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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 



[December, 



Tut. Iron Steamer Nimrod. — This iron steamer, built by Messrs. 

 Thomas Vernon and Co., for the Liverpool and Cork station, took her trial 

 trip on Thursday the 23d nit., proceeding several miles out to sea, and per- 

 forming in the most admirable manner. There was none of the usual vi- 

 bration perceptible from her engines, which were manufactured by Messrs. 

 Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy, and it is remarkable that although they occupy 

 so much less space than the ordinary side lever engines, as to leave 10. WU) 

 feet more capacity in the holds, they worked to a speed which has already 

 stamped her as a fast-sailing vessel. It is a fact worthy of being recorded, 

 that her keel was only laid on the 6th of May, and she is now ready for her 

 destined vovages — a vessel of 600 tons burthen, and 300-horse power. — 

 Liverpool Mercury. 



Neapolitan Steamer.— On Saturday the ISth ult., the war-steamer 

 Roberto, built in this country for the Neapolitan Government, made her trial 

 trip from Blackwall to Gravesend, which she performed admirably. The 

 revolutions were 21| per minute, and her speed rather more than 12 miles 

 an hour. Her tonnage is 1,056, horse power 300, length 190 feet, breadth 

 34, depth of hold 10. Her reported armament is two large swivel guns, to 

 carry hollow shot, and four 32-pounders. She is the last of the four ordered, 

 and will leave shortly for Naples. She was built by Mr. Pritchard, of North- 

 fleet, and her engines were made by the patentees. Messrs. Maudslays and 

 Field. They are the double cylinder engines. The Roberto hears a close 

 resemblance to the live war-steamers built and litted with engines (by the 

 same parties) for the Russian Government some time since. 



Iron Keei. Plates.— Mr. Boydell, of the Oak Farm Works. Stafford- 

 shire, has obtained a patent for forming keel plates, by rolling instead of 

 hammering, bv taking two pieces of angle iron for the sides, and a flat plate 

 for the bottom from 7 to 9 feet long, which are held together by wooden 

 cramps, and then placed in a furnace and heated to a welding heat ; by this 

 means the cramps are consumed, and the edges of the metal are melted just 

 sufficiently to unite the three pieces; they are then taken from the furnace 

 and passed between rollers, of the requisite form of the keel for securely 

 ■welding them together. 



LIST OP NEW PATENTS. 



(From Messrs. Robertson's List, i 



GRANTED IN ENGLAND FROM OCTOBER 27 TO NOVEMBER 21, 1843. 



Sir Months allowed for Enrolment, unless otherwise expressed. 



Jonathan Bell, Jan., of Abbey-street, Bethual-green-road, trimming manu- 

 facturer, for " improvements in machinery for manufacturing elastic braid." 

 — Sealed October 27. 



Alonzo Grandieon Hull, of Clifford-street, Bond-street, doctor of medicine, 

 for " irnprovemtuts m mnnufrir'nring Or improving fermented and distilled 

 Honors." — October 27. 



John Kibble, of Glasgow, gem., for " uuprovtmenU in apparatus for pro- 

 pelling vessels." — Nov. 2, 



Matthew Leach, of Manchester, mechanic, for " improvement* in rotary 

 steam engines, which improvements ore applicable to pumps for lifting and 

 forcing mater." — Nov. 2. 



Joseph Dickinson Stagg, of Middlcton. in Teesdale, Durham, manager of 

 smelting works, for " n new and improved plan for collecting, condensing and 

 purifying the fumes of lead, copper, and other ores and metals, also the par- 

 ticles of such ores and mplals arising, or produced from the roasting, smelting, 

 or manufacturing thereof, and also the noxious smoke, gases, salt and 

 soluble and absorbable 'ted in treating and working such ores 



and metals." — Nov. 2. 



David Evans, of Colesbill-street, Eaton-square, engineer, for "improve- 

 ments in sweeping and cleansing chimneys ami flue*, and in increasing the 

 draft therein, and in preventing the same from smoking." — Nov. 2. 



Joshua Proctor Vcsthead, of Manchester, manufacturer, for " a new or 

 improved fabrics, or new and improved fabrics, and also certain modifications 

 of machinery for making the same, which modifications of machinery are ap- 

 plicable to the manufi ■■ a of woven fab. Ie lost. 2. 



Frederic Isaac Welch, of Birmingham, manufacturer, for "on improvement 

 or improvements in I he manufacture of leather." — Nov. 2. 



Robert Davison, of Brick-lane, Spitalfields, civil engineer, and William 

 Symington, of Easl Smitbfield, civil engineer, for " a method of cleansing, 

 purifying, and sweetening cash ■•" — Nov. 2. 



William Edward Newton, Chancery-lane, civil engineer, for "improvements 

 m furnaces or fire-places." (A communication.) — Nov. I. 



Robert Raynsford Jackson, of Blackburn, cotton spinner, for "improve- 

 ments in the machinery or appal atus Iv he used in the preparation of cotton 

 andolh >"/'' — Nov. 4. 



Pierre Armand Lccomte de Fontainemoreau, of Skinners'-place, Size-lane, 

 London, for ' crone called " Dynamomctric.' (A communi- 



cation.) — Nov. 4. 



\\ illiam Rowan, of the firm of John Rowan and Sons, of Doagh Foundry, 

 Antrim, engineer, for " improvements in axles." — Nov. 7. 



Benjamin Parsons, of York-road, Lambeth, engineer, and Edward Esdaile, 

 of the City San Mills, City-road, machine sawyer, for " an improved machine 

 for cutting leaves of wood, such as those commonly called "scale board." — 

 Nov. 9. 



Charles Drury llazen, of Nottingham, merchant, for "improvements in 

 machinery for knitting stockings and other articles." (A communication/' — ■ 

 Nov. 9. 



Arthur Dunn, of Rotherhithe, soap-boiler, for "improvements in the ma- 

 nufacture of soap." — Nov. 9. 



William Bush, of Union-street, Deptford, engineer, for " improvements m 

 . magnetic needles less prejudicially influenced bg local attractions." 

 Nov. 9. 



Thomas Clarendon, of Great Brunswick-street, Dublin, sent., for an " rra- 

 proved method of shoeing horses." (A communication.) — Nov. ;> ; two 

 months. 



Samuel Archer, of Rochdale, flannel manufacturer, for "improvements in 

 the mam; 'I."— Nov. 9. 



Walter Hancock, of Stratford, Essex, engineer, for " improvements in the 

 manufacture of caoutchouc and caoutchouc in combination with other sub- 

 stances, and in machinery or apparatus for preparing caoutchouc and other 

 materials." — Nov. 9. 



George Holmes, of Stroudwater, engineer, for " improvements in furnaces 

 or fire-places." — Nov. 9. 



Samuel lleseltine, jun., of Bromley, Middlesex, engineer, for ''improve- 

 to be worked by air or other gases." — Nov. '.'. 

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

 ments in machinery for preparer) ■ other fibrous 

 substances." (A communication.) — Nov. 16. 



John Withers, of Smethwich, Stafford, manufacturing manager, for " an 



vent or improvements in the manufacture of glass." — Nov. 16. 

 Luke Smith, of Manchester, mechanic, for " improvements in, or applicable 

 to. looms for weaving various kinds of fabrics,"— -Nov. 16. 



Edward Buxton, of Bnsinghall-street, merchant, for " improvements in 

 spinning wool, cotton, and other fibrous materials." i A communication.] — 

 Nov. 16. 



George Scott, of New Citj Chambers, Bishopsgate-street, London, gentle- 

 man, for " improvements in the manufacture, purification, and combustion of 

 gas or gases." — Nov. 16. 



James Smyth, of Peasetihall. Suffolk, machine maker, for " improrements 

 in the CO grain, seeds, and manure." — Nov. 16. 



George Gwymie, of Putney, gentleman, and George Fergusson Wilson, of 

 Belmont, Vauxhall, gentleman, for "improvements in the manufacture of 

 candles, and in apparatus for, and processes of treating fatty J ■ wb- 

 stancesfor the making of candles, and other uses." — Nov. lti. 



Ramsay Richard lieinagle, of llowland-street, civil engineer, for "improve- 

 ments in applying atmospheric air as a motive power '." — Nov. 16. 



Arthur Wall, of Bisterne-place, Poplar, surgeon, for •• improvements m the 

 manufacture oj iron." — Nov. IS. 



James Roose, of Birmingham, gentleman, for "ok improvement or im- 

 provements in the mode or method of manufacturing gun barrets and ord- 

 nance." — Nov. Is. 



William Shepherd, of Kingston-upnn-Hull, joiner and builder, for " an 

 improved four port slide-valve, and an improved controller for 

 steam-engines, and for working the sleam expansively in the cylinder" — 

 Nov. IS. 



Edward Elliott, of the Tower Royal, engineer, for "a means of adding 

 power to the steam engine, and other machinery." — Nov. Is. 



Moses Poole, of Serle-street, gentleman, for "improvements in the manu- 

 facture of parts of knives oud other culling instruments." (A communi- 

 cation.) — Nov. 1 



Edmund Snell, of liridge.road, Lambeth, Surrey, medical student, for 

 '• improvements in the manufacture of soap." — Nov. 21. 



Thomas Hancock, of Goswell-mcws, Goswell-road. waterproof cloth manu- 

 facturer, for " an improvement or improvements in the preparation or manu- 

 facture of caoutchouc, in combination with other substances, which prepara- 

 tion or manufacture is suitable for rendi ring I other, doth, and other fabrics 

 waterproof, and to various Other purposes for which caoutchouc is emplaned." 

 Nov. 21. 



John Coope Haddan, of Liverpool-street, King's-cross, engineer, for " im- 

 provements in the mode of manufacturing papier mache, and other articles 

 made of vegetable pulp" — Nov. 21. 



William Palmer, of Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, manufacturer, foi 

 provements in the manufacture of pills." — Nov. 21. 



Octavius Dillingham Mordaunt, of Clifford-street, Bond-street, gentleman, 

 for " improvements i:i apparatus for obtaining the profile of various forms or 

 V communication.) — Nov. 21. 

 Moses Poole, of Lincoln's-inn, gentleman, for "an improved machine for 

 towing or propelling vessels, which can also be used as a boat." (A ci 

 nication.) — Nov. 21. 



Antonio Francis Jean Claudct, of High Holborn, glass merchant, for " im- 

 provements in the process and means of obtaining the representation of oljecls 

 of nature and art." (A communication.) — Nov. 21. 



Francis Higginson, of the town of Rochester, Lieutenant in the Roya 

 Navy, for " improvement* in fastenings for part of ships and other vessels] 

 which improvements are also applicable to other building purposes." — Nov. 21, 



