1836.] 



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45 



the new patents issued from the Patent Office, and at 

 as early date, as circumstances permit. The editor, 

 Dr. Jones, who prepares these lists, and accompanies 

 them with his comments, possesses great and peculiar 

 facilities for the task — and therefore his opinions, 

 as to the value of new inventions, deserve much re- 

 spect. A large proportion of these patents are for in- 

 ventions or alleged improvements of machines, or im- 

 plements, designed to aid processes in agriculture, or 

 domestic economy — and it is this class alone, that we 

 shall extract for re-publication. By this means, a no- 

 tice of every new invention will reach our readers, be- 

 fore a travelling agent offers it for sale, and the service 

 rendered by the earlier information to farmers, will be 

 of much more value, perhaps, in directing what to re- 

 ject, than what to approve and purchase. 



Extract from the Journal of tlm Frauklin"[Institute for April 

 1S35. 



MONTHLY LIST OF PATENTS FOR IMPROVE- 

 MEiVTS IN MACHINES OR IMPLEMENTS, OR 

 PROCESSES CONNECTED WITH AGRICUL- 

 TURE OR, DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 



[The whole number of patents issued in Sep- 

 tember 1835, (the last monthly list yet published,) 

 amount to 67, of which the following 21 are of the 

 class embraced by our plan for this and future month- 

 ly republications.] 



For a Lever Press; Jonathan Payne, Russel- 

 ville, Logan county, Kentucky, Sept. 9. 



This lever press, it appears, has been the sub- 

 ject of an arbitration under tlie ninth section ol' 

 the patent law of February, 1793, relating to in- 

 terlering applications, which terminated in favor 

 of the above named patentee. The construction 

 of the press is pretty clearly made known in the 

 Bpeciiication, but no claim is there made to any 

 part of it. It is intended lor cotton, hay, tobacco, 

 &c. &c. and is constructed as follows. A stout 

 sill, from 30 to 50 feel in length, has, rising from 

 the middle of it, two upright pieces of timber 10 

 feet high, which serve to sustain a lever, or beam, 

 between them of the same length with the sill, 

 and measuring 12 by 10 inches. A stout pin, ser- 

 ing as a fulcrum, passes through the upright 

 cheek pieces, and through the beam. Either end 

 of this beam may be drawn down by means of a 

 rack and wheel work, the latter being sustained 

 by the sill, and the former depending from the le- 

 ver. A pinion, probably of 4 or 5 inches in diam- 

 eter, turned by a winch, gears into a wheel of 7 

 feet diameter, having a pinion on its axle of 6 or 

 7 inches diameter, which acts upon the rack. 



No directions are given for using this press, but 

 as only one end of the beam can be employed at 

 a time, the rack and gearing must at one end be 

 used to raise,and at the other to depress the beam, 

 between which and the sill the pressing must, ne- 

 cessarily, be effected. 



For a Churning and Washing Machine; Tho- 

 mas Ling, VVinihrop, Kennebec county, Maine, 

 September 9. 



This is a swinging, or pendulum churn, which 

 really has some novelty about, it and even in this 

 fact alone, their is something cheering, as original- 



ity has long been a rare element in churns and 

 washing machines. 



The churn is a round tub suspended vertically 

 within a frame, so that it can swing like a pendu- 

 lum. A vertical shaft within the tub carries dash- 

 ers, as it IS the case in many other churns. To 

 cause the dashers to operate, the shaft projects 

 above the tub, and a strinir, or cord, passed once 

 or twice round it, the two ends of the string being 

 attached to opposite sides of the frame; on vibrat- 

 ing the tub, the string operates like a drill bow, as 

 will be readily perceived. The claim is to *'the 

 modification and combination of the swing or pen- 

 dulum churn and the dasher, for churning and 

 washing." 



For a machine for Washing Cloihes and Full- 

 ing Cloths; Orrin D. Wade, China. Genesee 

 county, New York, an alien who has resided two 

 years in the United States, September 9. 



The clothes are to be put into a box, or trough, 

 through the lid of which there passes a row of up- 

 right shafts having fiat blocks of wood on their 

 lower ends, which blocks nearly touch each other. 

 A row of horizontal levers, hung upon fulcra, and 

 acted upon by lifters on a revolving cylinder, cause 

 the shafts and their blocks to rise alternately, 

 whilst springs above the levers force them down. 

 This constitutes the whole apparatus, to which no 

 claim is made. 



For a machine for Shelling Corn; Elijah 

 Morse, Knox county, Tennessee, September 9. 



A roller of cast iron is to revolve horizontally, 

 and upon it there are to be rows of teeth which 

 pass betwen others on -the frame. The feeding, 

 as we suppose, is to be effected by placing the 

 ears upon a concave, hinged cover; whence they 

 are to roll, or be forced, against the revolving 

 shaft; a winch occupies one end of this shaft, and 

 a fly wheel the other. The description is very 

 imperlect, and the drawing, although well execu- 

 ted, must certainly show the teeth of" the machine, 

 and some other parts, incorrectly. The claim is to 

 "the application of the roller, and the general con- 

 struction of the whole machine." 



For the Application of Hydraulic Cement, 4*c,; 

 Obadiah Parker, city of New York, Septem- 

 ber 9. 



This is an application patent, like most of, or 

 nearly all, those obtained for the use of cement. 

 Hy an application patent, we mean one which 

 might be taken for applying a plaster of some ap- 

 proved salve to the head, another being taken for 

 applying it to shoulder, and others for all the va- 

 rious divisions and subdivisions of the superficies 

 of the corporeal system. In the present instance 

 are enumerated, "house and store cellars, vaults, 

 small wood-cellars, vegetable cellars, cellars under 

 side walks in cities, vaults in cemeteries, and vaulta 

 for milk, and garden cellars; the construction of 

 walls, floors, aud roofs of buildings, and walls for 

 enclosure; the construction of locks and guards 

 for canals; the construction of sinks for kitchens, 

 and other purposes;" "which has not been known 

 or used." Indeed! there is novelty in this infor- 

 mation, and this, we are well convinced, is the 

 only place in which we shall find it, although eigh- 

 teen pages are occupied by the specification of 

 these applications, and the claim thereto. 



