves a kind of shallow screw thread upon the trenail, instead of reducing it to a smooth surface, as heretofore. When the trenail is driven into the hole intended to receive it with its larger diameter in line with the grain of the wood, the shallow thread will become locked in the softer wood of the sleeper or other article in which it is inserted, and the trenail will hold fast therein without having any tendency to swell and split the sleeper. Patent abandoned.

2652 A. ALBINI and F. A. BRAENDLIN. Improvements in breechloading firearms. Dated October 13, 1866. The patentees claim, firstly, the improvements described and illustrated in the drawing in breech-loading firearms in which the breech ends are opened for charging and closed for discharge by means of a block or closer hinged to the top or side of the barrel, the said firearms being discharged by the use of self-ignition cartridges having metallic cases, or cases that require to be removed from the barrel, that is to say, the arrangement or combination of parts described and represented for fastening down the block or closer of the said firearms, and advancing the pin or striker to discharge the firearms by the action of a bolt worked by the hammer of the firearm. Secondly, the arrangement or combination of the parts described and illustrated in the drawing of a cartridge case extractor to be used with breech-loading firearms, in which the end of the block or closer is hinged to the top or side of the barrel. Thirdly, hinging the block or closer to a ring shrunk upon or brazed to the breech end of the barrel, as described and illustrated in the drawings. Patent completed.

2653 E. M. BOXER. Improvements in cartridges for breechloading firearms. Dated October 13, 1866.

One part of this invention has reference to an improved form and arrangement of the anvil to central-fire breechloading cartridges generally, whereby the liability of the cartridge to explode when accidentally dropped or subjected to any other blow than by the striker of the firearm is ob. viated. In the arrangement heretofore employed, the anvil has been made of such form that if the cartridge was subjected to a sufficiently sharp blow it could pass more or less entirely into the percussion cap, so as to strike against the fulminating compound, and thus explode the cartridge. Now the present improvement consists in forming shoulders or projections of such a form on the sides of the anvil that when the anvil is inserted into the cap they rest against the edge of the latter, and thus prevent the anvil from passing further into the cap under any circumstances, the point of the anvil being then such a distance from the fulminating compound that it is impossible for it to come in contact with the same, except when the back of the cap is indented by the striker on firing. Another part of the invention consists in forming the base of the cartridge of a solid metal disc, and in securing the body of the case to the disc in the following manner:-The flanged cap chamber-that is to say, the flanged tube which contains the cap and anvil, or other means of ignition-has one or more chambers formed upon its exterior surface. The rear end of the body of the cartridge, whether of paper alone, or of metal alone, or of paper, calico, linen, or other similar material combined with metal, is turned over upon the wad which forms the bottom of the body. This wad, when condensed, enters into the cannelures of the cap chamber, and at the same time jambs the turned-over portion of the body between its bottom surface and the metal disc, thus securely fastening the metal disc, the cap chamber, and the body of the cartridge together. Patent completed.

2654 W. ROSSETTER. Improvements in looms for weaving. Dated October 13, 1866. This invention consists in various improvements upon an invention for which letters patent were granted to J. Bullough and the present patentee, dated January 1, 1866 (No 1). In the specification of that invention the patentees state that the invention consists of "improved apparatus and mechanism for changing self-actingly the shuttle in which the weft is broken or is used up for another shuttle with the weft ready for weaving without stopping the loom, and where the weft of this second shuttle becomes broke or absent to replace it by another shuttle with new weft, and so on, using as many shuttles as may be found convenient or desirable, thus requiring the operator to attend to the loom only after two, three, or more shuttles have spent or broken their weft, instead of after a single shultle has failed to give weft as heretofore in the generality of looms." To accomplish this object they stated that at each end of the stay or batten they had a horizontal or slightly inclined shuttle box placed in slides or guides, and that they employed two weft motions which are worked alternately by two tappets on the tappet shaft, and drive the loom by friction pulleys, instead of the common fast and loose pulleys heretofore in general use, and that the shuttle boxes were made to hold two, three, or more shuttles as found to be advantageous. The object of the present invention is to change self-actingly the shuttle in which the weft is broken or absent for another shuttle with the weft ready for weaving without stopping the loom, by means of certain arrangements of mechanism and ap paratus of greater simplicity and efficiency than those

the cloth being unwound or liberated at 54 away from the beam. Patent dònima 2649 L. R. BODMER. An imprand and carding wool, celton, and der Öne communication.) Dated October 13, 3 In performing this invention the wind material is supplied in the usual a or she.t to the feed rollers, and is the main drum or cylinder, and th pairs of werking and clearing fancy roller, by which it is raised fre order to facilitate its being taken doffer, which it next passes. Its face to face with a heater, and bus doffer and beater is fixed a knife. T is to carry the wool against the buệ đ burrs and other impanties we beater blades, and thrown i After passing this knife the wris a clearer, once more passed to the subjected to the action of work and then raised by a fancy role, from the main drum in the c Between this doffer and the feed placed for removing such partici bish as may have been left on the nat working and clearing rollers, the rate fer, and the second brater re to that of the main drum, whik IN 3 with corresponding beater, re with it. The beaters may be fare coidal blades, made of wax nce; or the ba

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2660 J. GILES. An improvement or improvements in the manufacture of certain descriptions of nails, tacks, and pins. Dated October 15, 1866.

This invention refers to improvements in the manufacture of chair nails, coffin naiis, and pins, hob or shoe nails, tacks, and other nails and pins of the same nature as the above, and which are or may be cast or run in moulds from brass, copper, malleable iron, composition, or other metal capable of being similarly treated, and which descriptions of nails have hitherto been cast or run in sand moulds, The patentee casts them in moulds consisting of one iron mould to form the heads, and one sand mould for the shanks, thus saving the labour of preparing for every casting a fresh mould for the beads, as one iron mould will work for years. He also obtains by this process a chill cast-head for iron nails, and a much better finish. Patent completed.

2661 S. HOLNESS. Improvements in the mode or means of rotating brushes or other articles for which a circular or revolving motion is required. Dated October 15, 1866. This invention consists in mounting upon a central hori. zontal spindle, provided at each end with a suitable handle, a tube case or frame. The spindle is cut or divided transversely at the centre or other convenient place. The tube case or frame can be held rigidly by one (say the left) handle, but that portion of the spindle attached to the right handie can be, and is, moved or rotated along with, and in In so doing a the same direction as, the right handle. spring attached to the spindle and also to the tube case or frame is coiled or compressed, and is prevented from In the slipping by a ratchet and pall arrangement. spring is thus stored the power to drive the apparatus, and the endeavour of the spring to uncoil is taken advantage of to drive or rotate an outer tube casing or of tooth wheels. The outer frome through a train tube casing or frame is so constructed as to carry upon its outer surface the brush or brushes, rubber or rubbers, or other article to which it is desired to give a rotary motion. By holding the left handle firmly andturning the right from the body the spring will be coiled, and the outer tube casing or frame rotated, so that in point of fact the apparatus is wound up at the same time it is used, and the speed may be regulated at the will of the operator. Patent abandoned. 2662 J. WRIGHT. Improvements in ornamenting bedsteads. Dated October 15, 1866. Provisional protection has not been granted for this in

forced into the vessel.

2657 W. L. WREY. Improvements in the construction of ships and vessels with a view to speed and buoyancy. Dated October 13, 1866.

This invention relates to certain improvements in the construction of ships and vessels, the object of which is, firstly, to effect a maximum speed; and, secondly, to render them unsinkable, such ships or vessels being chiefly intended for the conveyance of passengers and light cargo, The patentee proposes to construct the ship or vessel of the following midship or width section as a pronortirnate scale. He forms the extreme width of about 100ft., the level of which would form the level of the water line or thereabouts; from the extremities of this line the sides of the vessels are formed with an internal angle of about 45 deg., ascending to an elevation of about 20ft.; thus the top or upper deck of the vessel would be about 60ft. in width; the bottom of the vessel is formed from the water line or ex treme wdith at an incline or angle of about 28 degrees; the vessel is strengthened by a rib or back bone running vertically as far as necessary from end to end through the central longitudinal section (but this rib is no part of the invention). Three internal decks are formed at about 10ft. apart, the two upper internal decks giving a space including the backbone of about 60ft., in width by nearly 10ft. in height, by means of bulkheads, or partitions descending vertically from the angles formed by the sides and top deck of the vessel to the sides of the vessel below the water line within the space thus formed, that is to say, the space between the partitions or walls and side and bottom of the vessel contained by the angle formed by the junction of the sides and bottom. He proposes to construct a continuous series of air and watertight bulk heads or compartments, forming as it were a system of cells or honeycomb, so that, in case of leakage, collision, or striking on a rock, the vesse! would always be sufficiently buoyant to keep abore water, and thus the foundering of the vessel would be rendered an impossibility. Patent completed.

2658 F. MEYER, W. WAINWRIGHT, jun., and T. P. PASCOE. Improvements in the manufacture of candles, and in moulds employed in such manufacture. Dated October

13, 1866.

The object of this invention is to form in moulds candles, each with an enlargement or boss at the bottom or lower end, such enlargement or boss being of a cylindrical, or, it may be of a slightly conical form, in which latter case the lower part of the cone is to be at the lowest end, whilst the smaller end of the tapering or conical end of each candle is to be in construction with the shaft or stem of the candle; and in constructing moulds for the moulding of such candles, each mould, in addition to the ordinary tube for forming the stem or shaft of the candle is formed with a cylindrical or slightly tapering extension suitable for moulding the enlarged end or boss. With moulds constructed in this manner the candles moulded therein will readily be delivered or come away from the moulds, although the moulds are each in one piece as when making ordinary candles. The sides of the enlarged cylindrical or slightly tapering ends of the candles may be either plain or grooved, the moulds being modified accordingly, and such candles will be found more conveniently to fit into the sockets of candlesticks and bura up the lower or last end than candles made as heretofore, whether they be of a uniform taper from end to end, or whether they be each formed with conical lower ends, the base of the coned end being upwards and next to and connected with the stem or shaft of the candle. Patent completed.

2659 G. LAKE, jun. Improvements in and apparatus for sizing cotton warps. Dated October 15, 1866. The patentee claims the use and application of sizing machinery of two troughs or vessels, one for containing the sizing liquid separately and alone, through which the cotton warps are first passed; the other trough containing the grease, oil, or other lubricating agent through which the eotton warps are passed after being sized cr immersed in a sizing liquid only; and he further claims the sizing and greasing or lubricating of cotton warps separately, and by one continuous operation, in the manner and for the purpose described. Patent completed.

2663 E. STEVENS. Improvements in forks, steels, and knife sharpeners. Dated October 15, 1866.

In performing this invention the inventor employs a combined fork and steel, and converts them into one article He also combines steels and knife sharpeners, with other articles of domestic use, such as knife and fork rests, saltcellars, cruet-stands, butler's trays, and other table and cooking utensils, thus making these various household articles not only to serve the purpose for which they were originally intended, but to serve at the same time the double purpose and utility of having all these articles combined in one. Patent abandoned.

2664 D. GILSON. Improvements in means or apparatus for smoothing, pressing, finishing, or ironing fabrics. Dated October 15, 1866.

This invention is not described apart from the drawings. Patent completed.

2665 P. H. NEWMAN. Improvements in the manufacture of coloured glass, windows, and other translucent surfaces. Dated October 15, 1866.

According to one modification this invention consists in securing the pieces of coloared glass to a backing or pro. tecting surface of plain glass, ground or otherwise, in the form of the design or ornamentation required, and dispos ing in front thereof a surface of glass partly ornamental by gilding or opaque colours, or the gilding of colours opaque might be applied partly on the face of the coloured glass and partly on the cement or other material at the junctions thereof; but the inventor prefers the additional sheet of glass as affording a better protection for the coloured glass design, and also for the gilding or opaque colours, which he applies in that case on the back of the facing sheet. Patent abandoned.

2666 W. R. LAKE. An improved apparatus for tapping beer casks and other like vessels containing liquids under pressure. (A communication.) Dated October 15, 1866. This invention is not described apart from the draw. ings. Patent completed.

2667 J. GRIFFITHS and J. BEARD. Improvemente in furnaces, and in constructing and actuating the movable firebars of furnaces. Dated October 16, 1866.

The patentees claim the introduction into the sides and ends, and tops or crowns of the fireplaces of furnaces of perforated boshes for the admission of air or gas to the said fireplaces, the said boshes being constructed, and the passage of air or gas through them regulated substantially as described. Also making the bearers upon which the firebare are supported of a lozenge-shape in cross section, and making on the underside of one end of each of the said firebars a V-shaped depression to fit or drop upon the said lozengeshaped bearers, so that when motion in opposite directions is communicated to the said bearers a rocking or vibratory motion is communicated to the firebars substantially as described and illustrated in the drawings. Patent completed.

2668 J. BLAIN. Improvements in Anishing yarns and threads used for weaving and sewing purposes. Dated October 16, 1866.

The patentee claims the system of finishing yarns and threads by means of friction through solid saponaceous compounds, however made or however applied, and finishing yarns and threads by melting saponaceous compounds, and then freezing or polishing them as described. Patent completed.

2669 G. T. BoUSFIELD. Improvements in the manufac ture of green and blue colouring matters. (A communica. tion.) Dated October 16, 1866.

This improved process, for the manufacture of green and blue colouring matters, may be conducted as follows:There is put into a vessel of enamelled iron one part by weight of violet matter, two parts by weight of iodide of methyl, two parts by weight of methyline, and one-fifth part by weight of sulphuric acid; the whole is heated for twenty-four hours to a temperature of 100 deg. centigrade; then from ten to fifteen parts of boiling water are added and allowed to stand for some time, and the liquid is saturated with weak soda. The green colouring matter remains in solution, and in this state it is suitable for dyeing silk, wool, cotton, and other matters. The blue is in the state of

rather viscous precipitate; it is generally mixed with a small quantity of untransformed violet matter, from which it is separated by exhausting it with boiling water mixed with a small quantity of acid or alcohol; the blue colouring matter is in solution in the water; in this state it is suitable for dyeing. By acting in the same way on aniline and rosaniline violets the same results are obtained. Patent abandoned.

2670 W. H. P. GORE. Improvements in Hansom cabs. Dated October 16, 1866.

Among the features of this invention are the following: The floor and the roof of the cab are made of a semicircular form in front, and are furnished with curved grooves in which the doors slide at top and bottom. This semicircular portion is divided into three equal parts, the central part being fixed to the roof and floor at the top and bottom, having its lower portion panelled and its upper half glazed. The side portions are similarly panneled and glazed, but are movable, sliding in the grooves above and below, and thus forming curved sliding doors. When either door is opened it slides behind the fixed central portion, and the grooves are so arranged that the doors slide behind each other. The following improvements are applicable to cabs made with the semicircular front as above described, or to cabs made in the usual or other form, and to other wheeled carriages. The side windows are made of a circular form, having a re

volving glass shutter, which they may be wholly or partially closed when desired. On the roof of the cab are three small hinged signal arms, which may be elevated or depressed from the inside by means of a small knob or handle, and are for the purpose of directing the driver to turn either to the right or the left, or to stop. The roof of the cab, when made of papier mache, is to be covered with thin sheet copper or other metal, to protect the same from injury, and from the effects of wet weather; such metal to be rivetted to the angle-iron frames, and painted or japanned in the ordinary manner. The doors are to be made of a grooved metal frame, somewhat similar to the frame of a school slate, and filled in with papier mache panels; three sides of the frame are to be made in one piece, and the fourth movable, so that the panel can be made to slide in and then be fixed by screwing or fixing on the fourth side of the

frame. The breasts of the cab may also be made in the same mauner. Patent completed.

2671 A. SWAN. Improvements in and apparatus for. evaporating or recovering lees. Dated October 16, 1866.

This invention consists in the employment of close ro tating vessels supplied with steam, by preference waste steam, for the purpose of evaporating lees; also in a special arrangement of pipes for supplying the steam to close vessels. Patent completed.

guns.

1077 W. R. Lake, Southampton-buildings, Chancerylane, consulting engineer. An improved mode of and apparatus for multiplying power, more especially applicable to hoisting or lifting machinery. (A communication.) 1079 J. Higgins, machine maker, and T. S. Whitworth, manager, Salford, Lancashire. Improvements in machinery for preparing and spinning cotton and other fiorous materials.

1081 G. Slater, St. John's-road, Hoxton, engineer. Improvements in sewing machines,

1083 J. J. Snow, Wilstead-street, Euston-road. Improvements in the construction of locomotive figures and automata.

1085 R. Courtenay, Bishop of Kingston, Jamacia, Somerset street, Portman-square. Improvements in apparatus for propelling vessels,

Dated April 12, 1867.

1087 W. H. Dawes, Bromford Ironworks, West Bromwich, Staffordshire. An improvement or improvements in the manufacture of iron.

1083 H. P. Boyd, Low Walker, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, bolt manufacturer. Improvements in the manfacture of Bcrews, chiefly applicable for fixing armour plates.

1091 C. Wilmet, Brussels, tanner. An accelerated tanning by means of new processes and apparatus.

1092 R. L. Hattersley, Keighley, machine maker, and J. Smith, Sutton, Cross Hills, Yorkshire. Improvements in looms for weaving.

1093 C. H. Gardner, West Harding-street, City, printing machine manufacturer, and J. Bickerton, Oldham, Lancashire, engineer. Improvements in lithographic, zincographic, and typographic printing machines.

1095 T. H. Head, Teesdale Works, Stockton-on-Tees. Improvements in machinery for rolling iron and steel. 1096 W. Clark, Chancery-lane, engineer. Improvements in apparatus for propelling vessels. (A communication.) 1097 W. Clark, Chancery-lane, engineer. Improvements in apparatus for obtaining isochronous movements applied to clocks and other timekeepers. (A communication.)

Dated April 13, 1867.

1098 R. Shortrede, Surbiton, Surrey. Improving the process for finding the variation, or error, or deviation from the meridian on the common steering compass.

1099 J. Aitken, Tottington Higher End, Lancashire, cotton spinner and manufacturer. Certain improvements in apparatus employed in the process of refining sugar 1100 K. H. Cornish, South Molton-street. Improve ments in breech-loading firearms.

kitchen ranges. 1103 J. Jobson, Derby, ironfounder. Improvements in

1105 W. Gregory, Ardwick, Lancashire, machinist. Improvements in machinery for grinding and polishing metal and other surfaces.

1106 R. S. M. Vaughan, Chancery-lane, and A. G. Harston, High Holborn. An improved window latch or

An

1120 J. W. Breakell, Manchester, manufacturer. improved mode of making windows in imitation of stained glass.

1124 D. Rankin, Greenock, Renfrewshire, engineer and ironfounder. Improvements in oscillating steam engines. 1126 J. Lewthwaite, High-street, Southwark. Improvements in knife-cleaning machines.

1128 W. Weild, Mauchester, engineer. Improvements in machines for winding yarn or thread on to bobbins, spools, or similar surfaces, parts of which improvements are applicable to self-acting mules and like machines for spinning, doubling, or twisting fibrous materials.

1130 R. Boby, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, machinist. Improvements in ploughs and other agricultural implement, parts of which improvements are also applicable to wheeled carriages. Dated April 17, 1867.

22 W. Knaggs. Boiling saccharine liquors. 47 W. Way. Preparing phosphatic minerals. (Partly a communication.)

72 S. P. Widball. Forin.

79 H. Buss. Quays.

105 M. Henry. Operating implements. (A communi. cation.)

181 C. E. Brooman. Working electric telegraphs. (A communication.)

196 W. Gray. Shaping metals.

273 T. Bullivant. Window sashes.

371 J. Brigham and R. Bickerton. Mowing machines, 819 J. Greenshields. Illuminating gar. 857 T. Pebardy. Artificial supports. 942 J. E. Ward. Hats,

952 W. E. Newton. Ice. (A communication.) 963 J. Whitworth. Breech-loading firearms. 964 J. G. Jones. Getting coal.

1034 W. P. Butchart. Softening jute. 1042 W. Henderson. Oxidising minerals. 1088 W. Robertson and J. G. Orchar. Finishing textile fabrics.

1103 J. Jobson. Kitchen ranges.

The full titles of the patents in the above list can be ascertained by referring back to their numbers in the list of provisional protections previously published.

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, of leaving at the Commissioners' office particulars in writing of the objection to the application.

1136 A. N. Wornum, Store-street, Bedford-square, pianoforte manufacture. Improvements in pianofortes.

1138 T. Horsley, Coney-street, York. Improvements in breech-loading firearms, ani in apparatus for closing and

repriming cartridge cases for the same.

Dated April 18, 1867.

1140 W. Holding, weaver, and J. Holding, overlooker, Wheelton, Lancashire. Improvements in looms for weaving.

1142 W. Begg, Marsh-lane Foundry, Preston, Lancashire, ironfounder. Improvements in apparatus for admitting and regulating the supply of air to furnaces.

1144 J. E. Mellin, and C. H. Ulbricht, Sherwood street, Golden-square, engineers. Improvements in the construction of boxes or apparatus to contain address cards for public distribution.

1146 W. Wilkinson, Jarrow, Durham, engineer. Improved apparatus for catching fish.

Dated April 20, 1867. 1148 A. E. Griffiths, Kensington. A new or improved pan for cooking omelettes, or for other similar purposes.

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