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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No 8 



pronounce the contrivance for continuing the 

 power, greatly inferior to that of tlie ordinary fly 

 wheel, knows but little of machinery. 



For a Cooking Stove; Billy Titus, of Marshall, 

 Oneitla county, and Anson Titus, of Phelps, On- 

 tario county, New York, February 25. 



The claims made are to ■'' tlie application of a 

 tin or sheet iron baker or cover, for the purpose of 

 baking or cooking on the movable hearth, in the 

 manner specified, and the application of a box 

 Btove of very small size, and in its simplest and 

 cheapest shape, to cooking, as described." The 

 stove and its fixtures appear to us so much like 

 many others, that wc cannot venture to tell what 

 is meant by the foregoing claims. 



For a Vibrating Pump ; Sampson Davis, Der- 

 by, Orleans county, Vermont, February 25. 



The patentee says, "what I claim as new, is a 

 new improvement of principle in tbe metliod ol 

 raising and conveying water, by means of the vi- 

 brating pump. I claim no more." This new ap- 

 plication of principles consists of a small overshot 

 wheel, supplied with water in the usual way, and 

 having a crank upon one end of its shaft, which is 

 to work the piston of a small tbrce pump. The 

 cylinder of the pump is made to vibrate, like that 

 of the vibrating steam engine, and the water is to 

 be delivered through a flexible hose, admitting 

 thereby of a free vibration. 



For a Smut Machine ; Abraham Mudge, Can- 

 ajohaire, Montgomery county. New York, Feb- 

 ruary 25. 



"The principle which I claim to have applied 

 to the purpose of cleanmg grain from smut and 

 other impure substances, by means of the machine 

 above described, and which application I claim to 

 have invented, is that of throwing the grain by 

 means of wings, or flanches, attaclied to a circular 

 plate as above described, against some hard sub- 

 stance with sufRcient force to break smut balls 

 &c." 



This apparatus appears te be very well calcula- 

 ted to effect the proposed object, and to blow off' 

 the dust Irom the smut and other sources; but the 

 form of the claim is objectionable, as the same 

 principle has been before applied lor attaining the 

 same end, and it is the particular method of apply- 

 ing the principle, alone, which is the proper sub- 

 ject for a claim. 



For an improvement in \\\q Saw 3lill ; David 

 Worthington, Peru, Berkshire county, Massachu- 

 setts, February 25. 



The saw used is to be furnished with teeth on 

 each of its edges, and is to cut the stuff' as the car- 

 riage travels in either direction. There are to be 

 two rag wheels with teeth in opposite directions, 

 and two feed hands, one for each wheel ; the 

 double toothed saw is not new, and is not claimed 

 as such, the claim beino; confined to the particular 

 arrangement adopted for moving the rag wheels ; 

 a thing in which there is no dilRculty whatever, 

 every machinist knowing methods of accoaiplish- 

 ing this object, which no patent can prevent him 

 ii:om employing. 



For a Bee House ; Ebenezer Beard, New 

 Sharon, Kennebec county, Maine, February 25, 



The claim made is to " the manner of construct- 

 ing and arranging the hives and boxes within the 

 house, and the manner in which the bees commu- 

 nicate therewith." We have no doubt that the 

 arrangement described, is convenient and benefi- 

 cial, but we do not think that it is sufficiently dis- 

 tinguished, in the description, from other similar 

 contrivances, to admit of a claim so general. 



For a machine for Washing and Pressing 

 Clothes; Caleb Angevine, City of New York, 

 February 25. 



The claim is to " the circular wash cask ; the 

 manner and mode of ai)plying the steam ; the dog 

 or other animal power to the cylinder; together 

 with the formation of the horizontal press, and 

 also the perpendicular lever press, as described in 

 the specification." 



We cannot say much for the novelty of the in- 

 dividual things claimed, as will be evident from a 

 brief description. There is a boiler with a furn- 

 ace under it, and a steam pipe leading fi-om it into 

 a horizontal cylinder, within which the clothes are 

 to be placed, and agitated by dashers, made to re- 

 volve by a winch, in the ordinary way. The 

 pressing is effected by placing the clothes within 

 a cylinder, and forcing them together by means of 

 a piston, or follower ; the application of dog 

 power, is, we apprehend, a mere embellishment, 

 giving some lile to the affair. 



For an improvement in the Cotton Gin; Hen- 

 ry Clark, Montville, New London county, Con- 

 necticut, February 25. 



This improvement consists in making the iron 

 ribs between which the saws pass, in two thick- 

 nesses, the front being of steel, and attached to 

 the iron by screws. The claim is to " the making 

 the ribs in two parts, so that they can be easily 

 detached and repaired." 



For a House Warmer ; O. Kindrick, and W. 

 El well, Gardiner, Maine, February 25. 



A hollow box of iron is placed across the back 

 of the fire place, with a tube fi'om one end of it 

 leading into a cellar, or other place, tor a supply 

 of cold air, the other end being furnished with a 

 lube to conduct the heated air into the room ; this 

 latter tube is to pass to some distance up the 

 chimney, where it is to be elbowed, so as to ad- 

 mit the heated air into the room ; and the paten- 

 tess say, " what we specifically claim as our im- 

 provement, and for which we ask an exclusive 

 right, is the making ofj and applying a box, cis- 

 tern, or cockle, as above described, to a common 

 fire place, fire frame, or stove, lor the purpose of 

 heating or warming rooms." 



This plan is equally old and inefficient. Would 

 it not be well to add a dog wheel, or some other 

 motive power, to force air through the tube by 

 means of a blowing apparatus I 



FACTS IHl RKGARD TO THE DURATION OF 

 LIFE, OF SLAVES AND FREE NEGROES. 



A correspondent of the New York American, 

 under the signature of "A New Englandor," pre- 

 sents some valuable and curious statistical inflirm- 

 ation, as to the mortality among whites and blacks, 

 slaves and free, deduced ti-om the bills of mortality 

 of the cities of New York, Philadelphia and Bal- 



