THE Commercial tables emanating from the United States Statistical Bureau, show that from the 1st of July, 1859, to the 30th of June, 1868--a period of nine years-the total net imports into America, after deducting foreign goods re-exported, were of the value of 2,863,466,403 dollars; and the total exports, reduced to a specie valuation, not including foreign goods re-exported, but embracing the precious metals, for the same period, amounted to 2,751,721,699 dollars; showing an excess of imports over exports to the amount of 111,744,704 dollars. The whole amount of duties collected for the same period was 918,059,153 dollars, showing an average rate of duty for the nine years of 32-17 per cent. In 1860 and 1861 they were a trifle under 14 per cent. The last three years the average was 44.30, and in 1868 47-16 per cent. of the imports went to Government. Patents for Jubentious, ABRIDGED SPECIFICATIONS OF PATENTS. THE Abridged Specifications of Patents given below are classifled, according to the subject to which the respective inventions refer, in the following table. By the system of classification adopted, the numerical and chronological order of the specificatious is preserved and combined with all the advantages of a division into classes. It should be understood that these abridgments are prepared exclusively for this Magazine from official copies supplied by the Government, and are, therefore, the property of the Proprietors of this Magazine. Other papers are hereby warned not to produce them without an acknowledg ment: 1178 C. G. SPENCER, Old-street, St. Luke's. Machine for enabling persons to support, raise, and propel themselves in and through the air. Dated April 8, 1868. Provisional protection has not been granted for this invention. 1179 J. BEDFORD, Leeds. Apparatus for washing and dry ing grain. Dated April 7, 1868. This washing apparatus consists of a cistern filled more or less with water, and in such cistern the patentee places a worm encased in wire gauze, or a perforated metal covering, and communicating with a feeding hopper. He passes the grain (suspended within its covering) to be washed through the cistern by means of the screw, which minute, and on its having passed through, he conveys it he works by preference at about forty revolutions per by means of a screw (inclined, by preference), over a perforated metal surface, in order that the moisture may drain off to the drying apparatus. The dirt removed from the grain in washing is carried through the perforations of the wire gauze or metallic covering. The drying apparatus consists of open, and, by preference, semicircular, boxes jointed together in any convenient manner, such boxes having their internal surfaces bored out, and being filled with a steam chamber. Within such boxes he places a worm or screw, by means of which he traverses the grain to be dried from one end to the other. By this arrangement it is dried, and, being open to the air, all moisture is carried off, whilst all condensed steam is conveyed out of the steam jacket by a cock in the manner usual in such cases.-Patent completed. ing. treating, and preparing flax and hemp. Dated April 8 1868. This invention has for its object certain improvements in machinery and processes, scutching, dressing, cleaning treating, and preparing flax, hemp, and other vegetable fibrous materials, and the tow of the same, and consists, first, in an improved arrangement of mechanical parts for imparting a reciprocating rolling movement, more pro or gressive than retrogressive, to rollers intended for crushing and breaking the woody portion known as the "boon" "shive" of flax, hemp, and other similar fibrous material. The second part of the invention relates to improvements in a machine for which letters patent were granted to E. Brasier, dated August 3, 1864 (No. 1926). The third part of the invention relates to certain improvements in the forms of the fluted rollers to be employed for "breaking or rolling flax or hemp, in the machine described in the specification of the patent before referred to. The fourth part of the invention, which relates to the combination of a scutching wheel, by preference similar to that known as the "Irish stock," with a machine arranged to work with central and surrounding rollers, in the manner described in the specification of the patent above referred to. The fifth part of the invention consists in an improved process or method of preparing flax or straw, for the "breaking" or scutching processes.-Patent completed. 1189 T. HUNT, New-road, Hammersmith. Improvements Dated in ordnance, and in the mode of working the same. April 8, 1868. This invention has for its object the solidity of constru tion and safety of a muzzle-loader, with the facility for cleaning and loading of a breech-loader, and it is appli cable to both central and muzzle pivoting guns. Also improvements in the mode of supporting and training guns of the ordinary construction, so as to make them central or muzzle pivoters. The details of the invention are voluminous.-Patent abandoned. 1180 J. J. CHAUDUN and J. J. DEXAUT, Reuil Village' near Paris. Cartridges. Dated April 7, 1868. Under one head, this invention consists in constructing the cases of cartridges for breech-loading firearms, whether with central-fire or with pin-fire, of drawn copper or brass tubes, formed without soldering or brazing, the rear end of such tubes being bent over a wad or plug inserted into the tube, which is then placed into a copper or brass base cap, after which the wad or plug is condensed, so as to secure 1190 C. DOUGLASS, Edinburgh. Improvements in culting the case in the cap. Dated the teeth of wheels, and in apparatus employed therein. The bottom of the case is then provided inside with a coating or lining composed of sawdust, April 8, 1865. leather, or corkdust, lint, or other similar materials, mixed with glutinous substances, such as glue, which lining, in adhering to the sides of the case, prevents any escape of gas at the breech. The metal tube may, if requisite, be BOILERS AND FURNACES-1197. 1248, 1257 ments and machines-1175, 1179, 1221, 1228, 1238, 1243 ELECTRICAL APPARATUS-1253 FIBROUS FABRICS, including machinery for treating fibre, pulp, paper, &c.-1174, 1186, 1188, 1199, 1217, 1218, 1225, 1232, 1289, 1241, 1246 This invention consists in submitting wrought iron to It is proposed, according to this invention, to use either annular or helical cutters, so shaped that one cutter will answer for all wheels of the same pitch or distance between the teeth.-Patent abandoned. 1191 W. CHAPMAN, Kennington Park-road. Apparatus CULTIVATION OF THE SOIL, including agricultural imple-mouthshire. Manufacture of iron into semi-steel or steel. 1181 J. JAMES, Ebbw Vale, and T. JONES, Govilon, Mon-for skiving or chamfering leather, &c. Dated April 9, 1868. The inventor employs a rotating diamond-shaped cutter or blade, below which he places an adjustable plate for Dated April 8, 1863. regulating the amount of cut, according as it is desired that more or less material should be removed from the substance to be skived or chamfered, and upon this adhaving bearings for the shaft or spindle of the rotating justable plate the material to be treated is placed. The base plate of the apparatus is furnished with a standard ing, and below the cutter he provides a wheel having its cutter, to which motion is imparted through suitable gearperiphery covered, by preference, with india-rubber. Above this wheel is an adjustable plate or foot, held in position by means of a spring, so that the material to be operated upon is pressed by the plate or foot against the periphery of the wheel, and, by the rotation of the latter, is fed to the cutter.-Patent abandoned. the action of gases (under pressure in any suitable gas-tight vessel or receiver) such as hydrocarbons and carbonic FOOD AND BEVERAGES, including the apparatus for pre-compound, such, for instance, as cyanogen gas, or ammonia, oxide, either alone or in conjunction with nitrogenous paring food for men and animals-1227, 1254 FURNITURE AND APPAREL, including household utensils or other gases containing nitrogen in admixture, preferring, however, the former to convert it into semi-steel or steel, time-keepers, jewellery, musical instruments, &c-1207 or for the purpose of casehardening it.-Patent comGENERAL MACHINERY-1183, 1185, 1196, 1208, 1213, 1219, pleted. 1220, 1223, 1235 LIGHTING, HEATING, AND VENTILATING-1195, 1201, 1211, 1237, 1250 METALS, including apparatus for their manufacture 1181, 1187, 1205, 1240, 1256 MISCELLANEOUS-1177, 1182, 1190, 1191, 1192, 1198, 1202, 1203, 1209, 1222, 1224, 1229, 1231, 1242, 1245, 1249, 1252, 1259 ROADS AND VEHICLES, including railway plant and car- 1174 R. J. LOWNDES, Auldhouse Field, Renfrewshire, Finishing textile and other fabrics. Dated April 7, 1868. This invention relates to a new arrangement and con struction of certain parts of that class of machinery used for finishing textile fabrics by the process known as stenting or stretching. The object of the present improve ments is to firmly hold the edges of the cloth or web by means of a species of clamp, instead of by pins or other means hitherto used.-Patent abandoned. 1175 J. ARMSTRONG, Clifton, Westmoreland. Harrows. Dated April 7, 1868. This invention relates to an improved mode of arranging and securing or holding together the various parts of harrows, without the aid of nuts and screws, and consists in connecting the main zigzag beams in pairs or sets of two or more by the aid of crossbars disposed at suitable intervals; or where a tooth is required such cross bars having an oblong eye or opening at each end, and in intermediate parts of their length, if required, through which the beams to be connected together are passed. Au oblong slot or opening is also made vertically through each of the said eyes in the crossbars, and through these oblong slots or openings are inserted the teeth or tines, the whole of the parts, namely, the beam, crossbar, and teeth being tightened up and held firmly together by wedges or keys driven in on the opposite side of the beams. Any number of pairs or sets of two or more beams connected together by crossbars as above described may be coupled, so as to form, say, for example, six two-beam harrows, or three four-beam harrows. This coupling together of the several pairs or sets of connected beams is effected by the aid of peculiar jointed connections, consisting each of two bars coupled together by a joint pin and cotter, and sliding hoop or ferrule. Each jointed coupling bar is connected to the contiguous main beams at each end by means of rivets, or by a separate clip which is keyed on to the beam, and receives one of the ends of the coupling bars which are bent at an angle for. that purpose.-Patent completed. 1176 P. M MAHON, Johnson's-buildings, Temple, City Destroying the decaying principle in animal substances by means of a railroad atmospheric process. (A communication.) Dated April 7, 1863. Provisional protection has not been granted for this invention. 1177 D. LANE, Cork, Ireland. Manufacture of floor and other cloth or coverings for floors. Dated April 7, 1868. According to one part of this invention, the patentee prepares a covering for floors, which may also be employed as a covering for walls, by a combination of several compound slices or veneers of timber, the several slices being attached together by webs of woven cloth by parallel threads by paper, or by other flexible material or materials applied at the back thereof.-Patent completed. 1182 G. H. PALMER, Lewisham, Kent, Spring brace. Dated April 8, 1868. We cannot with advantage here give space to the details of this invention.--Patent completed. 1183 W. R. LAKE, Southampton-buildings, Chancerylane. Machinery for cutting and working rocks. (A communication.) Dated April 8, 1868. This invention has reference to two former patents, and is not described in detail apart from the dawings.-Patent completed. 1184 W. E. NEWTON, Chancery-lane, London. Manufacture of salts of soda. (A communication.) Dated April 8, 1868. Equal weights of chloride of sodium (common salt) and finely powdered chrome-iron ore are intimately mixed together, heated to redness in a reverberatory furnace, and subjected to a current of steam. The hydrogen of the steam unites with the chloride of the salt, and forms hydrochloric acid gas, which combines with the iron of the chrome iron ore, and forms volatile chloride of iron, which is driven off, and may be collected in a cooling chamber. The oxygen of the steam unites with the sodium of the salt to form soda; at the same time, the sesquioxide of chromium of the ore is converted into chromate of soda.-Patent abandoned. chromic acid, which combines with the soda, and forms 1185 E. BENINGFIELD, Old Kent-road, Surrey. Lifting machine. Dated April, 8, 1868. We cannot here give space to the voluminous details of this invention.-Patent abandoned. 1186 C. G. HILL, Nottingham. Manufacture of fringes and pur!. Dated April 8, 1868. The patentee claims the manufacture of fringes of floss or spun silk, and he also claims the manufacture of double fringe-like trimmings of floss or spun silk. He also claims the manufacture of purl edgings or trimmings of floss or spun silk.-Patent completed. 1187 V. GALLET, Lavausseau-de-Benassais, Department of the Vienne, France. Manufacture of steel. Dated April 8, 1868. In the specification of a former patent granted to the present patentee, and dated December 12, 1866 (No. 3266), he has described improvements in the manufacture of steel by the use of a composition therein set forth. According to the present invention, he somewhat varies the composition, and thereby obtaining a better result. With this object, he takes, by preference, iron which has been submitted to one rolling only, and called puddle bar, and he coats this iron with a cement or paste prepared from the following ingredients:-Wood charcoal, 20 parts; soot, 12 parts; lamp black, 15 parts; ivory black, 1 part; anthracite, 1 part; graphite or plumbago, 1 part; carbonate of lime, 33 parts; carbonate of potash, 3 to 20 parts; carbonate of soda, 10 parts; caustic potash, 1 part; ordinary or sea salt, 1 part; sal ammoniac, 1 part; clay, 13 parts; oxide of manganese, 3 parts; resin, 2 parts; water, 10 parts. The salts should be mixed with the water In some cases he before adding the other ingredients. omits the soot, lamp black, ivory black, anthracite, graphite, carbonate of soda, caustic, potash, and sal ammoniac, and ing the proportion of charcoal to 50 parts. employs the other ingredients in combination, but increasThe iron thus coated is heated, and it may afterwards be melted.-Patent completed. 1188 E. BRASIER, New Cross, and J. E. HODGKIN, Liverpool. Machinery and processes for scutching, dressing, clean 1192 J. FITTER, Birmingham, Alarums. Dated April 9, 1868. This invention consists of the arrangement or combination of the parts of alarums to be fixed to doors, or fixed or placed elsewhere, for the purpose of giving an alarm in cases of attempted burglary, and to be used for giving alarms generally, whether indoors or out of doors. The improved alarum consists of a short barrel to be charged with gunpowder, the said barrel having a nipple on its end, on which nipple a percussion cap is placed, and a hammer or lever pressed towards the nipple by means of a strong spring. There are other arrangements for actuating these parts.-Patent abandoned. 1193 J. PLEWS, Grove-road, Hounslow. Steam engines. Dated April 9, 1868. The patentee claims, first, the combination of parts or mode of constructing an engine, wherein a cylinder or cylinders move upon hollow trunk pipes fitted with a piston or pistons, as described. Second, the combination of parts or mode of constructing an engine, wherein a cylinder provided with a diaphragm, which acts as a piston, is caused to move upon hollow trunk pipes, as described, or any mere modification thereof.-Patent completed. 1191 J. RAE, Sydenham, Kent, and G. MILLER, Glasgow. Construction of railway wheels. Dated April 9, 1868. These improvements have for their object the saving of engine power, the reduction of wear and tear of wheels and permanent way, the increasing of the safety of railway wheels and axles, the saving of lubricating material, and a more efficient mode of constructing wheels, and fixing the tyres thereon. The details of the invention are voluminous.-Patent completed. 1195 A. H. STILL, Rockbro' House, and D. LANE, South Mall, Cork. Manufacture of gas. Dated April 9, 1868. For this purpose the patentees mix small coal with gas tar, and they mould the mixture into bricks or blocks; these bricks or blocks they charge into gas-making retorts, and heat them to a bright red heat, and so they obtain an illuminating gas of good quality, whilst, at the same time, the bricks or blocks are converted into a hard and valuable coke. The tar and small coal may advantageously be mixed in the proportion of (say) thirty gallons of tar to one ton of small coal.-Patent completed. 1196 W. B. ROBINS, South Molton-street, Oxford-street. Garden engines, &c. Dated April 9, 1868. The patentee claims the constructing garden engines, and other similar hand pumps, with (in lieu of a piston) a hollow plunger, through which the water passes to the jet, as described. He also claims the constructing garden engines, and other similar hand pumps, with the handles by which the plunger or moving part of the pump is worked connected with the delivery nozzle in such manner that the handles may be used to direct the said nozzle, as above described. He also claims the constructing garden engines, and other similar hand pumps, with an outlet plunger, with projections at its inner end, guiding it in the cylinder or vessel in which it works, and continued internally at its outer end, as described.-Patent completed. 1197 J. H. WHITEHEAD, Royal George Mills, near Manchester. Apparatus for removing soot from the surfaces of heating tubes. Dated April 9, 1868. The heating tubes are arranged in a smokebox or chamber in the flue, and they are placed horizontally and parallel, the one to the other, and they are divided into several sets, and the tubes in each set are placed vertically, one over the other. Over every alternate set a horizontal axis is placed, having chain pinions, one at each end, on which endless chains hang. These chains encircle the set of tubes, and pass around guide pulleys at their lower ends. To the endless chains are fixed scraping blades of thin sheet steel, each blade being parallel with the pipes, and fixed to one of the endless chains at either end. The blades are curved, so as approximately to fit the pipes, There are scrapers, both on the outer and inner sides of the endless chains; those on the inner sides scrape the pipes which the chains carrying them encircle, whilst the scrapers on the exterior scrape on one side of the pipes of each of the adjacent sets. The axes, with the chain pulleys upon them, are slowly rotated in any convenient manner and, as each scraper is brought opposite a space between the tubes, it springs into the space, and, as the chains slowly travel, the scraper yields back to pass the tube, its edge scraping against it all the time, and it thus passes over about the half of the circumference of the tube, and the other half is scraped from the other side.-Patent completed. 1198 G. T. BOUSFIELD, Loughborough Park, Brixton. Improvements in dies, and in machinery for cutting dies and taps. (A communication.) Dated April 9, 1868. This invention is not described apart from the drawings. -Patent completed. 1199 J. LEEMING, Bradford, Yorkshire. April 9, 1868. Looms. Dated This invention has reference to the peculiar formation of the book employed in turning over the peg wheel of circular shuttle boxes. It also has reference to the application of a fork motion to a pick and pick loom of any number of shuttles, for so operating upon the weft threads as to permit the ordinary well-known fork motion to cause the stoppage of the loom, when the weft is either broken or expended, and from whichever side of the loom the shuttle may be thrown.-Patent completed. 1200 W. E. NEWTON, Chancery-lane, London. Improrements in firearms and in cartridges for the same. (A cominunication.) Dated April 9, 1868. One part of this invention relates to the extractors for withdrawing the discharged shells of metallic cartridges, or such metallic portions of the shells of cartridges as remain in the chambers of the breech-loading firearm after the discharge. The invention relates particularly to the extractors of that class of breech-loaders whose breechpiece is in the form of a sliding bolt opening and closing with a movement parallel, or nearly so, with the bore of the barrel, in which class of breech-loaders it has been heretofore difficult to obtain an extractor which is positive and reliable in its action. The invention consists in a hook extractor attached to the breech-piece, but having a certain amount of sliding motion independently thereof. -Patent completed. 1201 R. A. WRIGHT, Homerton, near London. Improvements in heating structures and articles, and in the mode of and apparatus for obtaining heat from petroleum and other hydrocarbons. Dated April 9, 1868. This invention consists of the following improvements: -Instead of using water for heating houses, carriages, baths, and drying stoves, and for other heating purposes, the patentee employs a solution of glycerine, which may be more or less concentrated, if desired, and which he employs in ordinary circulation pipes, coiled where required. One mode of heating the glycerine, which mode may also be employed for obtaining, maintaining, and increasing heat in furnaces for other purposes, consists in blowing or projecting one or more currents or jets of steam or air (superheated or otherwise) across or over the mouth of a pipe or chamber, containing petroleum, or other hydrocarbon, which petroleum or hydrocarbon is thereby projected in minute particles or sprays, into the furnace, on to fuel, clinkers, or other substances, on the grate bars or hearth. At the same time, air is drawn or forced into the furnace. Great heat is thus obtained.Patent completed. 1202 L. VERSTRAET, Paris. Apparatus for storing and burning petroleum and other inflammable oils for heating steam boilers, &c. Dated April 9, 1868. This invention relates to means of remedying certain disadvantages, so as to permit of all kinds of mineral oils being used without danger. In order to protect the oil reservoirs from the action of shot, the patentee encloses them in a double casing, leaving a space between to be filled with some suitable incombustible material of a light nature, so as to stay the force of the shot, and deaden its effect. The product he prefers to use, on account of its cheapness, is wood sawdust, highly impregnated with a concentrated solution of some incombustible salt of a cheap nature, such as chloride of calcium, for example, After this salt has been absorbed by the sawdust, he calcines the latter in closed vessels, so as to increase its incombustible properties, by means of which he obtains a light charcoal to be packed lightly in the space between the double casing of the reservoirs, so as to deaden the force of the shot, or, in case of its penetrating the reservoir, to absorb the oil, and prevent its exploding. In order to overcome the remaining objections, he uses the following arrangement of apparatus:-He takes a sheet iron tube of sufficient diameter, through which he passes the air for feeding the furnaces over the petroleum contained in the reservoirs, and the air being thus brought in contact with the surface of the oils, carries away or absorbs all the inflammable vapours, and conveys them to the furnace. In this manner there will never be any pressure or gases existing in the reservoirs-Patent completed. the mode of connecting them to the pillars, the girders 1205 C. MARTIN, Chancery-lane, W. BARRETT and T. S. This invention chiefly relates to certain improvements 1206 C. E. BROOMAN, 'Fleet-street. Photography. The nozzles or passages. The passage or throat is extended to such length, and contracted at its extremity, so that the jet of condensed and condensing fluid, in issuing therefrom, completely fills it, as a stream of dense fluid or liquid, so that there may be no room for the passage of atmospheric air inwards to the condensing instrument A vacuum chamber is placed between the extended passage and the throat, and, in the event of at any time more steam passing through than the liquid or fluid is capable of condensing, a chamber is formed in any convenient part of the exhaust pipe, constituting a reservoir into which such surplus may be received as condensed or uncondensed steam.-Patent completed. 1217 G. PATON, Kilbirnie, Ayrshire. Looms. Dated April 11, 1868. This invention consists essentially of an improved mode or manner of working the heddles or healds by means of rods and levers.-Patent abandoned. 1218 B. J. B. MILLS, Southampton-buildings, Chancerylane. Bleaching, reviving, and tinting white and coloured feathers and silk fabrics, &c. (A communication.) Dated (AApril 13, 1868. The object of this invention is to simplify the ordinary operations of the process of photography with charcoal (carbon), and to improve the results which it permits of obtaining.-Patent abandoned. 1207 T. H. BAYLIS, Melina place, St. John's Wood, Middlesex. Bed guard. Dated April 11, 1868. This invention consists in making a patent bed guard 1208 J. C. WILSON, Lime-street, London. Hydraulic 1209 R. NICHOLLS, Aldermanbury, London. Self-attach- 1210 G. CLARK, Northumberland-street, Strand. Manu- The main object of this invention is the production of an explosive compound or gunpowder, of which the basis is vegetable fibre converted into pyroxyline, and mixed with other substances, of which the chemical constituents are nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, with or without sulphur or lime. The details of the invention are voluminous.-Patent completed. 1211 H. A. ARCHEREAU, Paris. A new method of obtaining heat and light. Dated April 11, 1868. This invention relates to a new mode of producing and applying light and heat from gases obtained by the mixture of inflammable gases and atmospheric air, or other agents used to assist combustion, supplied under pressure in various liqueflable, pulverized, or viscous matters. The details of the invention are voluminous.-Patent abandoned. 1212 S. WHITMORE, Huntington, Augusta, America: Preparing or veneering paper, cloth, leather, &c. Dated April 11, 1868. This invention consists in applying to, or veneering, sheets of paper, &c., with very thin sheets or veneers of wood, secured thereto by paste, glue, cement, &c.-Patent completed. 1213 A. WOODCOCK, Edinburgh. Apparatus for suspend- The patentee uses corrugated metal bands, either 1214 M. A. F. MENNONS, Paris. Preparation of carbonated This invention is not described apart from the drawings. 1215 E. DUBOIS and E. CASPER, Cannon-street, London. 1203 J. SUTCLIFFE, Bradford, Yorkshire. charts, plans, and similar articles for educational purposes. Dated April 11, 1868. This invention consists in the production for educational purposes of indelible outlines upon paper, cloth, or other suitable material, having the surface covered or coated with a preparation of lamp black or other substance, which will receive markings of slate pencil or chalk, and which markings can be easily rubbed out.-Patent abandoned. 1204 J. MARSTON, Bolton, Lancashire. Construction of beams or girders, floors and roofs, for fireproof buildings. Dated April 11, 1868. One portion of this invention consists in certain improved modes of constructing beams or girders, and in An extension of time has been granted for filling the final specification of this invention. 1216 A. BARCLAY, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Apparatus The articles to be bleached are placed, for a short time, in a vat or vessel containing benzine or turpentine, such articles being immersed for the space of at least two minutes in such benzine or turpentine. They are then removed and washed in a current of steam, and afterwards dried in the air, or, by artificial means, under a mild temperature. The goods to be bleached are also passed into a bath containing the purest alcohol, and a small quantity of oxalic acid, about one ounce of oxalic, and being used with about five quarts of alcohol; the oxalic acid is previously dissolved, as will be well understood, and then mixed with the alcohol. After being passed through the above bath, the goods are washed and dried as before stated. For tinting silks or feathers, a bath of alcohol is employed, to which are added the required colouring matter, and a small quantity of sulphuric acid (about one ounce of sulphuric acid to about eight quarts of alcohol), the colouring matter being previously dissolved and then mixed with the alcohol, the colouring matters, such as are capable of being dissolved in alcohol, or held in suspension therein, and varying according to shade required, as will be well understood. Aniline colours are found to answer well. The goods are passed rapidly through this bath, and then washed and dried as before, the uniformity of shade depending very much upon the rapidity with which the operation is performed. For obtaining vivifled shades, a similar bath is employed, but having no oxalic acid placed therein, the goods being rapidly passed through the bath, and then washed in a current of steam, and dried as before stated.-Patent completed. 1219 J. ROTHERY, Yorkshire. Apparatus for getting and hewing coal, stone, &c. Dated April 13, 1868. This invention relates to certain peculiar constructions, arrangements, and combinations of the cylinder, pistons, piston rods, connecting rods, and picks or cutters of machinery or apparatus employed in getting and hewing coal, stone, or other minerals, whereby an economy of power is obtained, the machine is rendered more steady when in action, and the distance or space between the pick head and the actuating cylinder of the machine is reduced.-Patent completed. 1220 R. RIDLEY, Birmingham, and J. ROTHERY, Leeds. Machinery or apparatus for getting and hewing coal, stone, Dated April 13, 1868. &c. One modification of this invention relates to certain peculiar arrangements of apparatus for actuating the Reaping and mowing The object of the first part of this invention is the cutting of grass or crops of grain, in such a way that, when cut, all the cars or heads will have a tendency to fall in the same direction, and not become entangled. To accomplish this object, the patentee arranges the cutters or knives to move only in one direction while cutting, instead of giving them a reciprocating motion, as hitherto. Another part of the invention consists in making the improved mowing and reaping machines reversible, that is to say, so that they may be readily changed to cut the grass or crop either at the right or left hand side of the machine.-Patent completed. compounds of india-rubber, gutta-percha, balata, parkesine, 1222 T. FORSTER, Streatham, Surrey. Manufacture of solid paraffin, or vegetable oils, and vegetable fibre. Dated April 11, 1868. This invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of compounds of india-rubber, gutta-percha, balata, parkesiue, solid paraffin, or vegetable oils, and vegetable fibre. The details of the invention are too voluminous to admit of our quoting them here.-Patent completed. 1223 G. E. DONISTHORPE, Leeds. Apparatus for getting coal, &c. Dated April 13, 1868. One portion of this invention consists in apparatus for carrying picks or cutters, when used in getting, coal, &c., which, as the apparatus is moved forward, have a rectilinear to-and-fro motion given to them to cause them to cut a groove into the coal or mineral, some difficulty being cut away by the cutter. These small pieces cake together experienced in removing from the groove the small pieces into a hard mass at the bottom of the groove, and considerably increase the resistance offered to the cutter at the end of its stroke, as the pieces cannot pass away. Now, according to this invention, in order to facilitate the breaking off and removal of the pieces which are to be cut away by the cutter at the end of its stroke, the inventor employs in combination with such cutter a light lever pick, which works in the groove cut by the first cutter; this lever pick turns at one end on an axis carried by the machine, and at its other end carries a cutter. Before each blow of the rectilinear reciprocating cutter a blow is given with the lever pick, and its cutter then acts to clean or cut smooth the bottom of the groove, and also to penetrate a short distance into the coal or mineral at the back of the slice or strip which is to be cut away at the next stroke of the rectilinear reciprocating cutter. The bottom rudders and propellers. As, therefore, the stage or struc- for this purpose certain cog wheels and pinion wheels ture takes its bearing on those points of the pontoons or acting in connection with the axle of the carriage or truck. vessels at which the motion of rolling and pitching is at a-Patent abandoned. minimum, the whole stage or structure can traverse rough water with a proportionately reduced oscillatory motion. of the groove being thus rendered smooth and even, and the slice or strip to be removed by the rectilinear reciprocating cutter being undercut at its end, the slice or strip will readily be cut off, as the pieces will be able readily to break off and to pass away.-Patent abandoned. 1224 E. RICHARDSON, Castle-street, Falcon-square, Lon--Patent abandoned. don. Stays or corsets. Dated April 13, 1868. It is desirable that a readily permeable fabric should be used, so that the necessary support may be given without confining the moisture which naturally exudes from the skin. The inventor, according to his invention, employs in the manufacture of stays and corsets an open fabric made by weaving horse hair.-Patent abandoned. 1225 J. COMBE, Belfast. Breaking, spreading, and drawing flax, &c. Dated April 13, 1868. This invention consists in breaking flax or other fibrous substances in an angular or diagonal direction across the breadth of the strick instead of square across. The invention consists, second, in laying such stricks successively one over another on the fced sheets of the ordinary spreader frames now in use at regular intervals with the angular or diagonal end broken as described foremost, so that when the strick passes on between the back rollers and through the gills towards the nip of the drawing rollers, these rollers will seize those fibres first which form the acute angle of the diagonal, and, as the strick advances along with the gill, pins will seize the remaining fibres in regular succession till it reaches those fibres which form the obtuse angle of the diagonal, which will be the last to be drawn out in forming the sliver. The invention consists, third, in a new arrangement of spreading and drawing frame. The details of the invention are voluminous.Patent abandoned. 1226 C. and S. HARGROVE, Birmingham. Manufacture of breech-loading actions. Dated April 14, 1868. This invention consists in the more efficient preservation of the Snider and other breech-loading actions. The inventors effect this by electro deposition of platinum or other suitable material, that cannot oxidize as a coating upon the steel spiral, and other springs, and to such other parts that in use are found to foul or rust, and thereby impede or prevent the perfect action.-Patent abandoned. 1227 T. SMITH, Leeds, T. W. MILLER, Birstwith, and T. DON, Red Hill, Surrey. Manufacturing wheat and other grain into meal and flour. Dated April 14, 1868. 1235 W. WATTS, Turner's-court, St. Martin's-lane. Mangles. Dated April 15, 1868. This invention consists chiefly in the novel means for giving to the moving part of the mangle a reciprocating or to-and-fro movement upon its bed, and, also, in peculiar devices whereby the tipping of the moving part at either end, to allow the rollers to be put in place and removed, is readily and conveniently effected.-Patent abandoned. 1236 A. V. NEWTON, Chancery-lane. Breech-loading firearms. (A communication.) Dated April 15, 1868. This invention is not described apart from the drawings. -Patent completed. 1237 G. GLOVER, Ranelagh-road, Pimlico. Certain improvements in the arrangement and construction of submerged or subaqueous lamps, and in the fluid used in and adapted to such lamps. (A communication.) Dated April 15, 1868. This invention consists in the employment of certain hydrocarbonaceous fluids, either separately or in combination, to produce light in lamps especially adapted to submerged or subaqueous lanterns, and also in the arrangement and construction of subaqueous lamps for lanterns to burn hydrocarbonaceous fluids, thereby producing perfect combustion, and emitting the greatest amount of light, thus doing away with the objections and defects consequent on the use of "oil burners" for lamps used in submerged lanterns.-Patent completed. 1238 E. PAGE, Bedford. Fixing the tines of harrows, &c. Dated April 15, 1868. 1245 J. CLARKE, Elton, Lancashire, and A. KAY, Bury Lancashire. Manufacture of paper. Dated April 16, 1868. This invention has for its object the lifting or drawing the paper from off the endless wire belt after it has passed through the couching rollers, and delivering it on to the wet felt roller. The inventors accomplish this by placing a box in front of the bottom couch roller at a convenient distance, and in this box they place a thoroughfare and attach pipes to the box leading to fans, or to the chimney, or any other convenient place, so as to create a vacuum or draught in the box which acts on the paper through the thoroughfare, and lifts or draws the paper from the endless wire belt and delivers it on to the wet felt roller, which takes it forward to the drying cylinders. They regulate the amount of vacuum or draught by means of a valve placed in the pipes.-Patent abandoned. 1246 E. A. MORGAN, Paisley, Renfrewshire. Manufac ture of the glass rings employed in spinning machines. Dated April 16, 1868. These improvements consist in making the glass rings used in ring and traveller throstles by moulding, in suitable moulds, instead of by blowing, or otherwise, as heretofore, but, to the moulds separately considered, the inventor makes no claim. The moulds are so exactly formed and fitted to each other that the rings produced by them are perfectly true.-Patent abandoned. 1247 W. CALLANDER, Newton Stewart, Wigton. Apparatus for filling cartridges. Dated April 16, 1865. This invention has for its object the ulling of cartridges with powder and shot or balls by appliances which are, for the most part, self-acting, and which operate in a rapid Furnaces for and efficient manner.-Patent abandoned. The object of this invention is to obtain a simple and 1248 R. WEIR and J. GRAY, Glasgow. rigid fixing for the tines of harrows and other agri-burning oil. Dated April 16, 1868. cultural implements with facility for adjustment or This invention is not described apart from the drawings. removal of the parts. For this purpose the stem of each-Patent completed. tine is passed through a hole formed for it in a socket, which, in the case of a harrow, is in part wedge-formed, to rest in an angle formed by the meeting or crossing of the diagonal bars. Another part of each of such sockets is contained back over the junction or crossing of the diagonals, and it is there secured by screw bolt or other pin passing through them. A taper key aids in retaining each tine in the hole in its socket.-Patent completed. 1239 W. S. FLETCHER, Bradford, York. Machinery for combing or dressing silk, flax, china, grass, cotton, &c. Dated April 15, 1868. This invention consists in simplifying and rendering more effective and economical the operations of manufacturing wheat and other grain into meal and flour, which the patentees propose to effect by the use of novel and improved machinery and appliances of the following conThis invention has reference to a previous patent, struction:-First, machinery and appliances of cleaning screening, and decorticating wheat and other grain, granted to J. Smith, and dated September 7, 1867 (No. Second, machinery and appliances to be adapted to mill-2533.) In performing this invention the tuft of fibres is stones for collecting and discharging the strive in a more presented to the nipping jaws or holders by feed rollers ready and effective manner than heretofore, using blast holders being traversed along guides to subject the fibres mounted on a swivel frame, or by swivel nippers, the or exhaust (either separately or combined) for that purpose, as commonly practised. Third, machinery to be adapted to the action of a pair of card belts or toothed or spiked to flour machines for separating the flour from the bran, aprons or chains with combs connected thereto; these and for separating and discharging the different qualities both sides of the tuft, the teeth intersecting each other card belts or other equivalents act simultaneously, on of the products.-Patent completed. when the tuft has passed through one pair of card belts or their equivalents, and the holders are traversed laterally on guides, then opened at the tuft of fibres drawn partly through them by a comb, or supplementary jaws, or other agents. The holders are then again closed, and moved forward, so that the other end of the tuft may be presented to the action of a second pair of card belts or other equivalents, which operate on the end of the fibres, and by this means the noils or short fibres, and impurities, are removed from the long fibres. The mechanism for opening and closing the holders is similar to that described in the specification of the patent above referred to.-Patent completed. 1228 E. FODEN, Sandbach, Chester. Apparatus to be employed for mowing and reaping. Dated April 14, 1868. This invention relates to the description of mowing and reaping machines wherein angular knives are attached to a bar having a lateral reciprocating motion, and is designed to dispense with such reciprocating motion, and to substitute a continuous progressive movement of the knives or cutters.-Patent abandoned. 1229 A. L. BRAHAM, Manchester. Manufacture of hats or coverings for the head, called "sou' westers." Dated April 14, 1868. This invention relates to a certain description of hats called "sou' westers." The improvements consist in manufacturing such description of hats or coverings for the head of one entire piece, without seams or sewing, which is to be effected by the use of ordinary felt hatmaking machinery, the blocks and steam or hot chamber being altered to suit the peculiar shape of the sou' wester. -Patent completed. 1230 E. P. H. VAUGHAN, Chancery-lane, London. Manufacture of ceramic lesseræ, &c. (A communication) Dated April 4, 1868. The details of this invention are too voluminous to admit of our quoting them here.-Patent abandoned. 1231 J. H. JOHNSON, Lincoln's Inn-fields. Saw handies. (A communication.) Dated April 14, 1868. This invention consists in making a saw blade with a slot in the rear end, which slot in form and size corresponds to the form and size of a bolt carried in the handle, one end of which bolt is provided with screw threads to which is fitted a screw nut placed in a recess made in the said handle; the back end of the said blade is fitted into a groove made in the front end of the handle. The part of the handle which is grasped by the hand of the operator is formed of wood, and is secured to the metal part by means of screws or rivets.-Patent abandoned. 1232 H. HUGHES, Homerton. Manufacture of pipings and folds, or plis of satin, &c. Dated April 14, 1868. Hitherto pipings and folds or plis have been made entirely from the satin or other material. Now, by this invention the inventor economizes the material, and produces a better piping or fold, the edges of the satin or material being prevented from becoming frayed.-Patent abandoned. 1233 M. P. W. BOULTON, Tew Park, Oxfordshire. Apparatus for receiving motion or energy from fluids. Dated April 14, 1868. The details of this invention are too voluminous to admit of our quoting them here.-Patent completed. 1234 B. and B. A. BLACKBURN, Hans-place, Chelsea. Rafts or stages to carry passengers, merchandize, articles, and things at sea, &c. Dated April 14, 1868. The object of this invention is to carry large numbers of passengers and goods over water with the steadiness which an ordinary vessel has only at its centre of gravity, the structure being capable of passing through narrow channels. To effect this, a long stage or other suitable structure upon or in which passengers and goods can be accommodated is supported above the water level by means of girders, the ends of which are pivoted or jointed to the stage, and to three or more pontoons, so as to give certain freedom of movement in all directions at the centres of gravity of the pontoons or vessels fitted with 1240 R. OXLAND, Compton Gifford, Plymouth. Treatment of ores and minerals containing copper to extract copper therefrom. Dated April 15, 1868. 1249 H. S. EVANS, Bartholomew close, London. Taps, valves, or apparatus for measuring and registering the quantity of liquid passed therethrough. Dated April 16, 1868. valves, or apparatus for measuring and registering the This invention has for its object improvements in taps, quantity of liquid passed therethrough, and relates to the application of a novel arrangement and combination of parts whereby given quantities of liquid can be drawn off from a cask or other vessel, and the number of such quantities registered.-Patent completed. 1250 J. H. JOHNSON, Lincoln's Inn-fields. Heating and ventilating. (A communication.) Dated April 16. 1868. The patentee claims, first, the application and use for heating, ventilating, and other purposes, of a small but measured quantity of any liquid or vaporizable material, vessel, or pipe, having a large steam space as compared when the same is enclosed within an air-tight cylinder, with the volume of the liquid, the radiating and condensing surfaces of the apparatus being so placed that all the again converted into steam. Second, the circulation of water of condensation is returned to the generator to be the same is effected by heating a small quantity of water steam through endless pipes having no openings, when at a bend or coil of the pipe, and so placing one branch of the pipe that the water of condensation will return to the coil or generator.-Patent completed. 1251 J. ROBINSON, Creek-road, Deptford, Kent. Manufacture of paint. Dated April 16, 1868. For this purpose the inventor employs as the pigment finely ground slate, and he grinds the same with oil and other materials, as is usual in the manufacture of paint. The slate may be employed alone, and paints of different shades may be obtained by selecting suitable slates.Patent completed. machinery for turning, screw cutting, boring, and slotting, &c. 1252 H. J. FAIRBURN, Goswell-road, London. Portable Dated April 17, 1868. The great length of the specification of this invention described in a future number of this journal.-Patent comprecludes our describing it here. It will probably be The patentee claims the treatment of ores and minerals containing copper associated with sulphur by calcining or roasting, then re-calcining or re-roasting the ore in presequently lixiviating the ore, so as to dissolve out thepleted. copper as chloride.-Patent completed sence of muriatic acid, or chloride of iron, and sub 1241 R. WARD, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Machinery for spinning or twisting tobacco. Dated April 15, 1868. In place of the present methods of running the tobacco on to the reel to be afterwards taken off and formed into rolls, the inventor runs the tobacco on to the reel in the roll form, as required for sale.-Patent abandoned. 1242 R. ROBY, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Construction of horse rakes. Dated April 15, 1868. This invention relates to a novel arrangement of parts, whereby, when the rake is full of collected material, the power of the horse is employed to raise the tines and liberate the material. The way in which the patentee attains this end will be understood by referring to the drawing.-Patent completed. 1243 F. A. LEIGH, New Ross, Wexford. Machine for planting potatoes. Dated April 16, 1868. The carriage to contain the mechanism is mounted on wheels, with one wheel in front, and may either be wheeled by hand, like a wheel barrow, or be drawn by a horse or other animal; the carriage is a box in which seed potatoes are placed, on the axle of the front wheel, and a pulley is fixed over which passes a pitch chain; this chain also passes over another pulley fixed on an axle situated at the top of the aforesaid box, and imparts rotary motion to two wheels, respectively placed at the top and bottom which are fixed, at suitable distances apart, small cups or of the box containing the seed potatoes; a pitch chain, on spikes, passes over these wheels, and the said cups operate as elevators to bring the potatoes regularly over the top of the box, thence they drop into a funnel which deposits them on the ground at regular intervals behind the wheel in the furrow, the land being first ploughed in furrows, or the two machines may be worked in combination, and the potatoes, when planted, may be covered over by another plough following the potatoe-planting machine.-Patent abandoned. 1244 C. BURNS, Middle Scotland-yard, Westminster. Propelling or shunting carriages and goods trucks on locomotive railways. Dated April 16, 1868. The object of this invention is to facilitate the moving or "shunting" of passenger carriages and goods trucks on locomotive railways, especially at railway stations, by manual power, and thereby avoiding horse power, now generally adopted for that purpose. The patentee uses 1253 C. W. SIEMENS, Great George-street, Westminster. and for a certaining the distance of objects, as also in instraImprovements in electrical apparatus for transmitting signals, ments employed in connection with such signalling apparatus. (A communication.) Dated April 17, 1868. This invention is not described apart from the drawings. -Patent completed. 1254 G. D. KITTOE and P. BROTHERHOOD, Comptonstreet, Clerkenwell. Apparates for refrigerating or cooling worts and other liquids. Dated April 17, 1868. This invention consists in so constructiong the appaing fluid to circulate in opposite directions, through sucratus as to cause the liquid to be cooled, and the refrigeratcessive pipes, tubes, or passages and chambers respectively, thereby exposing each for a lengthened period of flow to the influence of the other, and so as always to keep the tubes full, provision being likewise made for quickly emptying, and readily cleansing them.-Patent completed. 1255 H. O. ROBINSON, Glasgow. An improved screw propeller. Dated March 17, 1868. The patentee claims, first, the construction of screw propellers in which the blade or blades attached to each division of the boss is or are arranged to fold behind each other in the line of the sternpost, when the propeller is not in action, or when backing, as described. Second, the construction of the boss in separate divisions, so that, when the engines are driven "a-head," the propeller blades are thrown or fall into the positions requisite for propelling, and, when reversed, they are folded behind each other, as described.-Patent completed. 1256 W. GORMAN, Glasgow. Improvements in the manufacture of iron and steel. Dated April 17, 1868. This invention has for its object the manufacturing of iron and steel in an improved manner, and with a diminished expenditure of fuel. One part of the invention relates to the manufacturing of the same metals from the slag, cinder, or refuse ordinarily produced in refining crude or cast iron, and in making malleable iron.-Patent completed. 1257 D. SMITH, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, Securing tubes in steam boilers and other vessels. (A commanication.) Dated April 17, 1868. The nature of this invention consists in fitting the ends of the tube in a ferrule, which is constructed and screwed into the tube plate in such a manner that it can be readily unscrewed to allow the tube to be removed, when required. -Patent abandoned. other submerged surfaces from corrosion and marine 1258 W. E. GEDGE, Wellington-street, Strand. Chemical and useful improvements in carriage wheels. This new chemical product is obtained by the reaction of a mixture of chlorate of potash and of chlorhydric acid on mercury. The immediate result is a chlorhydrate of a double chloride of mercury and potassium-Patent aban doned. 1259 W. E. GEDGE, Wellington-street, Strand. Apparatus for pulling boots and shoes on the feet. (A communication.) Dated April 17, 1868. This invention is not described apart from the drawings. -Patent completed. 1260 LIEUT. F. BACON, Wymondham Rectory, Leicestershire. Breech-loading firearms. Dated April 17, 1868. The patentee claims the employment of a coiled spring in such manner that it serves to project forward, the striker being retained until the moment of firing. He also claims the combining a sliding bolt and cover, as described. He also claims the forming the striker with a T-form, or similar head, and causing it to travel through a similarly formed passage in the sear, with which passage, as soon as it has passed out, the torsion of the coiled striker spring causes it to cease to correspond, so that the spring, which is then compressed, is retained until by the action of the trigger overcoming the torsional action of the spring, the passage of the sear, and the end of the striker, are again brought to agree.-Patent completed. APPLICATIONS FOR LETTERS PATENT. Dated October 20, 1868. 3197 W. Dore and J. Thornhill, Manchester. Certain improvements in motive power engines. 3193 H. A. Bonneville, Sackville-street. Piccadilly. Improvements in safety lamps for miners. (A communication.) $199 J. Elce, Manchester. Certain improvements in mules for spinning and doubling. 3200 J. A. Farrar and B. R. Huntley, Hartlepool, Durham. Alterations and improvements in the hatches and cabins of ships, and for ventilating the same. 3201 G. Voigt, Cahir, Tipperary. Certain improvements in railway brakes. 3202 C. Lauenstein, Manchester. Certain improvements in the method of purifying and decolorizing paraffin. (A communication.) 3203 G. Chapman, Glasgow. Improvements in treating sewage in order to obtain valuable products therefrom. 3204 E. T. Hughes, Chancery-lane. Improvements in tea and coffee pots. (A communication.) An 3205 E. Harrison, City of New Haven, Connecticut. An improvement in mills for grinding and flouring grain. 3206 J. Sykes and G. Malin, High Holborn. improved composition to be used for filling up the bodies of carriages and other substances previous to receiving the colouring matter. 3237 J. Lorkin, Norwood, Surrey. Improvements in pipes for smoking tobacco. 3203 E. T. Hughes, Chancery-lane. Improvements in machines for polishing and finishing needles, and in apparatus for arranging the needles for delivery thereto. (A communication.) 3203 D. and A. Posener, Mansell-street, Goodman's Fields, Middlesex, and M. Unger, Duke-street, Aldgate, City. Improvements in holders for glass and other globes or shades for gascliers, chandeliers, and other analogous purposes. 3210 J. F. Brinjes, Fieldgate-street, Whitechapel, Middlesex. Improvements in centrifugal machinery or apparatus employed in the separation of fluid from other matters. 3211 J. H. Johnson, Lincoln's Inn-flelds. Improvements in boots and shoes. (A communication.) 3212 J. M. Brierley, Milk-street, City, and E. C. Vine, Chequer-alley, Bunhill-row, Middlesex. Improvements in fastenings for stays, corsets, and bodices, which improvements are also applicable to other articles of wearing apparel. 2813 W. Maudslay and W. C. Rawlins, Liverpool. Improvements applicable to furnaces and boilers. 3214 J. Westwood, jun., Tredegar House, Bow-road, Middlesex. Improvements in the construction of socket joints for metal piles and columns. Dated October 22, 1868. 3228 F. Bennett and R. Ward, New Broal-street, City. A new mode of, and means or apparatus for, facilitating the capture of whales and other fish or animals. (Partly a communication) Middlesex. K. J. Winslow, Montpelier-row, Twickenham, motion to axles. An improved method of conveying rotary 3229 8250 M. A. F. Mennons, Newgate-street, City. An improved engine for raising and forcing water. (A communication.) 5231 J. Ryder, Manchester. Certain improvements in kins for burning bricks, lime, or other similar materials. 3232 C. Akrill, Abbey-road, West Ham, Essex. Improvements in apparatus for burning creosote and other combustible liquids. 3233 G. T. Bousfield, Loughborough Park, Brixton, Surrey. Improvements in machinery for propelling water craft. (A communication.) 3266 W. Dawes, Kingston-grove, Leeds. An improved pulley block. Dated October 26, 1868. 9267 P. M. Crane, Manchester. Improvements in sizing and dressing cotton yarns or cotton warps. 3268 W. Heasler. Greenwich, Kent. Improvements in machinery for coating wire with india-rubber, guttapercha, and other materials for telegraphic and other purposes. 3262 B. Nicoll, Regent-street. An improved plastic composition suitable for ornamenting floors, walls, and ceilings of buildings, and for the manufacture of mantlepieces, pillars, pilasters, and other like parts of buildings. 3270 C. Harrison, Manchester, and R. Wilson, Parsonage, Manchester. Apparatus for indicating a rise or fall of temperature for fire, alarm, and other purposes. 3271 J. Loader and W. H. Child, Finsbury, Middlesex. Improvements in rotary engines. 3272 W. A. Lyttle, General Post Office, Middlesex. Improvements in electro-telegraphic instruments. 3273 W. E. Gedge, Wellington-street, Strand. An improved gas burner. (A communication.) 3274 W. Boulton, Providence Foundry, Burslem, Staffordshire. Improvements in the method of, and ma shaped articles of pottery. 3275 J. Jones, Chestnut House, Stratford, Essex, and S. P. Bidder, jun., Hillfield, Mitcham, Surrey. Improvements in the means and apparatus for breaking down coal, stone, and other minerals. 3231 C. D. Abel, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-chinery or apparatus for, manufacturing oval and irregular lane. An improved system of railways and of rolling stock and structures therefor. (A communication.) 3235 T. Carr, Richmond-road, Montpelier, Bristol. Improvements in, or applicable to, machinery for disintegrating or pulverising minerals, ores, clays, chemicals, artificial manures, and various other substances and articles of manufacture, and for mixing or separating various materials, and for dispersing fluids, semi-fluids, and molten metals to facilitate or produce chemical or other changes. 3238 R. Dowling, Exeter. Improvements in bottles particularly intended for containing poisons, and in stoppers for the same. 3239 T. Walker, Birmingham. An improved lever buckle or fastening for scarfs, neckties, braces, belts, garters, and other articles of wearing apparel. 3240 J. Birch, Railway Steel Plant Company, Limited, Newton Heath, Lancashire. Certain improvements in the method or process of casting Bessemer steel ingots, and in apparatus connected therewith. 3241 W. W. Tonkin, De Beauvoir-road, Kingsland, Middlesex. Improvements in the valves of engines or pumps. 3242 J. de Redon and T. Faucheux, Caversham-road, Kentish-road, Middlesex. Improvements in the manufacture of cigars and cigarettes, and in the apparatus for effecting the same. 3243 J. Gregson and W. Monk, Preston, Lancashire. Improvements in looms for weaving. 3244 M. Sautter, Rue de la Chaussee d'Antin, Paris. Improvements in preparing wool. (A communication.) 3245 M. Sautter, Rue de la Chaussee d'Antin, Paris. Improvements in preparing fibre from bamboo or cane for the manufacture of textile fabrics. (A communication.) 3246 C. B. James, Redditch, Worcestershire. Improvements in needle-cases and wrappers. 3243 I. Baggs, High Holborn. Improvements in smelting, carburizing, and purifying iron. 3249 J. Anderson, Ballymacarrett, Downshire. Improvements in the manufacture of felts. 3250 J. Spratt, High Holborn. Improved preparations of food for horses, cattle, game, poultry, and other domestic animals, such preparations being capable of admixture with compounds for the production of a medicated food for man. 3251 B. Hunt, Serle-street, Lincoln's Inn. Improve ments in power capatans. (A communication.) 3252 R. S. Burus, Manchester, and E. S. Eyland, Bristol. Improvements in the construction of conservatories, glasshouses, and structures in which capability of contraction and expansion may be desired. 3253 C. W. Davis, King Edward-street, City. Improvements in the manufacture of paper collars, cuff, and similar articles. 3254 G. Nurse, Dortmund, Westphalia, Prussia. Improvements in apparatus employed in connection with 3215 T. Forster, Streatham, and J. Heartfield, Stanley-the coating of metals. road, Thornton Heath, Surrey. Improvements in sponge or bath gloves, part of which invention is also applicable to the joining india-rubber sponge. Dated October 21, 1868. 3216 J. Stafford, Phoenix-street, Somers Town, Middlesex. Improvements in chimney terminals, also spplicable to ventilators. 3217 J.J. Parkes, London-street, Paddington, Middlesex. Improvements for making stoves for cooking and heating purposes by gas and other means. 3218 C. Shaw, Wicker Iron Works, Sheffield. Improvements in propelling vessels. 3219 I. Holden, M.P., Oakworth House, near Keighley, Yorkshire. Improvements in means or apparatus employed in combing wool and other fibres. 3220 H. Clifton, New Bond-street, Middlesex. Improvements in butter churns. Improve 3221 J. H. Johnson, Lincoln's Inn-fields. ments in reels or bobbins. (A communication.) 3222 T. Richards and C. H. Carter, Birmingham. Improvements in extractors for breech-loading pistols. 3223 H. C. E. Malet, New Bond-street, Middlesex. Improvements in projectiles for small arms and ordnance. 3224 E. O. W. Whitehouse, Stoke Newington, Middlesex. An improved mode of protecting telegraph wires. 3225 H. Warner, Old Jewry Chambers, City. Improvements in mowing machines, and in apparatus applicable to adapt the same for brushing and sweeping. 3226 C. M Millau, Northumberland-street, Sunderland, Durham. Improvements in protecting iron ships and 3255 E. Wimbridge, Great James-street. Middlesex. Improvements in preparing or manufacturing blocks for surface printing. 3256 A. Giraud, Gray's Inn-road, Middlesex. Improvements in separating silver from argentiferous lead, in purifying lead, and in apparatus for the same. 3257 W. Reid, Granton, Mid Lothian. Improvements in trucks or waggons for the conveyance of cattle on railways, and in apparatus or means to be employed for feed ing and watering the cattle during the journey, and for ventilating the trucks or waggons. 3253 W. G. James, Queen's-square, Middlesex. provements in propelling. Im 3259 S. Clark, Rother Iron Works Company, Rye, Sussex. Improvements in machinery or apparatus for cleaning and decorticating cotton. (Partly a communication.) 3260 II. E. Newton, Chancery-lane. Improvements in steam pumps. (A communication.) 3261 II. Mayhew, Muscum-street, Bloomsbury, Middlesex. An improved button fastening. 3262 W. E. Gedge, Wellington-street, Strand. An improved glove fastening. (A communication.) 3263 J. L. Kieffer, Mark-lane, City. Improvements in sewing machines. 3264 E. A. Rippingille, Holborn Hill. Improvements in means or apparatus employed when obtaining motive power, parts of which improvements are also applicable to other purposes. 3265 J. Silvester, West Bromwich, Staffordshire. Improvements in pressure or steam gauges. 3276 T. Speight, sen., and W. H. France, Bradford, Yorkshire. Improvements in wool combing machines. Improvements in looms for weaving. 3277 T. Priestley and W. Deighton, Bradford, Yorkshire. 3278 W. Mort, Fenchurch-street, City. An improved method of, and apparatus for, obtaining reduction of temperature by the expansion of air or other permanent gases in special connection with the preservation of articles of food, the manufacture of ice, cooling of rooms and liquids. (A communication.) F. Ransome, Queen Street-place, Southwark Bridge, City. Improvements in preserving and hardening stene, brick, cement, and other building materials. 3279 3280 A. M. Clark, Chancery-lane. Improvements in the means of, and machinery for, scouring wool. (A communication.) PROVISIONAL PROTECTION FOR SIX MONTHS Has been granted upon Specifications bearing the following numbers: 2146 2936 2968 2938 3012 3015 3066 3115 2849 2910 2969 2992 3016 3046 3068 3119 2874 2944 2970 2994 3022 3013 3070 3125 2383 2946 2971 2996 3024 3050 3089 3129 2901 2943 2972 2993 3026 3051 3091 3133 2920 2952 2974 3000 3030 3054 3097 3135 2923 2954 2976 3002 3034 3056 3099 3137 2924 2956 2973 3004 3038 8058 3103 3139 2926 2958 2980 3006 3040 3060 3107 3141 2928 2960 2984 3008 3042 3062 3109 3145 2930 2962 2936 3010 3014 3113 3064 3151 2934 2964 NOTICES OF INTENTION TO PROCEED WITH PATENTS. From the London Gazette," October 20, 1863. 1990 A. J. B. P. Thierry. Marine velocipedes. 2037 M. and J. Mackie. Steam boilers. 2038 T. Restell. Sporting guns. 2053 T. Dodd. Covering railway trucks. 2068 C. Mather. Excavating soil. 2129 J. B. Brown. Furnaces for calcining ores. 2156 B. P. Walker. Effecting the junctions of driving bands. 2356 F. Lambe, A. animal oils. 2378 W. R. Lake. tion.) 2543 C. Evotte. cog wheels. C. Sterry, and J. Fordred. Treating Sewing machines. (A communicaMachine for turning wooden cogs of 2565 J. Palmer. Elliptic springs for carriages. 2569 W. Corbitt. Decorating the surfaces of stores. 2661 B. Burrows, sen. Machinery to facilitate the separation of skeins. 2769 J. Stewart and J. Nicholson.Continuous expansion engines. 2841 A. Rooker. Curtain rings. 2889 W. Haynes. Machinery for dressing leather. 2898 J. H. Johnson. Machinery for lighting gas. (A communication,) 2908 S. Fox. Umbrellas. 2912 W. J. Murphy and J. B. O'Hea. Rifled barrels for small arms. 2916 R. Harling. Telegraphic instruments. 2979 J. H. Irwin. Lamps. 2983 A. V. Newton. Boots and shoes. (A communication.) 3117 W. R. Lake. Process for electro-plating with nickel. (A communication.) 1993 W. Umpherston. Steam engines. 2002 J. Shelmerdine, W. Walker, and E. Holt. Valve gear for steam engines. 2008 E. T. Hughes. Machines for polishing needles. (A communication.) 2009 E. T. Hughes. Metallic cartridges. (A commu nication.) PARIS EXHIBITION, 1867.-GOLD MEDAL. CLAYTON, SHUTTLEWORTH & CO., 2011 W. A. Gilbee. Machinery for the manufacture of At the Great Triennial Trials of the ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY of ENGLAND, held at cards for carding. (A communication.) 2013 A. M. Clark. Machinery for winding thread. (A Bury St. Edmunds, July, 1867, received the following Awards : For Single Cylinder Portable Steam Engine, For Double Cylinder Portable Steam Engine, 2020 J. and A. Douglas. Mowtng machines. 2021 C. Johnson. Boilers. 2025 C. T. Burgess. Reaping machines. 2029 B. T. Moore. from injury by frost. 2041 R. Elsdon. Burning cement. 2042 E. Mucklow. Utilizing refuse tanning matters. 2043 J. Briggs. Constructing ingot moulds. 2044 J. Jack. Applying auxiliary screw propellers to sailing ships. 2057 S. S. Maurice. Fastening for neckties. (A communication.) 2059 A. Thompson. Water-closets. 2067 I. Baggs and F. Braby. Extrication of ammonia. Apparatus for reefing sails. 2783 T. Bennett. Manufacture of spoons. 2968 C. D. Abel. Converting cast iron into wrought iron. (A communication.) 2986 H. J. and J. W. Girdlestone. Treating ships to correct compass deviations. 3000 O. W. Powers. Sewing machines. (A communication.) 3003 B. W. Stevens. Picker spindles of looms for weaving. 3033 B. E. R. Newlands. Manufacture of manure. 3063 W. E. Newton. Knitting machinery. (A communication.) 3113 R. Tod. Apparatus for separating sharps or middlings, and groats of wheat. (A communication.) 3155 H. A. Bonneville. Elastic moulds. (A communication.) Pr. s. d. 4 933 0 4 THE FIRST PRIZE OF £25. Also the Society's Silver Medal for Adjusting Blocks for Machines. The duty performed by all C., S., and Co's Engines on this occasion considerably exceeded that of any others. C., S., and Co. refe with pleasure to the fact that the duty of their "Commercial," or Single Valve Engine, at Chester, so long ago as 1858, was not equalled by any "ordinary" Engine at Bury. WM. CLAYTON, SHUTTLEWORTH, & Co., M. WARNE and Co., Sole Manufac- WM. WARNE & Co., 9, Gresham-street West, E.C., THOMAS TURTON AND SONS, Manufacturers of CAST STEEL for Cutters, Punches, Taps, and Dies, Turning Tools, Chisels, &c. CAST STEEL Piston Rods, Crank Pins, Connect ing Rods, Straight and Crank Axles, Shafts, and Forgings of B 29 ROSCOE'S SELF-ACTING LUBRICATORS FOR TESTIMONIALS AND PRICES POST FREE. EDWIN H. NEWBY, 39A, KING WILLIAM STREET, CITY, late 31, CHEAPSIDE, E.C. FILES, marked T. TURTON. Superior to any The above Lubricators grease every particle of steam previous to other make. (See results of trial in the "Times," July 26, 1851.) TOOLS of all kinds for Engineers, Railways, Con tractors, &c., &c. EDGE TOOLS, marked WM. GREAVES and SONS. Electro-Boracic Steel, warranted to wear out three Tools DOUBLE SHEAR STEEL, | SPRING STEEL, SHEFFIELD. OILER INCRUSTATION. - Hewitt's NEILSON'S LATHES ARE THE CHEAPEST AND BEST, N.B.-Amateurs supplied with Lathe Castings, Materials, and INNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA. DINNEFORD'S of 592 1 4 688 2 10 755 0 68730 4 9030 4 929 0 4 27, NORTHAMPTON-SQUARE, E.C., AND 232, STRAND. 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. this pure Solution of Magnesia as the best remedy for Acidity of the NO DINNEFORD AND Co., CHEMISTS, THE BEST REMEDY FOR INDIGESTION. A 59 PNEUMATIC RUBBER BUFFERS, These springs are no longer an experiment, and are more elastie, durable, and economical than any others, possessing the advantage of being suitable for either hot or cold 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 GAS ENGINE-Prices:-1-horse power, £85; 2-horse power, £110; 3-horse power, £135. Delivered Free to any railway station in England or Scotland. These new engines have been severely tested for some months, and are giving every satisfaction. 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