Sir Hugh Pigot, of Foley-place, knight, for a certain engine or engines useful as steam-engines, pumps, or propellers of vessels or machinery. September 13; six months. William Day, of Gate-street, Lincoln's-InnFields, lithographer, for an improved mode or method of applying and combining timber and other materials used in the construction of ships or vessels, masts, yards, beams, piers, bridges, and various other purposes. September 20; six months. James Nasmyth, of Patricroft, near Manchester, engineer, for certain improvements in machinery, tools, or apparatus for cutting or planing metals and other substances, and in securing or fastening the keys or collars used in such machinery, and other machinery where keys or collars are commonly applied. September 20; six months. Robert William Sievier, of Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square, gent., for certain improvements in rigger pulley bands for driving machinery, and ropes and lines for other purposes. September 20; six months. John Thomas Betts, of Smithfield Bars, rectifier, for improvements in the manufacture of gin, which he intends to denominate Betts' patent gin, or Betts' patent stomachic gin. September 21; six months. James Walton, of Sowerby-bridge, Halifax, cloth dresser and frizer, for certain improvements in machinery for making wire cards for carding cotton, wool, silk, tow, and other fibrous substances of the like nature. September 21; six months. Emile Alexis Fanquet Delarue, of Bacon's-hotel, St. Paul's Church-yard, calico printer, for certain improvements in providing and fixing red, and other colours in which red forms a constituent part, upon cotton, silk, woollen, and other fabrics. September 27; six months. John Hughes Rees, of Penymaes, Carmarthen, Esq., for certain improvements in machinery applicable to raising water for propelling boats, carriages, and other machinery. September 27; six months. John Joseph Charles Sheridan, of Ironmongerlane, chemist, for an improvements in the manufacture of soap. September 27; six months. Edmond Heuze, of Fenton's Hotel, St. James'sstreet, merchant, for improvements in the manufacture of dextrine. September 27; six months. John White, of Haddington, North Britain, ironmonger, for certain improvements in the construction of ovens and heated air-stoves. September 27; six months. LIST OF SCOTCH PATENTS GRANTED BETWEEN THE 22nd OF AUGUST AND THE 22nd OF SEPTEMBER, 1838. Charles Dod, of 21 Craven-street, Strand, Middlesex, gent., in consequence of a communication made to him by a foreigner residing abroad, for certain improvements in the construction of railway tram roads, and in the structure of the carriages to be used on the said railways or tram roads; and also of certain apparatus applicable to the cleaning and preserving of railways and tram roads. Sealed 23rd of August, 1838; four months to specify. Arthur Dunn, of Stamford Hill, Middesex, gent., for certain improvements in the manufacture of soap. August 24. Ambroise Ador, late of Leicester-square, now of 29, Rue de Faubourg Montmartre, Paris, chemist, for certain improvements on lamps, or apparatus for producing or affording light. August 28. Charles Phillips, of Chipping Norton, Oxon, surgeon, for improvements in apparatus or machinery for punching, bending, cutting and joining metal, and for holding or securing metal to be punched, bent, cut, or otherwise operated on, parts of which machinery are adapted to perform some of these operations on other materials. August 30. Job Cutler, of Lady Pool-lane, sparkbrook, gent., and Thomas Gregory Hancock, of Princes-street, Birmingham, mechanist, for an improved method of condensing the steam in steam-engines, and supplying their boilers with the water thereby formed. August 31. Charles Fitton, woollen manufacturer, and George Collier, mechanic, both of Cumberworth Half, Wakefield, York, for improvements in power looms. September 6. Charles Hancock, of Grosvenor Place, Hyde Park Corner, Middlesex, animal painter, for certain improved means of producing and applying figured surfaces, sunk and in relief, and of printing therefrom, and also of moulding, stamping, and embossing. September 13. Samuel Hall, of Basford, Nottingham, civil engineer, for improvements in steam-engines, heating or evaporating fluids or gases, and generating steam or vapours. September 15. William Joseph Curtis, of Stamford-street, Blackfriars Road, Surrey, C. E., for certain improved machinery and apparatus for facilitating travelling and transport on railways, parts of which are also applicable to other purposes. September 17. Thomas Robinson Williams, of No. 61, Cheapside, C. E., for certain improvements in machinery for spinning, twisting, or curling, and weaving horse hair, and other hairs, as well as various fibrous substances. September 18. Archibald McLallan, of Glasgow, coach builder, for certain improvements upon the springs and braces of wheel carriages, and upon the mode of hanging such carriages. September 21. LIST OF IRISH PATENTS GRANTED IN AUGUST, 1838. Bennett Woodcroft, of Mumps, Oldham, Lancaster, for improvements in the construction of looms for weaving various sorts of cloths, which looms may be set in motion by any adequate power.. Charles Pierre Davaux, of Fenchurch-street, London, for a new and improved apparatus for preventing the explosion of boilers and generators of steam. Hippolyte Francois, Marquis de Bouffet Montauban, Sloane-street, Chelsea, for improvements in the means of producing gas for illuminations, and in apparatus connected with the consumption thereof. Stephen Geary, of Hamilton-place, New Road, for improvements in the preparation of fuel. Michael Wheelwright Iveson, silk spinner, of Edinburgh, for an improved method of consuming: smoke in furnaces, and other places where fire is used, and for economising fuel; and also for supplying air, heated or cold, for blasting or smelting furnaces. Michael Wheelwright Iveson, for an improved method of preparing and spinning silk waste, wool, flax, and other fibrous substances, and for discharging the gum from silk, raw and manufactured, John Thomas Betts, of Smithfield Bars, London, rectifier for improvements in the process of preparing spirituous liquors in the making of Brandy. Charles Button, of Holborn Bars, and Harrison Grey Dyer, Cavendish-square, for improvement in the manufacture of white lead. NOTES AND NOTICES. The Highlandman's Almanack.-Bend the first and third fingers of the left hand-and, commencing with March at the thumb, count on-the bent fingers will indicate the months which contain only 30 days, Scotsman. A Fact for Framework-knitters.-Under the heading of "Hosiery," the Penny Cyclopædia contains the following interesting observations, which are already, or will presently be, applicable to every branch of cotton manufacture: At this moment, (July, 1838,) stocking frames, with a rotatory action, in which 12 fashioned stockings are made at the same time, superintended by only one man and a boy, and worked by steam-power, have been successfully brought into operation at Nottingham, and bid fair to supersede the use of the reciprocating engine, in whicn but one stocking can be made at once by a single workman. The economy in the process of manufacture that will be thus effected is very great, and may be the means of securing to our manufacturers for some time longer the supply of foreign countries-a branch of trade which was fast leaving us. The principal seat of the cotton hosiery manufacture abroad is at Chemnitz, in Saxony, where, owing to the low rate of wages, as compared with the earnings of the weavers of Nottingham, goods are made with yarns imported from Lancashire, at prices which have excluded English goods from third markets, and have even brought them into consumption in this country after paying a duty of 20 per cent. !" Railway Travelling in France.-We arrived at St. Germain-en-Laye at a quarter past seven o'clock; landed, walked to the railway station-house in eight or ten minutes, and obtained there tickets in return for cheques, which were put into our hands as we quitted the steamer. The charge for these tickets, which I believe is half a franc, was included in our fare; so, of course, we had nothing to pay. The station-house is a magnificent building, and the arrangements for the accommodation of passengers appeared to me in every respect unobjectionable. There were a great many applicants for places; but no rude contentions-no pushing about-no disorder of any kind. We entered the carriage indicated by our tickets, a roomy and well-constructed vehicle, without much show about it, and set off to the sound of a trumpet, slowly at first; the speed then was gradually increased until it attained a velocity, at no time, I think, exceeding 15 miles an hour. The trumpeter kept on sounding the whole way-a precaution that might be introduced into our railway arrangements with the most useful effect. The warning would be heard to a considerable distance; and, if it had been in use here these last two years, it would undoubtedly have prevented many accidents of a most disastrous nature. The vibration of the train of carriages was somewhat more than I had been accustomed to in England. We traversed the distance from the point of our departure to Paris in 27 minutes. At the terminus, omnibuses were in waiting for passengers to all parts of the capital.— New Monthly Magazine. Congreve Rockets-War Machinery.-The very flight of the Congreve rocket is startling; it springs from the ground in a volume of flame, and then rushes along with a continued roar, with its large head blazing, and striking point-blank, and with a tremendous force, at the distance of a mile or more. In a siege it is already extremely formidable. bursts through roofs; it fixes itself wherever it can bore its way; and it inflames everything that is combustible. Stone walls only can repel it, and that not always. This weapon may be regarded as almost exclusively English in its use, as well as its origin. It It will be like the English bow in the fifteenth century. In the next war what an extraordinary change will take place in all the established instruments of putting men out of the world! We shall be attacked at once from above, around, and below. We shall have the balloon showering fire upon us from miles above our heads; the steam-gun levelling us from walls and ramparts, before we can come within distance to dig a trench; the Congreves setting our tents, ammunition waggons, and ourselves, in a blaze in our first sleep; and the steam-boat running and doing mischief every where. But of all those mischief-makers I should give the palm to the rocket. No infantry on earth could stand for 5 minutes within 500 yards of a well-served rocket-battery. Half-a-dozen volleys of half-a-dozen of these fiery arrows would break the strongest battalions into fragments, lay one-half dead on the ground, and send the other blazing and torn over the field. The heaviest fire from guns is nothing to their effect. It wants the directness, the steadiness, the flame, and, resulting from all those, the terror. If the British troops shall ever come into the field without an overwhelming force of rocketeers, they will throw away the first chance of victory that ever was lost by national negligence. Nothing can be more obvious than that this tremendous weapon has not even yet arrived at its full capacity for war on a great scale. Blackwood's Magazine. French Steam Plough.-Among the new inventions in France, is one that is much talked of among speculators and manufacturers. It is a steam plough of very peculiar construction, with which it is said four miles of ground can be excavated with an engine of only eight horse power, to the depth of a foot, and the breadth of two feet, in a single hour. The projector of the canal from Orleans to Nantes, which under ordinary circumstances would require at least five years for its construction, pretends that in one year the whole would be completed by the use of this machine, and that the saving in mere interest of capital would amount to forty thousand pounds sterling. A friend of mine, who is one of the best engineers in Europe, tells me that he has seen the instrument, and that with some ameliorations he believes it would accomplish all that has been stated. The earth as it is turned up is thrown into a sort of sail, which throws it to a distance of sixty feet.French Paper. New American Printing Machine.-We copy the following from an American paper, The Peoria Register and North Western Gazetteer. Mr. Thomas French, of Ithaca, New York, is constructing his patent printing-press, at the Speedwell Works, near Middletown, which is to be attached to one of the paper-mills in that place. This press takes the paper immediately from the paper-machine, prints it on both sides, and passes it through drying cylinders, which press it smooth. Thus, in one operation, and within the space of 3 minutes, the pulp is taken from the mill, and a book of 356 pages is ready for the binder. The paper is printed in one continuous sheet, and a whole edition can readily be printed, rolled up, and sent to any distance. Mr. French has on his press Cobb's Juvenile Reader, of 216 pages. of which he presents us a sheet of about 70 feet long, neatly printed, and which can be examined at our office. The Railway Map of England and Wales continues on sale, in a neat wrapper, price 6d. ; and on fine paper, coloured, price is. British and Foreign Patents taken out with economy and despatch; Specifications, Disclaimers, and Amendments, prepared or revised; Caveats entered; and generally every Branch of Patent Business promptly transacted. A complete list of Patents from the earliest period (15 Car. 11. 1675,) to the present time may be examined. Fee 2s. 6d.; Clients, gratis. LONDON: Printed and Published for the Proprietor, by W. A. Robertson, at the Mechanics' Magazine Office, No. 6, Peterborough-court, between 135 and 136, Fleet-street.-Sold by A. & W. Galignani, Rue Vivienne, Paris. END OF THE TWENTY-NINTH VOLUME. Account file, Good's, 70 TO THE TWENTY-NINTH VOLUME. Aërial navigation, 44, 96, 107. Air, quantity of, required for respiration, 468 Alban's, Dr., steam generator, 327 America; education in, 156; act for regu- Animal Magnetism and Dr. Lardner, 208 111, 319; iron heating stove, 206; trial Antimony mines of France, 408 Architects, Institute of British, 176, 340 Aris's new mode of drawing parabolic curves, Asphalte pavement, 48, 168, 170, 176, 224, 448 Astronomical question controversy, 20, 68 Atlantic steam navigation, 13, 96, 120, 151, Bambridge and Thayer's rotary engine, 196 Bands, machinery, Chaplin's, 295 Barnard and Co.'s self-rolling mangle, 1 Barth's, Mr., evidence on the Victoria explo- Barytes, carbonate of, mixture with white Bayley, Geo. Esq., on steam navigation Bell's improvements in heating, &c., 317 Birmingham workshops, Marshall Soult's Block printing, Chinese, 291 Blurton's apparatus for milking cows, 6 Boots, waterproof, 22 Bottle-washing machine, 24 Bowring, Dr., on the mining of France, 409 Breakwater, floating, 396 Brunel's Thames tunnel works, 252, Cable stopper, Baron de Bode's, 113 Camera obscura, invention of, 23 181, 231 divested of its adhesiveness, Carpenters' bench, improved, 454 Ceilings, Cade's fire-proof, 183 Champion's rotary engine, 194 Chanter's smoke-consuming furnace, 97 Chimney cleaning in America, 64 Chucks, simple mode of forming eccentric Church's, Dr., railway signals, 416 steam carriage, 249 Cider, domestic manufacture of, 45 Civil Engineering, King's College Lectures Clark's rotary engine 196 Clay coal, smelting with, 319 Clegg's dry gas-meter, 431, rotary engine, Coach lamps, improved, 416 Coal mines of France, 404 Cocker's needle-making machinery, 185 Combis's Marquis de, rotary engine, 196 Cooking stove, improved domestic, 177 Cooper's patent railway, 417 Cordage, new mode of making, 320 Cornwall, Gilbert's History of, 11 Cotton, quick transformation of bale of, 208 Crank of steam-engine, loss of power by, 92, Crowther's rotary engine, 196 Curve, parabolic, new mode of drawing, 42 Davenport's electro-magnetic engine, 94, Davies's fire-proof paint, 232, 432 Davy, Mr. Christopher, on railway mileage, Dawes's rotary engine, 196 Deal, improvements at, 32 De Bode's patent cable stopper, 113 Docks, St. Katharine's, construction of, 89 Door weather strips, Brower's, 303 Dredge's suspension bridge chain, 115 Dundonald's (Earl of) rotary engine, 196 Electrical telegraph, 320 Electricity, sounds caused by, 112; Clarke's Electro-magnetic engine, Davenport's, 94, 297, 413; Knight's illuminated, 230, Epicycloid, mode of generating the interior, 186 Ericsson's propeller, 143, 176, 283; rotary Ettrick's, Mr. W., mode of cutting off a head Evans, Mr. R.; on Taylor's steam boiler Everitt's, Professor, experiments on Joyce's Ewart, Mr. P., evidence on the Victoria ex- Expansion gear, Whitelaw's steam, 305; Fairbairn's riveting machinery, 473 Farey, Mr. John, evidence on the Victoria ex- File for accounts, &c., Good's, 70 Fire, danger of, from steam-boat flues, 434 Fire-engine beating springs, 119 Fire-proof ceiling, Cade's, 183; composi- Flockton's mode of preserving timber, 48 Fairbairn's, engravings by Bates' machine, Fuel, Joyce's patent, 32, 33, 53, 54, 73, 77, Garbutt's new telescope mounting, 273 Gas meter, Clegg's dry, 431 Gas stove, Wright's improved. 81 Gases, generation of explosive, in steam- Gay-Lussac's report on Joyce's stove and Geological models, Sopwith's, 431 Glass-cloth, Baker's, 447 Gorgon steam frigate, description of, 185, -238 Gradients, table of railway, 476 Graham's, Professor, report on lpan oxydat- Great Seal of the United Kingdom, 318 Gregory, Dr. O., retirement of, 208 Hair, removing, from skins, new mode of,303 Hall's steam-engine. See Steam engine. Hatter's irons, stoves for heating, 206 Heating apparatus, Perkins's, 425; and see Hebert's steam-boiler, 327 Hemp, Lull's machine for dressing, 207 Hero's rotary engine, 195 Horse-power, Eny's observations on steam- Horse-shoes, statistics of, 214 Houses, machine for removing whole, 303 Hunter's stone-planing machinery, 47 ; ma- Hydraulic belt, Hall's, 431 Hydraulic telegraph, Whishaw's, 46 India rubber steam-engine, Hancock's, 387 Iron beams, Rastrick's experiments on Iron chest, Sherwood's patent, 142 Iron for railways, Mushet on manufacture Iron welding, improved, 272 Irons, smoothing, stove for heating, 206 |