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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



[Jan. 



The King of Prussia has given orjers for the restoration of the palace at 

 Coblentz. ami it is suiiposecl tliat the Rhenish States will meet tliere and at 

 Dusseldorf alternately. The Kinp; has ordered 50,000 dollars for the bnilding 

 of the cathedral at Cologne, and has promised from the treasury 30,000 dol- 

 lars yearly, in addition to sums for the purchasing up the houses at present 

 surrounding that magnificent building. 



LIST OP NE'W PATENTS. 



GBANTED IN ENGLAND FROM 25th NOVEMBER, TO 23rD DECEMBER, 1841. 



Six Months allowed for Enrolment, 



Robert Wilson, of Sowerby Bridge, Halifax, currier and tanner, for 

 •^improvements in the tnamtfacfure of leather." — Dec. 2. 



William Irving, of Princes-street, Rotherhitbe, gentleman, for "im- 

 provements in the manvfactitre of bricks and tiles." — Dec. 7. 



James Colman, of Stoke Holy Cross, Norfolk, starch manufacturer, for 

 *' improvements in the manufacture of starch." — Dec. 9. 



■William Henry Fox Talbot, of Lacoek Abbey, Wilts, Esq., for " im- 

 provements in coating or covering metals with other metals, and in colouring 

 metallic surfaces."^Dec. 9. 



John Hall, of Breezes Hill, Ratcliff Highway, sugar refiner, for " im- 

 provements in the construction of boilers for generating steam, and in the 

 application of steam to mechanical power." — Dec. 9. 



Archibald Templeton, of Lancaster, silk spinner, for " a new or im- 

 proved method of preparing for spinning silk and other Jibroiis sttbstatices." — 

 Dec. 9. 



Jonathan Guy Dashwood, of Ryde, Isle of Wight, plumber, for " »»- 

 provements in the construction of cocks and taps." — Dec. 9. 



Moses Poole, of Lincoln's Inn, gentleman, for " improvements in the con- 

 struction of masts for ships and vessels, and in applying the shrouds." — Dec. 

 9. (A communication.) 



JosiAH Taylor, of I5irmingham, brass founder, for " improvements in the 

 construction of lamps." — Dec. 9. 



Robert Henderson, of Birmingham, china dealer and glass stainer, for 

 " certain improvements in apparatus for heating and lighting apartments, and 

 for other like purposes." — Dec. 9. 



Henry- Wilkinson, of Pall Mall, gun maker, for " improvements in ma- 

 chinery to be used in constructing buildings, and in raising and lowering 

 weights and materials." — Dec. 9. (A communication.) 



John Edwards, of Shoreditch, warehouseman, for " improvements in 

 giving signals on railways." — Dec. 11. 



William George Henry Taunton, of Liverpool, engineer, for " im- 

 provements in machinery for raising weights." — Dec. 11. 



William Westley Richards, of Birmingham, gunmaker, for "improve- 

 ments in the construction of gun and pistol locks and primers for the dis- 

 charge offre arms." — -Dec. 14. 



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

 provements in printing and delineating patterns, and printed cloths for floor 

 cloths, covers, and other uses." — Dec. 14. (A communication.) 



Francis Mar, of 81, Eaton-square, Esq., for "certain improvements in 

 the construction of ships or other vessels, mid the method of propelling them." 

 Dec. IG. (A communication.) 



William Neilson, builder, David Ly'On. builder, and Peter M'Onie, 

 engineer, all of Glasgow, for " improvements in cutting, dressing, preparing, 

 and polishing stones, marble, and other substances, and also in forming flat or 

 rounded monldi7igs, and other flgures thereon." — Dec. 16. 



Charles Edward Austin, of Fulham, engineer, for "an apparatus for 

 what is commonly called ' changing the line,' on railways." — Dec. 16. 



James Stewart, of Osnaburg-street, Regent's park, pianoforte maker, for 

 " an improvement in the construction of castors." — Dec. 1 6. 



William Prowett, of Northamptonshire, victualler, for " improvements 

 in giving signals on railways." — Dec. 1 6. 



Henry- Booth, of Liverpool Esq., for " improvements in the method of 

 propelling vesseh through water" — Dec. 16. 



John Norton, of the Junior United Service Club, Regent-street, Esq,, for 

 " improvements in sheathing ships and other vessels." — Dec. 16. 



Antoine Mertens, of the London Coffee-house, publisher, for " improve- 

 ments in the manufacture of plaited fabrics." — Dec. 16. 



William Church, of Birmingham, civil engineer, and Jonathan Har- 

 low, of the same place, manufacturer, for " improvements in the mode of 

 manufacturing metallic tubes, and in the mode of joining them, or other tubes 

 or pieces, for various useful purjioses." Dec. 16. 



Thomas Starkey", of Birmingham, copper cap manufacturer, for " im- 

 provements in percussion caps for discharging fire-arms." — Dec. 16. 



John Americus Fanshawe, of Ilatfield-street, Christ Church, gentleman, 

 for " an improved manufacture of waterproof fabric, applicable to the pur- 

 poses of covering and packing bodies, buildings, and goods, exposed to water 

 and damp." — Dec. 16. 



William Buckwell, of Trinity-street, Borough, civil engineer, for " im- 

 provements in scaffolding or frame-work for building purposes." — Dec. 16, 



Charles Loosev, of Ilalf.moon-street, Piccadilly, civil engineer, for " im- 

 proveinenls in steam-engines, and which improvements are also applicable irt 

 raising or forcing ivater and propelling vessels." — Dec. 16. 



John Bould, of Overden, Halifax, cotton spinner, for " imp.ovements in 

 condensing steam-engines." — Dec. 16. 



Antoine Jean Francois Claudet, of High Holborn, glass merchant, for 

 *• improvements in the process or means of, and apparatus for, obtaining 

 images or representations of nature or art." — Dec. 18. 



Henry Hough Watson, of Bolton-le-Moors, Lancaster, consulting 

 chemist, for " improvements in dressing, stiffening, and finishing cotton, and 

 other fibrous substances, and textile and other fabrics, part or parts of which 

 improvements are applicable ta the manufacture of paper, and also to some 

 of the processes or operations connected with printing calicoes and other 

 goods." — Dec. 21. 



William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery-lane, 

 civil engineer, for " improvements in lamps and burners, and in the means of 

 supplying air and heat thereto, for the support of combustion." — Dec. 21. 

 (A communication.) 



William Newton, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery-lane, civil en- 

 gineer, for " improvements in cleansing wool, and facilitating the operation of 

 dyeing ; and also in washing and bleaching cotton yarns or fabrics." — Dec. 

 21. (.4 communication.) 



Ovid Toph.^m, of Whitecross-street, engineer, for " improvements in en- 

 gines, machines, apparatus, or means for extinguishing or stopping the pro- 

 gress of fire in any room or part of different buildings, which may have be- 

 come ignited, such as noblemen or gentlemen's mansions, houses, factories, 

 store and warehouses, and consequently preserving them from destruction, and 

 preventing the loss of life." — Dec. 21. 



George Palmer Henry-, of Peckham. chemist, for " improvements in 

 apparatus, to be applied to the glass chimneys of gas burners." — Dec. 21. 



John Cox, of Gougie Mills, Edinburgh, tanner and glue-maker, for " im- 

 proved processes of tanning." — Dec. 21. 



John Oliver York, of Upper Coleshill-street, Eaton-square, engineer, for 

 " improvements in the construction of railway axes and wheels." — Dec. 21. 



William Carron, of Birmingham, lathe-maker, for " improvements in 

 the construction of clogs and pattens." — Dec. 21. 



V/iLLiAM Henry Smith, of Finsbury Chambers, Bloomfield-street, ciril 

 engineer, for " improvements in the construction and manufacture of con- 

 nectors or fastenings, applicable to garments, and other uses." — Dec. 21. 



Adolphe Fourment, of Museum-street, engineer, for " improvements in 

 castors for cabinet furniture, and other purposes." — Dec. 21. 



Thomas Wright, of Church lane, Chelsea, Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, 

 and Alexander Bain, of Percival-street, Clerkenwell, mechanist, for " im- 

 provements in applying electricity to control railway engines and carriages, 

 to mark time, to give signals, and print intelligence at distant places." — Dec. 

 21. 



Henry Alphonse Bonnevialle Bouveiron, of Trevor-square, mer- 

 chant, for •' improvements in axletress." — Dec. 21. (A communication.) 



William Burge, of Bristol, sign painter, for " improvements in propelling 

 vessels." — Dec. 21. 



William Carr Thornton, of Cleckheaton, machine-maker, for " im- 

 provements in machinery or apparatus for making cards for carding cotton 

 and other fibrous substances. — Dec. 21. 



John Watson, of Chorley, Lancaster, Gent., for " improvements in the 

 construction of filters, used in the manufacture of sugar." — Dec. 23. 



William Baillien, of Gloucester-street, Queen-square, Bloomsbury, 

 musician, for " improvements in apparatus to expand ttie human chest,"— 

 Dec. 23. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



On account of the Jndex, SfC., being more than usually heavy, this month, wc 

 have been obliged to postpone some valuable communications, parlicuiarly one on 

 Egyptian archilecture, and also the important evidence respecting the explosion of 

 a boiler at Manchester. 



Communications from " Seyton '' and others must stand over. 



" A Civil Engineer.'* Several designs have been submitted to the Corporation 

 of the City of London, for the improvement of Holborn Hilt. 



" 13." must, upon consideltttion, see that wc cannot insirt his communication, for 

 our Journal might be filed with similar announcements. 



All controversial articles must be subject to our cutting them as sliort as pos- 

 sible, for- we do not wish to extend discussions unnecessarily ; too often they con- 

 tain a great deal of acrimony. 



"A." His communication wants revising; will he do vs the favour to say 

 where it can be sent for correction. 



Commnnications are requested to be addressed to " The Editor of the Civil 

 Engineer and Architect's Journal," No. 11, Parliament Street, JVestminster. 



Boohs for Review must be sent early in the month, communications on or before 

 the 20tli (if with draivings, earlier), and advertisements on or before tlie ibth 

 instant. 



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