shall be paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: Provided always, that in case any person to whom any yearly sum by way of compensation shall be awarded shall, after the passing of this Act, be appointed to any office or place of emolument under the provisions of this Act, or in the public service, then and in every such case the amount of such yearly sum shall in every year be diminished by so much as the emoJuments of such person for such year from such office or place shall amount to, and provision in that behalf shall be made in the award to him of such yearly sum.

XLIX. An account of all salaries, fees, allowances, sums, and compensations to be appointed, allowed, or granted under this Act shall, within fourteen days next after the same shall be so appointed, allowed, or granted respectively, be laid before both Houses of Parliament if Parliament be then sitting, or if Parliament be not then sitting, then within fourteen days after the next meeting of Parliament.

L. Letters Patent may be granted in respect of applications made before the passing of this Act, in like manner and subject to the same provisions as if this Act had not been passed.

LI. Where Letters Patent for England have been granted before the passing of this Act, or are in respect of any application made before the passing of this Act here. after granted for any invention, Letters Patent for Scotland or Ireland may be granted for such invention in like manner as if this Act had not been passed: Provided always, that in lieu of all the fees of payment, and stamp duties now payable in respect of such Letters Patent, or in or about obtaining a grant thereof, there shall be paid in respect of such Letters Patent for Scotland or Ireland, on the sealing of such respective Letters Patent, a sum equal to one third part of the fees and stamp duties which would be payable according to the schedule to this Act in respect of Letters Patent issued for the United Kingdom under this Act, on or previously to the sealing of such Letters Patent; and at or before the expiration of the third year and the seventh year respectively of the term granted by such Letters Patent for Scotland or Ireland, sums equal to one third part of the fees and stamp duties payable at the expiration of the third year and the seventh year respectively of the term granted by Letters Patent issued for the United Kingdom under this Act; and the condition of such Letters Patent for Scotland or Ireland shall be varied accordingly; and such fees

shall be paid to such persons as the Com❤ missioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall appoint, and shall he carried to and form part of the said Consolidated Fund.

LII. The several forms in the Schedule to this Act may be used for and in respect of the several matters therein mentioned, and the Commissioners may, when they think fit, vary such forms as occasion may require, and cause to be printed and circulated such other forms as they may think fit to be used for the purposes of this Act.

LIII. In the construction of this Act the following expressions shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless such meanings be repugnant to or inconsistent with the context; (that is to say),

The expression "Lord Chancellor" shall mean the Lord Chancellor, or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal.

The expression "the Commissioners " shall mean the Commissioners for the time being acting in execution of this Act.

The expression "Law-officer" shall mean Her Majesty's Attorney-General or Solicitor-General for the time being for England, or the Lord Advocate or Her Majesty's Solicitor-General for the time being for Scotland, or Her Majesty's Attorney-General or Solicitor-General for the time being for Ireland.

The expression "Inventions" shall mean any manner of new manufactures the subject of Letters Patent and grants of privilege within the meaning of the Act of the twenty-first year of the reign of King James the First, chapter three.

The expression "Petition," "Declaration," "Provisional Specification,” “Warrant," and "Letters Patent," respectively, shall mean instruments in the form and to the effect in the schedule hereto annexed, subject to such alterations as may from time to time be made therein under the powers and provisions of this Act.

LIV. In citing this Act in other Acts of Parliament, instruments, and proceedings, it shall be sufficient to use the expression, "The Patent Law Amendment Act, 1851."

SPECIFICATIONS OF ENGLISH PATENTS ENROLLED DURING THE WEEK ENDING AUGUST 2, 1851.

JOSEPH CROSSLEY, of Halifax. For improvements in the manufacture of carpets, rugs, and other fabrics. Patent dated January 28, 1851.

Claims.-1. A mode of manufacturing Brussels and cut pile carpets and rugs with thick backs. [This is effected by the employment, according to the degree of thickness required, of one or more additional sets of weft threads, which are tied in by a corresponding number of warps.]

2. The manufacture of carpets, in which printed warps showing defined figures are used, by the employment of flat or oval wires when weaving by power.

3. The weaving of carpets made with printed or parti-coloured warp, by applying thick weft to produce two similar corded surfaces, showing the same pattern on both sides of the cloth.

4. The wrapping or binding of the selvages of rugs made from printed warps, and also of rug backs for mosaic rugs (in which the pile is cemented on) during the act of weaving.

CHARLES GOTthelf Kind, of Paris, engineer, and CHARLES ALEXIS de Wendel, ironmaster, also of Paris. For improvements in the process and instruments to be used for boring the earth and sinking shafts of any given diameter for mining and other

purposes, and in the means of lining such shafts. Patent dated January 30, 1851.

The "improvements in the process and instruments for boring the earth," comprehend a novel construction of boring tool, a method of withdrawing a clod of earth to ascertain the nature of the soil at any desired depth, a compound boring tool for shafts of large diameter, and a scraper for striking the soil to the centre of the tool.

The "improvements in the means of lining shafts" have relation to those of a cylindrical form, and consist in the employment of oak cylinders or iron; the former are constructed like barrels, and retained in their proper positions, one above the other, by broad rings or hoops of iron; and the latter have internal flanges by which they are bolted together.

BENNET WOODCROFT, of Furnival's-inn. For improvements in machinery for propelling. Patent dated January 30, 1851.

The improvements sought to be secured under this patent comprehend

1. Certain improvements in the construction of the blades of screw propellers, in combination with apparatus by which such blades may be turned through any or all the degrees of a circle, whereby the screw may be worked at any pitch, and whereby an increasing pitch screw may be made to move the vessel forwards or backwards by the concave sides of the blades, when using screws of an increasing pitch (which is preferred), without the necessity for reversing the engine.

2 and 3. Certain other improvements in the construction of the blades of screw propellers, in combination with apparatus by which the vessel may be moved forwards or backwards, or sideways, or be caused to remain stationary, without stopping or reversing the engine. Also, the use of the propeller as a rudder when required.

4. Causing the blades of screw propellers to overlap part of the stern-post and the rudder-post, or either of them.

SAMUEL MORAND, of Manchester. For improvements in apparatus used when stretching and drying fabrics. Patent dated January 30, 1851.

The present improvements are, to a certain extent, based on Mr. Morand's previously-patented constructions of finishing machinery. The links of the endless chains by which the fabric is carried through the machine, are connected with each other by joints at right angles to the surface of the conducting guides, and the chains move horizontally and laterally, instead of verti cally, in returning to the feeding end of the

apparatus. This arrangement of the links of the chain admits of the guides being so constructed as to give a tortuous or serpentine course to the fabric, and thus produce the "elastic finish;" but when the ordinary finish is desired to be obtained, the guides are made parallel with each other, and in the same horizontal plane.

Claim.-The mode herein described of constructing and combining machinery for conducting fabrics through machinery or apparatus for stretching and drying the

same.

JAMES MURDOCH, of Staple's-inn. For certain improvements in preserving animal and vegetable substances. (A communication.) Patent dated January 30, 1851.

The first part of this invention consists of a method of preserving animal and vegetable substances by exposing them to the action of a current of dry air of a slightly elevated temperature, by which means the veritable preservation of the substances operated on is effected in their normal state.

The apparatus employed consists of a fireplace with horizontal tubes or channels for heating and drying the air; a chamber provided with shelves or ledges, on which the articles may be placed, or rods or bars from which they may be suspended; and a fan or other mechanical contrivance by which a current of heated air is forced through the chamber to act on the substances contained in it. The temperature of the air and the continuance of the operation vary necessarily with the state and nature of the articles to be treated, but a temperature of from 65° to 85° Fahr., and a time of from twenty-four to forty-eight hours is recommended as suitable for most articles-vegetables, such as cabbage, cauliflower, spinach, beet-root, carrots, potatoes, &c., fish of all kinds, poultry, game, and animal flesh, may all be subjected to the above-mentioned desiccating process after undergoing in certain cases preliminary cleansing and other operations, and they may be subsequently treated in any way that may appear suitable.

The second part of the invention consists of a method of composing a saline solution applicable to the preservation of animal substances, such solution being used alone, or preliminary to the above described system of desiccation, or in conjunction with any other process of preservation. This solution is composed of 10 ounces of chloride of aluminum, 10 ounces chloride of sodium, and 34 ounces of nitrate of potash dissolved in 24 wine pints of water, and is applied by injection to the carcases

of animals in quantities varying with the sizes of the animal operated on.

The process of desiccation first described is recommended as suitable for treating glue made during the summer months, in order to dry it for preservation.

Claims.-1. The exposure of animal and vegetable substances in suitable chambers to the action of a forced current of dry air, in order to dry such substances for the purpose of preserving them, and independently of any preliminary or subsidiary processes or methods of treatment.

2. The injection of the carcases of animals with a saline liquid, for the purpose of preserving them, whether such injection be employed alone or in conjunction with the desiccating process above described, or any other preliminary or subsidiary process that may be deemed advisable.

ALFRED VINCENT NEWTON, of Chancery-lane, mechanical draughtsman. For improvements in manufacturing looped and other woven fabrics. Patent dated January 30, 1851.

RICHARD JOHNSON, of Manchester, wiredrawer. For certain improvements in annealing articles of iron and other materials. Patent dated January 31, 1851.

The present improvements have special relation to the pans or ovens employed for annealing wire, and consist in the application of a central flue, through which the products of combustion from the fire are caused to pass downwards, being reverberated in that direction by the closed top of the oven, before escaping through the chimney. The oven employed is of a circular form, having a ring of fire-bars all round its interior; and the coils of wire are disposed in an air-tight annular case, which occupies the centre of the oven-the flue being formed by the circular space in the annular case or box in which the wire is contained.

Claim. -The use of a flue or flues situate in the interior of annealing pans or ovens.

CHARLES MARSDEN, of Kingsland-road, engineer. For certain improvements in boots and shoes. Patent dated January 31, 1851.

Claim. The constructing of boots and shoes with air passages through the same, kept open at certain parts by the aid of metallic plates, or strong substitutes of leather.

WEEKLY LIST OF NEW ENGLISH PATENTS.

Edward de Mornay, of Mark lane, London, gen. tleman, for improvements in machinery for crush ing sugar canes, and in apparatus for evaporating saccharine fluids. August 5; six months.

Levi Bissell, of the City, County, and State of

New York, in the United States of America, engineer, for certain new and useful improvements in the means of sustaining travelling carriages and other vehicles, which improvements are applicable to other like purposes. August 5; six months.

Edwin Dee ey and Richard Mountford Deeley, of Andman Bank, Stafford, flint and bottle-glass manufacturer, for certain improvements in the construction of furnaces for the manufacture of glass. August 6; six months.

Robert Hyde Greg, of Manchester, manufacturer and merchant, and David Bowlas, of Beddish, Lan

caster, manufacturer, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for manufacturing weavers' healds or harness. August 7; six months.

Lockington St. Lawrence Bunn, of Walbrook, London, merchant, for improvements in the manufacture of kamptiolicon. August 7; six months.

Alphonse Rene le Moire de Normandy, of Juddstreet, Middlesex, gentleman, and Richard Fell, of the City-road, in the same county, engineer, for improved methods of obtaining fresh water from salt water, and of concentrating sulphuric acid. August 7; six months.

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