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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



[February, 



Chaklks GOI.IGIITI.Y, of Gravcl Lane, Soutluvark, Gent., for "a netv ap- 

 paratus for uhta'minij riwlire pijtrer." — Januan- 1. 



GhORGK Child, of Lower Tliames Street, Merchant, for " improremmts 

 in the rnanufactttre of bricks and tiles, part of which improvements are appVt- 

 cable to compressini/ peal and other materials." Coniuuinicated by a fo- 

 reigner. — January' 4. 



John Swindells, of Manchester, Manufacturing Chemist, for " improve- 

 ments in the nianufactnre of artificial stonf, cement, stucco, and other similar 

 compositiotts." — January 0. 



\ViLLi.\M Newton-, of Chancery Lane, Civil Engineer, for '• certain im- 

 provements in looms for weaving," Coniniunicated by a foreigner. — Januarv 

 0. 



John Rock Day, of Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fiel<ls, Sadlers' 

 Ironmonger, for " improvements in the construction of collars for horses and 

 other draft animals." — January 6. 



Henry Guntkr, of Culhim Street, Fenchureh Street, Merchant, for " im- 

 proi'ements in preserviny animal and vefjetable substances" — January 6. 



IIknry liEssEMKR, of Perceval Street, Clerkenwell, for "a new mode of 

 checking the speed of or stopping railroad carriages under certain circum- 

 stances." — January fi. 



William Thomi'SOn, of Upper North Place, Gray's Inn Road, Brush 

 Maker, for " improrements in the construction and mountinr/ of various kinds 

 of brushes and brooms," — January 8, 



ViLi.iAM Lacey, of Birmingliam, Agent, for " certain combinations of 

 vilrijied and metallic substances applicable to the manufacture of ornaments, 

 and the decoration and improvements of articles of domestic utility and of 

 household furrdture, also applicable to chnrch windows and shop lights." — 

 January 11. 



Matthew Uzielli, of King William Street, Merchant, for " improve- 

 ments in impregnating and preserving wood and timber for various useful 

 purposes." Communicated by a foreigner. — January 11. 



William Newton, of Chancery Lane, Civil Engineer, for " improved 

 machinery for cleaning wheat and other grain or seeds from smut and other 

 injurious matters." Communicated by a foreigner. — January 11. 



John Barwise, of Saint Martin's Lane, Chronometer Maker, and Alex- 

 ANDER Bain, of 35, Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, ilachinist, for their 

 invention of'* improvements in the application of moving ^x^'er to clocks and 

 time pieces." — January 11. 



Thomas Harris, of Chiffnal, Salop, for " an improved horse-shoe." — 

 January 11. 



Joseph Hall, of Cambridge, Grocer and Draper, for " a seed and dtist 

 disperser, applicable to the freeing of com and other plants from insects," — 

 January 14. 



Walter Hancock, of Stratford-le-Bow, Essex, for " an improved means 

 of preventing accidents on railways." — January 14. 



Pierre Armand Le Comte de Fontainemoreau, of Skinner Place, 

 Size Lane, for " an improved machinery for carding and spinning wooh and 

 hairs, which he titles " Filo Finistier." Communicated by a foreigner. — Jan- 

 uary 14. 



Melcher Gakner Todd, of the island of Saint Lucia, for " a certain im- 

 proved form of apparatus for the distilling and rectification of spirits." — 

 January 14. 



John Loach, of Birmingham, Brass Founder, for "improvements in castors 

 applicable to cabinet furniture and other purposes." — January 14. 



William King Westley, of Leeds, Flax Merchant, for " improvements 

 in carding, combing, straightening, cleansing, and preparing for spinning 

 hemp, fax and other fibrous substances." — January 14. 



William Uenworthy, of Blackburn, Spinner, and James Bullovgh, of 

 the same place, Overlooker, for " improvements in machinery, or apparatus 

 for weaving." — January 14. 



Charles Cameron, Esquire, of Mount Vernon, Edinburgh, for " im- 

 provements in engines, to be actuated hg steam and other elastic fluids,." — 

 January 14. 



Samuel Hall, of Basford, Nottingham, Civil Engineer, for " improve- 

 ment in the combustion of fuel and smoke." — January 14. 



Alexander Jones, of King Street, London, Engineer. for " iynprovemfnts 

 in the manvfacture of copper tubes and vessels." — January 14. 



Edward Foard, of Queen's Head Lane, Islington, Machinist, for "an 

 improved method, or improved methods, of supplying fuel to the fire-places or 

 grates of steam-engine boilers, breivers' coppers, and other furnaces, as veil 

 also to the fire-places employed in domestic purposes, and generally to the 

 supplying fuel to furnaces or fire-places, in such a manner as to coivmme the 

 smoke generally produced in such furnaces or fire-places." — January 16. 



John Ames, of Plymouth, Painter, for "a new and improved method of 

 making paint from materials not before used for that purpose." — January IG. 



James Smith, of Dcauston Works, Kilmadock, Perth, Cotton Spinner, for 

 " certain improven.ents in the preparing, spinning, and weaving of cotton, silk, 

 wool, and other fibrous substances, anil in measuring and folding woven fa- 

 brics, and in the machines and instruments for these purposes."— isinwary 19. 



Thomas Rohinson, of Wilmington Square, Middlesex, Esquire, for " im- 

 provements in drying woollen and other fabrics." — January 19. 



Thomas Vaux, of Frederic Street, Gray's Inn Lane, M'orsted Manufac- 

 turer, for '* improvements in horse-shoes." — January 19. 



Caleb Bedells, of Leicester, Manufacturer, Christopher Nickell, of 

 York Road, Lambeth, Gentleman, and Archibald Turner, Foreman to the 



said Caleb Bedells, for " improvements in the manufacture of braids and 

 plats." Partly communicated by a foreigner. — January 19. 



John Barber, of Manchester, Engraver, for " improvements in machinery, 

 for the purpose of tracing or etching designs or patterns on cylindrical sur- 

 faces." — January 19. 



Frederick Steiner, of Hyndburn Cottage, Lancaster, Turkey Red Dyer, 

 for " improvements in looms for weaving and cutting asunder double-piled 

 cloths, and a machine for winding weft to be used therein." Communicated 

 by a foreigner. — January 19. 



John Cox, of (ieorgie Mills, Edinburgh, Tanner, for "improvements in 

 apparatus fo' assisting or enabling peisons to swim or float, or progress in 

 water." — January 19. 



Charles Berwick Cvrtis, of Acton, Esquire, for " methods to be used 

 on railways for the purpose of obviating collisions betiveen successive trains." 

 — January 19. 



.\ngier March Perkins, of Great Coram Street, Engineer, for 'im- 

 provements in apparatus for heating by the Circulation of hot water, and for 

 the construction of pipes and tubes for such and other purposes." — Januarv 

 21. 



John Melville, of Upper Harley Street, Esquire, for "improvements in 

 propelling vessels." — January 21. 



M'lLLiAM Hill Darker, senior, and M'illiam Hill Darker, junior, 

 both of Lambeth, Engineers, and William Wood, of Wilton, Carpet Manu- 

 facturer, for " improvements in looms for weaving." — January 21. 



John Bradford Furnival, of Street Ashton, Warwick, Farmer, for " im- 

 provements in the construction and application of air-vesselx." — January 21. 



William Cooper, of Layhani, Sutt'olk, Iron Founder, for " an improved 

 inethod of constructing thrashing-machines and other agricultural instru- 

 ments."— JannnTy 21 ; two months. 



Isham Baggs, of Cheltehham, Gentleman, for " improvements inprint- 

 ing." — anuary 23 ; six months. 



Peter Fatrbairn, of Leeds, Engineer, and William Sithill, of New- 

 castle-upon-Tyne, Flax Spinner, for " improvements in drawing fiaj., hemp, 

 wool, silk, and other fibrous substances." — January 26. 



Edward IlENSHALL,of Huddersfield, Carpet Manufacturer and Merchant, 

 for " improvements in making, manufacturing, or producing carpets or hearth- 

 rugs." — January 2G ; four months. 



Nathaniel Lloyd, of Manchester, and Henry Robotham, of the same 

 place. Calico Printer, for " improvements in thickening and preparing colours 

 for printing calicoes and other substances." — January 2C ; six months. 



Nathan M'audington, of Hulme, Lancaster, Engineer, for " improre- 

 ments in the construction of steam-boilers, and furiuices for heating the same." 

 — January 26. 



Cornelius Alfred Jacouin, of Iluggin Lane, for " improvements in the 

 manufacture of covered buttons, and in preparing of metal surfaces for fuck 

 manufacture, and other purposes." — January 26. 



John Bradford Furnival, of Street Ashton, Farmer, for " improvements 

 in evaporating fluids, applicable to the manufacture of salt, and to other pur- 

 poses ivhere evaporation of fluids is required," Communicated by a foreigner. 

 — January 26. 



Richard Jenkyn, of Iloyle, Cornwall, Machinist, for " improvements in 

 valves for hydraulic-machines." — January 26. 



William Gall, of Beresford Terrace, Walworth, Gentleman, for " im- 

 provements in the construction of locomotive engines, and of the carriages 

 used on railways, applicable in part to carriages used on common roads." 

 Commtinicated by a foreigner.- — January 28. 



William Currie Harrison, ofNewland Street, Eaton Square, Pimlico, 

 Engineer, for "an improved turning-table for railway purposes," — January 

 28. 



Joseph Pr^or, of Wendron, Cornwall, Builder, for " an improved thrash- 

 ing-machine." — January 28. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



The drawing of a " Wood Bridge over the River Cuhhr,'*^ will appear ne.rt 

 yntmtli. 



J. C'ui,k (/// tin- Curvature of the Arches of the Holy Trinity at Florence, will 

 appear in thr in:vl Joarnal. 



We Ji'vl obliged to C, 11. W.for his eommunirntious ; we irill avail ourselves of 

 them at an early opportunity ; he u-ill perceive that we have already taken ad- 

 vantage of one of them. 



We shall In' happy to hear again from our Dublin correspondent. 



H in reply to Kder was received too late : it shall appear nc.rt month. 



li'e must apologize fo several correspondents who hare written to us for infor- 

 mation, for not unsuering them ; if they were aware of the numerous eontniuni- 

 rations that are addressed to ns. ihey would not hi surprised at not hearing from 

 IIS. If we are in possession of the information, without the neeessity of going to 

 others far it, we shall at all times feel ninrh pleasure in answering their iinpiiries. 



Hooks rtrrired too late for notice this mouth : — Trotter's Manual of Logarithms 

 and Prartiral Mathematics ; Arehiteetural Preei deuts with Speeifeations and 

 Wnrk'ing Drawings ; Alderson on the Steam Engine ; The Derby Arboretum. 



('ommiinirations are requested to he addressed to "The Ktlitor of the Civil 

 KiiKincer and Architect s Juurn;d,' A'o. \\. Parliament Street. Westminster. 



Books for review must he sent viirlu in the month, cotnmunieations on or before 

 the 20th (if with drawings, earlier), and advertisements on or before the l^th 

 instant. S^ 



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