alone or combined to form an endless chain, and the adapting thereof, in certain cases, with a cylinder, to supersede the use of the perforated cards, or other similar means, for the production of figured tissues, as before described in reference to figs. 4, 5, and 6. 3. Constructing and adapting of two or more cylinders provided with moveable pegs, to supersede the perforated cards, or other similar means, for the production of figured tissues, as before described in reference to figs. 1 and 2. 4. The employment of moveable pegs, keys, and conductors, serving as needles, in combination with upright hooks, by means of which the warp threads are raised or left stationary for the production of the pattern, as before described. 5. Certain arrangements and combinations for putting in motion the second parts, in substitution of the ordinary Jacquard machine. 6. The giving motion to the shuttle by means of a uniform force, independently of the action of the loom. 7. Winding the warp threads on two rollers, having their weight acting always on them and on the warp threads. ANDREW CROSSE, Gloucester-place, Newroad, Middlesex, Esq. For improvements in tanning hides and skins, and also in dyeing fabrics and substances. Patent dated May 24, 1849. The patentee (the celebrated electrician, we presume), who disclaims the latter part of the title of his patent," and also in dyeing fabrics," states that his invention consists 1. In subjecting skins or hides, for the purpose of unhairing them, to hydrosulphuret of lime, which is obtained by passing sulphuretted hydrogen through lime and water. 2. In submitting the skins or hides, during the process of tanning, to electric or galvanic effects, by placing a plate of lead and a plate of zinc on opposite sides of the pit, and connecting them by a metal strap above the level of the water. The skins are suspended in the pit for a week, in water, which is converted into ooze or tanning liquor, of a strength of 15° sacchorometer, by the addition of bark. Or, the water is removed, and ooze substituted for it. The strength of the ooze is successively increased 5° every week, until it attains 45°, when the tanning operation is completed. Claims.-1. Subjecting skins or hides to hydrosulphuret of lime. 2. The employment of the means for producing electric or galvanic effects during the tanning of skins or hides. REES REECE, St. John-street, Smith field; and ASHLEY PASTON PRICE, Margate, Kent, chemist. For improvements in the manufacture and refining of sugar and saccharine matters. Patent dated May 24, 1849. Claims.-1. The use of the byposulphite of lime, the hyposulphite of magnesium, the hyposulphite of barium, the hyposulphite of strontium, either singly or in conjunction with the solutions of acid sulphate of alumina, acid acetate of alumina, or acetic acid, as defecators of sugar and saccharine matters. 2. The use of the hyposulphite of alumina as a defecator of sugar and saccharine solutions. 3. The use of the hydrosulphuret of the sulphide of magnesium, the bisulphuret of magnesium, or the sulphurets of magnesium; the hydrosulphuret of the sulphide of calcium, the bisulphuret of calcium, or the sulphurets of calcium; the hydrosulphuret of the sulphide of barium, the bisulphuret of barium, or the sulphurets of barium; the hydrosulphuret of the sulphide of strontium, the bisulphuret of strontium, or the sulphurets of strontium; as precipitants of lead or of any of the salts thereof which may be found in solutions of sugar or saccharine matters. 4. Subjecting saccharine solutions, for the purpose of removing any sulphuretted hydrogen which may exist in a free state or result from the decomposition of the sulphurets employed, to the combined action of heat, from steam or otherwise, and a vacuum, or to boiling in vacuo. 5. The use of sulphurous acid, or the hyposulphite of alumina, or the hyposulphites which when treated with an acid, or otherwise, produce or liberate sulphurous acid as a primary or secondary decomposition to remove any excess of sulphuretted hydrogen. 6. The use of saccharate of lime, saccharate of baryta, or saccharate of strontia to neutralize any acid which may be found in solutions of sugar or saccharine matters resulting from the employment of the acid sulphate of alumina or the acetate of alumina. 7. The use of saccharates of lime, of baryta, or of strontia, as the source of carbonate of lime, carbonate of baryta, or of carbonate of strontia, which are produced by passing carbonic acid gas into solutions of these saccharates, and also the application of either of the carbonates in the refining of sugar or saccharine matters. 8. The use of saccharate of lime, of baryta, of strontia, or of magnesia as a source of hydrated saccharate of calcium, of baryta, of strontia, or of magnesia, which are produced by passing hydrogen gas into solutions of these saccharates until none of the same is absorbed, to neutralize any acid or decompose any salt which may exist in solutions of sugar or saccharine matters resulting from the employment of lead. 9. The use of bicarbonate of alumina, or bicarbonate of magnesia, as a defecator of sugar or saccharine matters, 10. The use of the soluble sulphites as defecators of sugar or saccharine matters. 11. The use of the soluble sulphites in the treatment of canes, or beetroot, for the purpose of extracting saccharine matters therefrom. 12. The use of the soluble hyposulphites in the treatment of canes, or beetroot, for the purpose of extracting saccharine matters therefrom. THOMAS GOODFELLOW, Tunstall, Stafford, earthenware manufacturer, and GEORGE GOODFELLOW, Shelton, in the same county, potter. For improvements in the method or methods of preparing plastic materials for manufacturing purposes. Patent dated May 24, 1849. Claims. The preparation of materials by employment of superincumbent atmospheric pressure, to press out, separate, or discharge water and moisture therefrom, according to the methods described in the specification. 2. The mixture of clay or marl with combustible substances, in order to the manufacturing thereof into porous articles. [The details of this invention will be given in an early number.] ANDREW SMITH, St. James, Westminster, engineer. For improvements in machinery for, or methods of manufacturing rope or cordage, and improved modes of fitting and using the same. Patent dated May 24, 1849. For specification and claims, see ante, p. 516. FREDERICK STEINER, Hyndburn, Accrington, Lancashire, Turkey-red dyer. For improved processes and apparatus to be used in the Turkey-red dye on cotton and its fabrics. Patent dated May 24, 1849. These improvements relate 1. To a frame for stretching two pieces of woven fabric, between which the cotton, wool, or yarn, or cotton fabric is placed, in order to prevent injury thereto from handling during the processes of dyeing, washing, and brightening. 2. To an arrangement of apparatus whereby the cotton is subjected to each of the before - mentioned processes, without the necessity of their being removed, or even touched during the operation. And 3. To an arrangement of apparatus in connection with the drying stove, to facilitate the cotton being placed in or withdrawn from it, and also to regulate its degree of dryness. 1. The stretching apparatus consists of a framework, carrying at one end a supplyroller, round which one of the pieces of woven fabric is wound, and at the other end, but at right angles to the first, a second supply-roller, with the second piece of woven fabric wound upon it. At the end of the frame, opposite to the first supply-roller, there is placed a receiving-roller, and above each of them is a small anti-friction roller, over which the woven fabric is led from the first supply-roller, and attached to the receiving one. The other piece of woven fabric is brought to bear against that upon the second anti-friction roller, and is also made fast to the receiver, so that on the revolution of this last, by means of a winchhandle adapted to its axis, the two pieces of woven fabric will be wound thereon. The two supply and receiving rollers are furnished with weighted levers, which may be made to act upon them as occasion may require, for the purpose of retarding their revolutions, and consequently stretching the fabrics. The modus operandi is as follows: -The fabrics, being wound upon their respective rollers (on which the weighted levers are made to act), and attached to the receiver, rotary motion is communicated to this latter, while the cotton, wool, yarn, or fabricis placed upon the woven fabric between the anti-friction rollers, and thereby wound upon the receiver between the two fabrics. When this operation is completed, the first supply-roller is relieved from the weighted lever, and the second piece of cloth is taken off its roller, and, passing over the anti friction rollers, is attached to the first. A weighted lever is applied to the receiving roller, and rotary motion communicated to the first supply roller, whereby the two pieces of woven fabric, with the cotton between them, will be drawn over the two anti-friction rollers previously to their being wound upon it, and while in that position are stitched together. 2. It is proposed to employ a framework, carrying two horizontal rows of rollers suspended in the dye vat. The top rollers are furnished with tooth wheels upon their axes, and with intermediate pinions, whereby the roiary motion imparted to the first (the axle of which passes through a stuffing-box in the side of the vat) is communicated to the entire series. The dye vat is closed at top, and provided with a safety-valve, while a steam supply pipe and a waste cock are adapted to the bottom. The two fabrics (stitched together with the cotton between) are passed over the first top roller and under the first bottom roller, and so on to the last. The vat is filled with dye liquor, the steam turned on, and the material passed through it by reason of the rotary motion of the 526 rollers. When the material is dyed deep 3. The drying stove consists of a cham- Claims.-1. Stretching, between two pieces of woven fabric cotton, either in the state of wool or yarn, or in any of the intermediate stages, or in such of its fabrics as cannot be so advantageously operated upon in the ordinary manner. 2. The apparatus described under the second head, when used in all or any of the processes of dyeing, washing and brightening cotton in Turkey-red dyeing. 3. The processes and apparatus for suspending cotton in a stove for heating and drying it, in which it may be moved and withdrawn as required. WEEKLY LIST OF NEW ENGLISH PATENTS. Francis Justin Duburguet, of Cahors, France, for certain improvements in hydro-pneumatic engines. November 22; six months. Joseph Pierre Gillard, gentleman, of Paris, France, for certain improvements in the production of heat, and light in general. November 22; six months. William Garnett Taylor, of Burton House-hall, Westmoreland, gentleman, for improvements in lint and linting machines. November 24; six months. George Calloway of Putney, Surrey, station agent; and Robert Alleé Purkis, of the same place, engineer, for certain improvements in propelling ships and other vessels, also in apparatus for ploughing land. November 24; six months. Charles Cowper, of Southampton - buildings, Chancery-lane, for certain improvements in piling, fagotting, and forging iron for plates, bars, shafts, axles, tyres, cannons, anchors, and other similar purposes. November 24, six months. Joseph Barrow, of St. Paul's, Deptford, Kent, engineer, for improvements in axles and axle-boxes of locomotive engines and other railway carriages. November 24; six months. Ambroise Ador, of Paris, France, engineer, for improvements in producing light. November 24; six months. Henry Lamplough, of Snow-hill, consulting chemist, for a new mode of supplying pure water to eities and towns. November 24; six months. Frank Clarke Hills, of Deptford, Kent, manufacturing chemist, for an improved mode of compressing peat for making fuel or gas, and of manufacturing gas, and of obtaining certain substances applicable to purifying the same. November 24; six months. Francis Tongue Rufford, of Prescot-house, Worcester, fire-brick manufacturer; Isaac Marson, of Cradley, in the same county, potter; and John Finch, of Pickard-street, City-road, Middlesex, manufacturer, for improvements in the manufac ture of baths and wash-tubs, or wash vessels. November 24; six months. James George Newey, and James Newman, of Birmingham, for improvements in the manufacture of button studs, and other dress fastenings and ornaments. November 28; six months. Charles Barlow, of Chancery-lane, London, for improvements in the manufacture of a certain pigment. (Being a communication.) November 29; six months. Louis Napoleon Le Gras, of Paris, France, civil engineer, for improvements in the separation and disinfection of fecal matters, in the manufacture of manure, and in the apparatus employed therein. November 30; six months. LIST OF SCOTCH PATENTS FROM THE 22ND Alexander Parkes, of Harborne, Stafford, chemist, for improvements in the deposition and manufacture of certain metals. and alloys of metals. and improved mode of treating and working certain metals, and alloys of metals, and in the application of the same to various useful purposes. Sealed, October 24; six months. Conrad William Finzel, of the city and county of Bristol, sugar refiner, for improvements in processes and machinery employed in and applicable to the manufacture of sugar. October 24; six months. William Edward Newton, Chancery-lane, Middlesex, C.E., for improvements in machinery for planeing, tongueing, and grooving boards or planks. (Communication.) Oct. 24; six months. David Owen Edwards, of Sydney-place, Brompton, Middlesex, surgeon, for improvements in the appli. cation of gas for producing and radiating heat. October 24; six months. John Mercer, of Oakenshaw, Lancaster, and William Blythe, of Holland Bank, Oswald Hoistle, in the same county, manufacturing chemist, for improvements in certain materials to be used in the processes of dyeing and printing. October 31; six months. William Henry Ritchie, of Brixton. Surrey. gent., October 31; six for improvements in fire-arms. months. Charles Cowper, of Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, Middlesex, for certain improvements in the manufacture of sugar. (Communication.) November 2; six months. Joseph Lowe, of Salford, Lancaster, surveyor, for certain improvements in grates or grids, applicable to sewers, drains, and other similar purposes. November 2; six months. John Holt, of Todmorden, Lancaster, Manager of the Waterside Works, for improvements in machinery or apparatus for preparing cotton and other fibrous substances, parts of which improvements are applicable to machinery used in weighing. November 5; six months. William Buck well, of the Artificial Granite Works, Battersea, Surrey, C. E., for improvements in compressing and solidifying fuel. November 5; six months. Thomas John Knowlys, of Heysham Tower, near Lancaster, esq., for improvements in the application and combination of mineral and vegetable products, also in obtaining products from mineral and vegetable substances, and in the generation and application of heat. November 5; six months. Henry Crosley, of the firm of Henry Crosley, Son, and Galsworthy, of Emerson-street, Surrey, engineer and coppersmith, for certain improved modes or methods of, and apparatus for heating and lighting, for drying substances, and for employing air in a warm and cold state, for manufacturing purposes. November 7; six months. Henry Knight, of Birmingham, Warwick, for certain improvements in apparatus for printing, embossing, pressing, and perforating. November 12; six months. Adam Yule. of Dundee, master mariner, and John Chanter, of Lloyds, London, and Arnold Terrace, Bromley, Middlesex, gent., for improvements in the preparation of materials for coating ships, and other vessels. November 14; six months. John Parkinson, of Bury, Lancaster, brass founder, for improvements in machinery or apparatus for measuring and registering the flow of liquids. November 14; six months. Alexander M'Dougall, of Longsight, Lancaster, chemist, for improvements in recovering useful products from the water used for washing, and in treating wool, woollen and cotton fabrics, and other substances. November 14; six months. Peter William Barlow, of Blackheath, Kent, C.E., for improvements in parts of the permanent ways of railways. November 14; six months. George Edmund Donisthorpe, and John Whitehead, of Leeds, manufacturers, for improvements in preparing, combing, and heckling fibrous matters November 16; six months. Walter Crum, of Thornleibank, Renfrew, in Scotland, calico printer, for certain improvements in the finishing of woven fabrics. November 16; six months. Alfred Barlow, of Friday-street, London, warehouseman, for certain improvements in weaving. November 19; six months. Charles Edward Amos, of the Grove, Southwark, Surrey, engineer, and Moses Clark, of St. Mary's Cray, Kent, engineer, for improvements in the manufacture of paper, and in the apparatus and machinery used therein; part of which apparatus and machinery is applicable for regulating the pressure of liquids, for various useful purposes. November 21; six months. Joshua Proctor Westhead, of Manchester, manufacturer, for improvements in the manufacture of fur into fabrics. November 21; six months. LIST OF IRISH PATENTS FROM THE 21ST Thomas Beale Browne, of Hampen, Gloucester, gent., for certain improvements in looms, and in the manufacture of woven and worsted fabrics. October 22. John Goodier, of Mode-wheel. Manchester, Lancaster, miller, for certain improvements in mills for grinding wheat and other grain. October 22. William Edmond Newton, Chancery-lane, Middlesex, civil engineer, for certain improvements in steam boilers. (Communicated.) November 6. Pierre Armand Lecomte de Fontainemoreau, of No. 4, South-street, Finsbury, for certain improvements in weaving. (Communicated.) November 22 WEEKLY LIST OF DESIGNS FOR ARTICLES OF UTILITY REGISTERED. Date of No. in Registra- the Re tion. gister. Nov. 22 2093 23 2094 Proprietors' Names. Addresses. Subjects of Design. Reynolds and Tillcocks New Bond-street..................... Ladies' haut-ton vesture. 27 2099 28 2100 29 New Bond-street..................... ton............................................... Manchester Game register. Spring for a spring neckcloth. The Newton coat without seam. William Burgess......... Blackfriars-road ..................... Gutta percha hose joint. PERCHA FACTOR HANCOCK'S WEST HAM STRATFORD HAN ANCOCK AND CO. solicit attention to their very superior manufactures in GUTTA PERCHA, &c., which they continue to supply on their usual advantageous terms, having secured an unlimited quantity of the new material previously to the late speculations in the market. As LICENSEES UNDER THE FIRST PATENT granted for the manufacture of Gutta Percha, they further beg to inform their Correspondents that with regard to any dealings had with H. and Co., for goods manufactured by them under their License, they are ready to hold al their customers harmless and indemnified from any proceedings which may be threatened to be taken against them, by ANY PARTIES assuming to be Patentees under subsequent Patents; the only stipula ion on the part of H. and Co. being, that they and their Solicitor shall have the conduct of any defence tthat may be considered necessary. IT GUTTA PERCHA. Wharf Road, City Road, London. cannot now be doubted even by the most sceptical, but that GUTTA PERCHA must henceforward be regarded as one of the blessings of a gracious Providence, inasmuch as it affords a sure and certain protection from cold and damp feet, and thus tends to protect the body from disease and premature death. Gutta Percha Soles keep the feet WARM IN COLD, AND DRY IN WET WEATHER. They are much more durable than leather, and also cheaper. These soles may be steeped for MONTHS TOGETHER in cold water, and when taken out will be found as firm and dry as when first put in. Gutta Percha Tubing. Being so extraordinary a conductor of sound, is used as speaking tubes in mines, manufactories, hotels, warehouses, &c. This tubing may also be applied in Churches and Chapels, for the purpose of enabling deaf persons to listen to the sermon, &c. For conveying messages from one room to another, or from the mast-head to the deck of a vessel, it is invaluable. For greater distances the newly-invented Electric-Telegraph Wire covered with Gutta Percha is strongly recommended. Mill Bands. The increasing demand for the Gutta Percha strapping for driving bands, lathe-straps, &c., fully justifies the strong recommendations they have everywhere received. Gutta Percha Pump Buckets, Clacks, &c. Few applications of Gutta Percha appear likely to be of such extensive use to manufacturers, engineers, &c., as the substitution of it for leather in pump buckets, valves, &c. These buckets can be had of any size or thickness WITHOUT SEAM OF JOINT, and as cold water will never soften them they seldom need any repair. Gutta Percha Picture Frames. The Gutta Percha Company having supplied HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN with several elaborate Gutta Percha Picture Frames for Buckingham Palace, which have been highly approved by the Royal Family, fully anticipate a great demand for frames from the nobility throughout the country. In order that the picture-frame makers may not be injured, the Company will supply the trade with the mouldings, corner and centre pieces, &c., and allow them to MAKE UP the frames. Pattern books for the trade are now ready. Gutta Percha soles, solution, inkstands, cardtrays, medallions, picture-frames, brackets, mouldings, window-blind cord, soap dishes, tap-ferrules, cornices, vases, fire-buckets, bowls, pen-trays, stethoscopes, thin lining, thread, flower-pots, cartrumpets, &c., &c., manufactured at the Company's Works, Wharf-road, City-road, London; and sold by their Wholesale dealers in town or country. |