the mechanism, and great regularity of action is thus obtained.-Patent abandoned.

994 E. GRAY, Sheffield. Manufacture of metal intended to be made into horse shoes, &c. Dated March 24, 1868. This invention consists in rolling bars of iron or of steel alone, or of iron faced with steel, with a number of teeth or serrations made longitudinally, transversely, or otherwise, on one or more of the surfaces of such bars of whatever section they may be. the object being to obtain a bar suitable for the manufacture therefrom of horse shoes or other articles in which a roughened or dentated surface is advantageous. Horse shoes, for example, made from such bars will not only be more durable, but will present a firmer foothold, and will not require sharpening or roughing in frosty weather, as the teeth or sharp points rolled in the original bar will prevent all tendency to slipping.Patent completed. 995 E. GRAY, Sheffield. Increasing the durability of rails, points, and crossings for railwags. Dated March 21, 1868. This invention relates to a peculiar and economical mode or method of strengthening or rendering more durable the rails, points, and crossings of railways, and consists essentially in applying to or combining with the iron before it is completely shaped or manufactured into the aforesaid articles an outer skin or covering of steel, so as to cover those parts which are subjected to the greatest wear and tear. For this purpose the steel is applied to or combined with the iron by casting it on to the iron by placing the heated iron in a mould or moulds of any desired shape and number of pieces, and pouring the melted steel over those parts of the wrought iron to which it is to be applied.Patent completed.

escape of effluvia arising from the drain, while a free
passage for the water is afforded behind the said lower
diaphragm. A grating is provided, as usual, at the top of
the trap, and it may be removed for the purpose of cleans-
ing the trap at any time without any escape of effluvia
taking place, the diaphragms being permanently fixed
therein.-Patent completed.

BRIDGE, Llangarron, Hereford. Treatment of mixed fabrics,
Dated March 25, 1868.

A mixture of sulphuric acid and water is made of the density of from 8deg. to 15deg. Twaddell, to which is added from fifteen to twenty per cent, by weight of chloride of sodium in the form of rock or common salt. A small quantity of nitric acid (say) one drachm to each gallon of the mixture is combined therewith if necessary. The rags or other materials are boiled in the mixture thus formed; care is taken that they are completely immersed therein -Patent completed.

1011 J. WARBURTON, jun., Sandal, York. Steam engines. Dated March 25, 1868.

The patentee claims the construction and employment, in connection with steam engines, of circular or annular cylinders, and pistons capable of revolving therein.Patent completed.

1003 A. V. NEWTON, Chancery-lane. Pocket knives.
(A communication.) Dated March 24, 1868.
This invention relates more particularly to improve-
ments in the handles or hafts of pocket knives, the object
being to simplify the fitting of the springs. In making
knives with blades at both ends, according to this inven-
tion the handle may be formed in one piece. The back
will extend the whole length of the handle, and the ends
will be left open. An internal projection or shoulder will
be formed at both extremities of the back, and likewise
one in the middle of its length. This middle projection is 1012 J. HAYHURST, Bury, Lancashire. Drying cylinders
for the purpose of fitting into a corresponding recess employed in sizeing and other machines. Dated March 25, 1868.
formed in the spring of the knife, which spring is inserted Instead of heating the periphery of the cylinder by the
loosely in the handle, and has the projection for its bear- direct action of steam in the interior, the inventor places
ing point. It is made tapering towards both ends, and is close to the inner periphery a quantity of tubing, having
prevented by the recess from shifting in its place. The
one or more ends in connection with the steam supply
projections at the ends of the back of the handle serve as
pipe, and the other end or ends communicating with the
abutments for the shoulders of the blades when open.eduction or discharge pipe. The tubing may revolve with
Patent abandoned.
the cylinder, or be stationary, the cylinder revolving
nearly in contact with the tubes. The said tubes pass
alternately in reverse directions in a curvilinear form, but
they may be arranged in any desired manner, the object
being to obtain the largest possible extent of heating sur-
face, and, by the use of the tubes, the drying cylinder is
heated with a comparatively small quantity of steam, and
the collapse of the cylinder entirely prevented.-Patent
abandoned.

1004 R. SMITH, jun., Belper, Derby. Machinery for scour
ing and hulling grain and seeds. Dated March 24, 1868.
This invention, according to one arrangement, comprises
the construction in the interior of a wire gauze or other
openwork cylinder or case being provided with brushes
made of wire (by preference), the said brushes being set
upon radial or other arms or frames, and the ends of such
brushes pressing the grain or material to be operated upon
against the interior of the said wire gauze or open work,
cylinder, or case.-Patent completed.

996 R.A. HARDCASTLE, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Manufacture of iron and steel. Dated March 24, 1868. This invention relates partly to the manufacture of iron and steel by blowing air or steam through or into the molten metal contained in a suitable vessel, converter, or 1005 M. P. W. BOULTON, Tew Park, Oxfordshire, and J. furnace, and consists in the employment of one or more IMRAY, Westminster Bridge-road, Surrey. Apparatus for injectors constructed somewhat after the same principle effecting aerial locomotion. Dated March 24, 1868. as the instrument known as Giffard's injector. The This invention relates to the propulsion and support of said injector or injectors is or are in connection with a bodies moving through the air, and to apparatus for vessel or vessels containing powdered or granular sub-generating and applying motive power. For this purpose stances or agents which, when blown into the molten some parts of the improvements are applicable to propulmetal through the injector and blast pipe, will tend to sion effected by the movement of wings, while other parts improve the quality of the iron or steel.-Patent aban- are applicable generally for aerial propulsion. The chief doned. objects contemplated in the case where wings are used 997 J. A. FARRAR and B. R. HUNTLEY, Hartlepool. are to actuate them directly from pistons without the Improvements in ships' hatches, and in ventilating the holds and intervention of rotating parts to apply the engine power to cabins of ships. Dated March 24, 1868. them only in their down stroke, their up stroke being Here the hatches are made of iron or steel or other effected by gravity acting in conjunction with resistance metal, and are to be fastened to the combings by means of of air to apply the moving force in the form of tension, so screw bolts screwed through flanges of angle iron riveted as to secure lightness of construction, whether the proon to the combings. The hatches will be made water-pulsion be effected by wings or otherwise to obtain the tight by having india-rubber, gutta-percha, tarred, felt, motive power from the combustion of aeriform mixtures or leather linings or packings at every joint, so that by means of apparatus specially arranged for vaporizing when the bolts are screwed on, the hatches are perfectly the inflammable liquid, and for cooling the parts heated water-tight. On the top of one or more of the hatches it by the combustion. The details of the invention are too is proposed to have a man-hole, of any height or width, voluminous to admit of our quoting them here.-Patent made of iron or steel, or other metal, in a tubular or other completed. shape, with four or more tubes or ventilators attached thereto; or the man-hole may be made a ventilator by enclosing therein a smaller tube with openings, which openings can be closed at any time in case of bad weather at sea. Patent abandoned.

998 F. W. CROHN, Cullum-street, Fenchurch-street. Apparatus for obtaining motive power from a fall of water. Dated March 24, 1868.

According to this invention (which relates to the Janvin or parallel flow turbine) the inventor carries the weight of the shaft and wheel by means of a thrust bearing at a distance above the wheel, this bearing being such as is used with screw propeller shafts, that is to say, a number of annular grooves are formed in the bearing, and corresponding collars or flanges on the shaft fit into them, and on these collars or flanges the weight of the shaft and wheel hangs. In order to steady the wheel, another bearing is employed immediately above it, and this bearing he makes with lining strips of hard wood, as is also practised in constructing the stem bearings of screw propeller shafts. This bearing he casts with, or fixes to, the casting with which the directing blades are formed, and this casting fits into a ring or socket in such manner that the wheel, the directing blades, and lower bearing, may all be lifted together by tackle applied to the upper end of the shaft, so as to admit of the turbine being readily examined.

--Patent abandoned.

1000 R. SMITH, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Manchester. Machinery for winding cotton, silk, and other yarns or threads, on to spools, cards, or balls, &c. Dated March 24, 1868. These improvements apply to the self-acting machines for winding a number of spools, cards, or balls of cotton, silk, or other yarns or threads, and also to the single heads when only one spool, card, or ball is wound. They have for their object the obtaining of a better and more equable drag or tension on the thread during the process of winding than has hitherto been obtained, and so that it can be be wound with little pressure of the guide (when guides are used), and the thread is laid evenly side by side on the spools without being flattened. The details of the invention are voluminous.-Patent completed.

1001 E. HARRIS, Manchester. Paper bags. Dated March 24, 1868. This invention has reference to the manufacture of paper bags. The invention is not sufficiently important to necessitate our giving a full description of it here.Patent abandoned.

Dated March 24, 1868.

1002 J. ANTILL, Wandsworth, Surrey. Stench traps. The patentee places two diaphrams, one above the other, in the interior of the trap on opposite sides. These diaphragms may be of curved or other form, the upper one inclining downwards to about mid depth of the trap, sufficient space being left between the side of the latter and the diaphram for the water to pass. The lower diaphragm is fixed near the bottom of the trap, and rises up behind the upper diaphram, so as to form a kind of chamber in which sufficient water will always remain to prevent the

1006 R. LITTLE, Greenock, Renfrew. Reducing the temperature of air, &c. (A communication.) Dated March 25, 1868.

This invention consists, first, in cooling air by sub-
mitting it in a compressed state to cold or cooled water,
in apparatus constructed like any suitable kind of surface
condenser, such as is in use with steam engines. Second,
in employing the cooled compressed air to maintain as low
an atmospheric temperature as may be required in a room,
ship's hold, or other closed vessel or receiver, by admitting
it and letting it expand therein; and, third, in freezing,
and thereby preserving, animal and vegetable substances,
by placing them in such room, ship's hold, or other closed
vessel or receiver, cooled to the requisite low temperature
by the expansion therein of cooled compressed air.-
Patent abandoned.

1007 A. ELLIOTT, Failsworth, Manchester, and J. BARKER,
Oldham.
March 25, 1868.
Apparatus for lubricating axles, &c. Dated

1013 J. BUCK, Upper Tooting, Surrey. Apparatus for working, and locking, or controlling railway points or signals. Dated March 25, 1868.

The patentee claims, first, the counteracting or compensating for the expansion and contraction of the long wire connections used for working railway signals by the employment of an additional or "expansion" wire in conjunction with the working wire and with a compensating lever, substantially as specified. Second, the application and use to and in the locking and unlocking of the levers employed for actuating signals or points on railways of wings or brackets carried by rocking shafts situate parallel to the direction of motion of the levers, such wings or brackets being of sufficient length to lock both the front of a lever in its normal position and the back of a lever when pulled over, substantially in the manner specified. Third, the application and use to and in the locking and unlocking of the levers employed for actuating signals or points on railways of wings or brackets directly by the levers, and carried on rocking shafts placed parallel to the direction of motion of the said levers, such wings or brackets being of sufficient length to lock both the front of a lever in its normal position, and the back of a lever when pulled over, or of such a length that the wing, bracket, or lock cannot be moved so long as the lever is out of its normal position, or of such a length that the said lock cannot be moved until the lever has first been pulled over, substantially as described.-Patent completed. 1014 T. LANE, Birmingham. Looms. Dated March 25, 1868.

The patentee claims, first, the construction and arrangement of parts for giving motion to the piston and cylinder in opposite directions, for the purpose of expelling rapidly the air from the said cylinder into the shuttle box, and thereby propelling the shuttle. Second, the arrangement orcombination of parts for relieving the pressure of the swell against the shuttle during the pick of the shuttle. Third, the arrangement or combination of parts for bringing the shuttle gradually to rest in its shuttle box and for preventing its rebound.-Patent completed.

1015 C. E. BROOMAN, Fleet-street. Machinery for the manufacture of paper tubes, specially intended for use in spinning machinery. (A communication.) Dated March 25, 1868. This invention is not described apart from the drawings.

March 25, 1868.
1016 S. FISHER, Strand. Ornamentation of tiles. Dated

This invention consists in applying the oil or other
lubricating material to the under surface of the axle or-Patent completed.
other shaft to be lubricated; the oil is contained in a
vessel formed in the hanger or pedestal, and upon it floats
a roller of cork or other substance, the upper surface of
which is held in contact with the shaft to be lubricated
by the buoyancy of the cork float which is supported by
the oil or other lubricating material. As the axle revolves
the cork roller rotates, and takes up a portion of oil,
which it deposits on the axle, the oil being distributed
along the bearing by making a recess in the edge of the
step. The floating roller is guided in slots made in a frame
which fits in a recess in the hanger or pedestal.-Patent
eompleted.

1008 H. A. BONNEVILLE, Sackville-street, Piccadilly.
Apparatus for exhibiting advertisements, &c. (A communi-
cation.) Dated March 25, 1868.

The advertising apparatus consists in a sort of tower of any convenient form or height, composed of sashes or frames, and furnished with panes of glass, on which are printed, painted, or otherwise figured, the bills or advertisements. This tower may be lighted up after dark, and rotated by any suitable means on an axis fixed in a basement, whereon the automatically distributing apparatus is placed.-Patent abandoned.

1009 A. M GLASHAN, Coal-yard, Drury-lane, and J. HENsubstances employed in the manufacture of fermented liquors. DRY, Arlington-street, New North-road, London. Mashing

Dated March 25, 1868.

This invention relates to the production of designs, figures, patterns, letters, or other ornamentation, on unglazed tiles, and also to the application of the same for the purposes of mural and panel decoration, and otherwise, the peculiar feature of the invention consisting in the retention of the dull unglazed or partially glazed surface of the tile to form a groundwork for the pattern or design.-Patent completed.

1017 J. PLANT, Sheffield. Dram flasks. Dated March 25, 1868.

neck of the flask, and instead of making the screwed Here the inventor slightly increases the length of the collar with a rim fitting on the top he fits it entirely on the exterior of the said neck, which is made to project above the screwed collar, and over which the screw cap fits. In this manner the liquid or spirit contained in the flask will be kept pure and entirely preserved from contact with the metal cap at all times.-Patent abandoned.

1018 A. V. NEWTON, Chancery-lane. Spinning machinery. (A communication.) Dated March 25, 1868. This invention relates to ring travellers, and consists in the use of a transverse bar so combined with the ring and spindle of the ring frame as to rotate freely within the ring, and in contact with the spindle, or the yarn thereon, whereby the yarn is caused to pass to the spindle at an uniform angle, and is, consequently, kept at an uniform tension, thus effectually securing the desired result. The invention further consists in providing lateral openings at the external portion of the ring, through which lint, dirt, the ends of the transverse bar are placed. The invention and the like may escape from the annular guide in which further consists in an internal rim or flange so arranged upon the ring, and with reference to the transverse bar, as in the operation of mending a break in the yarn. The into retain the same in proper position, both when in use and ends of the tranverse bar are held in place at the same vention further consists in a novel means whereby the time that the free movement of the bar around the spindle is provided for.-Patent completed.

The patentees make use of a cylindrical casing placed horizontally, such casing being provided at one end with an inlet for the material to be mashed, and having at its opposite end an exit passage for the substances treated. The upper part of this casing is made in the form of a hollow lid, which is hinged to the remaining or under portion of the same, the outer side of the lid being provided with an opening for the admission of water or liquor, and the cylindrical casing they place a perforated hollow its interior or concave side perforated with holes. Within of the casing, and which receives motion by hand or othershaft, supported in bearings formed in the respective ends wise through suitable riggers or pulleys attached to its inlet for the substances to be mashed, is arranged a helical outer end. Around this shaft at the end nearest to the blade or screw, the remaining part or portion of the shaft 1019 W. RICHARDSON, Oldham. Machines for cleaning or being provided with a number of hollow twisted blade-burring wool. Dated March 25, 1868. like arms having slots formed therein.-Patent completed. This invention refers to those machines for burring or cleaning wool in which there is what is commonly called 1010 A, B. WOLLASTON, Chislehurst, Kent, and F. STAN- a fine comb cylinder, that is, a cylinder provided with

combs or teeth which detain the material while it is deprived of burrs, and is otherwise cleaned by brushes, combs, rollers, or other such mechanism, and consists in causing the material to be drawn to the said cylinder by pressure of air. For this purpose the patentee places a fan or equivalent apparatus in connection with the interior of the cylinder, by which means air is exhausted therefrom, and the wool is drawn on to the combs until it has been cleaned and brushed off in the usual manner.Patent completed.

1020 T. WHITEHOUSE, Wednesbury, Stafford. Blast furnaces. Dated March 25, 1868.

This invention has for its object the better regulation of the force of the blast through the tuyeres of blast furnaces, and it is effected as follows:-Instead of employing one governing valve for any number of tuyeres, the inventor employs an independent valve or equivalent check to each tuyere, by which arrangement he is enabled to apply a stronger or weaker blast to any one or more of the tuyeres independently of the remainder, and thus to regulate the working of the furnace by applying stronger or weaker blast precisely through whichever tuyere or tuyeres it may be requisite.-Patent abandoned.

1021 T. SAGAR, T. RICHMOND, and C. CATLOW, Burnley. Looms. Dated March 25, 1868. This invention relates, first, to improved apparatus for "letting off” motion, for which letters patent were granted to T. Sagar and T. Richmond, A.D. 1866 (No. 1775), and consists in the employment of an arm placed on the vibrator. On the end of the said arm is a stud, on which works a short lever or catch, on which are two detents which act on the teeth of the ratchet wheel. The

effected substantially in the manner hereinbefore de-
scribed. Second, the making of one of the pair of elements
of a statically charged or induced cable or combination of
elements of opposite electrical condition in the form of a
metal tube or trough to protect and enclose the wire or
wires constituting the opposite element of such combina-
tion.-Patent completed

1027 E. J. J. DIXON, Bangor, North Wales. Machinery
for reducing, smoothing, facing, or otherwise working and
manufacturing slate, &c. Dated March 26, 1868.
This invention consists in a novel mode of arranging
and fixing tools, and of presenting the slate or other
material to be operated upon to their cutting edges in
such a manner and position that the two principal sur-
faces of the material may be reduced, planed, smoothed,
faced, or otherwise worked at one and the same time,
and rendered of a desired thickness by the same opera-
tion.-Patent completed.

1028 J. T. KING, Liverpool. Apparatus for dressing mill-
stones. Dated March 26, 1868.
This invention consists essentially in the employment
of a tool or drill tipped or fitted with a central point of
bort or other hard stone or substance, to which the
patentee gives a rapid rotary motion on its own axis, and
at the same time a to-and-fro movement over the stone to
be dressed, so that without the cutting point leaving the
millstone, grooves of any desired depth and width can be
formed on the face thereof.-Patent completed.

1029 W. ORAM, Salford. Hydraulic presses. Dated
March 26, 1868.

first part of this invention the inventor employs separate
steam and exhaust valves, and in order that the steam
valves may be caused to close at varying points of the
stroke of the engine, by means of the governor he employs
a moving cylinder with a piston in it, the piston being
attached to the steam valve or valves by meams of a rod
or otherwise. The said cylinder, which may be driven by
filled with a suitable liquid, and is provided with an open-
means of an eccentric, or any other convenient device, is
ing leading from one end to the other, the said opening
being fitted with a plug, plugs, valve or valves.
said cylinder is moved by means of the engine to which
it is attached, the valves or plugs are caused to open the

As the

said communication between the two ends of the said

cylinder, and thus allow the oil or other fluid to flow from one side of the piston to the other, thus releasing the steam valve or valves, which may be made to close by means of steam. or a spring, or in any other convenient way. The said valves or plugs are made to open by means of suitable connections coming in contact with a triangle or wedge, which is moved by means of the governor, and as the piston of the wedge or triangle is altered, so the cut off takes place sooner or later. The said cylinder may be fixed, and the triangle which derives one motion from the governor may be made to oscillate in a direction at right angles to that motion, and thus actuate the said plugs or valve. The mode of making the steam valves steamclosing is clearly illustrated in the drawings. In carrying out the second part of this invention he admits steam to one side of the piston to produce the stroke in one direction, whilst the other side of the said piston is open to the the water piston, connected to the one above named, atmosphere or to the exhaust pipe. Another piston, called constantly, but that pressure is transmitted through water, the portion of the cylinder containing the water towards or into the boiler, and during the return stroke water level. During the steam stroke of the engine the piston being in communication with the boiler below the water contained in front of the water piston is driven back the water returns and steam is exhausted. The piston is

This invention relates, first, to improvements in bydraulic presses described in the first part of the specification when the stud is open causes the vibrator and arm thereon dated May 22, 1854 (No. 1140), wherein two rams are emto bring the front or first detent into contact with the teeth on the ratchet wheel, and thus prevent the further ployed, an inner stationary ram and an outer one conremoved, the arm carrying the lever is depressed (by inner ram which is not stationary, but lifted by hydraulic letting off of yarn when the shed closes, the tension being tained in one cylinder, and this part of the present improvements consists in the employment and use of an means of a spring or cam), and the first detent is removed clear of the teeth of the ratchet wheel at the instant the pressure within the outer ram; the pressure of water is second detent enters the ratchet wheel, thus letting off the first admitted to the top of the outer ram, and the table controlled by means of a plug or stopper, which can be warp. The lever or catch being hinged at one end thereof is lifted to a required height, which being attained, a spring made to contract the opening through which the water (by means of the stud) is readily raised, and both detents Valve or tap is acted upon by the action of the ram, which pressure, by another inlet beneath the two rams, whereby clear of the teeth of the ratchet wheel when "winding up," increased pressure and extra length of lift is obtained; and or from any cause such may be desirable. Second, a when the full pressure and height of the table is obtained, further improvement in this invention relates to the manufacture of the "tumbler balls" and "nose bits" of the spring and allows the water to return, and its passage a handle is moved by self-acting means which releases the picking motion, and consists in casting such parts in to act upon a valve and weighted lever which disconnects iron moulds, so as to produce chilled iron, the parts above the clutch or driving connection and stops the hydraulic mentioned being subject to great wear and tear. Third, in dispersing with the tension roller, which is effected by ment and use of weighted levers which are to be applied pumps. Second, the improvements consist in the employmeans of a lever working on a stud; one end of the lever to the valves of hydraulic pumps that such valves may be is provided with an eye or lock, through which a link from the shaft of the cloth beam passes. On the other weighted so as to open and admit of the passage of water from the pipes supplying the cylinder, or from the return end of the lever is a spring or weight.-Patent aban- pipes, at any required and arranged pressure. Third, the invention relates to an improved fastening for the boxes, termed baling boxes, employed in connection with hydraulic presses.-Patent completed.

action is as follows:-The tension or strain on the warp of letters patent previously granted to the present patentee. is submitted to the pressure of the steam in the boiler

doned.

1022 J. ANDERSON, Ramsbottom, Lancashire. Machinery employed for carding wool, cotton, &c. Dated March 25, 1868. This invention has for its object means of and apparatus for stripping the adhering fibre from the cylinder of carding engines, without the necessity of removing any of the rollers, or recourse to hand stripping, which the patentee effects by the use of what he terms a "stripping roller" and comb, the said stripping roller being supported on bearings at each side of the engine, and such bearings readily admit of the stripping roller being raised or lowered. When the stripping roller is in its higher bearings it acts as an ordinary clearing roller. When the cylinder is to be cleared, the stripping roller is lowered, and the cards thereon enter or mingle with those on the cylinder, rotary motion being imparted to the stripping roller by means of handles placed on the roller shaft; the said roller having removed or stripped the fibres from the cylinder, such fibre is removed from the stripping roller by means of a comb placed over the said roller, the teeth of which enter or mingle with the cards on the said roller.-Patent completed.

1023 J. JAMESON, Gateshead, Durham. Preparation of safety paper. Dated March 25, 1868.

enters to and leaves the water piston. In carrying out the third part of this invention he makes the piston of direct-acting engines actuate the valves which give admission and emission to the steam, in the manner shown in the drawings.-Patent abandoned.

1034 W. CLARK, jun., Dunfermline, Fifeshire, and J. CLARK, Paddington, London. Locomotive engines. Dated March 26, 1868.

The patentees claim the form and mode described, of constructing locomotive engines for working heavy traffic on steep inclines. First, by the aid of additional wheels of reduced diameter running upon additional rails of wood, metal, or other material raised above the ordinary rails. Second, by the aid of a clutch or clutches working along a central or the bearing rails, as described, together with such modifications or variations in the form and arrangements of the details as may be found necessary or advis able in practice. Third, the special form and arrangement of the firebox and tubes in steam boilers. Fourth, the construction of bearing springs by the substitution of angular or corrugated plates for those of the ordinary flat gauge-glasses, as described.-Patent completed. section; and, lastly, the addition of the indicating float in

1035 M. HAVENHAND and J. ALLEN, Dronfield, Derby

shire. Pistons. Dated March 26, 1868.

1036 J. COCKS, Regent-street, London. Trowsers. Dated March 26, 1868.

This invention relates to trowsers when worn with borders, and consists in cutting out the material and making up the trowsers in the ordinary way, as without borders, and sewing on the border independently, and in any required position.-Patent abandoned.

and vegetable substances. Dated March 26, 1868. 1030 M. B. ORR, Glasgow. Drying and preserving animal This invention consists in applying steam-heated plates in combination with currents of air, which may or may substances, which substances, in a sub-divided or ground not be heated to the drying of animal and vegetable state, if hot naturally in small or thin pieces, are placed on or in direct contact with such steam-heated plates. 1031 W. H. S. AUBIN, Wolverhampton. Cocks and taps The patentee claims, first, the employment of angle for drawing of liquids, &c. Dated March 26, 1868. On the pipe of the cock or tap, or that part which enters pieces, in combination with half rings or portions of rings, the cask or vessel, the inventor makes a screw thread, and in such manner that the angle pieces are moved outwards into the hole in the cask or vessel into which the pipe of the in proportion to the wear of the half rings or portions of cock or tap is to be inserted he fixes a socket having in its rings. Second, the employment of a central ring, or of a interior a concave screw thread into which the before-diamond piece, to form the bearings for the springs which mentioned screw thread on the pipe of the cock or tap act against the backs of the angle pieces. Third, the takes. The socket has a flange on its front end which combination or combinations of parts of pistons, substanbears against the outside of the cask or vessel, and through tially as described and illustrated in the drawings.-Patent which screws may be passed to attach the said socket to completed. the cask or vessel, or the said socket may be attached by means of a fly nut inside the cask screwing on the socket. Inside the socket is a hollow plug, open at its front end, closed at its back end, and perforated with holes on its cylindrical sides. This plug has a screw thread which takes in the concave screw thread in the socket. The front end of the hollow plug may be square or any other shape, but, if cylindrical, it has a projection on its edge which engages with a corresponding notch or depression on the screwed end of the pipe of the cock or tap, and when the pipe is introduced into the socket, and turned, it not only itself advances in the socket, but, communicating its rotary motion to the hollow plug, causes the plug to advance before it. Before the pipe of the cock or tap is introduced into the socket, the hollow plug is within the socket, and the perforations in its sides are, consequently, closed by the said socket, and no liquid or gas can escape through the said socket from the cask, vessel, or pipe. When, however, the cock or tap is screwed into the The patentees claim the application of a system of 1024 LIEUTENANT H. P. G. MEADE, R.N., Belgrave-socket, the hollow plug advancing before it, and the per- perforated cylinders to the steam chest of a boiler for forations in its sides being no longer covered by the socket.separating the water and other extraneous matters from square. Firearms, &c. Dated March 25, 1868. This invention has for its object improvements in firethe liquid or gas can pass through the said perforations to the the steam before it enters the steam pipe leading to the arms, and in cartridges, projectiles, and torpedoes, and tap. On withdrawing the tap, the hollow plug is brought engine, as described with reference to the drawings. relates to new methods of applying the force of gun- into the hollow socket, and its perforations closed. The Second, the mode described and represented in the powder, or other explosive substance, to the throwing of tap may be thus introduced into and withdrawn from the drawings, of constructing the grease cups of steam and shot or shell, by which methods lesser, lighter, and more cask, vessel, or pipe without any loss of liquid or gas, and, other motive power engines for the purposes stated.in the latter case, casks will, by this means, when emptied, Patent completed. easily constructed guns than those in use at present can be made to throw projectiles of extraordinary weight, be kept sweet.-Patent abandoned. penetrating power, and capacity for bursting charges. The great length of the specification precludes our quoting it in sufficient detail for an intelligible abstract.-Patent abandoned.

Here the patentee prints on the paper a design or designs of such character as that by the use of chemical inks the design shall either be changed in colour or obliterated, or, being invisible, or nearly so, shall be rendered visible at the parts written upon; or he prepares a paper answering to more than one of these tests, selecting the chemicals and so supplying the designs as to make alterations of the writings or imitation of the chemical action very difficult, if not impossible. As an instance of change of colour, the design may be printed with a coloured persalt of iron, and the writing effected with a ferrocyanide. As an instance of obliteration, the design may be printed with a Prussian blue, and the writing made with an alkali. As an instance of development of invisible or nearly invisible design, the printing may be done with a ferrocyanide and the writing with a persalt of iron.-Patent completed.

ores.

Treatment of

1032 T. BETTNEY, Manchester. Paper-cutting machines, &c. Dated March 26, 1868.

The object here is to arrange the driving gear so that the power applied to actuate the machine may be almost uniform throughout the stroke of the cutter, and to insure the smoother action of all the working parts, and render the machine more effective.-Patent completed.

1025 A. P. PRICE, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
Dated March 25, 1868.
The patentee claims the combination with calcining
furnaces, or
with what are known as Gerstenbofer
furnaces, or modifications thereof, of what are known as
Siemens' regenerative gas furnaces, or modifications
thereof, substantially as and for the purpose described.—which the admission and emission valves of steam engines
Patent completed.

1026 W. P. PIGGOTT, Argyll-street, London. Transmit ting electric telegraph messages, &c. Dated March 25, 1868. The patentee claims, first, the combination with an electrically statically charged or induced cable or wire of any number of separate batteries or ganglions, or any number of parts or plates of a single battery or ganglion, for the purpose of creating a greater or less disturbance of the electrical equilibrium, or the induced electricity, in such cable or wire, whereby the transmission of signals is

1033 H. DAVEY, Victoria Chambers, Westminster. Steam engines. Dated March 26, 1868.

This invention consists, first, in an improved means by are actuated, so that the governor is made to vary the point in the stroke of the engine at which the supply steam is cut off with the varying resistance or work which the engine has to overcome, or, as it is termed, variable expansion produced by means of the governor. Second, in an improved means by which the piston of direct-acting steam engines is controlled, so that the engine works smoothly, and is peculiarly applicable to steam pumps or pumping engines; and, third, in means by which the steam valves of such engines are actuated. In carrying out the

1037 W. MANWARING. Banbury. Reaping and mowing machines. Dated March 26, 1868.

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

1038 W. D. CLIFF, Wortley, Yorkshire. Kilns. Dated
March 26, 1868.
This invention is not described apart from the drawings.
Patent completed.

1039 W. S. PAGE and R. EAST, Nine Elms, Surrey. Steam boilers, &c. Dated March 26, 1868.

1040 B. BROWNE, King William-street, City. Machinery for the manufacture of collars, cuffs, &c. (A communication.) Dated March 26, 1868.

This invention consists of improved mechanical arrangements or appliances to be employed for the above-mentioned purposes, and the principal features of novelty consist, first, in the use of intersecting knives for dividing or cutting the material. Second, in the feed motion for advancing the material through the machine. Third, in the general combination of the entire mechanism for producing the articles in a finished state at one operation. -Patent completed. 1041 S. PERRY, Red Lion-square, and F. BRAMPTON, Birmingham. Letter clips, bill files, &c. Dated March 26,

1868.

This invention consists, first, in improvements on the American wooden letter clip. For this purpose, instead of formning the hinge of wire, as has heretofore been the case, the patentees employ hinges or connections formed of plates of metal fixed rigidly to one-half of the clip, whilst the other half of the clip is connected to each plate by a pin, and in some cases they employ two or inore

springs to force the jaws together. By these means the
different parts of the clips are prevented from twisting
upon each other, and facility is afforded for making clips
of any suitable width. The invention relates, secondly,
to improvements upon screw letter clips or suspenders.
For this purpose they fix the screw into a disc or plate, as
heretofore, but in addition to employing a nut they employ
a loose washer, disc, or plate between the screw nut and
the articles to be held, such loose disc, plate, or washer
being connected to the other disc or plate by a link, or
other suitable means, and in some cases they connect a
ring or hook to the clip to facilitate its suspension on a
nail or otherwise. The invention consists, third, in the
application of an adjustable hinge to letter clips, bill files,
and other similar clips or suspenders, the two jaws of the
clip file or suspender being forced together by a screw and
nut. By these means the jaws of the clip may, within
certain limits, be maintained at the most suitable angle
for holding whatever may be the quantity of letters, bills, or
other articles held thereby. The invention consists, fourth,
in forming letter clips, bill filles, and other similar clips or
suspenders, with a slot or opening in one jaw, whilst to
the other jaw is fixed a screw or pin having a suitable head
fixed thereto. The head of the screw or pin is capable,
when in one position, of freely passing through the slot
or opening, and then of being turned round so as to hold
the two jaws firmly together.-Patent completed.
1042 J.LYALL, New York, U.S.A. Looms. Dated March 25,
1868.

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

1043 J. H. JOHNSON, Lincoln's Inn-fields. Lamps for burning liquid hydrocarbons. (A communication.) Dated March 26, 1868.

This invention relates more particularly to certain improvements in, and modifications of, the burners or mounts of lamps intended for the burning of paraffin and other liquid hydrocarbons, whereby increased brilliancy of flame is obtained, a better form or shape of flame is produced, which enables a plain cylindrical chimney to be used in lamps having flat wicks, and greater facility of access to the wick is afforded. According to the first part of this invention it is proposed to employ in the said burners a flat, or nearly flat, slotted plate, situate a little above the ordinary dome, such dome being, moreover, surrounded at the sides by a pendant hollow cylinder or casing, an annular space being left between the said hollow cylinder and the dome for the free passage of air, which is so directed on to the flame as to increase considerably the brilliancy thereof, and make it longer and narrower, second admit of the use of a cylindrical chimney. The second part of this invention consists in combining with the dome of the burner two air tubes, channels, or orifices arranged one at each end of the elongated slot in the dome, so as to direct the air into a course which will produce the same effect on the flame as that caused by the first part of this invention. The third part of the invention consists in making the perforated casing of the burner in two parts, an upper and a lower, and in providing one of to the other part that, when inserted therein, the two parts such parts with elastic metal lips or tongues, so adapted will be held securely together, whilst at the same time, by a slight effort, they may be readily separated. The upper part contains the dome with the flat, or nearly flat, slotted plate, and the pendant cylindrical casing, or the air tubes or orifices at the ends of the slot, as the case may be, whilst the lower part contains the wick, tube, and elevator. -Patent completed.

1044 T. ROUTLEDGE, Ford Works, Sunderland, and W. H. RICHARDSON, Jarrow-on-Tyne, Northumberland, Bleaching esparto, &c. Dated March 26, 1868.

1048 A. SCOTT, Paddington, London. Alcoholic, fermented,
dry, sweet, or effervescent drink. Dated March 27, 1868.
This invention consists in the production of an alcoholic,
dry, sweet, or effervescent drink, of which tea or coffee, or
theine, or caffeine, is an essential ingredient.-Patent
completed.

3049 H. Steffanson, Hans-place, Brompton, Middlesex. Improvements in machinery for sawing wood.

3050 J. G. Willans, St. Stephen's-crescent, Middlesex. Improvements in the manufacture of iron and steel. 3051 J. Aspinall, Gayton House, Harrow, Middlesex, Improvements in telegraphic and other ropes or cables, optical illusions. Dated March 27, 1868. 1049 J. MAURICE, Langham-place, London, Producing and also in hardening the surface of india-rubber and gutta-percha. These improvements have for their object the produc-ments in freezing, shipping, and preserving meat and 3052 J. Jeffreys, Upper Norwood, Surrey. Improve tion of phantom images in motion, or with life-like movements, on a stage, platform, or otherwise, whilst the other provisions. means of producing such motion may be rendered invisible to the spectators. The inventor uses a transparent mirror or glass fitted or placed on a stage or platform, and combined with optical apparatus for illustrating or exhibiting the effects of persistence of vision termed the as the phanakistiscope, solroscope, zoetrope, or wheel of "motion apparatus," such, for instance, as those known life.-Patent abandoned.

1050 F. BAUMAN, Wellington-street, Strand. Certain combination of chemical substances. Dated March 27, 1868. This invention consists in the use of lime and potash in

3053 C. Eskrett, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire. Improvements in envelopes or hairs used in extracting oil from oleaginous seeds and oil cake making.

Dated October 7, 1868. 3054 F. P. Warren, High-road, Lee, Kent. Improvements in apparatus for cooking and other purposes. 3055 J. H. Johnson, Lincoln's Inn-fields. An improved textile fabric applicable as blankets for printing presses and for other useful purposes. (A communication.) 3056 D. Marshall, Leith, Mid Lothian. An improved packing for the tubes of surface condensers and other similar purposes.

solution, substantially as described, for treating wood and
other fibrous material, so as to prepare it for the manufac-Worral, Dundee, Forfarshire. Improvements in appa-
ture of paper pulp.-Patent completed.

1051 G. HODGKINSON, Manchester. Method of producing designs upon woven fabrics. Dated March 27, 1868.

This invention is designed for the purpose of producing double cloth goods, such as quilts, counterpanes, or articles designs or patterns upon the upper and under surfaces of of a similar manufacture, during the process of weaving. The improvements consist in arranging and constructing the "cards" now employed to form the plain bottom cloth in such a manner as to produce a pattern or device thereupon, and a similar manner to the "cards " regulating the weaving of the pattern in the upper cloth; or the two sets of "cards" may be so arranged that they will simultaneously produce two separate and distinct patterns, the surfaces of which will be produced outwardly by their respective cards, so as to effect a pattern or finish on the two outer surfaces of the double fabric.-Patent completed.

Steam

1052 G. DAVIES, Serle-street, Lincoln's Inn.
engines. (A communication.) Dated March 27, 1868.
and combinations of engine composed in pairs of one
The patentee claims, first, the different arrangements
cylinder for the introduction of steam at a greater or
lesser pressure, and of another cylinder for expansion,
the cranks being joined together in pairs by balance
beams or connecting rods. Second, the application of
these engines to propel vessels with twin screws. Third,
the arrangement of the plate iron jacket containing steam
at the same pressure as that of the boiler. Fourth, the
combination of distributing valves to establish com-
munication between the cylinders and the admission of
steam to the small cylinder, and the exhaustion of the
steam from the large cylinder. Fifth, the general
connected to the driving shafts, either directly or by
arrangements for driving the screws by inclined shafts
means of combining four cylinders to drive two screws by
means of any kind of couplings. Sixth, the different
the aid of arrangements described.-Patent completed.

1053 P. ADIE, Pall Mall. Apparatus for shearing sheep, &c.
Dated March 27, 1868.

3057 W. Sievwright, jun., Prinlaws, Fifeshire, and G. ratus for producing adjustable pressure on rollers used in the manufacture and fluishing of textile materials or

fabrics.

3058 J. H. Johnson, Lincoln's Inn-fields. Improvements other fibrous substances. (A communication.) in flyers employed in twisting or spinning cotton and

3059 R. T. Monteith, Dinard, Department of the Ille-etVilaine, France. An improved manufacture of fire bricks and fire-resisting cement. 3060 E. T. Hughes, Chancery-lane. Improved means and apparatus for generating electricity by heat. (A communication.)

3061 W. Rossitter, Accrington, Lancashire. Improvements in warping or beaming machines.

3062 J. Wood, Stockport, Chester, and J. Arundale, Hollingworth, Chester. Improvements in shuttles. 3063 W. E. Newton, Chancery-lane. Improvements in knitting machinery, and in apparatus to be employed with knitting machinery. (A communication.)

3064 J. Watson, Newington-causeway, Surrey. An improvement in the manufacture of wall papers, and in apparatus used in such manufacture.

3065 J. Dupree, Whitechapel-road, Middlesex. Improvements in the construction of sieves, and in apparatus for working the same.

3066 J. Watson, Newington-causeway, Surrey. An improvement in the manufacture of wall papers, and in apparatus used in such manufacture.

3067 W. Estor, Hampstead, Middlesex, and C. T. Pearce, Maddox-street, Regent-street. Improvements in the means of disinfecting or deodorizing rooms, buildings, and ships, applicable also to other such like purposes. W. Richards, Birmingham. Improvements in

3068

cartridges.

3069 R. H. Bentham, Bedford-row, Middlesex. An draughtsmen in drawing perspective views. apparatus or instrument for drawing lines radiating from a known centre, particularly adapted for the use of

Dated October 8, 1868.

3070 H.Josephi, Manchester. Improvements in watches, clocks, and other like timepieces, timekeepers, or time indicators.

The patentec claims, first, the employment or use of a pair of disc cutters, with projecting teeth or blades, and revolving intermittently or continuously in opposite Improvements in apparatus for applying adhesive agents 3071 G. Speight, Spencer-street, Clerkenwell, Middlesex. spring portion (like scissor blades), as described. Second, directions, the said teeth or blades being formed with a the employment or use of a similar disc cutter revolving to paper and other materials, and for effecting adhesion between pieces of paper and other materials. as before in combination with a segmental fixed back 3072 J. Chaudron, Brussels, Belgium. Improvements in plate with similar teeth or blades. Third, the employ-boring or sinking pits or shafts for mines and other purment or use of straight or segmental plates with similar teeth or blades having two cutting edges, and worked with an oscillating or reciprocating motion, all sub

Here the fibre is first sorted, if necessary, cut and boiled
in an alkaline liquor in the ordinary manner, deprived of
its colouring matter by washing, with or without pressing,
as well known to paper manufacturers; it is then placed
in a rotary cylindrical vessel with a quantity of bleach-stantially as described.-Patent completed.
ing liquor, and the vessel is closed and made steam-tight.
After being rotated or agitated, steam is admitted until
the contents of the vessel are heated to a boiling
temperature or otherwise, but a temperature as high
as 300deg. Fah. may be used with advantage; by this
means the whole of the chlorine or other bleaching
agent is rapidly brought into effect and exhausted while
in contact with and acting on the fibre. When the
process of bleaching is completed, the effete or exhausted
bleaching agent is run off, or the contents emptied into
another vessel to drain, and the material being then in
the form of bleached paper stock, is treated in the usual
manner.-Patent abandoned.

1054 C. E. BROOMAN, Fleet-street. Breech-loading fire-
arms. (A communication.) Dated March 27, 1868.
This invention consists in closing the breech by means
of a vertical sliding block worked by the trigger guard,
which, in the same movement, cocks the gun, raises the
sliding block to allow of the insertion of a cartridge, and

1045 A. WARNER, Lawrence Pountney-lane, Cannonstreet. Cement. Dated March 27, 1868.

The patentee claims the combination of the oxides of iron or iron ores with sulphate of lime in the manufacture of cement, as described. He also claims the use of phosphoric or boracic acid, or any of their salts, or other suitable chemical equivalent, which will form a cementing substance when combined, according to this invention, with silicate of iron, oxides of iron, or iron ores, either with or without the addition of sulphate of lime for the manufacture of cement, as described.-Patent completed. 1046 S. HOLMAN, Lawrence Pountney-lane, Cannonstreet. Steam pumps. Dated March 27, 1868.

The patentee claims, first, the combination and arrangement of steam pump represented and described, having two pistons, the outer side of each being acted upon by steam, causing the inner side of each to act as a pump or any mere modification or adaptation thereof, such as for water engines, or water meters, or blast engines or exhausters. Second, the construction and arrangement of the steam slide valve, and the methods of operating the same, represented and described or any mere modification thereof. Third, the construction and arrangement of buffer valves, seatings and stops, as represented and described, or any mere modification thereof.-Patent c mpleted.

1047 J. BATES and J. TAYLOR, Dukinfield, Chester. Apparatus for cleaning the flues of boilers and boiler seatings. Dated March 27, 1868. This apparatus consists of one or more framed and hinged scrapers, made and fitted with a rod or rods in sectional lengths, and jointed together for working the apparatus forwards and backwards. This division and jointing of the rods is intended to facilitate the introduction and withdrawing of the apparatus to and from the flues where the space in front of the boiler is confined.Patent completed.

acts on an extractor.-Patent abandoned.

1055 C. B. JAMES, Redditch. Wrapping up needles. Dated March 27, 1868.

Here the inventor proposes to sew each needle separately upon its wrapper, or upon any suitable material, to be subsequently enclosed within a wrapper, and this he needle within each stitch, or more than one within each effects by means of a sewing machine adapted to take one stitch if desired.-Patent abandoned.

APPLICATIONS FOR LETTERS
PATENT.

Dated October 6, 1868.

3040 E. T. Bellhouse and W. J. Dorning, Manchester. Improvements in hydraulic presses employed in the packing of cotton or other materials or substances.

3041 E. Simons, Sheffield. Certain improvements in braces applicable to railway and other carriages.

3042 N. Tehepelevsky, Beaumont-street, Marylebone, paper, textile fabrics, and other surfaces, to render them Middlesex. An improved enamel applicable to wood, impervious to spirits, oils, gases, or other similar fluids. (A communication.)

3043 J. R. Wigham, Albany House, Monkstown, Dublin. Improvements in illuminating lighthouses, and in apparatus employed for that purpose, which apparatus is also applicable to the manufacture of illuminating gas generally.

3044 G. Gravely, Bow, Middlesex. Improvements in steam pumps and other engines actuated by steam or other motive fluid.

3045 F. S. Gilbert and W. G. White, Lawrence Pountneylane, City. Improvements in the manufacture of selfadjusting spanners.

3046 A. G. Straker, Leadenhall-street, City. An improved kind of sample bag or envelope for the transmission of samples or patterns of merchandise by post. 3047 R. Ramsay, Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Middlesex. Improvements in the construction of shoes, boots, and knee-caps for horses.

3048 T. Garnet, Smethwick, Staffordshire. Improvements in hydraulic rams.

poses.

3078 J. Barcroft, Newchurch, Lancashire. Improvements in the manufacture of felted cloth, and in machinery connected therewith.

3074 J. MF. Gray, Birkenhead, Chester. Improved modes of, and machinery and accessory apparatus for, working war turrets and heavy ordnance.

3075 E. J. Hughes, Manchester. Improvements in recreative games played with balls and cues, and in the tables and apparatus connected therewith. (A communication.)

3076 T. Sagar and T. Richmond, Burnley, Lancashire. Improvements in looms for weaving.

3077 F. Ayckbourn, Southampton-street, Strand. Improved manufacture of lead pencils.

Improve

3078 E. Prevost, Euston-road, Middlesex. ments in controlling restive and vicious horses. 3079 J. H. Johnson, Lincoln's Inn-fields. Improvements in saw handles, and in securing the same to saw blades. (A communication.)

3080 W. Simons, Renfrewshire. Improvements in bricks or blocks to be used for building purposes. 3081 J. Steel, Glasgow. Improvements in apparatus for obtaining extracts from roasted malt.

3082 W. Bland, Keighley, Yorkshire. An improvement in looms for weaving.

3083 G. Davies, Serle-street, Lincoln's Inn. Improvements in paper boats. (A communication.)

3084 J. Arnold, Sheffield. Improvements in the construction of steam boilers.

3085 R. Winder, Farningham, near Dartford, Kent. A new machine for boring holes to fix the hop poles in, and for drawing the hop poles out of the ground in the hop picking_season.

3086 J. Dewar, Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire. Improvements in food.

3087 J. Dewar, Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire. Improvements in making and preserving manure, and in deodorizing offensive substances.

308S F. Zysel, Birmingham. Improvements in expanding or extending frames for furniture and other articles. 3089 T. Heacock, Drury-lane, Middlesex. Improvements in door knobs or handles.

3090 M. P. Manfield, Northamptonshire. Improvements applicable to the soles of boots, shoes, clogs, and other coverings for the feet.

An improved

3091 W. E. Newton, Chancery-lane. binnacle for iron ships. (A communication.) Middlesex. Improvements in buttons or fastenings, and 3092 A. M.Millan, Woodville-grove, Mildmay Park, in the method of fixing buttons or fastenings to garments and other articles.

Dated October 9, 1868. 3093 J. Varley, Leeds, and S. W. Varley, Dresden, Saxony. Improved machinery for treating waste silk and other fibres.

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climates, and without liability to
breakage; and are in use on the
Great Western, London and South

AT REST-Fig. 1. Western, Metropolitan, Hoylake, Great Southern, Great Southern and Western, Delhi and other lines of Railway at home and abroad. They are also in use for Mining Cages. Sections and models of the above, and other railway and mechanical appliances, and also various applications of the junction of rubber to metal, can be seen at the Offices of