other elastic medium, to such or other caps or covers as are more particularly applicable to bottles, known and technically called in the market infants' feeding bottles, such being previously prepared for this especial purpose or use. These caps or covers, when their filling pieces are placed in their intended resting places, will form compound caps or covers having chambers therein of a novel and useful character.-Patent completed. 676 R. HoWARD. Improvements applicable to taps and cocks for various useful purposes. Dated February 28, 1868. Here the patentee applies to the plug or to the hole of the cask a hollow cone of wood, gutta-percha, india-rubber, metal, or other suitable material, into which the plug is fitted before insertion in the cask; or the cone may be inserted in the cask and the plug afterwards driven in. By this arrangement the plug will always protrude or extend from the cask at a constant and uniform position, being regulated by the relative diameters of the plug and hollow cone.-Patent completed. 677 C. E. BROOMAN. Improvements in the manufacture of moulds for moulding glass or other like material. (A com. munication.) Dated February 28, 1868. The patentee claims, first, manufacturing the moulds, as described, from the graphite or material which is formed in the interior of gas retorts. Second, manufac turing the moulds by pulverizing the graphite, and then agglomerating it by a binding material, as described. Third, manufacturing the moulds by cutting and working the graphite in its natural state into the required form, as described, without pulverizing and agglomerating it. Fourth, manufacturing the moulds, especially when required to be of large size, by joining or connecting several pieces of the graphite, as described.-Patent completed. 678 J. LEACOCK. Improvements in paving for streets, roads, and ways. Dated February 28, 1868. This invention has for its object the construction of paving by using blocks or pieces of granite, syenite, or other suitable material, provided with holes in the same, and disposed in series or sets combined in one block, the holes forming the sets or rows to be sufficiently close to each other to be capable of being easily opened by a tool, so that blocks prepared in accordance with this invention shall afford a safe foothold for horses, and other such like animals, and yet present such an even surface as required for wheels to travel on; and in case of severe traffic the level will be retained in proportion to the surface of the blocks, as against the single set, or about (say) twelve times to one.-Patent completed. 679 J. ROBINSON. Improvements in the method of cleaning and preventing deposits accumulating upon the surfaces of feed water heating apparatus employed in boilers for generating steam, and in the apparatus connected therewith. Dated February 28, 1868. The patentee claims the peculiar arrangement, construction, and adaptation to the outer surfaces of feed water heating pipes, known as "fuel economizers," of circular or curved levers, which are caused by their own weight, when suspended, to embrace the feed water pipes in such a manner that, when such levers are caused to traverse to and fro, they will scrape and keep clear the surfaces of such pipes, for the purposes described.-Patent completed. 680 J. DUNKERLEY. Certain improvements in the manufacture of hats or coverings for the head. Dated February 28, This invention relates to the forming or shaping of the brims of hats, and similar coverings for the head, which process is termed "curling the brim," and the improvements consist in so arranging the apparatus in which the hat is enclosed that a space may be left therein in a certain position, so that steam, gas, or other heat may be applied only to that part of the brim which is to be "curled " Second, the improvements consist in the novel application and use of a metallic or other suitable "brim curling template," or form, which is variable in shape, according to the shape of brim required, the use of such template being to impart its form to the brim.--Patent completed. 681 G. THOMAS. Certain improvements in sewing machines. Dated February 28, 1868. 1868. This invention consists, first, in so arranging the upper framing of the machine that a portion shall project and extend over the eccentric arm, so as to form an enclosed guard or cover for the upper portion thereof, leaving space below sufficient for its action. Second, in applying back and front plates to the side plates or bearings situated at each side of the upper pulley, so that, by such addition, when the upper plate is flxed, the said pulley and part of its shaft are enclosed within four sides and top plate. Third, the improvements consist in applying to the said front or back plate an adjustable lever or finger, which, by coming into contact with the strap a little above the central axes of the pulley, prevents it turning in the reverse direction, and thus acting as a break upon the strap or driving pulley, and permitting continuous motion in one direction only, a cranked rod being supported beneath the break catch for the purpose of raising or throwing it out of action when not required.-Patent abandoned. 682 T. WARREN. Improvements in glass furnaces. Dated February 28, 1868. is jointed at one end to the rigid sides of the carriage or 685 W. E. NEWTON. Improved apparatus for drying and between its surface and that of the blast pipe of a taper- The patentee claims first, the exclusive use of a bolt with eccentric head having a collar with eccentric pole, and constructed and applied substantially as set forth. Second, the exclusive use of bolts drawing together and fastening two plates or other pieces by means of a flange or flanges formed by the compression of an elastic collar, substantially as set forth.-Patent completed. 691 H. B. WILDER. Magnetic electric telegraphic apparatus for signs, letters, or sentences, with bell, and self-acting mechanical switch. Dated February 29, 1863. 692 J. COLLINS. Improved apparatus for filling cartridge cases for breech-loading guns, Dated February 29, 1868. This invention (the details of which are voluminous) is divided into three parts:-First, a piece for holding the cartridge cases while they are being lied. Second, two implements for filling or charging the said cases with pow der and shot at separate operations. Third, a case or box to contain the whole of these parts, and constituting a very afford space for a description of the various arrangements. portable apparatus for the above purpose. We cannot here The object here is, more particularly, drying and finishing such felted goods as hat bodies, skirts, petticoats, and such like articles. The apparatus consists of a hollow As it is probable that an extension of time for completconical form, of the shape and size of the article to being this patent will be petitioned for, the documents reoperated on. This form is made of sheet copper, and is lating to the invention cannot at present be seen.-Patent mounted on, or attached to, a hollow shaft which turns completed. in bearings secured to a table which supports the apparatus. The form is closed at the bottom by a copper base that is dished out, and is supported by a hollow shaft through which passes a tube, leaving a space between it and the shaft. The inner tube is intended to conves steam into the interior of the conical form, and the space between it and the shaft serves to carry away the water of condensation. Fixed on the shaft is a pulley to give it and the cone or form a rotating motion by means of a band. The lower end of the hollow shaft rests in a socket that is pierced at its lower end to allow of the escape of the water of condensation. To the base of the cone is attached a ring on which (placed at regular distances) are hooks for holding the work down fight over the cone. When the fabric has been fitted in the usual manner, it is placed on the former and brought into shape by stretching, and is secured at the upper end by means of a cord former. The fabric is then dried by introducing steam passed round a neck or narrow part at the top of the into the interior of the former, and while thereon it may be brushed and finished in the ordinary manner.-Patent completed. 686 C. SANDERSON. Improvements in the manufacture of iron and steel. Dated February 28, 1868. -Patent abandoned. 693 L. C. DETOUCHE. An improved omnibus indicator, showing and controlling the number of travellers, which is also applicable to all other carriages. Dated February 29, 1868, This invention is not described apart from the drawings --Patent abandoned. 694 J. W. MCARTER. Improvements in the means or apparatus for heating the feed water of steam engine boilers. Dated February 29, 1868. Provisional protection has not been granted for this invention. 695 G. LINDSLEY. Improvements in obtaining and applying motive power for propelling carriages and for other purposes, and in apparatus employed therein. Dated February 29, In carrying out this invention the patentee proceeds as follows:-The pig iron is melted on the bed of a puddling or other furnace at a high heat, with the damper so regu-1863. soon as possible. He then begins to charge in sulphate gers on rail or tramways, or on common roads. For this lated as to get the whole of the metal into a fluid state as The chief object here is to utilize the weight of passenof iron, or other suitable oxydizing substance, and then rabbles the iron, and at the same time the puddler or carriage and arranges the wheels in such manner that a purpose the patentee constructs the lower frame of the attendaut must draw the damper wide, and cause a portion of the weight of the carriage, and of the passenThe fire must also be pushed on in order to greatly increase wheels to and supported by the fore part of the inner peridraught or current of air to pass through the furnace.gers or goods therein, is transmitted by a pair of small the heat. Whilst the metal boils violently (owing to the phery of a pair of large wheels which run on the rails or rapid formation of carbonic oxide gas and phosphoric road.-Patent completed. acid in the body of the melted metal), the gas will liberate itself, and with it the phosphorus, sulphur, and other volabecoming oxydized (principally combining with the oxygen tilizable and oxydizable impurities. By these impurities which is evolved by the decomposition of the sulphate of iron, or other analogous substance, which is charged into the fluid metal, and partly by means of the oxydizing draught which is passing through the furnace) they will be brought into a gaseous state, and will, by the strong draught, be at once carried out of the furnace through the flue and up the chimney stack, and in this way these gaseous impurities are got completely rid of out of the furnace, and cannot return.-Patent completed. improved fire escape. Dated February 29, 1868. 696 W. SMITH, J. GIDDINGS, and J. RANK. A new or of fire escape, whereby persons will be enabled to descend Dated February 29, 1863. 687 T. S. WHILOCK and H. HARFORD. Improvements in fastenings for window sashes. Dated February 28, 1868. In constructing fastenings for window sashes, the inventors place across the channel in the frame of the window in which the lower sash works a metal bedplate in a dovetail recess, in which a dovetail plate slides horizontally. The dovetail plate is fixed to a vertical bar, which also slides horizontally, the bar having on its inner face two projecting pins or studs. ing made in the beading on the outer edge of the channel The bar works in an openin which the lower sash works. The sliding bar is pressed inwards by a spring, so that when the bar is in its normal position, it fills up the opening in and forms a comtinuation of the beading. By means of a small bolt on the side of the window frame the sliding bar described may be fixed or released. On the inner side of the lower sash a series of holes is made, with any two of which the pins or other suitable material, with three sides, and open at the Here the inventors propose to form a case of metal, or studs on the sliding bar may engage, and thereby fix the top, the edges of the sides to be slightly curved inwards, sash in its closed position, or fix it at any required height or bent over to form a ledge; the paper or card on which in the frame. In order to unfasten the sash, the small the address is to be written or printed is to be placed in a bolt is first withdrawn, so as to liberate the sliding bar, number of layers, or packed together and riveted with a when the latter may be pressed outwards, so as to with-metal eyelet, the pack is then to be inserted in the case, draw its pins or studs from the holes in the sash. The sash may now be raised or lowered to the required extent, after which the sliding bar is loosed from the hand, when it is pressed back or inwards by its spring. The studs or pins on the sliding bar are thereby made to engage with the holes in the sash, and fix it in its closed or adjusted position. By shooting the small bolt the sliding bar is fixed.-Patent abandoned. 688 J. GJERS. steel and homogeneous iron, and in furnaces applicable thereto. This invention relates to the kind of glass furnace in which the glass is melted in a tank built with air spaces round and beneath it, as described in the specification of a patent granted to A. Jocheron, May 7, 1866 (No. 1297), and consists in arranging in the case beneath the tank a series of tubes or flues for the passage of air, which is led The patentee claims, first, melting malleable iron more thence to the inner ends or other parts of the grates or fire or less steely with a proportion of manganiferous iron ore, chambers. These air tubes or flues are enclosed in cham-bon, or carbonaceous matters, and the necessary flux, so or pure iron ore mixed with pure manganese ore and carbers which receive the waste gases by flues leading down that when exposed to the heat of a steel furnace the ore to them from outlets in the sides of the tank, whilst other will produce an iron rich in manganese and carbon, easily flues lead the waste gases up again to the cone above, fusible, and which, melting together with the malleable with which arrangement the necessary draught is main-iron, will form steel or homogeneous iron of the desired tained. The various flues or passages are furnished with quality, as described. dampers, whereby the action of the parts can be regulated. furnaces for the manufacture of cast steel and homogeneous Second, the use or employment in iron of continuous melting tubes, retorts, or crucibles in which the requisite materials are melted, and the cast steel or homogeneous iron produced, as described. Third, arranging and working furnaces so that the melted steel or homogeneous iron produced in continuous melting tubes, retorts, or crucibles, as set forth, is accumulated 684 T. TROTMAN. Improvements in the construction of that it may be there sufficiently exposed to the heat of the upon the open hearth of the furnace, in such manner as doubling-up or folding carriages and chairs. Dated February 28, 1868. furnace to keep it fluid, but will nevertheless be protected by the slag formed with the iron from the iron ore and flux, as described.--Patent completed. -Patent abandoned. 1868. 683 J. F. LOW. Improvements in apparatus for preparing jute and similar fibrous materials. Dated February 28, This invention is not described apart from the drawings. -Patent completed. This invention consists in making the body of the carriage-the sides and back-rigid, and in adapting thereto a jointed or folding platform or frame, on which the seat of the carriage, or the reclining couch of an invalid carriage, is placed and fixed. The folding platform or frame 689 C. COCHRANE. A new or improved appliance for hot and the eyelet being brought between two apertures cut in the plate of the case-and in a small projecting plate above-a swivel or ring fastener can be passed through the cards and case, and the whole becomes secured together. By this arrangement the cards, parchment, or paper slips can be successively used from the uppermost layer to the lowest. after which a new pack can be supplied. -Patent abandoned. leum, paraffin, hydrocarbons, and such like oils or spirits, and 698 R. ZWEZ. A new or improved can for containing petroother liquids. Dated February 29, 1868. The object here is to form a self-acting or safety arrangement, whereby it will be impossible in pouring the liquid from the can into another receptacle to make an accidental overflow, or pour an excess of liquid from the can. Το cover, in which a funnel or tube is fixed for supplying effect this object the top of the can is closed by a cap or liquid to the can, and this opening is kept secure by a stopper, cork, or screw plug, or cap. In order to supply caused by the pouring out of the contents of the can by the the necessary amount of air to occupy the displacement outlet pipe or spout, the inventor places a tube in the interior and top of the can, and extends the same within the spout. This inner tube being of smaller diameter than while the liquid is poured from the outer tube, the air the outlet tube, a jacket is formed between the two, and flows into the can by the internal tube.-Patent abandoned 699 J. L. NORTON. Improvements in sinking or forming ells, and in apparatus to be used for this and similar purposes. Dated February 29, 1868. Here in making a pipe well in running or fine sand, the pointed pipe is perforated for a considerable distance at its lower end, so that the total area of the perforations may be, say, ten or more times the area of the pipe; within this pipe, and extending along the perforated part, an inner tube, also extensively perforated, is inserted, and blowing the air through the body of the liquid into a com-716 H. P. REYNOLDSON. Making portfolios with metallic around this tube horsehair cloth is wound in many con- bustion chamber. This chamber may be arranged backs. Dated March 3, 1868. volutions, so as entirely to fill the outer tube. The horse-immediately above the surface of the oil, and beneath the hair cloth so applied effectually stops back the sand, but boiler or other object to be heated, and provided with a it allows the water to filter into the inner tube, and thence small chimney or exit flue for the smoke.-Patent abanit passes into the main well tube, and is drawn up by the doned. pump.-Patent completed. 700 W. BARFORD and T. PERKINS. Improvements in apparatus for raising and stacking straw and other agricu!tural produce. Dated February 29, 1868. This invention consists in arranging apparatus for raising and stacking straw, and other agricultural produce, in such manner that the frame which carries the elevating chain, and the parts in connection therewith, may be raised and lowered on its carriage, the arrangements being also such that when the frame is raised, horse driving gear may be worked beneath it, and, when the frame is lowered, that the machine may, in the usual way, receive the straw from a thrashing machine and be driven thereby. -Patent completed. Dated 701 B. SOLOMONS. Improvements in telescopes. February 29, 1868. This invention relates to an improved mode of adjusting the eyepieces of telescopes, and also to the application of an achromatic eye lens to ordinary telescopes. In order to fit the eyepiece to the telescope, the inventor provides the tube into which the eyepiece flts with two right-angled or bayonet slots, into which take two projections on the eyepiece, which eyepiece is thus adjusted to the telescope by two motions only-a forward and a rotary motion-so that it may be adjusted or removed with facility. The tube in which the eyepiece fits is provided with two graduated scales to suit the powers of the ordinary and of the achromatic lenses, the latter being arranged in a second eyepiece, also provided with projections for taking the bayonet slots of the tube. The achromatic eyepiece is composed of two lenses, a plain concave and a double convex, placed together in the tube. By the application of the achromatic lens a highly increased power is obtainable in telescopes of small size, and with an ordinary and an achromatic lens six distinct powers are obtained in the same telescope.-Patent abandoned. 702 L. B. SCHMOLLE. Improvements in skeleton skirts. Dated February 29, 1868. In these skirts greater freedom of movement is allowed the limbs at all times, while the skirt is also much more conveniently adapted for a sitting position. The patentee dispenses with the steel ribs in front of the skirt, and unites their ends to a front apron piece formed of two flaps, buttoned or otherwise connected together. The lower ribs, instead of being connected to the tapes in parallel rows, as usual, are brought together somewhat in a fan form, each side sloping away towards the bottom and back part, which is made considerably deeper, so as to give a train form to the skirt. The ribs are suspended by bands running from the top of the skirt to the bottom. -Patent completed. 703 W. J. ARMSTRONG and C. BROWNE. Improvements in anchors. Dated March 2, 1868. handkerchief bores, purses, cigar cases, necessaires, writing 709 F. NEIBER. Improvements in fastenings for glove boxes cases, and other articles. Dated March 2, 1868. This invention is especially applicable to the class of articles which close with two lids, jaws, or flaps hinged at the ends, and meeting and closing together at their free ends. According to the invention, the inventor fixes to one such lid, jaw, or flap, or to other convenient part of the article to be fastened, a socket, staple, or recessed piece in which he places a spiral or other spring. There may, however, be two or more such sockets or staples containing springs. On the other or opposite flap or lid, or on other convenient part of the article beyond or on the other side of the mouth, division, or opening, he fixes one, two, or more sockets, staples, or recessed pieces. Into these sockets or staples he places the ends of limbs, branches, or portions of a piece of any convenient shape, which piece, for convenience of description, he calls the mouth or opening of the article. "fastener." This fastener lies on over or across the It is not a fixture, but can be readily taken in and out of the staple or sockets. But when the aforesaid ends are placed therein, the fastener is held firmly in position; the spring or springs in the socket or sockets which contain the same press against the ends engaged therein, and force the other or opposite ends into their sockets, so that the article is And it is readily unfastened by withdrawing the fastener from the sockets which hold its securely fastened. engaged ends.-Patent abandoned. 710 T. HORSLEY. Improvements in breech-loading firearms. Dated March 2, 1868. The patentee claims the applying to breech-loading firearms a pin or instrument which is displaced by the head of the cartridge when a cartridge is in the barrel and the breech is closed, such pin or instrument communicating motion to a readily-observed indicator at the exterior of the piece. He also claims the arranging indicating apparatus, substantially as described.-Patent completed." 711 S. SHARROCK. Improvements in the construction of piles. Dated March 2, 1868. According to this invention, the stems of piles are tubular, and formed of malleable or ductile metal, either wrought iron or steel, by preference rolled to a semi-cylindrical form. Two lengths of metal so rolled are placed face to face, and riveted or bolted together to form the stem. The semi-cylindrical sections may be rolled without flanges, and they may be put together with external or internal butt strips, one on each side, and each riveted to the two sections of the stem of the pile. The screw or other base may be cast and riveted to the bottom of the stem, or may be otherwise formed and fixed.--Patent completed. 712 A. SMITH. Improvements in the construction of railway This improved auchor is so constructed as to clear waggon axle boxes. Dated March 2, 1868. itself should it become fouled. The shank, crown, and Here the inventor forms the lower part of the axle-box stock of the anchor are made in separate pieces. Upon in such manner that the bottom is slid into its place from the shank, at the lower end, is formed a tenon, the the front of the box, a portion of the front being cut away shoulders of which incline in each direction from the to allow of this, and the end of the bottom piece is formed central point, so that the crown of the anchor may rock with a front plate, which, when the bottom is in its place, upon the said tenon to enable the flukes to take a surer comes against and is level with the front of the box. He hold in the ground. The crown is made with a slot forms the two sides of the bottom piece with projecting through it to receive and fit upon the tenon of the shank, flanges, which slide into grooves formed in the two oppothe ends of the slot being inclined outwards in each direc-site sides of the bottom of the box, and in order that the tion from the centre, to enable the crown to rock upon the bottom piece may not by friction and the jolting of the tenon without getting out of its proper relative position. waggon be caused to work out of its place, he forms the When the fluke of the anchor has hold of the ground, the flanges at the two sides of the bottom piece deeper at the edges of the crown rest against the inclined shoulders of back than at the front, and when the bottom piece has been the sbank, and the inclined ends of the slot through the slid into its place from the front of the box, these deeper crown rest against the edge of the tenon, so as to give the parts of the flanges cover over corresponding depressions connection great firmness and strength. The crown is in the grooves, so that the bottom drops a distance, and secured in its place upon the tenon of the shank by blocks cannot be drawn out of its place without being first raised. The top of the box he forms as usual with a lid, through which the lubricating material is supplied to the box. Patent abandoned. at the end of the shank, which are riveted, welded, brazed, or in any other ordinary manner securely and firmly attached to the sides of the lower end of the said tenon. The upper ends of the blocks are inclined outwards from their central points in the same manner as the shoulders of the said tenon. The stock is made in two parts, the inner end of each part having a tenon formed upon it which passes through a mortise formed in the upper end of the shank for its reception. The parts of the stock are secured in place in the shank by blocks riveted, welded, brazed, or in any other ordinary manner securely attached to the slides of the said tenons.-Patent abandoned. 704 H. WILSON. Improvements in meters, valves, and cocks, for measuring, regulating, and discharging liquids, gases, or fluids. Dated March 2, 1868. We cannot here give space to the details of this invention.-Patent abandoned. 705 L. ROMAN. Improvements in apparatus for obtaining motive power from rivers or streams of water, and for facilitaling boats ascending and descending rivers or streams. Dated March 2, 1868. This invention consists of an endless chain provided at suitable distances apart with transverse paddles or float boards, which chain is laid horizontally in the vertical plane over two or more horizontal pulleys, drums, or toothed wheels, the axis or arbors of which revolve in bearings provided in boats, or other suitable movable or fixed parts.-Patent abandoned. 706 W. ROLLO. Improvements in the arrangement and construction of water-closets. Dated March 2, 1868. This invention consists in using an air vessel of special construction to which the branch pipe from the water supply main pipe is directly connected, and the necessity for using a tank or cistern situated at a higher level than the pan of the closet is avoided.-Patent abandoned. 707 J.RAWSTHORN. Improvements in machinery for dressing millstones. Dated March 2, 1868. This invention consists in suspending or sustaining the pick or tool in connection with its actuating mechanism by springs of india-rubber, steel, or other elastic material, or by means of air or other elastic medium, the tension or force of the springs being adjustable-Patent abandoned. 708 W E. NEWTON. Improved apparatus for burning hydrocarbons for heating purposes. (A communication.) Dated March 2, 1868. 713 A. A. USHER. Improvements in respirators. Dated March 3, 1868. According to this invention, instead of having the backs made as hitherto, the inventor makes them rigid, or nearly so, by placing a plate of zinc or other metal throughout the entire length of the back. This back is furnished to each end of the metal plate. The plate is then fastened with a number of strings, under one of which each paper or periodical is to be slipped. These strings are attached bodily on to the stiff covers of the portfolio by an inside of the papers upon the strings fall entirely upon the rigid lining. The result of this plan is that the pull and strain metal plate, and so do not tend in the least degree to tear the cover of the portfolio.-Patent abandoned. 717 F. Moss. Improvements in apparatus for registering passengers travelling by public vehicles, and in the construction of certain vehicles to be used in combination therewith. Dated March 3, 1868. This invention consists in the application and use of an ordinary admitting registering turnstile or hinged door or bar, which will register and admit only one person at once, and only in one direction, and also of an exit turnstile door or bar opening in the opposite direction; these may either be arranged at the hinder part of the vehicle in the doorway now used, the entrance being placed at the left side, so as to take up passengers readily, and the exit being on the right, or the entrance and exit may be at different parts of the vehicle, so as to enter at one doorway and leave by another, and by so arranging or constructing the vehicle the passengers using the outside may pass through the same entrance and exit as the inside The guard has by this arrangement no passengers. occasion to enter the vehicle, but may receive the payment on a table or place near the exit apparatus, and in sight of all the inside passengers, the dial of the registering apparatus connected with the turnstile or door being also visible.-Patent abandoned. 718 J. BARKER, Certain improvements in the method of consuming smoke, and in the apparatus connected therewith. Dated March 3, 1868. The patentee claims, first, the novel employment, adaptation, and use of regularly feeding the furnaces of steam boilers with fuel by means of revolving shovels in connection with the mechanism described, or any slight modification thereof. Second, the novel employment and use of gas burners situated in the flues of boilers for the purpose of consuming smoke, together with the general arrangement of mechanism constituting these improvements, as described.-Patent completed. 719 T. BISSET. Improvements in reaping and mowing machines. Dated March 3, 1868. This invention has for its object to improve the cutting action of reaping and mowing machines, and to render the cutting mechanism less liable to become choked than in ordinary machines. And the invention consists in fixing within and above each finger, sufficiently hollowed out for the purpose, a strip wrought in cast steel, and folded back over the space in which the knife works. The edges of the steel strip are bevilled or sharpened so as to form fixed cutters, both above and below the reciprocating knife. These steel cutting fingers are by preference fixed upon the top of the fluger bar, and fit into rebates formed in the shoulders of the outer fingers, so as to form a flush top surface for the knife to work upon. The space for the knife to work in is made as small as possible consistently with its free action, and as the knife in acting against the crop bears it against fixed cutting edges, both above and below it, there is no likelihood of drawing in the crop, as in ordinary machines in which there are no fixed cutters, or as in those in which there are fixed cutters on the under side only.-Patent abandoned. 720 W. B. THOMPSON and W. GALL. Improvements in machinery or apparatus for winding yarns or threads. Dated March 3, 1868. construction of machinery and of mechanism by which This invention relates to an improved arrangement or the spindles are stopped when the pirns or cops are fully built up, and consists in placing fast and loose pulleys on each spindle. Both of the pulleys are free to move endwise on the spindle. The spindle is also free to move endwise in its bearings whilst being driven, this end wise movement being provided for by forming a groove in the spindle into which a key or feather passing through the The inventor so constructs his respirators, the subject driving pulley is fitted. As the pirn fills, the spindle is of this invention, that they may be used inside the mouth, gradually pushed upwards, but the driving pulley still between the lips and the teeth and gums, whereby no un- remains in the same position relatively to the driving belt sightly appearance is given to the wearer. He constructs until the "driver," which is placed on the end of the the respirators of two perforated or reticulate plates, or spindle, presses against a sliding bracket to which a of two sheets of gauze, of a form similar, or somewhat weighted lever is connected. The pulleys are kept together similar, to the form of the mouth. Between these plates or within the tails of the sliding bracket. As the bracket is sheets he places flannel, or other textile fabric, or wool, pushed upwards (by the pirn or cop, as it is formed), the cotton, or other suitable fibre prepared with a solution of weighted lever assumes a perpendicular position, and Condy's disinfecting fluid, or other suitable disinfectant. when it has passed the vertical point it suddenly falls The two plates or sheets he, by preference, connects over, drawing with it the sliding bracket and pulleys, so together by a hinge joint, so as to enable them readily that the fast pulley is drawn from under the driving belt, to be opened out for the purpose of cleaning and renewal and the slack pulley is passed under the belt, thereby of the fabric or fibre placed between them.-Patent aban-causing the spindle to stop.-Patent completed. doned. 714 W. E. GEDGE. A mineral paper-hanging intended to preserve apartments from dampness. (A communication.) Dated March 3, 1868. This invention consists in the preparation and application of a paper hanging termed by the inventor "mineral paper," the object of which is to preserve apartments against damp without suppressing it, and by means of coats of paint applied on a paper of any kind and of any size. This painting must be composed only of materials obtained from lead, such as minium or red lead, ceruse or white lead, litharge, calcined ore, or lead ashes, which may be applied with any of the liquids used in painting. This paper bears a relief, forming ridges, this relief being composed of sand, or of any material which is not decomposed by damp. These reliefs in ridges permit the damp to circulate without being constrained to rise again, or to descend.-Patent completed. 721 J. A. HASWELL and G. BROWN. Improvements in signal apparatus to be used in railway passenger trains. Dated March 3, 1868. The patentee claims, first, the combination with the communicating cord of a railway passenger train of a detector which shall be exhibited and temporarily locked in its exhibited position by the act of pulling down the cord when calling the attention of the guard or engine driver, or both, thereby indicating the particular part of the train from which the signal has been given. Second, the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combination of signal apparatus for effecting intercommunication in railway trains, and, at the same time, indicating the particular part of the train whence the signal has been given, substantially as described.-Patent completed. 722 J. MANLY. Improvements in those kinds of nails which are used upon furniture, saddlery, and trunks, and for other useful and ornamental purposes. Dated March 3, 1868. The patentce claims the combination of a cast head 715 C. COCHRANE. Improvements in valves or dampers for with a wire, point, or shank in the manufacture of certain pipes, passages, or flues serving to conduct gases at high tempera-kinds of nails, affixed or put together by pressure, subtures. Dated March 3, 1868. This invention has for its object so to construct valves or dampers, more particularly applicable to pipes for conveying hot blast at very high temperatures, that they shall effectually withstand the great heat of the blast in contact therewith when closed, while when open the valves shall be removed from immediate contact with the blast. The essential feature of this invention consists in supplying all or part of the air for combustion of the oil by-Patent abandoned stantially as set forth and described.-Patent completed. 723 W. SPENCE. Improvements in machines for making nails. (A communication.) Dated March 3, 1868. This invention relates to the manufacture of nails from metal in a cold state, and consists in taking a bar drawn to the requisite section for the nails to be made therefrom, then removing from the same a series of small portions corresponding with nails of different dimensions, afterwards taking from another face of the bar another series of small portions, answering the purposes of brads; and, last, in forming a series of larger nails.-Patent completed. 724 H. Zox. Improvements in the manufacture of hats and caps, and other coverings for the head. Dated March 3, 1868. The inventor proposes to construct the hat, cap, or other covering of a woven material consisting of horsehair, or other suitable hair, and cotton, linen, silk, or other fibrous or textile material, which latter may be of any colour or series of colours desired, or which may consist of a printed warp. The fabric thus woven is to be applied in a double layer to form the body of the article required, but it is to be so arranged that the weft of hair in one fabric shall be applied at right angles, or thereabouts, to the second fabric containing the same hair weft, in order that a resistance to pressure or tendency to fracture the body may be afforded by the crossing of the elastic hair wefts. -Patent abandoned. 725 W. WHITTLE. Improvements in steam engines and steam boilers. Dated March 3, 1868. The patentee claims the combination with a steam as described and illustrated. Also the combination, sub of parallel lines may be ruled at the distances apart for which the scale is made, without any previous measurement or setting out.-Patent abandoned. 733 B. W. A. SLEIGH. Improvements in hydrostatic engines. Dated March 3, 1868. This invention relates to improvements on an invention for which letters patent were granted to the patentee on September 23, 1864 (No. 2335), and consists in an improved mode of applying the augmentation of hydrostatic pressure where by a rotary motion is obtained by means of which all manner of machinery may be driven, worked, and propelled.-Patent completed. 784 J. A. LEE. Improvements in machinery for cutting and reducing wood, adapted especially to prepare it for the preparaton of paper fibre therefrom. Dated March 3, 1868. For this purpose, on a massive bedplate, the patentee mounts an axle with a crank at one end, driven by a steam cylinder, on the same bedplate. On the axle is a large disc, which is flat on its side or face, and has one or more cutters upon it standing out from its face a distance equal to the thickness of the slice it is desired to cut from the The wood to be cut is placed in an inclined trunk wood. cylinder or steam cylinders of a receiver, the said cylinder or tube, open at the ends, and abutting at its lower exor cylinders and receiver, and parts connected therewith, tremity on the surface of the disc in the path of the cutter being arranged and operating substantially as described or cutters, which, as they come round, just clear the trunk The trunk or tube is packed full of pieces, the and illustrated. Also the arrangement or combination of or tube. a high and low pressure steam cylinder, and the combina-grain of the wood running by preference lengthways of the trunk or tube. At the lower end the wood rests tion with them of a receiver, the said parts being constructed and operating substantially as described and against the surface of the disc, and, when the machine is at work, it is driven forward by suitable apparatus at each illustrated. Also the combination of a steam and atmospheric cylinder, or atmospheric cylinders and parts con- revolution of the disc, a distance corresponding with the nected therewith, constructed and operating substantially thickness of the slice the cutter or cutters take off from the wood each time they come round. The slices removed by stantially in the manner described and illustrated, of the cutter pass through an opening or openings formed in surface and injection condensers, whereby a less quantity the disc opposite the cutter or cutters, or are otherwise of injection water is required, fresh water cooling the made to fall upon a pair of rollers or breakers, these rollers or breakers taking down the slices between or under them, injection water, substantially as described and illustrated. Also the adaptation to steam boilers of an inner casing or and breaking them up into morsels of the size required. lining, or inner casings or linings, for the purpose of The axles of the rollers may be parallel or otherwise adjusted obtaining a circulation of the water in the boiler, and for with the axle of the disc, the rollers being geared together, collecting the mud or deposit formed by the evaporation and one of the rollers is driven by a pitch chain gear of the water in the boiler, substantially as described and worked or in other similar manner from the axle of the illustrated.-Patent completed. disc. When more than one cutter is carried by the disc, each cutter does not slice the whole width of the wood in the trunk or tube, but the cutters divide the width between them.-Patent completed. 726 J. DEWAR. Improvements in preserving blood for use as food. Dated March 3, 1868. When the patentee wishes to secure preservation for a short period of time only, he either subjects the blood of newly slaughtered animals to careful desiccation by evaporation at a temperature between 80deg. and 140deg. Fah. (he prefers a temperature of about 135deg.), so as to expel the moisture while preserving and concentrating the nutritious qualities of the blood, or he first mixes such blood with meal, flour, seeds, husks of seeds, grain, or other farinaceous matter, or roots, either in their natural state or dried and chopped up, ground down, or pulverized. For the food of cattle, and such like herbivorous animals, he sometimes adds powdered oil cake, as directed. By this process, the blood, if carefully kept dry, will keep in a condition suitable for food for six weeks, certain chemicals being used, if required to keep for a longer period.-Patent completed. 727 G. ANDERSON. Improvements in apparatus for moulding or compressing substances for artificial fuel. Dated March 3, 1868. This invention is not described apart from the drawings. -Patent completed. 728 E. BURTON and J. LAWRENCE. Improvements in machinery for screening and sifting coals, cinders, and other matters. Dated March 3, 1868. The patentee claims sifting and screening coals, cinders, dust contractor's rubbish, sand, ballast, and other matters, by the vibratory motion of sieves or screens, arranged to sort or separate the component parts, assisted by a blast of air in the manner described, when such operation is effected in machinery combined and arranged substantially n the manner shown and described.-Patent completed. 729 H. KENNEDY. An improved machine for cutting files. Dated March 3, 1868. This invention relates to a machine wherein the file blank is supported below a vibrating cutter, which, by a succession of blows, forms the teeth from end to end of the said blank, either the cutter or the blank being caused to travel in the direction to cause the teeth to be cut regularly from end to end of the same. The nature of the said inuention consists, chiefly, in regulating, controlling, and varying the movements of either the cutter or the file blank, so that the teeth cut in the latter are not exactly parallel with each other; also in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the mechanism for supporting and adjusting the fille blanks in the novel formation of the cutter, and in the mode of and means for operating and adjusting the same.-Patent completed. 730 S. A. BELL and G. H. HIGGINS. Improvements in the manufacture of match boxes, and in apparatus to be used therein. Dated March 3, 1868. This invention is not described apart from the drawings. -Patent completed. 731 T. JOHNSON. Improvements in treating ores to obtain copper therefrom, and in evaporating brine. Dated March 3, 1868. The patentee claims the roasting of ores containing copper and mixed with salt in a furnace heated by the burning of gas therein, and also the conducting the said roasting process in a gas furnace, constructed substantially as described. He also claims the evaporating brine to produce common salt, by the burning of gas as described, and also the use in the said process of evaporating apparatus, constructed substantially as described.-Patent completed. 732 J. W. and C. R. HARRISON. Improvements in parallel rulers. Dated March 3, 1868. 735 I. W. NASAROW. Improvements in the manufacture of iron and steel. (A communication.) Dated March 3, 1868. inventor treats the ore with a solution of carbonate of soda In oreer to produce iron or steel direct from the ore, the in water, allowing the solution to stand for a considerable time in contact with the ore. The weight of the carbonate of soda employed may be about, say, one fortieth part of the weight of the ore. The ore thus prepared is placed in a furnace, or a reverberatory furnace supplied with a hot blast may be advantageously employed. The ore is melted down, and iron or steel is obtained according as the metal is allowed to remain in the furnace a longer or a shorter time. In this way a compact bloom is obtained which may be forged and rolled. Scrap iron also is, according to this invention treated with a solution of carbonate of soda, and melted down as above stated, carbon being in some cases added. Thus a fluid steel is obtained, which may be cast into any desired form, or the metal may be left longer in the furnace and formed into blooms which may be hammered and rolled.-Patent abandoned. 736 F. CADBY. Improvements in the construction of cruel and egg frames or stands. Dated March 4, 1868. This invention has for its object the combination of an ordinary cruet frame with an egg stand, so as to form one stand or frame to serve for each and both purposes. This may be effected by introducing a series of intermediate rests, holders, or rings arranged, between each of the usual cruets or bottles around the frame upon the same line of circle, with or in advance of them, these intersecting rings or holders being formed to receive the egg cups.-Patent abandoned. 787 S. JEFFRIES. Improvements in, and apparatus for securing, adjusting, and arranging cords, ropes, and chains employed for raising and lowering venetian blinds, curtains, windows, shutters, and other analogous purposes. March 4, 1868. Dated The patentee claims, first, the application and use of a self-revolving reel or pulley for gathering in the cords of venetian blinds to maintain them at any desired height, as described. He claims, also, the mode of gathering in the cords of venetian blinds by friction, as described. Second, he claims the mode of maintaining the laths or slats of venetian blinds, parallel and level, as described.-Patent completed. 738 T. SMITH, T. WOOD, and T. DON. Improved machinery and appliances for preparing, cleaning, screening, decorticating, and grinding wheat and other grain, and sepa rating, and collecting the several products thereof. March 4, 1868. one knob, and the other end having screw threads formed on the angles to screw into the other knob, which is by preference (but may or may not be) bushed with metal, In order to secure the knob when screwed on the spindle to the thickness of the door, he applies a cotter in which is a slot hole, one part fitting the square of the spindle, and the other part being round or sufficiently wide to allow into a dovetail slot formed across the face, or that part of of the spindle turning therein. This cotter is either fitted the knob towards the door, or it may be passed through a slot formed in the shank of the knob. The said cutter may be held in position by the rose or washer, which may be either screwed on the knob or on the door, or the said cotter may be made to spring, and thereby remain or keep in position, so as to hold the handle as adjusted to the door.-Patent completed, 741 J. LEWTHWAITE. Improvements in treating the material known as parkesine and other analogous compounds, and in applying them to various useful and ornamental pur poses. Dated March 4, 1868. The object of this invention is to apply parkesine to various useful and ornamental purposes to which it has not been hitherto applied, or to which it has been applied inefficiently, and the invention primarily consists in certain modes or methods of treating and manipulating such compound in order to apply it as aforesaid. The patentee takes the parkesine in a plastic or pasty state, spreads it upon the surface to which he wishes to apply it, then immediately subjects it to pressure. which must be suffclent to bring it in close contact with the surface. He continues to pross, for about two hours or longer, and, should it be required to have the material pliant or supple, he continues the pressure for several days. He finds it important that the evaporation of the spirit in the parkesine should be slow and gradual, especially when making imitation leather, in order to prevent brittleness or harshness; for this purpose a layer of cloth may be interposed between the layers or rolls of the fabric while they are being submitted to pressure. If the surface of parkesine thus obtained is required to be polished, he allows it to become sufficiently fixed or dried by exposure to the atmosphere for from, say, five days to a month or otherwise, and he then polishes it by rotating brushes or otherwise. The thickness of the coating of parkesine will, in all cases, be regulated by the purpose to which it is to be applied, and any number of coatings of parkesine may be applied one above another in order to obtain the required thickness.-Patent completed. 742 H. E. SMITH. Improvements in the hauling or winding March 4, 1868. gear of engines used for agricultural and other purposes. Dated One portion of this invention consists in mounting two drums, by preference horizontally, on separate axes, in a suitable framing carried by the engine. Each of the drums is formed with a series of deep grooves on its periphery, which grooves receive the rope as it passes round the drums in a coil from one to the other, the number of coils being determined by the friction required. By the employment of two drums in the manner described, the tractive power available for hauling is greatly increased, as both drums are driven by the engines, and act together on the rope, the drums being connected together by chain or other suitable gearing.Patent abandoned. 743 A. M. CLARK. Improvements in paving roads, streets, or ways. (A communication.) Dated March 4, 1868. This invention relates to an improved system of metallic paving far roads, streets, and ways. The paving is formed of blocks of cast iron of about 8in. square, having four or other number of perforations at their centre for allowing the rain water to run through. The surfaces of these blocks are further grooved at right angles, the said grooves communicating with deeper cross channels which are inclined so as to conduct the water to the holes above mentioned. The surface may further be The interior of these blocks is so steeled if desired. arranged that the ribs at the angles form ducts for the rainwater.-Patent completed. 744 W. K. STUART Improvements in arrangements and apparatus for dealing with and utilizing sewage. Dated March 4, 1868. The patentee separates the solid and other matters in the sewage in order to obtain these in a valuable and marketable condition, and he delivers the water in an un polluted and pure, or nearly pure, condition either into a river, or for any use for which it may be found suitable. This system comprises the employing of a single main intercepting sewer or channel to convey the contents of a group of city sewers to a suburban establishment, whereat the separating and utilizing processes are to be conducted. -Patent completed. 745 J. G. KINCAID. Improvements in twin-screw propelling apparatus. Dated March 4, 1868. This invention is not described apart from the drawings Dated-Patent completed. invention. Provisional protection has not been granted for this 739 A. COLE and J. CARTER. Improvements in, and applicable to, lamps for burning petroleum, hydrocarbon, and other oils. Dated March 4, 1868. This invention relates to lamps for use in railway and other carriages, and as lights for signals and lighthouses; also to lamps for use in ships, and in other situations exposed to draughts. The invention has for its object the regulation of the admission of fresh air, and of the exit of heated air, in such a manner as to admit a sufficient quantity of air to support combustion while preventing the action of draught on the flame at the bottom, and also to afford a sufficient outlet for the heated air while preventing draught from the top. For these purposes two or more plates are arranged, either horizontally, vertically, With parallel rules af at present constructed, if it be or diagonally, between the air inlet and the burner, in desired to draw parallel lines at any set distance, the one such a manner as to cause the fresh air on its way to the from the other, it is necessary to measure off the distances burner to take a serpentine course round the ends of the with compasses, or with some other instrument, before plates, and another set of plates are similarly arranged the ruler can be used. To avoid this necessity, the in-between the burner and the outlet, in order to cause the ventors graduate the connecting links of the parallel ruler. heated air to pass out of the lamp at the top in a similar For the sake of clearness and precision. they prefer that course.-Patent abandoned. from each mark or graduation on the link a line should be drawn across the link, which, when the ruler is accurately set to this mark or graduation, will be a continuation of the straight line of the inner edge of one of the parallel bars. Then it will be seen that, by passing this edge of the parallel bar from one graduation to another, a number 746 W. and T. MITCHELL. Certain improvements in the manufacture of felt carpeting, and in apparatus to be employed therein. Dated March 4. 1868. facture of seamless wide felt carpet, printed or otherwise, The patentees claim, first, the novel and peculiar manusuitable for covering the whole or part of the area of a room without seam, out of one piece, in contradistinction to making or producing such carpets in separate and together as hitherto. Second, they claim the novel arnarrow widths, and seaming or otherwise attaching them rangement, construction, and adaptation of a wide carding engine, to be employed for the purpose of delivering a fleece or sliver of wool equal to the whole width of carpet desired, as described, and, lastly, they claim the arrangement, construction, and adaptation and rising and falling compensating rollers (having an intermediate position between an ordinary carding engine or engines, and a batt table) that are employed as compensating rollers for the endless sliver cloth distended between a stationary doffing roller, and a traversing carriage roller, the arrangement of which enables the to and fro traverse of the carriage to deposit from the sliver cloth even layers of fleece or sliver fleece upon fleece on the cloth of a batt table, as described.-Patent completed. 747 G. DAVIES. Improvements in the manufacture of gas 740 E. CLIFTON. Improvements in adjustable door handles. for lighting and heating. (A communication.) Dated Dated March 4. 1868. March 4, 1868. This invention relates to the decarburation of gas, the dehydrogenation of ammonia, and the desulphuration of hydrosulphuric acid, from which it is evident that the process employed is precisely the reverse of those hereto This invention relates to door handles or knobs and spindles which are capable of adjustment to the thickness of the door. The patentee employs the ordinary square spindle, one end of which may be permanently fixed into fore known and in use for the production of lighting or carburetted hydrogen gases.-Patent abandoned. 748 C. SCHOLEFIELD. An improved method of hanging or suspending window sashes. Dated March 4, 1868. This invention consists of connecting the sashes by means of two cords (or other pliable material), hereafter called the suspender, being attached to a top corner or some other part of each sash. Each suspender is then passed over a pulley or pulleys, shewe or shewes affixed over each sash. By this arrangement one sash balances the other in all positions, so that, when either the higher or lower sash is pulled down or raised up, the other sash ascends or descends a corresponding distance.-Patent abandoned. 749 J. ASKEW. Improvements in the construction of a hook and eye for fastening together the ends of window blind cords and cords for hanging pictures. Dated March 4, 1868. The hooks and eyes are made of sheet metal or tubing with barrels attached, in which the ends of the cord are inserted. The ends of the cord are, first, sewn firmly together, and then one end is inserted into the barrel of the hook, and the other end into the barrel of the eye. Each end of the cord is then sewn through and through two holes provided for that purpose in each hook and each eye, so as to keep them firmly on the cords, and the ends of the cords, when in use, are joined together by the hook and eye.-Patent abandoned. 750 J. BRIGHAM and R. BICKERTON. Improvements in reaping and mowing machines or harvesting machines. Dated March 4, 1868. This invention is not described apart from the drawings. -Patent completed. PROVISIONAL PROTECTIONS. Dated May 4, 1868. 1457 W. Estor, analytical chemist, Hampstead, and M. Terrero, Belsize-park-gardens, Middlesex. Improvements in the means of and apparatus for preserving animal and vegetable substances. Dated May 9, 1868. 1517 G. F. Griffin, Great George-street, Westminster. A certain novel application to the corking of bottles, enabling the cork to be withdrawn without injury thereto. Dated July 9, 1868. 2173 W. Hadfield, manufacturer, Ardwick, Lancashire. Improvements in looms for weaving. Dated July 20, 1868. 2275 R. Smyth, Glasgow. Improvements in apparatus for propelling vessels. Dated July 31, 1863. 2713 J. Evans, manager, Wednesbury, Staffordshire. HAS BEEN PAID. 2342 J. Dodd 2350 T. and T. L. G. Bell PATENT ON WHICH THE STAMP DUTY OF £100 2721 A. M. Clark, Chancery-lane. An improved portable LIST or camp bedstead and travelling trunk combined. (A communication.) PATENTS APPLIED FOR WITH COMPLETE SPECI- No. For the week ending September 12, 1867. Pr. No. Pr. No. | Pr. No. Pr. No. | Pr. No. s. d. 8. d. 8. d. s. d. s. d. 8. d. 798 0 4 146 L 4 259 1 0 3680 4 3990 4 418 0 4 1295 0 4 1610 6 2760 6 3700 4 400 0 4 420 0 4 3601 9 6 1661 10 279 1 2 373 0 4 4010 4 421 0 4 Pr. 2706 H. A. Bonneville, Sackville-street, Piccadilly. A NOTICES OF INTENTION TO PROCEED WITH From the "London Gazette," September 15, 1868. 2413 H. Moritz and J. Reinach, manufacturers, Berlin, ing animal and vegetable substances. Prussia. A new file planing machine. 2677 W. E. Gedge, Wellington-street, Strand. improved machine for agglomerating coal or other combustible dust in any shapes, particularly into spheroidal and ellipsoidal forms, and permitting the simultaneous manufacture of balls or cakes of various sizes. (A communication.) 2679 E. Jackson and J. Ogden, Chadderton, Oldham, Lancashire. Certain improvements in mechanism or apparatus to be employed for preparing cotton and other fibrous substances. 2651 E. L. Paraire, architect and engineer, Morningtoncrescent, Regent's-park. An improvement in the mode of working steam engines. 2683 C. F. Varley, Beckenham, Kent. Improvements in electric telegraphs. 1487 F. T. Hall. Manufacture of railway tickets. (A communication.) 1496 H. A. Bonneville. Spring mattresses and seats. (A communication.) 1499 A. C. Henderson. Manufacture of plates for heliographic engraving. (A communication.) 1500 A. C. Henderson. Renovating files by an electrochemical process. (A communication.) 1504 J. H. Johnson. Sewing machines. (A communi- 1508 J. Bruce and R. Evans. Bolters used for dressing 1514 A. James. Machinery for polishing needles. 1529 J. H. W. Biggs. Apparatus for selecting warp 1530 R. Moore. Manufacture of crushed sugar. (A 1540 R. Leeke and J. Beevers. Apparatus for the pre- 1558 C. Farrow. Apparatus for cleansing bottles. 1580 W. E. Newton. Manufacture of felt hats. (A com- 1598 A. V. Newton. Liquid meters. (A communica 1871 A. M. Clark. Machinery for forging metals. (A communication.) 2096 A. M. Clark. Breech-loading firearms and cart- 2251 J. Duguid. Manufacture of paper. 2610 B. Walker and J. F. A. Pium. Machinery for 2620 H. Thompson. Apparatus for roughing horses. 2691 W. R. Lake, Southampton-building, Chancery-porous substances from in lia-rubber. 2653 W. E. Gedge, Wellington-street, Strand. An improved apparatus for warding off leaves and other matters likely to clog the working of turbines. (A communication.) 2695 L. F. A. P. Riviere, brandy merchant, Coguae, France. Improvements in cases for packing bottles containing wine or other liquid. The full tides of the patents in the above it can be 142 0 1993 6 2840 10 378 0 4 4030 4 425 0 4 4 428 0 4 4 4050 6432 0 4 4 4060 4 434 0 4 4 409 0 4 4120 4 413 0 4 440 0 4 441 0 4 4 414 0 82550 63650 4 397 0 4 415 0 435 0 4 437 0 4 NOTE. Specifications will be forwarded by post from the Great Seal Patent Office (publishing department), on receipt of the amount of price and postage. Sums exceeding 5s. must be remitted by Post Office Order, made payable at the Post Office, High Holborn, to Mr. Bennett Woodcroft, Great Seal Patent Office, 25, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane. TANNED THE LEATHER COMPANY, ARMIT WORKS, TANNERS, CURRIERS, and MANUFACTURERS OF Tanned Leather Driving Straps PRIME STRAP AND SOLE BUTTS. A 44 JOISTS or GIRDER BEAMS, Of a variety of sizes, from 3in. to 20in. deep, PLATES, ANGLES, BULBS, TEES, AND ALL KINDS OF ROLLED IRON. 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