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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 



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water from the opposite sifle to that at which the water is supplied. The 

 meter is only in action during the tioie the water is running otf. 



3. Description of a New Liquor Pump, calculated to prevent the Liquor 

 from being coniaminated with Verdigris and Oil in the interior of the 

 Pump Barrel ; also applicable to the Pumping of J cids. By Mr. Hay Dall, 

 Glasgow. — The author stated the following as the disadvantages of the pre- 

 sent system of pumping hquors — 1st, That each liquor requites a separate 

 pump. 2nd, That the liquor, in passing through the barrel of the pump, 

 corrodes its interior, especially in the case of fermented liquors, thus pro- 

 ducing con'-tant decay in the barrel and valves, and also an accumulation of 

 verdigris in brass pump-barrels, which, together with the oil or tallow used 

 to lubricate the piston, is constantly mixing with and contaminating the 

 liquor. The inventor stated that he had his attention frequently directed to 

 the disgusting state of ihe interior of corroded purap-banels which had 

 been Bent in for repair — that, generally, every crevice and corner of the 

 piston and barrel where it could collect, was clogged with a jKiisonous and 

 nauseous compound of stale beer and oily verdigris, ready to mix in greater 

 or less quantity with the next liquor that would pass lliroiigh it. That in 

 the new method one pump can he made to supply any number of liquors, 

 wliile the liquor never gets into contact with the pump-barrel. The pump 

 is used solely as an air-pump to withdraw the air from the interior of a series 

 of glass or earthenware vessels, properly arranged, and made to communicate 

 with the liquor casks by tubes immersed in the liquor. When the cocks 

 are properly arranged, and the pump is worked, the liquor rises and fills tlie 

 vessel, never having passed through the pump barrel at all, and when the 

 vessel is full, the pumping is stopt, and the liquor is run off into the vessels 

 from which it is to be drunk, by a common cock. 



LIST OF NE-W PATENTS 



GRANTED IN ENGLAND FROM MaY 23, TO JUNE 20, 1850, 



Six Months allowed for Enrolment ^ unless otherwise expressed. 



"William Eadley, chemical engineer, and Frederick Meyer, oil merchant, both of 

 Lambeth, Surrey, tor improvements in treating fatty oleaginous resmnus, hitumini-Uf>, unJ 

 cerous bodies, in ihe manufacture and application of thera, and of their coraponei.ts and 

 subsidiary products, toeether with the apparatus to be employed therein to new and other 

 useful purpose;:. — M;iy 25. 



Edwin Pettilt, of Birmingham, civil engineer, for improTeraents in the manufacture of 

 glass, in the method of forming or hhuping and ornamenting vessels and articles of glass, 

 and in the construcion of furnaces and annealing kilns.— May 25, 



John Hicltman. ot Walsall, Stafford, cltrk, lor improvements in the manufacture of 

 cylindrical and other lubes.— May 25. 



Alfred Vincent Xewton, of Chancery-lane, mechanical draughtsman, for improvements 

 in couplings (or tairiages, and in Ihe attachment of wheels to axles. (A communica- 

 t.on.)— May 2S. 



James Ashworth. of Rochdale, Lancaster, manufacturer, and Thomas Mitchell, of the 

 same place, manager, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for preparing, 

 spinning, and weaving colton, wool, and other fibrous materials.— May 29. 



Jonathan Harlow, of Birmingham, for improvements in the manufacture of bedsteads 

 and other artichs tor sitting or reclining on.— May 30. 



Edwyn John JeflTery Dixon, of tlie Royal Slate Quarritp, Bryntrafood, near Bangor, 

 Xorth Wales for improvements in the manufacture of sinks and other articles of slate 

 or stone. — May 30. 



Thomas Pa^re, of Middle Scotland-yard. Middlesex, civil engineer, for improvements 

 inFfhe construction and means of cleansing sewers.- June I. 



Ezra Jenks C'oates, of Bread-street, Cheapside, London, merchant, for improvements 

 ill Ihe manufuctiireof Mis, spikes, and nails.—June 1. 



Moses Poole, of the Patent Bill Office, London, gentleman, for improvements in ma- 

 chinery for punching metals, and in the construction of springs for carriages and otlier 

 uses.- June 1. 



Arthur Elliott, machine maker, of Manchester, and Henry Feys, of the same place, 

 hi.ok-keeper, fur certain improvements in machinery for manufacturing woven fabrics — 

 June I. 



Guillaume Ferdinand de Douhef, of Clermont Ferrand, France, gentleman, for im- 

 provements m the disoxygenation of certain bodies, and the apr.lication, separately or 

 sjnitihaneously. of the products therefrom to various useful purposes.— June 1 



Frank Clarke Hills and George Hills, of Deptford, Kent, manulacturing chem'sts for 

 cunain improvements in manulacturinK and refining sugar. — June I. 



Samut-l Brown, of Lambeth, Surrey, e^gineer, for improvements in engines for mea- 

 surn.g and repiMering the flow of fluids and substances in a fluid ttate, which 

 nniirnvementfi are also applicable to steam and other motive engines —June 1 



John Tuck.T, of the Royal Dockyard. Woolwich, Kent, shipwright, for improvements 

 in Mf-am boilers, and m gearmg, cleansing, and proptlling vessels. (A communication.) 

 — June I. ' 



UeoiBe Hayward Ford, of St. Martin's-le-Grand, Middlesex, gentleman, for improve- 

 inenls in obtaining po*er.— June 3, 



Paul d'Anpely, of Paris, France, gentleman, for certain improvements in the construc- 

 ti..n of privies and urinals, and in apparatus and machiserv for cleansing privies 

 cesspools, and other places, and in deodorising the matter extracted llierefrora. and 

 rendering it avnilahle for agricultural purposes.- June 4. 



David Kapicr and James Murdock Napier, of the York-road, Lambeth Surrey 

 enumcers. for thnr invention of improvements in apparatus for separating fluid from 

 oilier matttrs.— Junp 4, 



Theodore Cariiili. ol Manchester, merchant, for certain improvements in ihe treafment 

 or preparation of yarns, or threads, for weaving. (A communication. )—J'.ne 4 



William WaUon, the younper, of Chapel Allerton, York, manufacturing chf'mist, for 

 iniiirovemt-nts m the prcparatiun and manufacture of various maitriiiU to be used iri the 

 processes of dyting, piintine. and colouring —June 4. 



John Sjkes and Xtlam Ogden. both of Dock siieei, Huddersfleld, York, wool cleaners 

 il.d machine niakers, lur certain improvements in machinery fur cleaning wool, ctition 

 Liid similar fi!»rous substances Irom burrs, nioifs, and olher extraneous niatler.— June 4! 



Edmund Sharpe, of Lancaster, mas;er of arts, lor certain improvements in railway 

 carriages.— Jm:e 5. 



William Edward Kfwton, of Chanrery-'ane, civil engineer, for improvements appli- 

 rablo lo boots, shots, and glher coveringb f«r, or uppl.ance& to the f^et.— (A commumca- 

 lit-n J— July G. 



George Jackson, of Belfast, Ireland, fiaz-eplnner, for improvements in heckling ma- 

 chinery. — June 6. 



John McN'icoll, of Liverpool, engineer, for Improvements in machinery for raising 

 and conveying weights. — June h. 



William Robertson, of Gateside-hill, Neilstone, Renfrew, Scotland, machine maker, 

 for improvement* in certain machinery us>ed for spinning and doubling cotton, and other 

 fibrous substances. — June 9. 



James Alexander Hamilton Bell, New York, America, merchant, for Improvements in 

 dressing bran, pollard, and sharps. (A communication. J — June 6. 



A grant unto William George Bicknell, ol Essex-street, Strand, and James Reginald 

 Torin Graham, of the Grove, Clapham Common, of an extension lor thettrm of six years 

 of letters patent granted by his late Majesty King William IV'., to Miles Berrt, of Chan- 

 cery-lane, patent agent, for certain improvements in mdchinery or apparatus' for clean- 

 ing, purifying, and drying, wheat or other grain or seeds.— June 7 



William Newton, of Chancery-lane, civil enui/iccr, (or certain improvements in the 

 manufacture of cords, ropes, bands, sirong clotiis, (juiltiug, sacks, and cushions and in 

 elastic material for stuffing the latter, in which manuiacturecaoijichoiic forms an essential 

 ingredient, and in the application of parts of these improvements to the manufaciure of 

 pads, stoppers, tubes, boxes, baskets, coverini;^, wrappers, and other like articles of 

 utility. (A communication). — June 8. 



James Colman, of Stoke Mills, Stoke, near Norwich, Norfolk, mustard and starch 

 manufacturer, for improvements in the manufacture of starch.—June 8. 



Peter Armand Lecomte de Fontainemureaa, of Souih-street, Kiusbury, London, for 

 certain improvements in oscillating engines put in motion by steam and gas re.-ulting 

 from combustion. (A communication;. — June 8. 



Charles Warwick, of Cheapside, warehouseman, for improvement* in apparatus for 



taking up the work of certain descriptions of knitting machinery. (_A communication; 



June 8. 



Peter Armand Lecomte de Fontainemortau, of South-street, Finsbury, for certain im- 

 provements in the manufacture of sulphate of soda, muriaiic and niuic acids. (A com- 

 munication). — June II. ■ 



William Edward Newton, of Chancery-lane, civil engineer, for improvements in 

 machinery for carding coiton, wool, or other fibrous materials, and an ajiparaius for 

 preparing or setting tlie cards of carding engines. (A communication) — June II 



William Jackson, of Kingston-upon-Hull, soap maker, for improvements m the manu- 

 facture of soap, and in ihe preparation of materials fortius purpose. — June 1 1. 



William Edward Newton, of Chancery-lane, civil engineer, for improvements in rotary 

 engines. (A communication). — June 11, 



Robert Waddell, of Liverpool, Lancaster, engineer, for certain improvements in 

 steam engines. (A communication) — June 11. 



Alexander Parkes, of Pembrey, Canuarthenshire, experimental chemist, for improve- 

 ments in smelting and treating certain metals, and in the construction and manuiaciure 

 of furnaces and the materials to be used for the same, such furnaces and mattrijis being 

 applicable to the treatment of metals and metallic compouuds, and to \arious wilier useiul 

 purposesof a like nature. — June 11. 



William Pole, uf Great George -street, Westminsrer, engineer, and David Thomson, of 

 Belgrave-road, Pimlico, engim-er, for improvements in steam-engines. — June II. 



John Henry Tries, Esq., of Norfolk-street, Strand, Middlesex, for improvements in 

 working engines by atmospheric air. — June 11. 



James Palmer Budd, of the Ysialyfera Iron Works, Swansert, merchant, for improve- 

 ments in the manuiacture of coke. — June II. 



John Dearman DuuniclitT, of Hyson Green, Noltinf;hani, lace manufacturer, and 

 John Woodhouse Bagley, of Radford, in the said county, Uce maker, fur cert^iin im- 

 provements in lace and other weaving. — June 11. 



Samuel Ellis, of Salfoid, engineer, for improvements in machinery or apparatus appli- 

 cable to all kinds of carriages used on railways.— June U. 



Frederick Albert Gatty, of Accrington, Lancaster, manufacturing chemist, for a certain 



process or ceitain processes lor obtaining a carbonate 01 soda and carbonate ol jiotash. 



June 11. 



William Cox, of tbe firm of William Cox and Co., of Manchester, cigar merchant, for 

 certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for manufacturing aerated waters, or 

 othgr such liquids. — June 1 1. 



John Sidebtittom, of Broadbottom, Chester, manufaciurer, for improvements in looms 

 f»r weaving. — June 11. 



William Mac Lardy, of Manchester, machinist, for certain improvements in machinery 

 or apparatus for preparing and finishing, and doubling cotion and other fibrous uiatenals. 

 — June \'i. 



Alfred Vincent Newton, of Chaucery-Iane, Middlesex, mechanical draughtsman, for 

 improvements in the production of gases to bo used for lighting, healing, and motive 

 power purposes. (A communication). — June 12. 



Gustavus Palmer Harding, of Bartleit's-buildings, London, artificial florist, for im- 

 provements in the manuiacture of buttons and other fastenings. — June .2. 



Thomas Deakln, of Balsall Heath, Worcester, Esq., for certain improvements in ma- 

 chinery and apparatus to be used in rolling metals and in the manufacture of metal 

 tubps — June 12. 



John Stopporlon, of the Isle of Man, engineer, for certain improvements In propeilin" 

 vessels. — June 12. 



William Edward Newton, of Chancery-lane, civil engineer, for certain improvements 

 in the construciion of railways. (A communication.) — June 12. 



George Allen Everitt, of the firm of Allen, Everitt, and Son, of the Kingston Metal 

 W>>rks, Birmingham, metal and tube manufacturers, and George Glydon, of Birmingham 

 aforesaid, engineer and foreman lu the said Allen, Everitt, and Son, for certain improve- 



mtrnts in tlie manufacture of nittal tubes for locomotive, maiine, and other boilers. 



June 12. 



John Manly, jun., of Birmingham, manufacturer, for certain improvements in the 

 manufaciure of nails. — June 12. 



Ciiarles Li.mport, of Worirington, Cumberland, ship-bnilder, for certain improvements 

 inmaclijnery or apparatus for lifting and moving weights, working chains, and punii>iiig, 

 which improvements are more especially adapted to ship use — June 19. 



Charhs Greenway, of (ireen-street, Grosvenor-squan-, Middlesex, for Improvements 

 in sliijis' and other pumps, in anchors, and in propelling vessels. — June 1!), 



Benjamin Chevtrton, of Camden-street, Cumden-town, Middlestx, anist, for methods 

 of imitatinc ivory and bone. — June 19. 



Charles Hanson, of Stepney, Middlesex, engineer, for certain improvement^ in $t<>nm- 

 engiiitf, steam-bnjlers, and saiety valves, and m apparatus and machinery lor propelling 

 vessels. — June 19 



Isaac Hartas, of Wrellon Hall, York, farmer, for improvements in machinery for 

 obtaining ?Motive power, {A communication.) — June !9. 



K'tbert H* alh, of Mant-liester, iron menhant, and Richard Hfr'ndley Thomas, of Wool- 

 st:iiiton, Siatford, engineer, fr.r certain iniprovemeiits in the m.inufacture of iron. — 

 Ju:ie \i). 



EtiK.ii Baldwin, of Phdadelihia, Pennsylvania, United States of Ainerics. for a new 

 and useful nielhod of Eeneraiing and applying steam in propelling vessels, locomotives, 

 and stationary machinery. — June 19. 



Robert Wrare. of Anuel-court, 1 hn'emorton-street, clock and watch manufacturer, for 

 certain im|)rovem»-nts in the means and apparatus for extinguishing fire, ai.d in galvanic 

 bat'enes. — June 19. 



GeiTge Rubarts, of Tavislock, Devon, geittleman, for certain improvements in clogs 

 and pallen^.— June 19. 



(»asi'ard Mulo, of Diuikirk, France, &liipo^ner, for certain impro\emer.ts in [irc-pellsng 

 veiaels.— June 20. 



