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and pinions to regulate the same, and there is a 

 claim to '"the propelling of vibrating or dasher 

 churns, by means of a weight, or weights, attach- 

 ed to a gearing of cog, belt or band wheels, or all 

 of them." 



For a Turning Lathe, to turn Rake Slaves, 

 Hoe Handles, Sfc, James Haven, Newport, Sulli- 

 van county. New Hampshire, October 14. 



If there is any thing really new in this lathe, 

 the patentee has not enabled us to discover it; the 

 object proposed, that of varying the form of the 

 handle, or other article turneJ, according to a pat- 

 tern, is a thing well known. The specification, 

 without the aid of a good drawing, is insufficient 

 for the intended purpose; and thatVhich is called 

 a drawing serves only to "make darkness visible." 

 At all events, a lathe, which would turn such han- 

 dles most perfectly, may be constructed without 

 violating the rights of any one. 



For a Plough; Junius S. TefTt, Amherst, Erie 

 county. New York, Octeber 17. 



The claims are to "the manner of constructing 

 and using the standard; of applying the landside 

 plate, and the general combination of the parts." 



For a Machine for Propelling Machinery; Da- 

 vid Russell, Tuscumbia, Franklin county, Ala- 

 bama, October 27. 



This is called "Russell's Power Motion Ma- 

 chine," and we suppose that it is intended to gain 

 power, in some vvay, but how, we are not told, 

 and cannot discover. A circular platform of wood, 

 which is a flat ring, two feet wide , twenty in diam- 

 eter, and four inches thick, rests upon steel springs; 

 upon this platform, a heavy wheel is to roll, having 

 a horizontal shaft geared into a vertical centre 

 ehaft, in the manner of some bark, drug, and other 

 mills. The magic is, no doubt, in the springs, 

 but we have no seer by us to unbind the spell. 



The combination and arrangement are claimed, 

 and we are t^ld that "this machine may be used 

 to propel all kinds of machinery, and may be 

 propelled by steam, horse, water, or manual pow- 

 er." 



For a Portable Saio Mill; David Russell. Tus- 

 cumbia, Franklin County, Alabama, October 27. 



Strange as it may seem, this portable saw mill, 

 although invented by the patentee of the machine 

 for propelling machinery, is to be driven by a horse, 

 geared to a shaft, in the usual way. A frame is 

 made, which is to be moved about upon wheels, 

 and is to sustain the various parts of the mill, 

 which has nothing peculiar in its construction, ex- 

 cepting it be that the sa-v is not to be strained in a 

 frame, but the upper end of it is to be acted upon 

 by springs, which are to aid in raising it, in con- 

 junction with the operation of the crank at its low- 

 er end. Respecting the use of" springs, we refer 

 to No. 8, p. 327; this application of springs is not 

 claimed, nor, indeed, is any thing, excepting "the 

 combination and arrangement of theseveral parts," 

 which, when there is no novelty, is a convenient 

 mode of slurring the matter over. 



For a Cotton TVhipper; Lucian Osgood, Pom- 

 fret, Windham county, Connecticut, October 27. 



"What I claim as my improvement, and by 

 which the whipping machine for cotton is llicilita- 



ted, and rendered more effective than heretofore, 

 is the placing the whip shafts of such machines 

 obliquely, so as to form an angle with the hori- 

 zon, of twenty-five, or such other number of de- 

 grees as may be preferred." 



For an improvement in the Machine for Hul- 

 ling Cotton Seed; Anderson Miller, Washington 

 county, Mississippi, and Thomas Laws, Jetierson 

 county, Kentucky, October 27. 



This machine is said to be an improvement 

 upon that of Follet & Smith, but the whole ar- 

 rangement of it is described, without any attempt 

 being made to distinguish between the improve- 

 ments, and the original machine. Much stress is laid 

 upon the frame being of cast-iron, the gudgeons 

 running in brass boxes, and all the parts oif" the 

 machine being firmly made; there is also an ec- 

 centric roller described, by turning which the feed 

 can be regulated. It should be recollected by the 

 patentees, and purchasers of machines, or rights, 

 that, excepting under the authority of Messrs. 

 Follet & Smith, there can be no valid conveyance 

 of the improved machine, any more than there 

 can be of my house by a tenant, because he has 

 improved it. 



For an improvement in Making Ploughshares 

 and Coulters; Samuel A. Sperry, Ann Arbor, 

 Washtenaw county, Michigan, October 27. 



The iron is to be rolled, as nearly as may be, 

 into the proper shape: it is then to be converted 

 into steel, and the shares, or coulters, are after- 

 wards to be forged into such forms as may be 

 wanted. The right to do this is claimed, which 

 claim is one of a very questionable character. 



For a machine lor Crushing and Grinding 

 Corn; Anderson P. H. Jordan, Madisonville, 

 Monroe county, Tennessee, October 28. 



The crushing to be efi'ected by a twisted bar of 

 wrought iron, operating like that described by 

 Oliver Evans, as used in mills lor grinding plaster 

 of Paris; from this twisted bar, the corn is to pass 

 between a conical nut and shell, of the ordinary 

 form. "The improvement consists in the uniting 

 of the nut to the twisted bar, and upon this union 

 the patent is claimed;" a union which may very 

 well be dispensed with. 



For a Horse Ponier; Asa Trahcrn, Henry He- 

 beriing, William E. Lukens, and John Heber- 

 ling, Short Creek, Harrison county, Ohio, Octo- 

 ber 28. 



This horse power is of the well known kind 

 in which the animal, walking in a circle, is geared 

 to a lever extending from a vertical shaft; at the 

 lower end of this shaft is a crown, or bevil, master 

 ivheel, gearing into a pinion, or wallower, on a 

 horizontal shaft, even with the ground. We can- 

 not find any thing new in the atlair; but the pa- 

 tentees claim "the eye of the master wheel and 

 shaft, and the moving pinion, by which means, 

 wood, pot metal, and iron, 'and consequentl)-, cost, 

 are saved, and its utility greatly increased, whilst 

 it is rendered much more portable." We are told 

 that the master wheel "has a round eye, and runs 

 on a round shaft." And tlic pinion by which the 

 power IS communicated at the outer end of a ho- 

 rizontal shall, runs in a ii'ame which may be 

 moved round, so as to cause it to stand on any 

 part of the periphery of the wheel which drives it. 



