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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AN1> ARCHITECrS JOURNAL. 



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Beacon on the Goodwin Sanrfs.— During the last few days several men, 



under the direction of the Trinity Board, have been employed on the Goodwin, about 

 mid-sand. It appears the object Is to force, by raeaiia ol atmospheric prussure, several 

 lenRihs of cylindrical Iron tubes lolo the sand, until some solid material is nrrived at; 

 each lenyth of tube is about 10 feet long and 24 in diameter, but, althougli six lengths, 

 securely fastened, have been made to penetrate a depth of about (10 feet beneath the surface, 

 iiu fuundution bus yet beeu reached. It is in coDteniplation, as soon usa substratum suf- 

 ticiently firm is found, to place several tubes of siniibr dimensions at approximate dis- 

 tances, and to erect a beacon thereupon, ijbould the attempt succeed, and banpuine ex- 

 pectations ure entertained that it will, there exists little doubt of Ibe important effect of 

 H structure of this kind, in diminishing the amount of danger ts shipping, on a spot 

 proverbial (or its disasters, and fatal consequences to life and property. 



Poisoned Water. — It is not generally known to the public that the car- 

 bonic acid, or fixed air in water, decomposaa lead pipes, and thereby imparts poisonous 

 properties to the water. Within the past few months Sir Haymoud Jarvis, of Ventnor, 

 bad occasion to repair the pumps which supplied his mansii>n, when, to 1ms amazement, 

 it was found that the !arg« leaden feeding pipe was nlmost entirely eaten away by the 

 wetter, and the interior covered xvith a white and poisonous crust. Sir Raymond has had 

 the whole replaced with gutta percha tubing, which, from its extraordinary alkali and 

 acid-proof qualities, will jireserve the water perfectly pure. It seems remarkable that, 

 at the moment when our sanitary movements have commenced with so much vigour, 

 j;uUa percha should have come to our aid, not only as a means of preserving the feet 

 from damp and wet, but also as a medium for supplying us with the best of liquids- 

 water, untainted by the deleterious properties which we have endured by the use of 

 leaden pipes. 



LIST OF NEVr PATENTS. 



GRANTEU IN ENGLAND FROM JCNE 7, TO JuLY 24, 1849. 



Six Months allowed for Enrolmentt unless otherwise expressed, 



.lames Steel, of Horton, York, and Benjamin EmmerHOD, of thesameplace. overlookers, 

 for improvements in power looms. — June 7. 



Gustave Fnincois PIcault, of Rue Dauphin, Paris, cutler, for improvemeuts in appara- 

 tus for ojieuing oysters. — June 7. 



Douglas Hebson, of Liverpool, engineer, for Improvemeuts in steam-engines. — June / . 



Henry Knight, of Birmingham, mechanical engintrer, for certain improvements in ap- 

 paratus for printing, embo'^sing, pressing, and perforating. — June 7. 



Stanhope Baynes Smith, of Birmingham, electro plater and gilder, for improvements In 

 ripposiiing metals and in obtaining motive power, partsof which improvements are appli- 

 cable to certaiu other similar useful purposes. — June 7. 



Joseph Samuda. of Parliament-street, Westminster, gentleman, for improvements iu 

 obtainin;,' motive power, and the machinery or apparatus employed therein ; which ma- 

 chinery or anparalus may be used for raising liquids. (A communicHtion.) — June 9. 



William Freddy, of Taunton, Somerset, watchmaker, for improvements in watch keys, 

 and other instruments for winding up watches and other time keepeis. — June \2. 



Joseph Wade Denison, of New York, gentleman, for improvements in engiuee for rais- 

 ing or forcing liquids. (A communication.) — June 12. 



Joseph Burtli, of Craig Work", Macclesfield, engineer, for improvements in printing on 

 cotton, woollen, silk, paper, and other fabrics and niHleriuls.— June 14. 



Peter William Barlow, of Blackheath, civil engineer, for improvements in parts of the 

 permanent ways of railways. — June 14. 



Rlichael John Haines, of John-street, Commercial-road East, leather pipe maker, for 

 improvementB in the manufadureof packing for steam-engines, cylinders, and other pur- 

 lioses; partsof which improvements ar« applicable to the manufacture of waterproof 

 iabrics and leather. — June 14. 



Henry Wills Stowe, of Bermuda, niaster of the brig James, for Improvements in blocks 

 and sheaves.— June 20. 



Alexander Francis Campbell, of Gre-.t Plumstead, Norfolk, for improvements in wheels 

 l)loughs, and harrows, steam-boilers, and machinery for propelling vessels.— Ju[ie 20. 



William Combauld Jacob, of Bread-street, city of London, warehouseman, for im- 

 provements in Ihe manufacture of parasols and umbrellus. — June 21*; two months. 



Richard Archibald Brooman, of the firm of Messrs. J. C. Robertson and Co., of Fleet- 

 street, city of London, for improvements in apparatus for transferring liquids from one 

 vessel to another, and for filllug bottles and other vessels with liquids. (A communica- 

 tion.)— June 20. 



Charles James Coverley Griffin, of Southwark, hatter, for certain Improvements In 

 military accoutrements. — June 20. 



Edward Lyon, Berthon, clerk, bachelor of arts, of Fareham, Southampton, for an in- 

 Btninient to show the velocity of a ship or other vessel propelled through the water, by 

 wind, steam, or other moving power. — June 20. 



Samuel Cott. of Trafalgar-square, Middlesex, gentleman, for improvements in fire- 

 trms. — June 20, 



Henry Besse:ner; of Baxter-house, St. Pancras, Middlesex, engineer, for improvements 

 in the methods, means, and machinery or apparatus employed for raising and forcing 

 wntpr and other fluids. — June 2.i. 



Thomas Merchant, of Derby, civil engineer, and Robert Harland, of Derby, carriage 

 builder, for certain improvements in the conatvuction of railway carriages.- June 2o. 



George Benjamin Thorneycroft, of Wolverhampton, iron-master, for improvemt-nts in 

 rannutactaring railway tyres, axles, and other iron where great btrengtii and durabdity are 

 required.- June 2G. 



Thomas Wood Gray, of Llmehouse, brass-founder, for improvements In waterclosets, 

 pumps, cocks, lubricators, and deck-lights. — June 2G. 



James Nusmyth, of Patricroff, near Manchester, engineer, for certain improvements in 

 the method of, and apparatus for, communicating and regulating tlie power for driving 

 or working machines employed in manutacturing, dyeing, printing, and finishing textile 

 tubricB. — June 2(J. 



James Leadbetter.of Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland, brazier, for certain improvements 

 In the method of raising water and other fluids ; which improvements are also applicable 

 to the propulsion of machinery, pumping of mines, and other similar purposes. —June 2i>. 



WaltiT Neilson, of Hyde Park-street, Glasgow, engineer, for an improvement or im- 

 provements in the application of steam for raising, lowering, moving or transporting heavy 

 boiiies.— June 2<i. 



Christopher Nickels, of York-road, Lambeth, gentleman, for improvements in the ma- 

 nttfncture of woollen and other fabrics. — June 21). 



William Wilson, jun., of Carapbellfield, Glasgow, for improvements In cutting plastic 

 tubes or tiles.— June 27. 



John Thomas Forster, of Plymouth, a master in her Majesty's Navy, for improvements 

 in the building of ships, boats, and other vessels; also in tlie manufacture of boxes, 

 jjackuig-cases, roofs, and other stru.tures requiring to be waterproof. — June 27. 



Edward Woods, of Liverpool, Lancashire, civil engineer, for certain improvemenia in 

 turn tables.— June 28. 



Thomas Beale Brown, of Hampen, Gloucester, gentleman, for certitin improvementa lo 

 looms, and iu the manufacture of woven and tivlsted fabrics.— Jun«2y. 



Bram Hertz, of Great Martborough-street, Middlesex, gentleman, (or Improvements In 

 and an addition to fiuntaln pens. — June 30. 



Thomas Greenwood of Goodman's Fields, in the city of London, sugar refiner, and 

 Frederick ParkiT, of New Gravel-lane, Shadwell, animal charcoal mauufactuier, for im- 

 provements in tillering syrups, and other liquors. — July 4. 



John Robiniion. of Fatterson-street, Stepney, Kfiddlesex, engineer, for improvements ia 

 machinery for moving and raising weights. — July 4. 



John Grantham, of Liverpool, engineer, for improvements In sheathing ships and ves- 

 sels. — July 4. 



Josiah Bowden, of Lisbeard, linen draper, and William Longraaid, of Beaumorit- 

 sqiiare, Middlesex, gentleman, for improvements in the manufacture of soap.— July 4. 



Sir Francis Charles Knowles, of Lovell, Berkshire, hart., for improvements in the 

 manufacture of iron and steel.— July 4. 



Richard Archibald Brooman, of London, Middlesex, for Improvements In steam gene- 

 riitors. (A communication.) — July 4. 



James Widbery, of Parkersburgh, In Chester, Pennsylvania, In the United States of 

 America, machinist, for certaiu improvements in the slide-valves of steam-engines. — 

 July 4. 



William Henry Wilding, of the New-lload, Middlesex, gentleman, for certain improve- 

 ments in engines, and in obtaining and applying motive power. — July 4. 



Robert William Thomson, of Leicester square, Middlesex, civil engineer, for certain 

 Improvements in writing and drawing instrumeots. — July 4. 



William Bush of Great Tower-street, in the city of London, civil engineer, for im- 

 provements in lamps and in lighting, (A communication.) — July 4. 



John Combe, of Leeds, Yorkshire, civil engineer, for improvements in machinery for 

 heckling, carding, winding, dressing, and weaving, flax, cotton, silk, aud other fibrous 

 substances. —July 4. 



William Henry Brown, of Ward's End Wheel, at Wadsley, of Ecclesfield, Yorkshire, 

 steel roller, for improvements in rolls, for rolling flat and lialf round tile and other iion 

 and steel. — July 4. 



Pierre Augustus Chauffourler, of Regent's Qiiadranf, Middlesex, merchant, for im- 

 provements in castors. (A communication.)— July 4. 



John Browne, of Great Portland-street, Portland-place, Middlesex, esq<itre> for Im- 

 provements in apparatus to assist combustion iu stoves or grates. — July 4. 



Henry Bailey, of Wolverhampton, Stfilfordshire, chemist, for certain irHprovements fn 

 the cnnstruction of articles of wearing apparel } which improvements are also applicable 

 to fastenings for the same. — July 4. 



Robert Weare, of Birkenhead, Cheshire, clock and watch maker, and William Peter 

 PiggoU, of Wardrobe-place, Docotr'a Commons, Middlesex, mathematical instrumeut 

 maker, for certain improvements in electric batteries; and in the production ot tight; 

 also a mode of transmitting or communicating intelligence, for the better protection of 

 life or property, parts of which improvements are applicable to like purposes.- July 4. 



Richard Garrett, of Leiston Works, Suffolk, agricultural implement maker, for im- 

 provements in horse-shoes, pug-mills, drilling, and thrashing machiuery; and in steam- 

 engines, and boilers for agricullui\d purposes. — July 7. 



Edward Ives Fuller, of Marijaret-sireet, Cavendish-square, carriage builder, and 

 George Tabernacle, of Mount-row, Weatminster-road, Surrey, coach ironfoundcr, for 

 certain improvements iu metallic springs for carriages. — July 7. 



Thomas Sedgwick Summers, of Cornwall-terrace, Lee, Kent, lighterman, for certain 

 Improvements in fastenings tor the mouth of sacks and bags.— July !). 



William Lfturie, of Carlton-place Glasgow, merchant, for improvements In means or 

 apparatus to be employecl for th* preservation of life and property, such improvements 

 or parts thereof, being applicable to various articles of furniture, dress, and travellibg ap- 

 paratus.— July y. 



John Goodier, of Mode Wheel Rlills, near Manchester, miller, for certain improvemenia 

 in mills for grinding wheat and other grains. — July 9. 



George Augustus Ri)binson, of Long Milford, Suffolk, gentleman, and Richard Egno 

 I^ee, of Glasgow, gentleman, tor certain improvpinents in the manufacture of bread, and 

 in the machinery and appaiatus to be used therein ; and also improvements in the regu- 

 lation of ovens and furnaces, part of which improvemeuts are also applicable to other 

 similar useful piirpitses.— July 10. 



George Cottam and Edward Cotfam, of Winsley-street, Oxford-street, engineers, for 

 improvements in machinery for cutting straw, clover, and hay; for grinding, lor snwtug 

 wood; and in apparatus for ascertaining the power employed in working machines. — 

 July 12. 



Evan Leigh, of Ashton-undsr-Lyne, cotton-spinoer, for certain improvements In steam- 

 engines; and also improvements iu communicating steam or other power for driving ma- 

 chinery.— July 18, 



Reuben Plant, of Holly Hi'l Colliery, Dudley, Worcester, coal master, for Improve- 

 ments in making I ;ir or wrought iron.— July 18. 



Thomas Walker, of Birmingham, stove-maimfacturer, for improvements in boots and 

 shoes, and in the manufacture of parts of boots, shoes, clogs, and goloshes. — July 18. 



James Usher, of Edinburgh, gentleman, for improvemeuts in machinery for liliiug 

 land.— July 18. 



Andrew Peddle How, of the United States, now residing in Basinghall-street, engineer, 

 for an instrument or Instruments for ascertaining the saltncss of water In boilers. — 

 July 18. 



John Holland, of Larkhall Rise, Clapham, guntleman, for a new mode of making steel. 

 (A communication.) — July 18. 



Samuel Cunliffe Lister, of Bradford, Yorkshire, esquire, and George Edmund Donis- 

 thorpe, of Lueds, nuuuifaclurer, for improvements in preparing, combing, and spinning 

 wool. (A communication.)— July 18, 



William Brown, of St. James', Clerkenwell, Henry Mapple, of Childe-hill, Hendon, 

 electric engineer, and William Williams, the younger, of Birmingham, gentleman, lor 

 improvements in communicating intelligence by means of electricity; aud improvements 

 in electric clocks.— July 18. 



Alexander Ferrier Rose, of Greenvale-place, Glasgow, gentleman, for a certain im- 

 provement or certain Improvements in the process or operation of printing, aud In the 

 reachinery or apparatus employed therein. — July 24. 



John Holt, of Todmorden, Lancaster, manager, for Improvements in machinery or ap- 

 paratus for preparing cotton and other fibrous substances, parts of which improvements 

 are applicable to machinery used In weighing. — July 24, 



Joseph Woods, of Barge-yard Chambers, Bucklersbury, for improvements In bleaching 

 certain organic substances, and In the manufacture of certain products therefrom. (A 

 communication.) — July 21. 



