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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT S JOURNAL. 



[December, 



lilST OF WEVtr PATENTS. 



GRANTED IN ENGLAND FROM OCTOBER 27, TO NOVEMBER 20, 1845. 



Six Months allowed for Enrolment j unless otherwise expressed, 



Benjamin Nickels, of Vork-street, Lambeth, mechanist for " Imorovements in oian 

 fortes."— Sealed October L'7. *^ ^ 



Reginald Orton, of Villiers-str«et, Sunderland, surgeon, for " Improvements in life 

 boats, iile-buoys, and apparatus for conveying persons ashore from wrecked or strands 

 vessels.*' — October 27. 



Samuel Childs, of Karl's. court-road, Kensington, 

 in the munutacture of caudles."— October 27. 



Dennis Jonqnet, of Chateandun, France, for " Improvements 

 ing skins for tanning and dressing." — October 31. 



Robert William Brandling, of Low Cosforth, Northumberlai 

 ments in railways and : " 

 —October 31. 



Charles Hf^nry Colli 

 railways."— October a 1 



s-street, Cripplegate, London, oil merchant, for " Certain imp 

 nployed for producing illumination.' 



t chandler, for ' 



nprovements 



machinery for prepar- 



. esq., for " Improve- 

 y carnages fur the sscurity and convenience of the public." 



;, of Lambeth, engineer, for " Improvements on atmospheric 



Henry Clark, of Rede 

 provementa in the preparation of materials t 

 — October 31, 



James Hardcastle, of Firwood, BoIton-ie-Moors, e 

 ethods ot scouring, bleaching, preparing, dying, 



;q. for "Certain improvements in the 

 lud finishing piecs goods or woven 



, for *' Certain improvements in sig- 

 pplicable to the working of railways. 

 , and for certain other improvements 



nprovements in sluice-cocks.' 



' Impn 



fabrics." — October ;j1 



Thomas Forsyth, of Salford, Lancaster, engine 

 nals or in the method of giving signals which are 

 and which are also applicable to maritime purpos 

 in the working of railways."— October 31. 



Palrymple Crawford, of Birmingham, gentlerrii 

 or machinery for, arresting the progress of railway 



Henry Waller, of Vauxhall-road, engineer, for " 

 tober 31. 



Richard Archibald Brooman, of Fleet-street, gentleman, for 

 ing and figuring silk, cotton, and other textile fabrics." ^communication.)- N 



Richard Archiba'd Brooman, of Fleet- street, gentleman, for *' certain Improvements in 

 gas-meters." (A communication.) — November 3. 



Richrad Biddle, of Leadenhall-street, surgical mechanician, for "Ceitain improve- 

 ments in dri^'iug mills and other machines or machinery by the power of the wind." — 

 November 3. 



Christopher Binks. of Friars' Goose, Durham, chemist, for *' Certain improvements in 

 menuracturing certain compounds of nitrogen, particularly cyanogen, ammonia, and 

 their compounds, and the use or app!ic;ition in these manufactures of a substance or 

 substances not hitherto so employed."— November 3. 



Cbandos Hoskyns, of DubUn, gentleman, for " Certain improvements in trusses."— 



r3. 



Thomas Edwards, of Islington Foundry, Birmingham, engineer, for " Certain Im- 

 provements in steam-engines."— November 3. 



Paul Ackermnn, doctor of medicine, of Skinner's-place, Size-lane, for "Certain im- 

 provements in harpoons and other similar instruments."— November 3. 

 ; Georgt Eaart, of the New-'Odd, zinc manufacturer, for " Improvements in the manu- 

 facture ot chimney-pots." — November 3. 



Thomas Bell, of the Don alkali works, South Shields, Durham for " Impro\'ements in 

 certain processes in the manufacture of alkali, which improvements are applicable to the 

 purposes of condensation." — November 3. 



Alfred Watney, of Wandsworth, gentleman, for " Improvements i 

 of horseshoes, and in applying shoes to horses and other animals. "- 



George Minter, of Gerard-slreet, Soho, patent chair manufac 

 Badger, of Walworth, carpenter and builder, for ** Improvements 

 easy chuits," — November 4. 



Edward Augustin King, of Warwick-street, Middlesex, gentlei 



thE 



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manufacture 

 /ember 3. 

 , and Jonathan 

 e construction of 



for ** Improve- 



ments in obtaining light by electricity." — Novembe 

 Richard Atha, of Walton, near Wakefield, engii 



pheric engines."— November 4. 

 Charles Sandt-rson, of West-street, Sheffield, manufacturer, for " Improvements in 



combining steel and iron into bars for tyrea for wheels and for o:her purposes."— No- 

 Samuel Carson, of Norwood, gentleman, for 



purposes of food." — November 5. 



Henrv Blumberg, of Camberwsll-grove, Distiller, for *' 



of spirits for the use of brewers, distillers, and rectifiers. 

 George Scholfield, Agent, of Manchester, for "certai 



apparatus to be employed for lithographic printing."— November 5. 



William Thomas, of Cheipaide, merchant, for ''improvements in apparatus for impreg- 

 nating liquids with gasses." (Being a communication.)— November b. 

 ^ Laura Laughton, late of Plymouth-grove, Manchwster. but now of Everton, Nottingham, 



Edmund Lau£;hton, of the same place, gentleman, for '* Improvements 



nprovements in atmos- 



nprovements in treating eggs for the 



nprovements in machinery c 



the 



nts in the manufacturing and 



manufacture of soap." — November 6, 



Uriah Clark, of Leicester, Dyer, for "certain improve; 

 making looped fabrics."— November 6. 



Robert Burton Cooper, of Swinton-street. Grays inn-road, gentleman, for ** improve- 

 ments in the manulacture of taps or cocks, and in stopping bottles and other vessels."— 

 November 6. 



John Soloman Bickford, George Smith, and Thomas Davy, all of Tuckingmill, Cam- 

 borne, Cornwall, patent safety fuze manufacturers, for "certain improvements in manu- 

 liicturing the miner's saiety fuze." — November 6. 



John Campbell, of Bowfield, Scotland, bleacher, for "certain improvements in the 

 pparatus or machinery for drying and finishing of bleached cotton and other goods."— 





place. Size-lane, for "certain 

 :alion)— November 6. 

 gineer, for "improvements on 

 -•hanical contrivances by which 

 1 to another line, or on to what 



Peter Armand Le Cu 

 jmprovenieuts in prodi 



Bryan Donkin, of the Paragon, New Kent-road, civil 

 wheels as applicable to railway carriages, and on the n 

 railway carriages are made to cross from one line of rails 

 are generally called sidings." — November 11. 



William Henson, of Skinner's-street, St. John-street-road, civil engineer, for "im- 

 provements in machinery for weaving."- November 11. 



Christopher Vaux, of Frederick-street, gentleman, for "Improvements in machinery 

 "r apparatus for tilling land." "~~ 



nufacturer, 



. _ r r- . » leather, 



i and art'cles."— November 11. 



GeorL-e Hill Dutton, of Dutton, brewer, for " certain improvements in conveying Intelli- 

 gence from one part of a railway train to another."— November 11. 



Charles Frederick Bielefeld, of Wellington-street. Strand, papier mache ma 

 for" Improvements in the manufacture of embossed or pressed paper, calico, 1 



uel Thomas Cromwell, of Romsey, Hants, teacher of music, for " Imnrovements 

 nppH-d to piano fortes."— November 11. ^"'pruvemem- 



i-street, Norton Falgate, dyer, for * 



1 impn 



in apparatus to bi 



Robert James Hendrie, jnn., of BI 

 ment in the preparation of silk." — Novembi 



Jacob Brett, of Hanover-square, Middlesex, esq., for "improvements in printing com- 

 munications made by electric telegraphs." (A communication.)— November 13. 



Joseph Ramon Yfilesias, of Mark-Iane, London, merchant, for " a new mode of appli- 

 cation and combination of mechanical arrangements, (or of mechanical and hydrostatical 

 arrangements,) already known and in use for the purpose, by such application and com- 

 bination of augmenting the power or moving force of fiist moving machines or engines' 

 (A communication.)— November 15. 



Thomas Palmer, of Tavistock, in the county of Devon, currier, for "certain Improve- 

 ments in mine-lifting machinery, which are also applicable to other purposes."— Nov. li 



John Ayre, of Tynemonth. in the county of Northumberland, sail-maker, for an " Im- 

 proved fabric for sail cloth."— November 15. 



Edward Hall, of Dartford, Kent, civil engineer, for "an improved double cylinder con- 

 densing engine." — November 15. 



Stephen K. Parkhurst, of Liverpool, merchant, for * 

 November 17. 



James Boydell,jun.. of the Oak Farm Works, Dudley, iron-master, for " Improvements 

 in the manufacture of hinges and handles of knives, and other instruments."- Nov. 17. 



James Boydell.jun., of the Oak Farm Works, Dudley, iron-master, for "Improvements 



I method of propelling ressels."— • 



issels."— November 17. 



the building of ships end othi 



\\'illiam Newton of Chancery-lane, civil engineer, for " ] 

 types and other similar raised surfaces for printing." (A 



Frederick Oldfield Ward, of Corlcstret 

 Hillei, of Henrietta-street, Covent-garde 

 Btruction of railways, and in machinery a 

 November 18. 



Richard Wright, of Hermitage-terrace, 

 sugar.*' — November IS. 



Christopher Vaux. of Brighton, gentlt 

 chinery lor preventing accident 

 improvements are apjilicable to 



Henry Dircks, of Nicbolas-li 



ntsi 



proveme 



immunication.) — Nov. 17. " 

 , Middlesex, gentleman, and Malcolm William 

 , gentleman, for "Improvements in the con- 

 d appaiatus for working carriages thereon." — 



for ' 



Improvements in refining 



1, gentleman, for " Improvements in apparatus or ma- 

 to carriages and passengers on railways, parts of which 

 ave lives and property in other places."— November 18. 

 ;, London, engineer, for " Improvements in the means 

 of obtaining and preparing extracts from certain vegetable matters, and in the apparatus 

 connected therewith, which apparatus may bs also applied to other similar purposes." 

 — November 18. 



Edward Brown Wilson, of Leeds, engineer, for " Improved apparatus applicable to 

 swivel bridges and turn tables." (A Communication.)— November 18. 



John Finlay, of Glasgow, Ironmonger, for "a certain improvement or certain improve- 

 ments in raising and lowering gas and other lamps, lustres, and chandeliers." — 

 November 18. 



Henry Buckworth Powell, of Pennington House. Southampton, lieutenant and captain 

 in the grenadier guards, for "certain improvements in carriages to be used on rail and 

 other roads. — November 18. 



William Malins, of Mansion-house-place, London, and West Bromwich, Stafford, Iron- 

 master, for " improvements in constructing roof* and other parts of buildings of iron aa 

 other metals, and in the preparation of the materials of which the same are or q ay 

 constructed." — November 1«. 



Moses Poole, of the Patent Bill Office, London, gentleman, for "imprcvemeat i 

 ng and transporting earth and other heavy bodies." (Being a communicatioL,)-* 



her 18. 



iber 18. 



Laming, of Mark-lar ?, London, merchant, for " improvement In makia 

 ferrocyanides of pots : sium and sodium." (Being a communication.) — Novem 



the 



np rove- 



Thomas Hunnybun and E ard Venden, of Cambridge, coachmakeri 

 ments in that description of p ssenger carriages called omnibuses." — November JO." 



Frederick Gye, of South Li..nl)eth, Surrey, gentleman, for "improvements in moulding 

 sugar." (Being a communication.)— November 2<?. 



Thomas Samuel Parlour, ot HoUoway, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, for " im- 

 provements in propelling vessels." — November JO. 



Nathaniel ChappcU, of Arcadian Villa, Cumberland-road, Bristol, gentleman, for "im- 

 provements in the manufacture of worts." — November 20. 



John Depledge, of the Thonicliff iron works, near Sheffield, draughtsman, for " a certaia 

 improved metallic broacher."— November 20. 



William Johnson, of (Farnworth, near Bolton, Lancaster, agent, for ** certain im- 

 provements in macliinery or apparatus fur preparing cotton and other fibrous substances 

 for spinning."- November 20. 



William Corscaden Thompson, of Liverpool, master mariner, for " certain improvo- 

 mentB in machinery or apparatus for propelling vessels on water."— November 2u. 



James Donaldson, of Hasleugdon, Lancaster, woollen printer, for "certain improve- 

 ments in the processes of scoviriug, bleaching, and washing wool, cotton, silk, and other 

 fibrous substances, both in a raw or manu-actured state." — November 20. 



Ernest Elge. of Manchester, mechanic, for "cei-tain improvements applicable to the 

 wheels and Bxles of engines, tenders, carriages, waggons to be used upon railways." — 

 November 20. 



George Skinner, of Stockton-upon-Tces, in the county of Durham, merchant, and 

 John Whalley, of South Stockton-upon-Tees, earthenware manufacturer, for " certain 

 improvements in the manulacture *of earthenware pastes and vitreous bodies; and 

 also a new composition and material for the same, with certain new modes of combina- 

 tion thereof, which improvements, compositions, and combinations arc applicable to the 

 manufacture of earthenware pastes, vitreous bodies, slabe, tiles, and pavement, and 

 various other useful and ornamental purposes." — November 20. 



Eugene Francois Vidocq, of Galterie Vivienne, France, for "improvements in com- 

 bining materials to be employed in the manrfacture of tea-trays, boxes, trunks, table- 

 id other articles, to be used in place of the materiasl now employed 



ch anufacturea.' 



-Nov. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



1 see by the present number that the error in using common for Na- 

 , has been observed. It it be deairttd, the paper shall appear next 



passed. 



E. H.— You w 

 pierian logarithn 

 mouth. 



Alpha. — Your ohj.'ction fails, because the 

 is not the same air (though of the same dens 



Dr. Shoklizh (Lemberg, Austria). — Next : 

 engraving for this number. 



We have not heard whether , Mr. Basbforth wishes to have bis communication pub-^ 

 lished. 



in the tube, after the train hi 

 as that which was in the lube 

 h, us there was not time to piepare 



END OF VOLUME VIII. 



