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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 



[Januart, 



LIST Or NEW PATENTS. 



GRANTED IN ENGLAND FROM NOVEMBER 25tH TO DECEMBER 22nd, 1842. 



Six Months allowed fur Enrolment, unless otherwise expressed. 



Felix Napoleon Target, of Blackheatti, gentleman, Leon Castelaine, of 

 Backlane, ShaJwell, chemist, and Adolphe Aubril, of Hack-lane, aforesaid, 

 artist, for " a new method of refining or manufacturing sugar.'' — Sealed 

 Nov. 25. 



James Smith, of Coventry, card stamper, for " improvements in weaving 

 ribbons and other ornamented fabrics." — Nov, 25. 



Charles Heard Wild, of Birmingham, engineer, for " an improved mode of 

 constructing floors for fire-proof buildings." — Nov. 25. 



I.-ham Baggs, of Wharton-street, in the county of Middlesex, chemist, for 

 " improvements in producing light." — Nov. 25. 



Frederick Oldfield Ward, of St. Martin's-lane, gentleman, and Mark Free- 

 man, of Sutton, in the county of Surrey, gentleman, for " improvements in 

 candlesticks, apparatus, and instruments employed in the use of candles and 

 rushlights. — Nov. 25. 



Pandia Theodore Ralli, of Finsbury-circus, wine-merchant, for " improve- 

 ments in the construction of railwag and other carriages, and in apparatus con- 

 nected therewith." — Nov. 25. 



William Henry Fox Talbot, of Lacock Abbey, Wilts, Esq., for " improve- 

 ments in coating or covering metals with other metals." — Nov. 25. 



Thomas Sbausell, of Birmingham, agent, for " certain improved machinery 

 for cutting or shaping leather, paper, linen, tastings, silks, and other fabrics." 

 —Dec. 3. 



Ebenezer Timmis, of Birmingham, manufacturer, for " improvements in 

 apparatus used for arresting the progress of and extinguishing fire." — Dec. 3. 

 Edward Cobbold, of Melford, in the county of Suffolk, clerk, M.A., for 

 " improvements in instruments for writing or marking, part or parts of which 

 improvements are applicable to brushes for water-colour drawing." — Dec. 3. 

 John Stubbins, of Nottingham, hosier, for " improved combinations of 

 machinery to be employed for manufacturing certain parts of articles in 

 stocking or lace fabrics." — Dec. 3. 



Don Pedro Pouchant of Glasgow, civil engineer, for " a certain improve- 

 nent or improvements in the construction of machinery for manufacturing 

 .sugar." — Dec. 3. 



John Sealy, of Bridgwater, merchant, for " an improved tile." Two 

 months. — Dec. 3. 



Charles Heard Wild, of Birmingham, engineer, for " an improved switch 

 for railwag purposes." — Dec. 3. 



Thomas Howard, of Hyde Chester, manufacturer, for " improvements 

 in machinery for preparing and spinning cotton, wool, flax, silk, and similar 

 fibrous material." — Dec. 3. 



William Hancock, .Tun., of Amwell-street, gentleman, for " improvements 

 in bands, straps, and cards for driving machinery and other mechanical 

 purposes." — Dec. 3. 



Frederick William Etheredge, of Frindsbury, gentleman, for " improve- 

 in the manufacture of bricks, tiles, and other similar plastic sub- 

 stances." — Dec. 3. 



William Henry Stuckey, of Guildford-street, Esq., for " improvements in 

 filtering water, and other fluids." — Dec. 3. 



William Pope, of the Edgeware-road, ironmonger, for " an improved stove." 

 —Dec. 6. 



William Oxley English, of Kingston-upon-Hull, distiller, for " improve- 

 ments in purifying spirits of turpentine, spirits of tar, and naphtha." — (A 

 communication.) — Dec. 8. 



William Coley Jones, of Vauxhall-terrace, practical chemist, and George 

 Fergusson Wilson, of Vauxhall, gentleman, for ••improvements in operating 

 ■upon certain organic bodies or substances, in order to obtain products or 

 materials therefrom for the manufacture of candles and other purposes." — 

 Dec. 8. 



William Smith Harris and Septimus Hamels, both of Leicester, cotton- 

 winders and copartners, for " improvements in the manufacture of reels for 

 reeling cotton and linen thread." — Dec. 8. 



William Kempson, of the Borough of Leicester, manufacturer, for " im- 

 provements in the manufacture of muffs, cuffs, ruffs, tippets, mantillas, pele- 

 rines, dressing gowns, boots, shoes, slippers, coats, cloaks, shawls, stocks, 

 cravats, capes, boas, caps, bonnets, and trimmings for parts of dress." — 

 Dec. 8. 



George Purt, of St. Mary-at-Hill, soda water manufacturer, and William 

 Hall of Woolwich, engineer, for •'improvements in producing aerated liquors." 

 —Dec. 8. 



Richard Barber, of Leicester, reel manufacturer, for " improvements in the 

 manufacture of boots, shoes, and clogs." — Dec. 8. 



John George Bodmer, of Manchester, engineer, for " improvements in the 

 manufacture of metallic hoops and tyres for wheels, and in the method of 

 fixing the same for use, and also improvements in the machinery or apparatus 

 to be employed therein." — Dec. 8. 



William Edward Newton, of Chancery-lane, civil engineer, for " improve- 

 ments in the construction and arrangement of axles and axletrees for car- 

 riages, carls, and other vehicles used on rail or other roads. — ( A communi- 

 cation.) — Dec. 8. 



William Lomas, of Manchester, worsted-spinner, and Isaac Sbimwell, of 



the same place, worsted-spinner, for " improvements in the manufacture of 

 fringes, cords, and other similar small wares, and aim in the machinery or 

 apparatus for producing the same." — Dec. 8. 



John Grantham, of Liverpool, engineer, for "improvements in the con- 

 structions and arrangements of the engines and their appendages for propel- 

 ling vessel* on water." — Dec. 8. 



James Brown, of Sobo, Birmingham, engineer, for '^improvements in 

 steam engines and steam propelling machinery." — Dec. 8. 



Benjamin Fothergill, of Manchester, machine-maker, for " improvements 

 in machines called mules, and other machines for spinning cotton, wool, and 

 other fibrous substances." — Dec. 8. 



Perciv.i.l Moses Parsons, of Waterloo-road, Surry, civil engineer, for " im- 

 provements in steam engines and boilers, and in motive machinery connected 

 therewith." — Dec. 8. 



Charles Keene, of New Bond-street, hosier, for " improvements in the 

 manufacture of hose, socks, drawers, gloves, mitts, caps, comforters, and 

 cuffs."— Dee. 15. 



William Palmer, of Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, manufacturer, for, "im- 

 provement in the manufacture of candles." — Dec. 15. 



Thomas Caldwell, of Bombay, in the East Indies, merchant, for " im- 

 provements in the construction of presses for compressing cotton and other 

 articles."— -Dec. 15. 



Moses Poole, of Lincolus-inn, gentleman, for " improvements in dressing 

 millstones. — (A communication.) — Dec. 15. 



Charles Maurice Elizee Sautter, of Austin Friars, in the City of London, 

 gentleman, for " improvements in the manufacture of sulphuric acid." — (A 

 communication.) — Dec. 15. 



Guillaume Simon Richault, of the Sabloniere Hotel, Leicester-square, 

 editor of music, for " improvements in apparatus for exercising the fingers of 

 the human hand in order to facilitate their use in the playing of the piano 

 forte and other instruments." — (A communication.) — Dec. 15. 



James Winchester, of Noel-street, hatter, for " improvements in steam 

 boilers, and in the methods of applying steam or other power to locomotive 

 purposes." — Dec. 15. 



Edward Robert Rigby, and Charles John Rigby, of Gracecburch-streef, 

 brush manufacturers and copartners, for " improvements in the manufacture 

 of certain articles in which bristles have been or are now used." — Dec. 21. 



Gabriel Hyppolyte Morcau, of Leicester-square, gentleman, for " improve- 

 ments in propelling vessels." — Dec. 21. 



Gabriel Hippolyte Moreau, of Leicester- square, gentleman, for " improve- 

 ments in steam generators." — Dec. 21. 



John Squire, of Pougbill, Cornwall, engineer, for " improvements in steam 

 boilers or generators." — Dec. 21. 



Taverner John .Miller, of Millbauk-street, Westminster, oil merchant, for 

 " improvements in apparatus for supporting a person in bed. or when reclin- 

 ing." — Dec. 21. 



William Bridges, of Birmingham, button-tool-maker, for " improvements in 

 buttons." — Dec. 21. 



Henry Purser Vaile, late of Fleet-street, gentleman, for " improvements in 

 combining mechanical instruments for obtaining power." — Dec. 22. 



Joseph Beaman, of Smeihwick, Stafford, ironmaster, for " an improvement 

 in the manufacture of malleable iron." — Dec. 22. 



William Godfrey Kneller, of Wimbledon, chemist, for " improvements in 

 the manufacture of soda in the evaporation of brine, and in the concentration 

 and manufacture of sulphuric acid." — Dec. 22. 



Robert Wilson, manager at the works of Messrs. Nasmyths Gaskell and 

 Co.. at Patricroft, near Manchester, engineer, for " improvements in locomo- 

 tive and other steam engines. — Dec, 22. 



James Morris, of Cateaton-street, merchant, for " improvements in locomo- 

 tive and other steam-engines." — Dec. 22. 



THE VARIATION OF THE COMPASS. 



Observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 



G. B. Airy, Astronomer Royal. 



Mean Magnetic Declination for the month of September, 1842 — 23° 14' 11" 



The observations of the Magnetic Dip are suspended, when they are resumed 

 the results will be recorded as usual. 



New Hydrostatic Engine. — At the Taff Vale Railway, we learn, by the 

 Cambrian, that a very complete hydrostatic engine is now at work, for the 

 raising and tipping of coal, to be shipped from the terminus of the Taff 

 Vale Railway, at the Bute Docks, Cardiff. It is only just set to work, but ex- 

 hibits the principle of the hydrostatic balance very beautifully, and with the 

 most perfect practical results. 



