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THE CIVIL ENOIXEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



LA PR I L, 



liZST OF NEMT PATENTS. 



GRANTED IN ENGLAND FROM FrURUARV 22. TO MaRCH 20, 1849, 



SiJT Months allcwed/or Enrolment^ unless otherwise expressed. 



Clemence Augustus Kurtz, of Wandsu-nrth, Surrey, gentleman, for certain improve- 

 ments in luonia tor weaving.— Sealed Feb, 2.S. 



Obed Hliil<e, of tlie Thames Plnte Glass Company, Ulackwnll, Middlesex, manager, for 

 (ertiiiii improvements In tlie process or processes of uiaiiufacturitig and liiiisliiiig plutes, 

 sl.tets, or panes of glass. — Feb. 'JH. 



Joseph IJarker, of Eslier-street, Kennington, artist, for an impioved method of con- 

 structing umbrellas and jiarasols.— Feb. 2H. 



John Hick, of BoUon-le moors, Lancaster, engineer, and William Hodgson Gratrix, of 

 Sdlfiird, Lancaster, engineer, for certain impruvenienta In steam-engines, which im- 

 piovementa are more particularly applicable to niuiine eiigiiies, and also improvements in 

 machinery or apparatus for propelling vessels.— Feb. '2H. 



Benjamin Biram, of Wentworth, York, gentleman, for improvements in miners' lamps. 

 -Feb. 2ti. 



Robert Pollard, of Topsham, Devon, rope-maker, for an improvement iu rope-making 

 nai-hinery.— Feb. '2ti. 



Henry C'Tossley, of the firm of Henry Crossley, Son, and Galsworthy, of Emerson- 

 street, Surrey, engineers and coppersmiths, for certain improved modes or methods of, 

 and apparatu-i for, henling and liyhiing. for drying substiiiices, and for employing air in a 

 warm and cold state for manufactuiing purposes. — Feb. 2S. 



Perceval Moses Parsons, of Lewlsham, Kent, civil engineer, for certain improvements 

 in railways, railway engines, and carriages, and certain of their appurtenances.— 



New MusJcet BaU.— lVooUvich, March 19. and 22.— Some experiments 



were made at the butt in the Koypl Arsenal, to test* he merits ot a musket ball submitted 

 to the select committee by Mr. Miuesinger, an American by birth, but of Dutdl origin. 

 *l'Iie ball is cast with a four-grooved tail attached to it, in lengili about three-fourths the 

 diameter of the spherical portion, the tail resembling the hrst screw-propellers intro- 

 duced with four leaves, but with a slight obliquity instead of the archimedian-screw 

 f'lni. Wr. Minesinger fired his balls, 'I'-A to the pound weight, from a long-barrelled gun, 

 the length being ."Jft. 7 in., and Colonel Pumlas, C.B., from u common musket, the 

 b-rrel of which was 'A ft. 3 In. long— both guns having percussion lock**. The liring com- 

 menced at ItH) yards, but after a few rounds by each the distance was extenderl to 2('0 

 yards, when wxcellent practice was mnde, the target being struck every time with two or 

 three except ons. The appendage to the ball gives it similar advantages to the balls pro- 

 jected fron rifles, and considernbly increases ttie range; and should it on further trial be 

 approved, every common musket by it* adoption would possess ihe projective power and 

 excellent direction at present only obtained with any degreeof certainty by grooved rifles. 

 It is intended to have a number of 31?-pounder solid shot and shells cast on the same 

 principle for trial in the marshes. Some further experiments were made with a range 

 exteiuied to ami yards. Previous to concluding the firing at 2U0 yards* range, Colonel 

 iJundas made a number of excellent sho:s, striking the target every time, with balls of 

 the sugar-liiiif pattern, sidjmilted by HIr. Lancaster, jnn. These balls were fired from a 

 benutifnl rifle, of French pattern ; and by a very simple appliance are made to fit quite 

 tight in the rifle without wadding. A small groove is cut round the sugar-ioaf-sliaped 

 ball near the base, and two or three worsted ihryads tied round nnd raised li^yond the 

 diameter of the base, to the extent required. The long-barrelled gun used by Mr. 

 fllinesinger contains a space for a chamber at the breach end of the barrel, and he loads 

 his chambers before he commences firing, and fires five rounds before he again charges 

 tlie five chambers he carries in his pocket. The gun, consequently, requires no ram- 

 rod ; a small piece of wood and a ston^ from the ground being sufficient for driving 

 home the powder and balls in the chamber— which is only three inches in length. 

 Kach chamber has a projecting nipjile on which the percussion nipple is placed, and is 

 Iield securely to the stock by a sliding hinge, and is capable of liring 20 rounds per 

 minute. 



The Fastneti RocJc Lighthouse.— Ihe. Fa^tnett Rock lies nearly six miles I 

 \A' by S. of Cape Clear, which is the nearest land. It rises ;J4 feet above the level of | 

 liigh-water — is steep atid precipitous — bare »nd rugged — terminating in sharp points and I 

 ledges of the hard sandstone of which it is composed. Being situated at the poiiit 

 where homeward botnid vessels generally make the Irish coast, and being (as it were) its 

 most southern outpost, it has been recommended by Captain Wolfe, R.N,, and the 

 officers carrying on the Hydrographic Survey, that the light should be removed from 

 Cape Clear to the rock in question, and in accordance with this suggestion the erection 

 of the new lighthouse commenced in May last. It will be remembered that in Novem- 

 ber, 1H47, the New York line-of-packet-ship, Stephen Whitney, was lost, with 97 of her 

 passengers and crevv, within three miles of the Cape Light, and it is supposed, from her 

 track leading so near the Fastnctt, that the ship would have been saved had there been 

 n light thereon ; the Cape liglit being obscured by tlie fog on that night, from its great 

 elevation of 459 feet. The summit of the rock barely affords space sufficient for the ne- 

 cessary sheds or shelter for the workmen ; the iron tower for the light, the foundation of 

 which has been completed and its base filled up with solid mason-work, and secured 

 with all possible cure, is U) feet in circumference, and it is intended to raise it to 7^ feet 

 to the summit of the lantern, fourteen of which have been already completed. The 

 sheds were very strontrly constructed, and secured to the solid rock by massive chains, 

 and seventeen persons took shelter therein during most of the summer; a large steam- 

 vessel acted as a tender, and conveyed stores and provisions thereto, but such is the ex- 

 posed situation of the rock that for several days no commui icalion could be kept up but 

 by a leather bag hauled through the surf. Several of the workmen, from tlie dangerous 

 nature of the employment, gave up their situations and returned to Dublin, it being the 

 opinion of tlie inhabitants at the Cape and Crookhaven that nothing could remain 

 thereon in a heavy winter's gale. The foreman and a few others remained at their post 

 until the pale ot the 2tJ[h of December, when they vvere compelled to quit their sheds 

 and seek shelter in the iron tower, which most fortunately had been roofed over for the 

 winter, as a last place of refuge. The eff'ect of the sea in that gale baffles all tiescription ; 

 all the sheds were filled with water, and one of them has been washed doivn — derricks 

 and cranes, with other materials, swept off" the rock, and a large anvil of 'i cwt. and up- 

 wards taken from off its summit as if it were a feather; and notwithstanding alt that has 

 been written about the height of a wive, the men affirm that the sea ran several feet 

 higher than the roof of the tower before it broke, and that the waves that passed the 

 r-ick out of breaking distance were far more than ten feet above their level, which was 

 nearly 1UI> feet above high-water mark. Water casks secured in the crevices of the rock, 

 bolted and lashed down, were swept away, and as the sea broke it would leave the men 

 in total darkness for several seconds, with a difficulty of respiration — and as the spray 

 descended on their roof with immensa weight and crash, the light and air both came 

 in together. Two days after the gale they \Vere taken Irom their perilous situation at 

 Considerable risk by means of life-preservers, and pulled through the surf by lines from 

 a boat outside the breakers. The foreman, a very intelligent man, is now at Crookhaven 

 l>reparing the stores for the spring or fine weatlier. He has no apiireliension as to the 

 stability of the lower, which is of cast-iron, iu large pieces, and screwed together— beau- 

 tifully cast, aud of amazing strength. 



Amedee Francois Remond, of Birmingham, for improvt-mentB In machinery for folding 

 envelopes, and in the manutactuie of envelopes. — Ktb. 2^. 



William Brindley, of 'l\\ickenham, pupier-mache manufacturer, for improvements ia 

 the manufacture of waterproof paper. — Feb. 2H. 



Charles Jacob, o.' Nine-elms, Surrey, engineer, for improvementa iu the manufacture 

 of earthenware tulies or pipes. — Feb. 28. 



Dion de Uuucicault, of the Quadraut, Uegi-nt-streei, gentleman, for certain tmprore- 

 ments iu the mode or modes to be used for tr.uisinittuig and disiribuling liquids and 

 fluiciB for agricultuial purposes, aud for apparatus coiuircltfd therewith.- Feb. 2S. 



Thomas Ilowuuidson, of Liverpool, chemi>t, lor improvements in the tremnitnt of cer- 

 tain mineral waters, to obtain products iherefrum, arid in obtaining cuitain nietais from 

 certain compounds containing those metals, and in ubtaiuiug other products, by tbe une 

 oJ certain compounds containing metals. — Feb. 2':*. 



Charles .Andie Felix Ilochax, of New-court. St. Switbin's lime, in the city of London, 

 merchant, for improvements in the manufacture of oxide of zinc, and in tbe making or 

 paints and cements where oxide at zinc is used.— Feb. 28. 



Pierre Isidor David, of Paris, in the republic of France, for improvements in bleaching 

 cotton. — Feb. 28. 



Job Cutler, of Sparkbrook, near Birmingham, civil engineer, for certain improvements 

 in the manufacture of metal pipes or tubes. — Feb. 28. 



George Fergusson Wilson, of Belmont, Vauxhall, gentleman, for improvements in 

 separating the more liquid jiarts from the more solid parts ot tatty and oily mutters, and 

 in separating faltv and oily mutters from foreign matlers. — Feb. 28. 



Edward Westhead, of Manchester, manufacturer, tor curtain improvements iu tl.u 

 manufacture of waddings. — fliarch 3. 



Henry Constantine Jennings, of Abbey-street, Bermondsey, practical chemist, for im- 

 provements in the manulacture of vehicles for mixirig pigments, and also in the nianu- 

 facture of white- lead. — March .3. 



Nathan Defries, of Grattou-street, Fitzroy-square, civil engineer, and George Brooks 

 Pettit, of Brook-street, New-road, Middlesex, giis-htter, for improvements in applying 

 gas to heat apparatus containing fluids, and in healing ana venli.aling buildings; aiso 

 improvements in gas-fittings, and in apparatus for controlling the passage of gas.— 

 March .'». 



Samuel Banks, of West Leigh, Lancaster, miiler, for certain improvements In mills for 

 grinding wheat and other grain.— IMarch b. 



\V'illiam Henry Gieen, of Baaingball street, in the city of London, gentleman, for im- 

 provements in the preparation of luel. — .\iurch -'i. 



James Baird, ot Gaitsherrie, Old IMonkland, Lanark, Scotland, iron-master, and Alex- 

 ander Whiielaw, of the same place, m^iUager, for improvements in the metliod or piocc^a 

 of manufacturing iron. — March 7. 



Andiew Shanks, of Robert-street, Adelphi, Middlesex, engineer, for an improved mode 

 of giving form to certain metals when in a fluid or molten state.— iSlarrii 14. 



John Smith, of Hare Craig, Dundee, laclor to Lord Douglas, of Douglas, for improve- 

 ments in the manufacture ot flour, applicable to the m.^kaig ot bieuU, bismna, and 

 pastry.- March 14. 



Robert Ross Rowan Moore, of the Temple, barrister-at-law, for improvements iu the 

 manufacture of letters an-i figures to be applied to shop-Ironti* and other suiIulcs.— 

 March 14. 



George Fergusson Wilson, of Belmont, Vauxhall, gentleman, for improvements io the 

 manufatture i.f candles and night-lights. — Marcli 14. 



James Williamson Brooke, ot Camden Town, gentleman, for improvements in lamps. 

 — March 14. 



"Ihomas Clarke, of Hackney, Middlesex, engineer, aid Thomas Morley, of Bristol, 

 civil engineer, for certain iniprovemeuts in obtaining and apj lying uiolive power ; also 

 improvements in railroads and other roads, aud in aupportiug preskUie, lesi&tu g strain, 

 and protecting against tire. — March 14. 



Robert PJummer, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, mauufficlurer, for certain improven:cnts in 

 machinery, instruments, and processes emplujed in the preparation and manuIaLtuie t.f 

 flax and other fibrous substances. — March 14. 



William Payne, of New Kond-street, Middlesex, watch and pedometer maker, for cer- 

 tain improvements in clocks nnd watehes. — Marth 14. 



Alexander bwann, of Kircaldy, File, manufactuier, for improvements in heating ap- 

 paralus ami in apjilying hot wnd warm air to manuiacturing and other puiposes, wheie 

 the same are required. — HIaith 14. 



William Gratrix, of Sallord, Lnncasler, bleacher and dyer, for certain improvements \\\ 

 the method or process ot drying and tinisiiing woven and other fabrics, and in tbe ma- 

 chinery or apparatus for perJorming the same, part of which improvement is applicable 

 to stretching uoven fabrics. — March 14. 



Ignacio de Barros, oi Lisbon, Portugal, hut now of Paris, gentleman, for improvements 

 in machinery lor miiking lasts lor boots and shots, butts or stocks for fiie-arms, and oil er 

 irregular forms. — March 14. 



Allen Biagg,of Queen's- row, Pentonville, baih- keeper, for improvements in propelling 

 by atmospheric pressure.- Riareh 14. 



Francis Hay 'ihompson, doctor of medicine, of Hope-street, Glasgow, for an improve- 

 ment or improvements iu smelting copper or other ores. — March 14. 



Pierre Augustin Chauttorier, of Regent's quadrant, mcichaiit, for certain improve- 

 ments in tbe manufacture of watches. — March 14. 



Pierre Arniand Lecomte de Fontainemoieau, of Scuth-street, Finsbury, London, for 

 certain improvements in coating or covering melaUic and non metallic bodies. (A com- 

 munication.)— IMarch 14. 



Alfred Vincent Newton, of Chancery-lane, mechanical draughtsman, for improvements 

 in tbe manufiicture ot piled fabrics. (A conununication.)- Maich IU. 



Joseph Berangei, of tbe tiim of Beranger aud Company, of Ljons, France, civil 

 eugir.ecr, tor improvements in wifighing maihines. — March lit. 



Ihomas Henry Ruhsell, ot U ennesbury, patent tube manufacturer, and John Stephi n 

 Woulrich, of Birmingham, chemist, lor improven.enls iu coutii g iron and certain other 

 metals and alloys of metalfl. — March 11). 



Siimuel Hall, of King's-Arms-yard, Coleman-s'.reet, city of London, civil engineer, for 

 certain improvements in apparatus tor efletling the couibusliou ol (ucl ;uid consuming 

 smoke, and for preventing explosions of sleara-boilers and other acccidcnts to which tlu-y 

 are liable. — Blarch 1!L 



George Knox, ot Moorgate-street, city of London, secretary to the Shrewsbury and 

 Birmingham llailwuy Company, lor improvements in railway carriages.- March 11*. 



Alexander M'Dougall, ol Lougsight, Lancaster, chemist, lor impiovements in recover- 

 ing useiul products Irom the water used in washing, and in treainig wood, woollen, and 

 cotton fabrics, and other subataiices.— Rlarch 20, 



William Harrison Piikering, ot Liverpool, merchant, for improvements in evaporating 

 brine and certain other fluids. — March 2U, 



Charles William Sien.ens, of Birmingham, enginter, for certain improvements in 

 engines to be worked by steam and oti-ier fluids, and in evapoiating liquids.— Maicb U*. 



William Parkinson, of Cottage-hine, City-road, in the county of Middlesex, gas meter 

 manufacturer, suceessor to the late Samuel Ciossiey, tor iuipnivemenls in gas and water 

 meters, and in instruments for regulating the flow ol fluids.- March 2D. 



ERRATUM.— In the article "Georee Stephenson," in our present number, p. 104, line 

 21, lor "the cotton whith was ot home growth," read "the cotton, which was not of 

 home growth," 



