1850. 



THE GENESEE FARMER. 



17 



ARNOLD'S PATENT SASH LOOK. 



" Sands make the mountain" — our lives are made up 

 of trifles. Those matters which afflict us the most 

 sorely, and giv^ us the greatest inconvenience and 

 trouble in passing tbrougli the wdl'ld are generally 

 but trifles. The flood may come and destroy the 

 farmer's crops; but it is gone, and he repairs the 

 injury — its effects upon both temper and fortune are 

 soon forgotten. The dripping of the rain through a 

 decayed or broken shingle, (which half an hour's labor 

 might remedy,) causes more annoyance, more damage 

 to the liouse and the temper of its inmates tlian the 

 flood. A man may lose half his fortune, and bear 

 it like a philosopher, — but what has philosopKy to 

 do with hammering one's fingers or breaking a light 

 or two of glass in attempting to make a rusty nail 

 support or fasten a window sash, or in having a 

 favorite book spoiled in the same work. 



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The engraving given in this article represents a 

 Window Fastener, invented by Wsi. E. Arnold, of 

 this city, which either fastens the window down, or 

 secures it in any position. We take the following from 

 the New-York Scientific American: "Of all the 

 various kinds of fasteners now in use, some of which 

 are exceedingly ingenious, we know of none whicli 

 recommends itself more thoroughly by its simplicity 

 than this. The Lock consists simply of a bolt of 

 iron or brass B & C with a sheet iron box A, the lat- 

 ter being morticed into the sash, leaving but a small 

 part of the bolt B, perhaps three-fourths of an inch, 

 projecting, by which it is moved. About this lock or 

 fastener, there is no complicated machinery, no spring 

 or screws, and a bolt being moved by its weight, 

 forms a complete lock for the window. When once 

 in the window they will last until the material of 

 which it is composed wears out. The great fault 

 with many other fasteners, is their liability to get out 

 of order. Not so with the one represented above, for 

 the simple reason that there is no machinery to re- 

 quire fixing or springs to be renewed. Those who 

 know any thing of the perplexity of a bad fastener, 

 will appreciate any invention which promises an 

 improvement." 



The Lock is designed to be put square through the 

 left hand style of the upper and lower sash, about 

 half way of its thickness, leaving the handles of the 

 bolt a little more than the eighth of an inch from the 

 inside of the glass. To save the trouble of morticing 

 entifely through, bore with a half-inch auger bit until 

 the point pricks through, leaving about one-quarter 

 of an inch to mortice, which should be of sufficient 

 width and thickness to drive the Lock through from 

 the inside and let the bolt work free. A suitable 

 number of mortices should be made in the window 

 frame to receive the end of the bolt. All but the 

 upper ones and the lower one for the lower sash, 

 should slant up about one and a quarter inches. The 

 iron stops should all be driven square into the frame, 

 except the lower one for the lower sash, which should 

 correspond with the shape of the end of the bolt to 

 hold it dowii. We think we can corroborate all that 

 is said in the above extract in favor of this fastener. 

 We know of hundreds in use in this city, and we 

 believe they give in every case entire satisfaction. 



Value of Annealed WiBKf or Fences. — Inaconveraa- 

 tion wilh Mr. Grant, of fanning-mill notoriety, he remarked 

 that annealed wire never rusts. !le stated that he had now 

 a wire screen to a cellar window, which has been very much 

 eupcsed, on the north side of the house, for thirteen years, 

 and until the chestnut frame is quite rotten, while the wire, 

 although of No. 6, and never painted, is sound and good. — 

 He remarks the same fact in regard to wire used for fanning 

 mill seivea. We also have some experience to the same point. 



In putting up some wire around a poultry yard, to prevent 

 the fowls from flying over the pickets, (which, by the by, 

 were only 4J feet high, with two wires above, and answered 

 a good purpose,) we used bright wire. This rusted oft", and 

 failed entirely in one season. We then used annealed wire, 

 which although much finer, is still sound ond good, after 

 three years' use. 



Mr. Grant's opinion, corroborated by our own experience, 

 is that aruiealed wire exposed to the atmosphere does not 

 rust, at least not enough to destroy it, and that it is a better 

 preventive than galvanizing, or any other process. 



This important fact should be borne in mind by all who 

 are intending to build wire fence. — American Airrinillurht. 



If wire can easily be preserved for an indefinite 

 and very long time from all damage by rust, by sim- 

 ply annealing, it will soon come into general use as a 

 fencing material. With read cedar, locust or stone 

 posts, a fence might be made at once straight, beau- 

 tiful, lasting and economical. In many sections, both 

 rails and boards are scarce and high, and stone for 

 walls not to be had. In such places, wire, perhaps 

 with the aid of a ditcli and bank of earth, may be 

 resorted to with advantage. If one desires to com- 

 bine ornament with utility, he can plant a row of 

 trees 100 feet apart along the line where the fence is 

 needed, attach the wire to ihem; having a few firm 

 stakes between the trees to give strength to the fence, 

 or the trees may stand nearer to each other. In most 

 parts cedar grow well, ?nd a few of their ever-green 

 cone tops, interspersed wilh deciduous trees, will add 

 much to the beauty of a fine farm. Even fruit trees 

 miglit serve as supports to wires if desired. 



Extraordinary Invkntio.v. — .\Mr. Appold has invented 

 a remarkable machine, called the " Centrifugal Pump." for 

 draining marshes, &c.. and a most ingenious aiTair it is. — 

 You have heard of the turbine — a small bo»water-wheel, 

 possessing extraordinary capabiliti.'s for work. Well, Mr. 

 .-Vppold's model contains shch a wheel made of tin, a little 

 tliicker, but no larger than a half-penny. This is fitted at 

 the bottom of a square tube dipping into a small cistern con- 

 taining water, which may represent a lake, &.c. The little 

 wheel, being made to rotate with great velocity, throwing 

 up water rapidly into the tubes above itself, until it over- 

 flows in a continuous stream at the lop, and the volume of 

 the stream is such as to deliver eight gallons per minute: 

 and, on aplying a nozzle, the stream is driven to a distance 

 of twenty feet. This, you will say, is a marvelous effect 

 from so apparenetly insignificant a cause, but a wheel, about 

 fifteen inches in diameter, exhibited at the same time, will 

 delive 1,800 gallons per minute; it requires to be worked by 

 an engine of four horse power. Mr. Appold has lately pro- 

 posed to the Dutch Government to fix a similar wheel on 

 the Haarlem-Sea, now in progress of being drained by forty 

 pumps, driven by steam. 



A centrifugal pump of forty feet in diameter would tlo 

 more work than oil the others put together, and would 

 debver — so the inventcr assorts — 1,. 500, 000 gallons per min- 

 ute. With such power ;it command, one would think we 

 ought never more to hear of ships foundering at sea; and the 

 emptying and reclaiming of the Zuydcr Zee resolves itself 

 into a possibility. — Foreign Journal. 



The above "extraordinary invention" is not so 

 e.xtraordinary as the writer supposes. If we had 

 Commissioner Eubank's able work on Hydraulics at 

 hand it would probably inform us about the time 

 when the kind of wheel spoken of was invented and 

 first used. We have seen them in use in Georgia 

 and elsewhere with success, and did not regard them 

 as showing any new principle or fact. 



