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[No. 7 



cleanses them thoroughly with about half the la- 

 bor, and fully a saving of one fourth the soap. 

 The method adopted, was to dissolve a little of 

 the pipe-clay among the warm water in a wash- 

 ing tub, or to rub a'little of it together with the 

 soap on the articles to be washed. The process 

 was repeated as often as required, until the article 

 washed was made thoroughly clean. All who 

 tried the experiment, have agreed that the saving 

 of soap and labor is great; and that the clothes 

 are improved in color equally as if they were 

 bleached. The peculiar advantage of employing 

 this article with the soap is, that it gives the hard- 

 est water almost the softness ol' rain water. — 



l_Dundee paper. 



Fxtracts from tlic Journal of tlie Franlilin In-;titiite. 



LIST OF PATKNTS ISSUED IIV FEBRUARY, 1S36. 

 FOR IMPROVEMENTS OF MACHINES, &C. TO 

 BE USED IN AGRICULTURE, OR DOBIESTIC 

 ECONOaiY. 



TVith remarks, by the Editor of the Journal of the 

 Franklin Institute. 



For a Machine for peeling Apples and Peeches ; 

 J. W. Hatcher, Bedford county, Virginia, Febru- 

 ary 3. 



This, we believe, is the sixth peeling machine 

 that has been patented, and we do not think it any 

 improvement upon the first, which was that of 

 Moses Coates, obtained in 1803. The one before 

 us, has a spmdie, with a fork to receive the apple, 

 a second spindle with an endless screw, a cog 

 wheel, pinion, whirl and band, and other appen- 

 dages for moving the knife , the apparatus for 

 moving the knife is the only part claimed. 



For a Conking Stove; J. R. Cochran, Frances- 

 town, Hillsborough county, New Hampshire, 

 February 3. 



There is nothing in this stove worthy of special 

 notice, its virtues depending upon the particialar 

 arrangement of the passaores for heated air, and 

 the dampers or valves. The claims are to -'the 

 form and coastruction of the apertures fijr the pas- 

 sage of the fire, and the dampers for closing either 

 of them, or the passage under the oven, and the 

 division of the passages for fire, by partitions, 

 whereby the whole volume ol' fire is thrown on 

 one side of the stove, and a greater heat thus pro- 

 ducad on that side, and various degrees are pro- 

 duced in dilferent parts of the stove at the same 

 lime, suitable for the different processes of cooking, 

 and with less fuel than in any other stove of equal 

 dimensions." As one object professed to be at- 

 tained in a new cooking stove is, in nearly every 

 case, to save fuel, we shall, by the time we have 

 another five hundred stoves patented, not only 

 save the whole, but have some to spare, should 

 each of them save a little uj)vvards of one five 

 hundredth part only. 



For a Cooking Stove; J)i-miel Williams, 

 Scaghticoke, Rensselear county. New York. Feb- 

 ruary 3. 



This stove resembles, in form, a number of 

 other cast-iron cooking stoves, havinu: ti body 

 nearly rectangular, a fire place llirnished with 

 folding doors, an oven similarly furnished above it, 



and openings towards the back of the top plate, 

 Ibrcooking utensils. Its claim to novelty consists 

 in making the fire place a sliding drawer, which 

 can be brought forward upon the bottom plate; 

 this drawer has a grate upon which the fuel is sus- 

 tained, and a top plate, perforated lor cooking 

 utensils. When pushed in, there is, necessarily, 

 a double plate between the fire and the interior ol" 

 the oven. 



The claims are to the movable, sliding fire place, 

 the manner ol" connecting it with the other parts 

 of the stove, and particularly to the obtaining by 

 its means, a double bottom to the oven, and there- 

 by regulating the intensity of" the heat; the provi- 

 sions lor carrying oti the steam, &,c. 



For an improvement in the Cultivator ; James 

 M. Gamett, Loretto, Essex county, Virginia, 

 February 3. 



This is called an improvement on the X, or 

 Echelon Cultivator. " It consists of a curved 

 cast-iron, marked No. 3, having in the under sii'e 

 two dovetail grooves, which the wrought iron 

 marked No, 4, [shown in the drawing] is made to 

 fit, so that when one point is worne out the other 

 may be turned. Four of these are fixed in a bar 

 of wood diagonally, at an angle of 45°, to a 

 straight beam of the length and size of a common 

 plough beam for a single horse." 



For a JSIachine for Shelling Corn; Isaac A. 

 Hedges, Elmira, Tioga county, New York, Feb- 

 ruary 3. 



This machine in its general principles, resem- 

 bles the first shelling machine which was patent- 

 ed. It has a revolving cylinder and a concave, 

 between which the ears of corn are to be shelled. 

 The cylinder is to be formed of cast-iron staves, 

 with spaces between them for the escape of the 

 grains of corn ; the concave is borne up by 

 spriuiTs. The ears are to be put into a hopper a- 

 bovc the cylinder, and to be conducted through a 

 proper aperture to the shelling part. The claim 

 is to " the concave cylindrical surface by a com- 

 bination of staves, with springs attached as herein 

 described ; aud the application of such surface so 

 Ibrmed to the purposes of corn shelling; as also 

 the application of such surface to a cylinder for the 

 same purpose." 



For an Oven to be used over the common Pi re 

 Place ; Samuel Pollard, Orono, Penobscot coun- 

 t}', Maine, February 3. 



This patent is taken for an improvement upon 

 the oven patented by the same person in June, 

 1835, and noticed at page 46, vol. XVII. The 

 sheet-iron oven is placed, as before, across the 

 chimney, above its throat, and in addition to the 

 fiue leading to it, about level with the surtace of 

 the fire, there is a second Hue near the throat of 

 the chimney, which is closed by a door. A grate 

 is fixed in the flue to sustain fuel, that a fire may 

 be lighted there when there is none in the fire 

 place. The claim is to " the introduction of" (he 

 second described flue, damper and grate; the out- 

 side cylinder and the damper above, or on the top 

 of it, these being the additions now made, as im- 

 provements." The se(^ond c^dinder forms the flue 

 aroumi the oven, and is like that in common use 

 in similar ovens set in jambs. 



