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which remain in it when procured from the ground 

 materia!. 



How many thousand times the chemist has thus 

 obtained the extract of bark in his laboratory, we 

 cannot tell, but certainly more frequently than 

 from the pulverized material. 



For an improvement in the Cotton Saw Gin; 

 William and*James iVrCrei^ht, VVinnsborough, 

 Fairfield district, South Carolina, February 5. 



The gin retains its usual form, but the paten- 

 tees claim, " first, a movable breast; second, sli- 

 ding ribs, and third, the centres of the brush, and 

 the pivots on which they turn," which improve- 

 ments, they say, render the apparatus more dura- 

 ble, and more easily kept in order. 



"The breast is hung to the front of the gin with 

 two hinges, and can always be raised so as to get 

 at the saws," when they require any attention. 

 The sliding ribs are so called, because they are 

 made so as to shift, oi slide, and expose new por- 

 tions of them to the action of the seed, so that they 

 may be shifted endwise four or five times, belbre 

 they require to be renewed ; they are confined at 

 their ends by screwed cleats, which are loosened 

 when the ribs are to bo shifted. The pivois of 

 the brush are made of square cast-steel, pointed at 

 each end, and fixed in a manner which allows of 

 then* being shifted readily when one end is worn. 



For a Bee Hive ; James W. Hubbard, Canter- 

 bury, Merriraac county, New Hampshire, Febru- 

 ary 5. 



There is not any thing in the contrivance of this 

 hive which appears to merit particular notice, the 

 thing claimed is a mere trifiing matter of arrange- 

 ment. 



For a Thrashing Machine; Lewis H. Maus, 

 Danville, Columbia county, Pennsylvania, Febru- 

 ary 5. 



This is said to be an improvement on James 

 Parson's thrashing machine. The cylinder and 

 concave are to be of cast-iron, and the improve- 

 ment appears to consist in the casting it in parts 

 more light and convenient than the original ma- 

 chine; there, however, is no specific claim, nor is 

 there any thing in the operation of the machine, 

 as now patented, to distinguish it from other cylin- 

 der and concave thrashing machines. 



For a machine for Planing and Dressing 

 Boards; Melzer Twells, Milo, Yates county, 

 New York, February 10. 



A flire wheel is to revolve vertically, carrying 

 four, or any other number of, plane irons, and close 

 to the periphery are to be cutting bits, or hooks, to 

 precede the double or single irons in their opera- 

 tion. The boards are to be held edgewise, rest- 

 ing against standards upon a suitable carriage, 

 and held against the vertical standards by dogs. 

 The plane wheel is to be driven by one band and 

 whirl, and the carriage to be moved by another. 

 This comprises all the information given, and 

 there is not any claim. The plan has nothing in 

 it having the remotest alliance to novelty, nor 

 does it, bear those features of maturity Avhich 

 would lead to the conclusion that it had been tried. 

 The fact, is that as presented in the specification, 

 it will not work well, and if it would, a patent 

 could not be suslamcd for it. 



For a Machine fur Shelling Corn; Henry G. 

 Neale, Poultney, Rutland county, Vermont, Feb- 

 ruary 10. 



A rubbing board, furnished with teeth, or cased 

 with a toothed cast-iron plate, is made to slide ho- 

 li/.ontally in grooves, by means of a handle, a 

 second rubbing being placed under it, and borne 

 up towards it by steel or wooden springs attached 

 to the frame. The claim is to the whole machine 

 as constructed. 



For a Machine for cutting Straw, Hay, ^-c. 8f.; 

 Chauncy D. Skinner and Danna Reed, Had- 

 dam, Middlesex county, Connecticut, Februci- 

 ry 10. 



The specification of this patent gives a verbose 

 description of the dimensions of the ditlerent parts 

 of the machine, and ends by claiuiino: "the com- 

 bination of the various parts as described." The 

 material to be cut is placed in a trough in the usu- 

 al way, and the knile is fixed upon the face of a 

 wheel revolving vertically ; the shalt of this wheel 

 has a crank on it, and is to be driven by the aid of 

 a treadle, in the manner of a foot lathe. There is 

 no feeding apparatus, or any thing of moment not 

 pointed out by us. 



For a Churn; Lyman Whitlier, Vienna Ken- 

 nebec county, Maine, February 10. 



A churn, in the ordinary ibrni of the vertical 

 kind, is so hung as to swing backwards and for- 

 wards like a pendulum, there being a suitable 

 frame to sustain it. A vertical shaft passes 

 through the top, and runs in a pivot at the bottom 

 of the churn ; wings, or dashers, being attached 

 to it to agitate the cream. A small cog wheel, or 

 pinion, surrounds the vertical shaft, above the 

 lid of the rhurn, and the teeth of this wheel 

 take into teeth on a piece of timber, forming a 

 rack, and attached to the (i-ame, which, when the 

 churn is swung, causes the shaft to revolve; the 

 swinging may be effected by means of a rod, or 

 other contrivance, attached to it for that purpose. 

 The claim is to the mode of producing motion by 

 the action of the cogs. 



For a Machine for Cutting Straw; Joseph 

 Evered, an alien, who has resided two years in 

 the United States, February 10. 



The description of this machine refers to the 

 drawing throughout, and ends with a claim to 

 "the finger wheels; the rising and falling of the 

 rollers ; the compression produced by the lever 

 and weight ; the concavity of the knives edges ; the 

 plan of the face of the wheel through which the 

 straw is drawn ; the centre screw on the worm 

 and spindle, and its rise." The general form of 

 the machine such as has been in use for more 

 than half a century, the straw being contained in 

 a trough, furnished with fluted f(?.eding rollers, and 

 the cutting effected by curved knives on the arms 

 of a fly wheel, revolving at one end of the box ; 

 these curved knives, it will be seen, are claimed 

 as new; if the inventor could go back as far as 

 we can in the recollection of the use of curved 

 knives, in a manner precisely the same with 

 their employment in this machine, he would not 

 place himself among the novelties of the da_v. 

 There are other thinirs claimed, which are in the 

 same predicament, and where so m;my individu-^l 

 things are jiarticularized, it is not easy to avoid 



