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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 11 



For Compressing Hay, Sj-c, and Elevating Hea- 

 vy Bodies; Adrastas R. Chaniberliii, and Arte- 

 ruas Cleflin, Riclimond, Lincoln county, Maine, 

 March 30. 



A pinion and wheel are to turn a shaft, round 

 which a chain is to wind, which chain passes over 

 a pulley at the end of a piston rod, that is to car- 

 ry the follower lor pressing. The other end of the 

 chain is to be fastened lo some fixed body. In- 

 stead of passin<r over the pulley, on a follower, 

 the chain may be attached to a stump which it is 

 desired to draw from the ground. 



The claim is to "the application of the pulley 

 ns used by us, for a sincrle or double press : and 

 the application of our machine to the raisino; of 

 stumps or other heavy burdens." There are so 

 many better machines, lor effectinir the same pur- 

 poses, that this will stand but little chance of goinij 

 into operation ; or if it has been used, we appre- 

 hend that it will soon cease to do so. 



For an improvement in JVlnd Mills; Job Wil- 

 bur, Fall River, Bristol county, Massachusetts, 

 March 30. 



This is to be a horizontal wind mill, to contain 

 the vanes, or win<zs, of which, a round buiidinji, 

 thirty feet high, and twenty in diameter, is to be 

 erected ; the upper part of this building, is made 

 to revolve on the lower, in order to change the sit- 

 uation of two windows, or openinirs, made for the 

 admission and discharge of the wind. Six vanes, 

 placed on a vertical shaft, in the centre of the 

 building, are to receive the action of the wind ; 

 these vanes are to be angled to hold the wind the 

 more effectually. 



There is no claim made, a point, in the present 

 case, of no great importance, the structure being 

 very much like others which have been tried, and 

 abandoned. • 



For a Machine for Ploughing and Thinning 

 Cotton; Harvey W. Pitts, Wilsonville, Shelby 

 county, Alabama, March 31. 



The claim made is to "the machine as de- 

 scribed," a claim which it will hardly bear, as 

 parts of it are very similar to machines which 

 have been used for like purposes ; yet we believe 

 there is sufficient novelty in the contrivance to en- 

 able it to sustain the character of a new machine. 

 We shall not rake time to describe it, as it would 

 be no easy task to render it intelligible without a 

 drawing. 



For a Corn Shelter; Albert W. Gray, Mid- 

 dletown, Rutland county, Vermont, March 31. 



This machine is to operate upon the ears by 

 means of a revolving, flat wheel of wood, set 

 with points, and standmg vertically ; the ears are 

 to be held up against it by means of a spring con- 

 ductor. The general arrangements are very sim- 

 ilar to those in other revolving, disk shelling ma- 

 chines, and the particular points and combinations 

 ■which are made the subject of a claim, appear to 

 be unimportant, not, we apprehend, renderincr it 

 either better or worse than others previously in 

 use, and now public propert}^ 



For Reflecting Ovens ; Cicero Yan Allen, 



Penn Van, Yates county. New York March 31. 



In the claim appended to the specification of 



principles in it, yet we are at a loss to discover 

 one ; it is so much like some other tin kitchens, for 

 bakins and roaslinir before the fire, and our eye 

 so little like that of the inventor, that we cannot 

 see the new parts to which he believes that he di- 

 rectly points. The aides, back, and bottom ap- 

 pear to be rectangular, and the top to slope regi'i- 

 larly back ; there is a spit lor fowls, hooks for 

 birds, bars on which to place pans, a dripping 

 pan to catch the gravy, and a peep hole throush 

 which to observe how matters go on. and these 

 constitute the " single reflecting oven." 



For a Self Moving and Accumulative Engine ; 

 John James Giraud, city of Baltimore, iMatvli 31. 



How many self-moving and accumulative en- 

 gines have the same parentage with that before 

 us, we cannot recollect, and do not think it worth 

 while to examine, in the patent office, the register 

 of Their births ; as to their deaths, no register ex- 

 isis,jhey having all been still born ; we know, 

 however, that the family would have been a large 

 one had thev received and preserved the living 

 principle. We can tell little about the affair be- 

 fore us, but its author informs us that "the fly 

 wheels run on friction wheels, bearing on the main 

 shaft, and constitute the generating, rcirulating 

 and maintaining powers of the engine." The 

 power thus generated, regulated, and maintained, 

 is to be applied to "general navigation and other 

 purposes." Happily for the community, how- 

 ever, neither general navigation or other purposes 

 which demand motiv-e power, will consent to wait 

 the generating, regulating, or maintaining power 

 of Mr. G.'s accumulative engine, as otherwise 

 they would never be generated, regulated, or 

 maintained. 



For a Churn; Thomas Nicholson, New Mar- 

 ket, Shenandoah county. Virginia, March 31. 



A churn, with a tub in the ordinary form, has a 

 dasher shaft, which is to revolve alternately in re- 

 versed directions ; for this purpose there are two 

 beveled pinions upon the shaft above the lid ; and 

 a beveled segment wheel is to engage first with 

 one, and then with the other of these pinions ; 

 such a contrivance is bad in principle, as all ma- 

 chinists know; segment wheels being generally 

 poor things, and as here applied, altogether worth- 

 less. 



For Pronged Hoes; Benjamin F. Boyden, 

 Boston, Massachusetts, March 31. 



These hoes are to be of cast-iron, rendered mal- 

 leable in the usual way. They are to have raised 

 ribs along the prongs, &c. to strengthen them, 

 and to be tinned over their whole surface. The 

 claim is to "the application of cast-iron intheman- 

 uiiicture of agricultural pronged hoes, and cov- 

 ering the same with tin ;" but where is the inven- 

 tion or discovery? 



For an im|)rnved IVinnnwing Machine ; .Jona- 

 than Bean, Montville, W^aldo county, JMaine, 

 March 31. 



We are told that "the advantages this machine 

 claims above others now in use, consist in dura- 

 bility, portableness, and expedition in cleaning all 

 kinds of grain ;" but although the machine claims 

 this, the patentee does not claim the machine ; 



this reflecting oven, we are told about two new | and although he has given a voluminous account 



