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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 6 



the axe of the woodman. We apprehend that 

 the patentee has not had much experience in 

 clearing land, or he would have known that his 

 wedges and other contrivances would not enable 

 him to determine the direction in which his tree 

 should tail, and that the experienced axeman is 

 sometimes at a lault in this particular, an event 

 which would be latal to the whole apparatus be- 

 fore us. 



For Separating foreign seeds from Clover Seed ; 

 James Manning, Lamberfsville, Hunterdon coun 

 ty,-Nevv Jersey, January 6. 



A screen, or riddle, is to be made in the form of 

 a flour bolt, or otherwise, and this is to be covered 

 with wove wire, the meshes of which are oblong, 

 and a little narrower than the diameter of the clo- 

 ver seed ; the claim is to the " making these aper- 

 tures of an oblong figure." This patent will take 

 rank with those which are the least worthy of an 

 exclusive riivht, for however good such a screen, 

 sieve, or riddle, may be, it has been so common as 

 (o render the idea of claiming it as a novclly truly 

 ridiculous. 



For a Washing Machine ; Joab H. Hubbard, 

 Bloomfield, Harford county, Connecticut, Janu- 

 ary 6. 



By this machine the clothes are to be " pound- 

 ed" in a box, upon the bottom of which there are 

 pins projecting upwards ; the pounders, two in 

 number, having pins on their lower sides which 

 pass into the spaces between those witliin the box. 

 The pounders have each a rod extending up Irom 

 Ihem through the lid of the box, and these being 

 operated upon by cams and sj^rings, are raised by 

 the former and forced down by the latter. A hori- 

 zontal shaft carrying a cog wheel, and turned by 

 a winch, causes a second shaft, having a pinion 

 on it, to revolve, this latter, carrying the cams, or 

 lifters : rather a complicated child of ingenuity 

 this, and one, which we opine, will not find many 

 foster mothers. 



For a Mill for cutting Grain and other articles; 

 William Gerrish, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 

 January 11. 



Two iron plates from six to eighteen inches in 

 diameter, constitute the cutting, or grinding, part 

 of this mill. The under plate is to be the runner, 

 and to be driven by any proper gearing ; both 

 plates are to be slightly conical. The upper plate 

 is to have several perforations in it, which are to 

 receive cutting irons, fixed and operating in the 

 manner of plane irons. Besides these cutters there 

 are ridges, or teeth upon the grinding faces. The 

 claim is to " the cutters and cavities, their particu- 

 lar arrangements and principle, applied to this 

 purpose." 



For a 3fachine for Planting Corn; Charles 

 R. Belt, Washington county, District of Colum- 

 bia, January 15. 



There are many patented machines for planting 

 corn, cotton, and other seeds, so nearly resembling 

 each other, as to constitute different modifications 

 only of the same machine, and such is the charac- 

 ter of the one before us. The claims made are 

 confined to two particular points in which the pa- 

 tentee considers liis machine as excelling its pre- 



decessors, but its superiority not being apparent to 

 us, we shall pass on to other matters. 



For a Plough; John Dollianer, Canton, Stark 

 county, Ohio, January 15. 



There is nothing claimed as new in this plough, 

 but the mode in which the parts are fastened to- 

 gether, so as to give it the desired stability. 



For securing JVdls from the influx of Surface 

 Water; Levi Kidder, city of New York, Janu- 

 ary 15. 



" The principle of this improvement consists in 

 the construction of hydraulic cement, of a pro- 

 tecting cover and sides to wells, cisterns, reser- 

 voirs, and other vessels in the earth, whereby the 

 water within them will be secured against the in- 

 flux of surface water, and the intrusion of vermin 

 in the n>ode and by the means substantially as de- 

 scribed." 



The mode described is to raise a wall of cement 

 upon the ordinary wall of the well, to cover this 

 with a top in the form of a dome, leaving an 

 opening in the middle for ihe pump body. 



For a 3fachinef()r pressing Tobacco in; J. Be- 

 verly Allen, City of Richmond, Virginia, Janu- 

 ary 15. 



This machine for pressing tobacco in, is merely 

 a square box, fbunoftlie sides of which are of tin, 

 the other two being of wood. The patentee says 

 that " before this box was invented, the n)anufac- 

 turers of pressed tobacco were compelled to use 

 oaken boxes, the material for constructing which 

 has recently become very costly, and difficult to be 

 obtained. What I claim as my invention, and 

 not previously known, in the above described ma- 

 chine, is the use of tin for (bur sides thereof, in- 

 stead of wood, which was before exclusively 

 used." 



For a Plough; Samuel VVitheron, Gettysburg, 

 Adams county, Pennsylvania, Januar}' 15. 



The whole description is as follows : "The im- 

 provement consists in placing a roller under the 

 beam, near the centre of the plough, in or near a 

 perpendicular position; the roller may be made 

 plain, ridged, grooved, or otherwise. The use of 

 the roller is to prevent the j^lough from choaking, 

 by rolling ofi' the vegetable matter that usually 

 collects under the beam." 



For an jfrf, or method, or process, of lessening 

 the consumption, and of increasing and otherwise 

 improving i/ie effects of fuel; Isaac Orr, Wash- 

 ington, District of ('olumbia, January 20. 



It is not easy from the title, to tell lor what this 

 patent has been obtained ; whether for a stove of 

 a particular construction, or for the art of mana- 

 ging the fuel. The claims however, fifteen in 

 rnnnbcr, relate principally to matters of construc- 

 tion, but in a way so general and difl'usive, as not 

 by any means to enable us to distinguish those 

 things which are intended to be the subject of the 

 patent "from all other things before known or 

 used," as required by the act of Congress. The 

 principal feature in the stove which The patentee 

 denominates the air-tight stove, is the so con- 

 structing, or making, the sliding or other doors 

 which open into the stove, that when closed they 

 shall bc; as nearly as may be, air-tight, by which 



