they had all his pictures, finished and unfinished, photographed before they were sold, so that any touched by other hands can at once be detected. THE inauguration of the Genoa and Chiavari Railway took place on the 31st October, and the line was to be opened to the public on the 5th November. The length of this railway is 34 kilometres. Between Genoa and Chiavari there are not less than thirtynine tunnels, the total length of which are 15 kilometres, or nearly half the entire length of the line. The longest tunnel is that of Ruta, which is 3,047.25 metres in length. The maximum gradient is 6 in 1,000. IN Chicago (of course) a fellow named Reed was arrested, charged with passing two 16 dollars counterfeit notes. The charge was fully proven, whereupon Reed proved that he had stolen the bills from a comrade. The fact that he stole the money was considered evidence that he supposed the money to be good, and the fact that the money was counterfeit being not money in the eyes of the law, it was contended that no offence was committed in the stealing of it, and he was forthwith discharged. MR. JOHN FRETWELL, jun., writes to the "Society of Arts Journal," to say that he saw on the 9th inst. on board the Aberdeen whaler "Kate," Capt. Fraser, now unloading at Peterhead, a quantity of white whale skins, which the captain had brought as an experiment to this country. He believes it is the first time that they have been imported, and they seem' fitted to produce a tough and serviceable leather. The "Kate" has brought home the oil of 250 white whales, and should their skins prove valuable they will offer an additional source of profit to those engaged in this dangerous enterprise. THE Pennsylvania Railway Company has already rebuilt the great bridge over the Susquehannah at Harrisburgh. This bridge is 3,680ft. long, and has 23 timber spans of 150ft. each. Although traffic was uninterrupted, as other avenues for crossing the river were temporarily used, in 12 days from the time five spans of the old structure were destroyed this damage was thoroughly repaired. This celerity is due to the watchful forethought which provides for every emergency, and the energy with which all works essential to the accommodation of the public on this road are prosecuted. ACCORDING to the report of the Tower Subway Company, satisfactory tenders have been received for the execution of the work. Up to the present time the total expenses incurred amount to about £2,000, and the smalluess of the entire sum required for the whole undertaking (£16,000) is explained by the facts that, being of iron, the sectional excavation of a single tunnel, to take a full-sized carriage, propelled by stationary power, does not exceed onetwentieth of the section of the Thames Tunnel, and that no building of any value is interfered with in the line of tunnel, or by the shafts. A great advantage also consists in the whole of the ground to be traversed being composed of London clay. THE " Patents for Inventions. ABRIDGED SPECIFICATIONS OF PATENTS. THE Abridged Specifications of Patents given below are ment: BUILDINGS AND BUILDING MATERIALS-1439, 1452 ELECTRICAL APPARATUS-None. FOOD AND BEVERAGES, including the apparatus for pre- GENERAL MACHINERY-1423, 1426, 1434, 1447, 1450, 1458, 1459, 1461, 1475, 1482, 1498, 1504, 1511, 1512 1481, 1493, 1513 1462, 1489, 1516 METALS, including apparatus for their manufacture- ROADS AND VEHICLES, including railway plant and car 1423 J. LILLIE, Manchester. Regulating, measuring, and former patent, dated April 12, 1864 (No. 914).—Patent com- 1421 C. D. ABEL, Southampton buildings, Chaucery-lane. with which it is mixed. When the different materials are separated from each other they are inexplosive.-Patent completed. 1428 J. WARNE, Blackfriars-road. Union junction or fastening for pipes and tubes. Dated May 1, 1868. The patentee claims attaching to or forming in a piece with one end of a tube tap, one, two, or more projecting pieces or studs, and in providing a nut with recesses or apertures corresponding therewith, the said nut carrying a loose flanged tube to receive another and flexible tube, the nut and tap tube being secured by passing the repleted. cesses over the studs and turning the nut.-Patent com Here the patentee takes a solid copper rod, ingot, or 1429 W. E. EVERITT, Birmingham. Manufacture of copper, brass, and meta! tubes. Dated May 1, 1868. lump, as the case may be, and bores, drills, or punches a this solid tube in a heated state upon a plug and rod between grooved collars to any desired length. the process of rolling drawing the tube off the plug. He then anneals the tube and further produces it to the required extent by the operation of drawing upon a draw bench. For brass and other metal tubes, he casts a thick solid tube, instead of boring, as before mentioned, and then proceeds in the manner above described.-Patent completed. hole through it of any desired diameter. He then rolls out 1430 P. MARLIN and A. TACK, Brussels. Transforming hydrocarbon oils into gas for illuminating and heating purposes. Dated May 1, 1868. The patentees claim the transformation of liquid hydrocarbons, and especially the heavy or dead oils of coals, called creosote, into gas by the following means:-First, they reduce or convert the hydrocarbon oils into vapours in any distilling apparatus. Second, into the tube by which the hydrocarbon vapours pass from the still they introduce hydrocarbon vapours. Third, they cause the vapours and a jet of steam, which is to have the same direction as the thus be used without any alteration.-Patent completed. steam, mixed, to pass into ordinary gas retorts, which can 1431 J. H.JOHNSON, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. Burling and shearing textile fabrics. (A communication.) Dated May 1, 1863. This invention relates to certain improvements in some of the details, as well as in the general arrangement and combination, of the various parts of that class of machinery for burling and shearing textile fabrics wherein reciprocating blades having channelled and serrated cutting edges are employed for burling and shearing the fabric, which is held in a distended state in contact with such blades. The chief objects of these improvements are the affording facility for accurately adjusting the distance between the contiguous cutting edges of the blades, and ensuring their perfect parallelism; also the enabling both sides or surfaces of the piece of goods to be operated upon simultaneously in the same machine. The invention is not described in detail apart from the drawings.-Patent completed. and other furnaces. Dated May 2, 1868. under one roof or arch a fireplace, a combustion chamber, According to these improvements, there are combined a chamber for coke, and the body of the furnace or chamber for the metal to be operated upon. The replace is separated from the combustion chamber by a bridge. The combustion chamber is separated from the chamber containing the coke by a perforated bridge, and the roof or upper part of the arch is somewhat depressed over the hearth of the furnace. The heat from the fire after traversing over these three several compartments passes away to a flue or stack The damper for regulating the draft of air is placed at the firegrate end of the furnace. Air passages are provided leading from the ashpit or from combustion chamber, which passages are provided with the exterior of the furnace into the lower portion of the intro-regulating dampers. Air is also admitted through one or more adjustable openings into the upper part of the combustion chamber. The ash hole under the chamber containing the coke may be closed by doors or otherwise. By these means a very high temperature will be obtained, and the production of smoke prevented.-Patent completed. Here about 21b. avoirdupois of aniline of 1903eg. are Railway News" understands that, with mixed with about 101b. of liquid arsenic and of 75deg, and one trifling exception, the whole of the claims arising this is heated in a suitable rotort or vessel, the compound out of the late accident on the London and North- being maintained at boiling point until it thickens and Western at Abergele have been settled without any withdrawn from the fire, as otherwise the compound boils rises, which completes the operation. The vessel is then resort to litigation. The amount paid for compen-over, to prevent which a jet of cold water may be sation has been very much smaller than any of the duced. The rising of the compound is the best sign of the sums which have been previously guessed at or operation being completed.-Patent completed. rumoured. The engine of the mail train has been repaired and reported fit for work, and is, we believe, now running upon the line. The cost of its repair was not over £500, and the repair and reconstruction of the other injured carriages and waggons has not exceeded £4,000. The entire cost of the accident is not one-tenth of the sum anticipated. 1425 E. LEHEUP, Octagon-place, Bethnal-green. Wooden bores. Dated May 1, 1838. Tais invention has for its object to secure together in a 1426 A. MUNRO, Arbroath, Forfarshire. Machinery, too, 1433 F. BARNETT, Paris, Unspillable pail or vase. Dated May 2, 1868. This invention is not described apart from the drawings. -Patent completed. 1434 H. A. BONNEVILLE, Sackville-street, Piccadilly. Apparatus for measuring and registering the flow of liquids, (A communication.) Dated May 2, 1869. This invention is not described apart from the drawings. -Patent completed. 1435 H. A. BONNEVILLE, Sackville-street, Piccadilly. Propelling vessels. (A communication.) Dated May 2, 1868. This invention consists in placing at the bottom of ships, boats, and other vessels, along their whole length from stem to stern, and at the lowest part, a cylindrical or such like capacity, the two extremities of which are open st the fore and aft of the vessel. This capacity is divided in the middle of its length by a transversal partition, and the two separate parts are made to communicate by means of The water is sucked up into the capacity in front, and a lift and force pump actuated by a steam motive power. forced from the stern part by means of the pump, and this double action of sucking and forcing propels the ship or vessel.-Patent abandoned. AT the recent council meeting of the Printers' Almshouses, after the usual routine business, a letter was read from the treasurer, announcing that the late Henry Wright, Esq., of Kingston, had be- This invention consists in employing angular or A-shaped queathed £2,000 to build the second wing of this rails and bearing rollers for the sliding table to travel upon, most worthy institution. The collector was rethe under part of the table being formed to correspond quested to make use of his most strenuous exertions therewith; at the same time, to ensure greater steadiness to obtain the remainder of the 1,000 guineas (now be- which is fastened to the sides of the table, and catches and smoothness in working, a guide clip is employed ing collected) required for erecting the first wing, so under the projecting outer edge of the supporting rails; that the bequest of the liberal donor may become and to still further increase the steadiness of the machine available for the completion of these most excellent and smoothness of travel of the table, one or more central almshouses. Subscriptions will be mostth aukfully carrying rollers is or are employed which run upon a received by the collector, Mr. C. Pope, 14, Derby-central rail. The tables on which the stone to be dressed is placed, instead of being used in separate pieces, as street, Argyle-square, W.C. hitherto, are, under this present invention, firmly bolted together as one table, and the bar carrying the nuts, by which the travel of the tables is produced through the revolution of traversing screws, is held to the table firmly by bolts or studs, the traverse motion being actuated from the main driving gear by a driving belt and spur gearing so arranged that the rate of traverse may be varied at will. Another part of this invention relates to improved modes for fixing the discs which carry the dressing tools upon the revolving shaft of the dressing machine. Another part to improvements in the holders by which the cutting tools are fixed to the discs of the machine. Another part into such shape as is employed for coping, stringcourses, to machinery employed for cutting stone or other material pillars, and other generally similar purposes. Another part to a special construction of a tool to be used for dress-side, one or more holes being over one or more of the ing and cutting stone, slate, marble, or other materials. part of the manure box is made of wood, iron, or any other tubes which convey the manure to the ground. The lower The details are voluminous.-Patent completed. suitable material, the shape corresponding to the cylinders or stirrers. In the box are placed suitably formed stirrers consisting of cylinders of any required length or diameter, having projections of any desired number, size, or shape, which revolve on an axis, and so act as to move the manure in the bottom of the box, stirring no more than is actually necessary.-Patent abandoned. THE Collection of living reptiles belonging to the Zoological Society of London has just received a remarkable addition, in the shape of one of the rarest of known species of lizards, one which, indeed, until lately, was supposed to be quite extinct. This is a specimen of the Tuatera lizard of New Zealand (Hatteria punctata), which has lately formed the subject of a valuable communication by Dr. A. Gunther to the "Transactions of the Royal Society. This little animal, although externally not very remarkable in appearance, possesses a very extraordinary internal structure, which necessitates its separation from every other living species of the Saurian class, and renders it more nearly allied to the extinct form called by Professor Huxley Hypero-dapedon than to any lizard now in exist ence. have to thank Sir George Grey, K.C.B., who brought For this valuable acquisition, the Society it home with him on his recent return to England rom New Zealand. 1427 A. B. CHILDS, Mark-lane, London. Separating mixed, bination of a wire or other open cylinder and a screw con- 1436 T. HAWKES, F. W. and G. SPENCER, and J. STENNER, Tiverton, Devon. Seed and manure drill. Dated desired shape for containing the seed or manure, mounted This invention consists of a suitable box or boxes of the 1437 E. G. CAMP, Bristol. Mallets used in playing the game of croquet. Dated May 2, 1868. This invention consists in capping one or both ends of such mallets with caoutchouc (vulcanized or not), leather, or similar material, or with caoutchouc, leather, and other material in combination.-Patent abandoned. 1868. 1438 J. BINNS, Brighouse, York. Looms. Dated May 2, This invention consists in the application of a shield or guard of tin or other metal or material placed on the picker spindle, or other convenient position of the going part or lay of a loom, betwixt the picker and the edge of the fabric on the warp thereof. These guards prevent oil or other lubricant used on the picker spindle being thrown upon the fabric, or upon the warp, by the action of the picker.-Patent abandoned. 1863. 1439 H. Y. D. SCOTT, Ealing. Kilns. Dated May 2, The patentee claims the general arrangement and construction of parts for lime kilns fitted with fireplaces specially adapted for the generation of combustible gases, combined with air holes in the lower part of the kiln, for the admission of a supply of fresh air for the consumption of such gases. He also claims heating the kiln by the combustion of the gases derived from carbonaceous fuel, and produced by the employment of a thick layer of fuel in ordinary fireplaces. He also claims heating the kiln by the combustion of the gases derived from passing steam through the ignited mass of fuel, whether in special or ordinary fireplaces, in the manner set forth.-Patent completed. 1440 J. MAISTRE, Ville-neuvette, France. Drying wool. Dated May 2, 1868. This invention has for its object a process for dyeing wool in large quantities any shade of blue by vegetable indigo or mineral indigo arising from the distillation of tars without the use of dryers, wood vats with potass. The details of the invention are voluminous.-Patent completed. 1441 A. SMITH, Stratford, Essex. Apparatus to be used in connection with furnaces for burning creosote, &c. Dated May 2, 1868. Here the patentee leads the creosote or liquid from any convenient reservoir by a pipe to the front of the furnace. The terminal end of this pipe is horizontal, or nearly so, and extends through an aperture in the furnace door or front plate. In the horizontal portion of the liquid pipe he introduces the terminal horizontal end of a steam pipo; the horizontal portion of the steam pipe is preferably concentric with the horizontal portion of the liquid pipe, but does not extend so far into the furnace. The pipes are provided with taps or cocks for regulating the supply of the liquid and steam respectively. When both are open, the stream of liquid as it passes from the annular space between the steam pipe and the liquid pipe is struck by the jet of steam and becomes thoroughly mixed therewith before issuing from the open end of the liquid pipe. The open end of this pipe is, preferably, contracted. The liquid and steam thus enter the furnace together in a highly divided state, and the liquid is consumed therein.-Patent completed. 1442 J. E. BOYCE and R. HARRINGTON, Birmingham. Umbrellas and parasols. Dated May 2, 1868. The patentees claim fastening the umbrellas and parasols by applying to the runners two levers, one of which is made to fix the umbrella or parasol in its closed position, and the other to fix it in its open position, the said levers being released either by pressure applied directly to them, or one of them, or by the intervention of an additional lever or rocking frame, the said levers and parts connected therewith being constructed and arranged substantially as described and illustrated.-Patent completed. 1443 J. H. JOHNSON, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. Er Dated May 2, 1868. hibiting minute photographic pictures. (A communication). This invention relates to improvements in optical apparatus for the exhibition of microscopic views, whether such views form part of the apparatus or are independent thereof. The first improvement has for its object the obtaining the effect of animation in the image by means of an arrangement which admits of showing or exhibiting, in a very short space of time, two or more successive 1448 1447 W. R. LAKE, Southampton-buildings, Chancerylane. Dynamometers. (A communication.) Dated May 2, 1868. This invention consists, chiefly, in the combination of a peripheral power scale with a steelyard or other measure of actual force, whereby the power exerted can be measured with accuracy and the nominal horse-power be determined by inspection, and a calculation based upon the number of revolutions; and in this apparatus there is no liability of derangement of the parts by wear.-Patent completed. H. GLOVER, New Church-street, Bermondsey. Retaining corks or other stoppers in bottles. Dated May 4, 1868. Here the patentee affixes a band, by preference of metal, round the neck of the bottle just below the top, rim, or other projection thereof, that will prevent this band from being drawn off such neck by the force of internal pressure. To this band he applies by pivot or other joints a strap or band, by preference also of metal, to pass over and bear on the cork or other stopper, such band having a protection, if desired, to assist in moving it off and on to the cork or other stopper when turned on its pivot.-Patent completed. or otherwise, the principle of action being that, as the measure or other receptacle to be filled is held to the delivery pipe, or the delivery pipe brought over the said measure or receptacle, and the liquid in the vessel or with the vessel being elevated, it will flow through the compound delivery pipe, which has an air-way constructed with it that permits the air to enter the vessel as the liquid runs out through this improved apparatus or tap until the receiver is sufficiently filled, all overflowing being entirely prevented, whether the operation of pouring or drawing off be performed in the dark, or otherwise, as the moment the liquid in the receiver reaches the airway of the delivery pipe, the air will be thereby cut off, and the liquid in the portable or fixed vessel will cease to flow.-Patent abandoned. 1459 D. P. WRIGHT, Birmingham. Taps. Dated May 5, 1868. The patentee claims the use of iron, either wrought or cast, in combination with cork, or other equivalent barrels for the purposes described, the said iron being protected on its surface when desired, by the process of galvanizing, tinning, or other equivalent means of coating or depositing a metallic surface not liable to rapid oxidation.-Patent 1460 W. TAYLOR, Poplar. Iron and steel ships, &c. Dated May 5, 1868. 1449 W. E. GEDGE, Wellington-street, Strand. Applying 1868. 1450 A. VICKERS, Inverness-terrace, Bayswater. Locking the nuts of screw bolts. (A communication.) Dated May 4, This invention consists in the use of a pin of wrought iron, or other suitable material, which is inserted under the nut near to the bolt in a groove or slot made in the surface against which the nut is screwed. The pin is made L-shaped or with a rectangular head, and the other end is turned up so as to embrace the nut.-Patent completed. 1451 J. MATHER, Anvers, Belgium. Warehousing petroleum, &c. Dated May 4, 1868. The apparatus which forms the subject of this invention allows of the casks being placed in water, of their being put therein readily and without knocks, of arranging them therein methodically, of keeping them therein notwithstanding the upward pressure of the water, and of taking them out as required. The invention is not fully described apart from the drawings.-Patent completed. 1452 C. P. ASTON, Chelsea. Chimney tops or pots. Dated May 4, 1868. This invention relates to those chimney tops or pots in which the opening or openings for the egress of the smoke is or are not at the top of the pot, and consists in continuing the vertical opening of the pot through the top, and in fitting in the upper part of the pot a hinged cover or lid, weighted or not, which in its normal position closes the top opening of the pot. But when the brush is passed up, the cover is pushed open to allow it to pass, and when the brush is withdrawn the cover falls of its own weight. -Patent abandoned. 1453 J. WERTHEIM and L. HIRSCHHORN, Hatton-garden, London. Lockets. (A communication.) Dated May 4, 1454 T. and G. A. PEMBERTON, Birmingham. Alarm bells, call bells, &c. Dated May 4, 1868. necessity for making holes in the bottom of iron or steel The object of this invention is to dispense with the ships, or using bolts, nuts, washers, and filling-pieces for securing wood planking to the sides and bottoms; thus the inside of the ship is left perfectly flush and smooth to receive the frames, stringers, intercostal keilson, and other tie-plates, that are to be layed thereto, thereby avoiding the expense of joggling and upsetting the said stringers, intercostal keilson, and other tie-plates, as at present practised in the construction of iron and steel ships, the whole of the riveting by these improvements being effected from the inside of the vessel and mado flush, the heads of the rivets being on the outside.-Patent abandoned. 1461 W. SKETCHLEY, Weymouth. Machinery for woodcutting, joinery, and mortising. Dated May 5, 1868. This invention relates to "Sketchley's universal joiner," and consists of a wedge and parallel motion combined, the said wedge and parallel to be driven or drawn back with a screw lever or eccentrte as the several motions require. The said motion does away with all cog and bevil gear, it works more accurately, and requires less power to lift vertically, horizontally, or in any other position.-Patent abandoned. 1462 C. W. SIEMENS, Great George-street, Westminster. Manufacture of cast steel. Dated May 5, 1868. This invention relates to a former patent, dated August 21, 1867 (No. 2395) and consists, in the addition of certain materials to the bath of liquid metal in the furnace with the view of removing from the steel impurities, such as silicon, sulphur, and phosphorus.-Patent abandoned. 1463 C. D. ABEL, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lanc Arle bores for the rolling stock of railways. (A communication.) Dated May 5, 1868. This invention is not described apart from the drawings. -Patent completed. 1464 F. W. GERHARD, Wolverhampton. Motive power engines actuated by steam or other vapour. Dated May 5, 1868. consequence of the utilizatiou of the waste heat of the By these improvements great economy is effected in waste steam or other vapour. The inventor describes the invention with reference to a steam engine. To the end of the waste or eduction pipe of the cylinder of the engine he connects a second pipe of about the same diameter as the said eduction pipe, which said second pipe conducts the waste steam to a second or waste steam cylinder, by preference somewhat larger than the cylinder of the steam engine. He does not, however, limit himof the waste steam cylinder, opposite to that at which the steam is introduced, he connects another smaller pipe communicating with a boiler of the same, or nearly the same, size as the boiler by which the steam was originally generated. The necessary quantity of water is placed in the second boiler, and the waste steam introduced heats the said water and produces from it steam of sufficient pressure to work an engine of, or nearly of, the same size as that from which the waste steam was obtained. There The patentees claim actuating the clappers or hammers Carriages. Dated May 4, 1868. 1455 E. and G. H. MORGAN, Edgware-rood, London. This invention relates to a novel combination and images of the same object in different positions. In this arrangement of parts of the heads of carriages having 1444. W. R. LAKE, Southampton-buildings, Chancerylane. Generating gas and mixing the same with atmospheric air for heating and illuminating purposes. (A communica tion.) Dated May 2, 1868. In carrying these improvements into practice the inventor constructs a furnace in such a manner that the fuel shall first be exposed to distillation within the furnace walls, and the combustible gases thus evolved, after being properly mingled with atmospheric air, or air and steam, are burned, while the solid residuum is moved to another part of the furnace and used for the purpose of heating fresh fuel, and igniting the combustible gases, the surplus heat This invention has for its object improvements in machinery or apparatus for drying wool, or for discharging moisture from fibrous, granular, or other materials by centrifugal action thereon, whilst rotating within a drum of conical form arranged to rotate in a horizontal or nearly horizontal position, whereby a self-feeding and self-discharging drying apparatus is obtained.-Patent completed. 1868. 1456 W. MARSHALL, Nottingham. Clipping of lace, &c. Dated May 4, 1868. Heretofore, the machinery used in the clipping of lace and other fabrics consisted of two, or at most three, cutting blades lying flatwise on each side of a two-edged central blade, such central and side blades being made capable of adjustment either towards or from each other, according to the requirements of the fabrics to be cut. Now, in this invention, the patentee employs two, three, or more blades, each blade being capable of adjustment separately, and, moreover, he employs several sets of these blades, each set of blades performing cutting operations at one and the same time.-Patent completed. 1457 W. ESTOR, Hampstead, and M. TERRERO, Belsize Park Gardens. Preserving animal and vegetable substances. Dated May 4, 1868. game, fish, hides, and other animal and vegetable substances, substantially as described.-Patent completed. 1458 D. P. WRIGHT, Birmingham. Pouring, drawing off, measuring, and regulating the flow of liquids. Dated May 5, 1868. 1446 W. R. LAKE, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-phurous acid and chlorine gases concomitantly, or in a This invention consists in forming with or connecting to the main mouth of the vessel (holding the liquid it is desired to pour or draw off (a combination delivery spout in connection with a plug or stopper, which may be self-acting, are other details.-Patent abandoned. 1465 J. DAWBER, Over Darwen, Lancashire. engines. Dated May 5, 1868. Steam This invention consists in so constructing the cylinder or cylinders of steam engines that they may have a regular reciprocating sliding movement in the same parallel or line with the piston and piston rod, but with reverse action or stroke, in contradistinction to a fixed or oscillating cylinder.-Patent abandoned. 1466 J. CLOUGH, Keighley, York. Screw gill boxes for preparing wool, &c. Dated May 5, 1868. This invention relates to those gill machines wherein two sets of gills or fallers are employed, and the improvements consist in having the screws which work the front set of gills placed outside of, and separate from, and driven independently of, the screws which work the back set, whereby the gills or fallers can be so arranged that one set will work nearly in contact with the other set, that is, the front gills in rising will be nearly close to the back gills when falling, by which means the patentee is enabled to operate upon short stapled wool, alpaca, mohair, or other fibre, and by employing change gear to the driving of the screws the relative speeds of travel or motion of the two sets of gills may be varied to any desirable extent, and thereby be also capable of operating on long stapled wool, alpaca, mohair, or other fibrous substances.-Patent completed. 1467 J. HICK MOTT, Clapham. Preserving metallic articles from oxidation and decay. Dated May 5, 1868. compounds of lime, as an envelope, wrapper, plaster, bath, This invention consists in the application of lime, or bed, or covering round the articles to be preserved, so as to neutralize the effects of acids or sulphurous compounds or other destructive agents, and to prevent their contact with the articles. The special object is to keep the articles to be preserved from contact with earth or soil.-Patent completed. 1468 J. COURT, Sheerness. Traps or apparatus for receiv ing sewage matters, and separating the solid from the liquid portion thereof. Dated May 5, 1868. This invention is particularly intended for sea coast and other low-lying towns and places, and the object is to 1470 D. R. MACGREGOR and P. TAYSEN, Leith, Edinburgh. Paint for the protection of iron and other metals from the destructive influence of sea water. (A communication.) Dated May 5, 1868. The patentees claim the manufacture of paint for the protection of iron and other metals from the destructive influence of sea water, and for the prevention of fouling, by combining quicksilver, turpentine, and red lead, as described.-Patent completed. 1471 W. BEALE, Taunton. Ladders. Dated May 5, 1868. The patentee claims, first, constructing step and other ladders in two or more parts sliding one in the other. Second, the several arrangements of gearing described for raising and lowering such telescopic ladders. Third, adapting such ladders for use as steps or trestles, substantially in the manner shown and described.-Patent completed. 1472 W: WALKER and H. F. SMITH, Hull. Expressing oils from seeds, &c. Dated May 5, 1868. This invention relates to an improved envelope or covering for the cake of ground seed or other substance from which oil is to be expressed. This envelope, which is intended to replace the ordinary horsehair envelope, metal coverings, or plates, is made of a framework of metal or wood, or metal and wood combined, of suitable shape, on which framework the inventors interlace, or otherwise apply, horsehair, or other fibrous material, so as to form a covering or surface.-Patent abandoned. 1473 F. J. KING, Leadenhall-street. Preparing potatoes for preservation. Dated May 5, 1868. This invention has reference to a mode of separating the skins from potatoes intended for further subsequent treatment with a view to preservation or for immediate consumption, and consists, essentially, in forcing the potato pulp, after the potatoes have been first sufficiently steamed or boiled, through a bag or bags of canvas or haircloth, or net, or other like textile fabric, by the aid of hydraulic or other pressure, such straining fabric being supported when necessary by a perforated plate or wirework.-Patent eompleted. 1474 J. LAMB and S. ToVEY, Kidderminster. Bobbin frames for carpet looms. Dated May 5, 1868. This invention has for its object a cheap and simple mode or method of imparting the requisite friction or drag to the bobbins containing the yarn employed in the weaving of Brussels and other like carpets, and consists, essentially, in dispensing with the pins, pegs, or axes hitherto used, and which are passed through the centre of each bobbin, and rest in slots or notches cut in the frame. Patent abandoned. 1475 W. E. NEWTON, Chancery-lane. Machinery for forming pickaxes and other tools. (A communication.) Dated May 5, 1868. This invention is not described apart from the drawings, -Patent completed. 1476 J. WILKINSON, jun., Hunslet, Leeds. Printing carpets. Dated May 5, 1868. This invention relates to improvements upon, or modifications of, the printing machine, for which the inventor obtained letters patent, dated April 25, 1865 (No. 1155), so as to adapt the same to printing looped or terry carpets. We cannot here give space to the details of the invention. -Patent abandoned. 1477 A. SCOTT, Paddington. Means of attaching clothes to the person. Dated May 6, 1868. To a short spring of india-rubber, solid, or of tubing, web, or any other material, the inventor attaches loops or eyelet holes to each end, and to these loops or eyelet holes he attaches a pair of claws, clasps, or perforators capable of grasping and holding fast garments or bed clothes, and of keeping them wrapped round the person of the wearer. -Patent abandoned. 1478 J. M. STANLEY, Rhyl. Obtaining hot air for heating buildings. Dated May 6, 1868. Here the inventor constructs a chamber of brick, or other material, in one end of which is placed the furnace. He forms either longitudinally or transversely in this chamber a number of partitions extending nearly from side to side, and running from each side alternately. The heat arising from the combustion of the fuel in the furnace is thus compelled to take a zig-zag course, and is detained as long as possible in the chamber, escaping at the end furthest from the fire by a flue leading to a chimney, or where most convenient. The roof of the chamber is formed of a plate of iron, on which is built another chamber, with partitions partially across it, similar to those already described. The roof of the upper chamber may be made of firebrick or other good non-conducting substance. In one end of this upper chamber he provides an opening for the admission of atmospheric air, which becomes heated in its passage over the iron plate, and round the partitions already described, escaping by an outlet at a higher elevation than the inlet. The heated air can then be conducted in earthen or other pipes or flues to any part where it may be wanted.-Patent abandoned. 1479 R. LUBLINSKI, City-road, London. Fasteners for the tops of umbrellas. Dated May 6, 1868. This invention consists of a metal tube having a spiral or elastic spring fixed therein, with a chain or cord attached, which tube is to be fixed to the rib of the umbrella or air, and which are enclosed in chambers receiving_the 1491 J. G. WALKER, Bonnington, Mid Lothian, and C STEIN, Leith, Mid Lothian. Separating tares and other impurities from grain and other seeds. (A communication.) Dated May 6, 1868. This invention consists in employing a spout through which the grain, pulse, or other produce to be cleansed falls upon a cone, in travelling down the surface of which cone the tares and other impurities, from their form and size, acquire a greater momentum than the grain or pulse, and on arriving at the lower end of the cone they fall over the ledge there situated, whilst the grain or pulse, ha ving a less momentum, and being also, to some extent, impeded by its form, does not fall over the ledge, but passes through openings into the interior of a hollow inverted cone, on arriving at the centre of which it escapes through a hole, and passes over another cone similar to the first.-Pa tent completed. 1492 J. G. WALKER, Bonnington, Mid Lothian. Dressing millstones. Dated May 6, 1868. The cross The mechanism here employed consists of a horizontal slide, upon which a saddle travels, carrying a cross slide, and to this the cutting mechanism is attached. slide carries a lever, the outer end of which is formed into a holder for retaining the tool, by which the faces of the millstones are dressed. At the rear end or part of the slide a revolving shaft is placed, which carries a cam, and a small engine is fixed to the apparatus by which the shaft is driven, so that, by the revolution of the cam, a reciprocating motion in a vertical plane is given to the lever, and, as the tool falls, the necessary dressing 'cut is effected, springs or weights being placed to act upon the levers so as to increase the intensity of the blow. The depth of the cut is regulated by one or more set screws, and the arrangeof dressing to be made parallel and similar.-Patent comment of slides placed at right angles enables all the lines pleted. 1493 W. HARVIE, Glasgow. Lamps and lanterns. May 6, 1868. Dated 1481 J. YOUNG, Aspull, Lancashire. Ovens to be employed For 1485 A. C. HENDERSON, Charing Cross. Manufacturing 1486 S. DRUMMOND, Ardwick, Manchester, J. CLARE, This invention consists of two parts. In the first place, the passenger pays the collector in money, which does not require change; and, second, he or the collector deposits that sum in a receptacle from which the said collector cannot subsequently take it.-Patent abandoned. 1487 F. T. HALL, Gray's Inn-square. Manufacture of railway and other like tickets to adapt the same as mediums for advertisements. Dated May 6, 1868. Here the ticket or card, instead of being formed, as at present, of a single thickness of cardboard, is composed of two slips of cardboard, stiff paper, or other suitable material, connected together at their edges, so as to form a species of miniature pocket or portfolio, into which the advertisements desired to be distributed may be placed. -Patent completed. 1488 W. E. NEWTON, Chancery-lane. Cumbs. (A communication). Dated May 6, 1868. The patentee claims manufacturing combs from sheet steel, the teeth of which combs are punched out of a single steel plate, and finished, ornamented, and protected from corrosion by enamelling, japanning, or otherwise, as described.-Patent completed. 1489 M. HENRY, Fleet-street. Manufacture of steel and iron, &c. (A communication). Dated May 6, 1868. observations on railways for the purpose of preventing accidents, 1490 S. HOLT and J. KEARSLEY, Manchester. Making 1494 J. H. JOHNSON, Lincoln's Inn-fields. Increasing the draught in steam boiler and other furnaces. (A communica tion.) Dated May 6, 1865. the draught in steam boiler and other furnaces or fireplaces, This invention relates to certain means for increasing and consists of peculiar combination and arrangements of tapered or expanded smoke tubes or passages, the diameter of which increases towards the discharging mouth.-Patent abandoned. 1495 M. A. MUIR and J. M'ILWHAM, Glasgow. Power looms. Dated May 7, 1868. This invention is not described apart from the drawings. -Patent completed. 1496 H. A. BONNEVILLE, Sackville-street, Piccadilly Spring mattresses and seats. (A communication.) Dated May 7, 1878. This invention relates to a novel kind of spring for mattresses and seats, consisting in a spiral of which one half of the spires is juxtaposed, whilst the other half is wound apart from one another. One half of this spring is, therefore, capable of extending itself, whilst the other half, on the contrary, may be compressed; it may be used horizontally or vertically.-Patent completed. 1497 B. PICKERING, Kingston-upon-Hull. Expressing oil and fatty matters from seeds, &c. Dated May 7, 1568. The patentee claims the construction and use of plates of rolled metal, and the construction and use therewith, in some cases, of a sliding piece or division (all as described.) In addition, he claims the leather edging for the plates (as described), whether such edging be used with the improved rolled plates, or with cast plates.-Patont completed. The patentee claims, first, the method described according to which ores, minerals, metalloids, oxides, sulphides, metallic or metalliferous substances or compounds to be reduced, roasted, smelted, converted, cast, manufactured, or treated, and the lime clay fluxes or other accessorics, together with the fuel or carbon required, or a portion of such fuel or carbon, are reduced to a state of fine powder and mixed together in properly regulated quantities, and 1498 R. A. GREEN, Strand. Bearings, shafts or pivots triturated or agglomerated, or rammed and compressed Dated May 7, 1868. (the mixture being slightly moistened), substantially as The patentee claims the general improvements in described. Second, the improved arrangement and combination of parts constituting the improved furnace de-bearings, shafts, axles, or pivots, and such like folat, scribed. Third, the employment of refrigerating apparatus whereby an extended bearing surface is obtained, strengthso disposed as to cool the gaseous or aeriform products euing the joint, diminishing friction, aiding the means of of combustion on their exit from the furnace, substantially and to last for a long period of time.-Patent completed. lubrication, and causing all working parts to wear evenly, as described.-Patent completed. for heliographic engraving. 1499 A. C. HENDERSON, Charing-cross, London. Plates (A communication.) Dated May 7, 1868. One of the principal drawbacks in heliographic engraving is the difficulty in obtaining plates possessing a grain or hatching capable of retaining the printing ink, and thus impeding the striking off of proofs. The object of the present invention is to remedy this defect, and the invention consists in first taking a photographic proof on glass of the hatching desired to be produced, and which has been previously printed or traced on a surface of any kind, and by any known means; this hatching may be square, lozenge dotted, or otherwise according to the by transparency a photographie proof positive on glas nature of the engraving required. Second, in obtaining of the subject or object that is to be produced. Third, in placing these two proofs one on the other, so as to touch, and taking from them by transparency a second negative proof, which latter, when regarded transparently, has the effect of the reproduction of an engraving, that is to say, this second proof is marked with a grain or hatching that it does not naturally possess. This proof is then employed in obtaining a heliographic plate by the ordinary and well known means.-Patent completed. The object of this invention is, first, to provide engine drivers, guards, and others having the care of railway engines and trains, with such means as will enable them to observe signal points, crossings, junctions, and obstructions more clearly, and at greater distances, in all states of weather, by day or night, than can be done by unaided vision, so that they will be enabled to give or receive more timely warning of dangerand obstructions, and thus prevent accidents; and this part of the invention relates to arrangements or adaptations to facilitate the use of telescopic apvehicles, and consists in forming an elastic stage (which paratus upon railway engines, carriages, and other railway may be portable or otherwise) by means of steel, indiarubber, or other springs, upon which stage the observer can stand when making observations, being thereby steadied and freed in great measure from the vibrations or oscillations of the vehicle or train. This part of the invention also consists in mounting the telescopic apparatus upon a stand fixed upon or secured to the elastic stage above mentioned. The invention comprises other features. parasol, and form part thereof; or it can be made together 1500 A. C. HENDERSON, Charing-cross, London. Renora ting files by an electro-chemical procees. (A communication.) Dated May 7, 1868. The electro-chemical process forming the subject of the present invention consists in submitting old or worn illes to the simultaneous action of an electric current, and of a mixture of acids diluted with water, the former encourag ing the oxidation of the metal, and the latter producing a saline combination with the oxides formed.-Patent completed. 1501 K. H. CORNISH, South Molton-street, London. Entrenching tools intended to be applied to firearms. Dated May 7, 1868. This invention relates to entrenching tools intended to be applied to firearms and fitted into a recess formed in the butt end of the stock of the gun, and the feature of novelty in this invention consists in so constructing and attaching the handle as that it may be rigidly connected to the blade of the tool when the tool is required for use.-Patent abandoned. 1562 R. HARLOW, Heaton-Norris, Lancashire. Supplying water to, and withdrawing water from, baths, wash basins, &e. Dated May 7, 1868. This invention has for its object the construction of an apparatus for supplying hot and cold water to baths, wash basins, or other receptacles, more speedily than has hitherto been practicable, and in providing convenience for taking off the overflow and waste water in one and the same article or apparatus, and consists of a double valve arrangement, cach valve being worked by a threethreaded screw spindle, one of such valves supplying the hot and the other the cold water into a central compartment which communicates with a vertical cylindrical vessel connected near its lower extremity to the bath or other vessel to be supplied with water, the bottom of such vessel being provided with a seating for an annular valve disposed upon the end of a length of pipe or cylinder of smaller diameter than the vessel in which it is placed. -Patent abandoned. 1503 A. STRAUSS, Basinghall-street, London. Pipes for smoking. (A communication) Dated May 7, 1868. This invention consists in forming the lower portion of the bowl of considerably greater thickness than the upper portion, the increase in thickness being preferably sudden and not gradual, in order that the coloring may extend to the line of the increase.-Patent completed. 1504 J. H. JOHNSON, Lincoln's Inn-fields. Sewing machines. (A communication.) Dated May 7, 1868. This invention relates more particularly to what are known as shuttle or lock stitch sewing machines, although certain of the instruments are applicable to other descriptions of sewing machines, and has for its object the rendering of shuttle and other sewing machines noiseless, or nearly so, in working.-Patent completed. 1505 W. E. GEDGE, Wellington-street, Strand. Portable apparatus for administering resinous sudations. (A communication.) Dated May 7, 1868. This invention is not described apart from the drawings. -Patent completed. 1506 W. E. GEDGE, Wellington-street, Strand. Throstle frames for spinning flax, low, &c. A communication.) Dated May 7, 1868. This invention is not described apart from the drawings. -Patent completed. 1507 R. EVANS and J. BRUCE, Birmingham. Dressing millstones. Dated May 7, 1868. Here the inventors construct a machine or apparatus for dressing millstones in the following manner:-They fix upon a suitable framing a shaft or axle, to which a rapid rotation can be given either by hand, or by steam, or other motive power. A crank or cecentric on this shaft gives a rapid reciprocating motion to a connecting rod. The connecting rod is jointed to an arm sliding in suitable guides, and the connecting rod gives to the arm a rapid reciprocating rectilinear motion in a horizontal plane. The free end of the arm has a diamond fixed on its under side, and when the machine is applied to the millstone to be dressed, and properly adjusted and set into operation, it produces by the rapid reciprocating motion of the diamond a fine groove of the required depth. After the cutting of one groove, the arm carrying the diamond is moved so as to cut another parallel groove, and so on until all the grooves in one "quarter" are cut without shifting the machinery or apparatus.-Patent abandoned. 1508 J. BRUCE and R. EVANS, Birmingham. Bolters used for dressing flour. Dated May 7, 1865. The patentees claim making the beaters of the bolters inclined or oblique to the axis of rotation of the reel of the bolter; also curving the said inclined beaters so as to make them follow the figure of the said reel for the purpose.-Patent completed. 1509 R. K. MILLER and A. B. HERBERT, Edinburgh, and H. WATSON, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Knotters for straining paper pulp. Deted May 8, 1863. This invention relates to the construction of knotter" bottoms of a material, whereby they can be moulded into shape at a cheap cost. The material employed is vulcanite, the recesses and ribs being formed in nioulds, after which the thin slits or openings at the bottom of each recess are cut through.-Patent abandoned. 1510 G. BOWDEN and J. R. DICKINSON, Oxford-street. Protecting the points of brushes and pencils. Dated May 8, This invention is not described apart from the drawings. -Patent completed. 1868. or frames of rock-horing or excavating machines by means 3487 D. Griffiths, Chapel-street, Bradford, Yorkshire. Improvements in the formation of timber bearers for roofs and other purposes. 3435 T. B. Collingwood, Rochdale, Lancashire, and W. Hardman, Farnworth, near Bolton, Lancashire. Improve1513 C. E. BROOMAN, Fleet-street. Preparing zirconia, ments in machinery for the manufacture of spindles and and the employment of the same to develope the light of oxyhyyers, part of which machinery is applicable for cutting drogen flame. (A communication). Dated May 8, 1868. screw threads for other purposes. The patentee claims, first, the preparation of zirconia 3436 P. J. Livsey, Manchester. Improvements in sewin the form of sticks, discs, cylinders, or other suitable ing machines. (A communication.) form, substantially in the manner described, and the employment of the same when so prepared to develope the light of oxyhydrogen flame, as explained. Second, the modes or means, substantially as described, of extracting manufacturing, and agglomerating zirconia in order to produce sticks, discs, cylinders, or other required form. Third, the uniting by compression of a stick, dise, or cylinder of zirconia with a cylinder or stick of an inexpensive refractory earth, in order to produce a cheap stick or cylinder, as and for the purpose described.-Patent completed. APPLICATIONS FOR LETTERS Dated November 10, 1868. 3103 H. L. Bennison, Greenwich, Kent. Improved rotary engine and pump, to be driven by water or steam power. 3401 L. A. Israel, Crescent, Minories. The purpose of simplifying the present mode of manufacturing sulphuric acid, and for applying machinery for that purpose, and also for producing sulphuric acid with greater rapidity at a less cost, by means of improved apparatus. 3405 T. Rose, Oxton, Chester, and R. E. Gibson, New 3406 P. B. Tyler, Rue Gaillon, Paris. Improvements in 3478 W. R. Griffiths, Stapleton-road, Bristol. Improvements in boilers or steam generators. 3139 L. Wray, Ramsgate, Kent. Improved apparatus for crushing and grinding quartz and other hard sub stances. 3440 E. Haas, Mark-lane, City. Improvements in sewing machines. 3441 W. Donisthorpe, Trinity College, Cambridge. Improvements in machinery for getting coal and minerals, part of which invention is applicable also to steam hammers and other similar reciprocating machinery. 3442 G. P. White, Furnival's Inn. Improvements in the construction of screw piles, posts, and moorings. 3443 J. Kellow, Tremadoc. Carnarvonshire. Improvements in machinery for cutting rock, stone, and minerals. Dated November 13, 1863. 3444 E. Owen, Blackheath, Kent. the inanufacture of cases for night lights. 3445 W. Thomas, Cheapside, City. Improvements in the manufacture of boots and shoes." Improvements in 3446 B. P. Walker, North-road House, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. Improvements in forging or shaping metals, and in the machinery or apparatus employed therein. 3147 J. Dendy and J. H. W. Biggs, Manchester. Improved arrangements of warps in sizeing or dressing inachines and looms, and in the machinery or apparatus connected therewith. 3118 R. A. Dalton and G. S. Barton, Coventry. A new manufacture of upholstery trimmings, woven of silk, worsted, and cotton. 3449 C. E. Brooman, Flect-street, City, patent agent. Improvements in the manufacture of hangings and coverIm-ings for walls and other decorative purposes. (A communication.) 3108 G. Clark, Northumberland-street, Strand. 3409 J. Hine, Cockermouth, Cumberland. Improve- 3411 J. H. Wilson, Liverpool. Improvements applicable 3412 J. Gregory, Kingswood Iron Works, Bristol. An improved construction of retort for charring bones to pro duce animal charcoal. ments in safety lamps. 3414 T. Cain, Douglas, Isle of Man. Improvements in 3115 J. Hickisson, Southgate-road, Hackney, Middlesex. Improvements in the manufacture of pencils for writing or marking on linen and other textile fabrics, and on other surfaces. 3416 O. G. Abbott, Harrogate, Yorkshire. An improved apparatus for the distribution of sewage water and other fluids. 3417 W. Riddle, Larkhall-lane, Surrey. Improvements in hooping bales, or banding them with iron, and in apparatus connected therewith, part of which invention is applicable to other purposes. 3418 T. R. Crampton, Great George-street, Westminster. Improvements applicable to furnaces for burning combustible liquids, either alone or in combination with other fuel. 3419 II. Bessemer, Queen-street-place, Cannon-street, City. Improvements in the manufacture of cast steel and homogeneous malleable iron, and in the fusion or melting of different kinds or qualities of iron and steel and their alloys, and also in the construction and mode of working the furnaces and apparatus employed for such purposes. Dated November 11, 1863. 3420 T. Vaughan and E. Watteen, Middlesborough-onTees. Improvements in screw bolts, and in the means for securing the nuts thereon. able to boxes, cases, and refrigerators. 3454 R. A. Gold, Birmingham. Improvements in twowheeled carriages or cabs. 3455 W. Burgess, Hanley Castle, Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire. Improvements in signal apparatus for the protection of property and game. 3456 A. J. Deblon, Fives-les-Lilles, Department of the Nord, France. An improved expansive condensing and rotary steam engine. 3457 C. Jones, Ealing, Middlesex. Improvements in the treatment of sewage. Dated November 14, 1868. 3458 W. N. Nicholson, Trent Iron Works, Newark, Nottinghamshire. Improvements in hay-making ma chines. 3159 J. B. Green, Bury, Lancashire. Improvements in size used in preparing yarn or warps to be woven. 3160 T. Mills, Crescent-road, Plumstead, Kent. Improvements in steam generators. 3461 W. Harrison, Fenton, Staffordshire. Improvements in the construction of ovens or kilns for drying and fring or burning bricks, tiles, earthenware, or other similar materials. 3462 P. Hill, Kensington Park Gardens. Improvements in instruments or apparatus for preparing the strips of paper or other material employed for conveying signals in electric telegraph apparatus. 3463 G. J. Worssam, Wenlock-road, City-road, Middlesex. Obtaining motive power by water and air or gases. 3421 E. and F. Dixon, Clipstone-street, St. Marylebone, 3164 R. Beckley, Richmond, Surrey, and J. J. Hicks, Middlesex. The better, more securely, and quickly pack- Hatton-garden, Middlesex. Improvements in means or ing bottles of every description; such invention is adapt-apparatus for measuring and registering the quantities of 3422 R. Halliday, Worsley, Lancashire. Certain im-flowing liquids, which invention may be used as a rain gauge or as a liquid meter, and for measuring the strength provements in apparatus for oiling the axles of waggons of liquor run off from a still or other apparatus or vessel. used in collieries, and for other purposes. 3165 H. E. Newton, Chancery-lane. Improvements in Improve-propelling vessels. (A communication.) 3166 A. Turner, Leicestershire. Improvements in tho manufacture of elastic fabrics, 3423 E. Madge, Swansea, Glamorganshire. 3424 W. S. Thomson, Cheapside, City. Improvements 3425 M. H. Davies, Prince Alfred's-road, Wavertree, Liverpool. Improvements in the construction of fences 3470 J. C. M'Donald, Waddon, near Croydon, Surrey, 3426 G. and J. Wilson, Stafford-street, Hanley, Stafford- and J. Calverley, Albany-road, Camberwell, Surrey, Imshire. Improvements in kilns for burning bricks, cement,provements in the manufacture of stereotype printing pottery, and earthenware, and other articles or substances, surfaces, and in machinery for printing, and also for cut part of which improvements are applicable to furnaces ting into sheets rolls of paper. generally. 8427 F. Holmes, Marks Gate, near Romford, Essex. 1511 H. N. PENRICE, Wilton House, near Norwich. in machinery for wood shaping and similar purposes. 1512 W. HUSBAND, Hayle, Cornwall, and F. B. DOERING, Victoria-street, Westminster. Securing or holding the stands or frames of rock-boring or excavating machines. Dated May 8, 1868. This invention consists in securing or holding the stands Dated November 12, 1868. 3133 H. Henkell, Upper Thames-street, City. Improve- 3434 A. A. Hely, Stratford, Essex. Improvements in umbrellas, suushades, and parasols. 3471 H. Aitken, Falkirk, Stirling, North Britain. Improvements in treating iron ores or iron stones. 8472 J. H. Johnson, Lincoln's Inn-flelds. Improvements in railway wheels. (A communication.) Dated November 16, 1868. 3473 T. Berney, Bracon Hall, Norfolk. Improvements in the mounting and working of ordnance and defensive armour, and in the construction, forms, and means of applying defensive armour, and in the forms and in the use of some parts thereof, and also in the construction and use of apparatus for effecting the above purposes for the defence of ships and other vessels, forts, batteries, and other fortifications, and of ordnance in them and elsewhere where required, parts of which improvements are also applicable to other purposes. 3474 J. C. Bowler, Hale, near Bowden, Chester. Improvements in the construction of castors. 3475 H. A. Bonneville, Sackville-street. Piccadilly. Improvements in the shape and casting of missiles, and in the apparatus connected therewith. (A communication.) 3476 J. Smith, Cheetham, Manchester. Improvements in machinery or apparatus for stretching and finishing woven fabrics. 3477 H. Carter, Manchester. An improved apparatus to be employed for exhibition purposes in connection with gas burners. 3478 T. Martin, Royal Barracks, Dublin. Improvements in the means for supplying ammunition and other objects to troops under action, and in cars or vehicles employed for that purpose, which are also applicable to other pur poses; also a mode of packing such ammunition. 3479 P. J. Ravel, Paris. An improved steam generator. 3480 J. Matheson, jun., Glasgow. Improvements in dyeing and washing yarns, and in apparatus therefor. 3481 E. and A. Priest, Victoria Mills, Huddersfield, Yorkshire. Improvements in carding engines, technically known as scribblers or breakers. 3482 E. Hogg, Gateshead, Durham. Improvements in machines for straightening and planishing rolled iron. 3483 J. Hare, Handsworth, Staffordshire. Improvements in the manufacture of apparatus for expanding tables. 3484 A. M'Neil, Tiverton, Devonshire, and W. Wheaton, Exeter, Devonshire. An improved process for the manufacture of salts of ammonia from ammoniacal gas liquor. 3485 R. M. Boniwell, Richmond Surrey. Certain improvements in the construction of river boats, and in the machinery attached to the same for propelling them by manual power. 3486 W. Low, Roseneath Grove Park, Wrexham, and G. Thomas, Broad-street, Cardiff. Improvements in suspension bridges. 3487 S. W. Campain, Deeping St. Nicholas, Spalding, Lincoln. Improvements in apparatus to be used when tilling or working land by steam power. 3188 J. Cockshoot, jun., and H. Weatherill. Construc 3197 W. Dore and J. Thornhill. Motive-power engines. 3265 J. Silvester. Steam gauges. 2165 J. Prest, W. Mather, and W. Doherty. Chaff PATENTS ON WHICH THE STAMP DUTY OF £50 cutters. 2167 A. J. Le Blanc. Manufacture of belts. 2171 E. Rouget. Mode of fixing on paper drawings in crayons. 2172 M. Bebro. ing tickets. Apparatus for containing and deliver 2175 T. J. Mayall. Treatment of india-rubber. 2176 W. Creasy. Machinery for drying grain. 2177 J. Harris and V. Pendred. Manufacture of wrought iron and steel. HAS BEEN PAID. 2181 W. R. Oswald. Formation of steam and water- PATENTS ON WHICH THE STAMP DUTY OF £100 tight joints in tubular boilers. 2182 T. Worth. Railways. 2134 J. H. Johnson. Musical instrument. (A communication.) 2883 J. C. Goodall and J. OF SPECIFICATIONS PUBLISHED HAS BEEN PAID. 2827 D. Y. Stewart 2863 G. T. Bousfleld 2185 W. L. G. Wright. Rotary engines. Pr No. Pr. No. Pr. No. Pr. No. Pr. No. Pr. 8. d. 41203 0 4 41204 0 4 41205 0 4 4 1206 0 4 41207 0 4 41210 0 10 81165 0 2207 A. Munro and W. B. Adamson. Manufacture of iron. 2208 G. R. Mather. Mills for grinding colours. 2209 G., G. W., and J. Betjemann. Book slides. 2217 J. Cope and J. Bradbrook. Apparatus to be used in book-binding. 2221 C. J. Galloway and C. H. Holt. Operating piston valves of steam engines. 2252 W. J. C. Muir. Permanent way of railways. 2253 C. J. Galloway and C. H. Holt. Boilers for generating steam. 2270 H. B. Barlow. Machinery for spinning cotton. (A communication) 2274 E. Beanes. Brewing. 967 1 01022 0 10 10680 1011710 2279 R. Brett and G. Dauiels. Machines for driving ROILER INCRUSTATION. — Hewitt's drums for cultivating land. 2283 A. Homfray. Separating coal from bats. 2299 W. T. Hamilton. Dovetailing machine. 2301 W. T. Hamilton. Method of converting circular into reciprocating motion. 2347 A. M. Clark. Steering steam vessels. (A communication.) 2351 J. Higgin. Making aniline black. 2431 J. R. Croskey. Looms for weaving. 2456 H. Churchman. Cleaning boots and shoes. 2463 A. M. Clark. Scissors. (A communication.) 2492 F. Le Roy. Non-conducting composition for preventing the radiation of heat or cold. 2596 H. N. Waters. generators. Patent BLOCK PREVENTIVE COMPOSITION is the simplest and safest in application; warranted harmless in its action on the cocks, &c.: effects a saving of 33 per cent. in fuel. Many improvements have been made in the manufacture during the last four years, and the composition enjoys the highest reputation in the Royal Arsenal, H.M.'s Dockyards, and other Government and many large private establishments in the country. Price 42s. per cwt.-Address to (the principal agent) Mr. HARRIS, 25, Denbigh-place. Loudon, S. W. N.B.-Engineers are respectfully invited to give the compo a trial. B 100 THE NEW OIL TESTER s the only one that Indicates the Cash Value of Lubricating Oil. Feed-water heaters for steam J. BAILEY & CO., Sole Licencees, 2716 W. C. Green. Breech-loading firearms. coal. 3036 R. Heilmann and P. Hart. Utilizing the fumes or vapours evolved during certain chemical operations. 3122 W. Moodie. Propelling ships. 3165 W. R. Lake. Repeating breech-loading firearms. (A communication.) 3166 T. and T. Vicars and J. Smith. Self-feeding smokeless furnaces. 3187 T. Wrigley and J. Richardson. Looms for weaving. ALBION BRASS WORKS, B 59 These springs are no longer an ex periment, and are more elastic. 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 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 L. STERNE, TUCK and Co. beg to call attention to the annexed "TRADE MARK," whieh in future will appear upon each length of "TUCK'S PATENT PACKING," as also upon their Valves, guaranteed quality. 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