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SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



[June 1st, 1887. 



APPLICATIONS FOR LETTERS PATENT. 



The following selected list of applications has been compiled especially 



for the Scientific News by Messrs. W. P. Thompson and Boult, 



Patent A/;ents, of 323, High Holborn, London, W.C.; Neivcastle 



Chambers, Angel Row, Nottitigham ; Ducie Buildings, Bank Street, 



Manchester ; and 6, Lord Street, Liverpool. 

 No. 



5271. — James Douglas Dallas, 10, Trevor Terrace, Rutland Gate, 

 London. " Electrical type-setter." 12th April, 1887. 



5274; — R. Rendell. a communication from Ansel B. Jones, United 

 States. " Electric clock." 12th April, 1887. 



5294. — Alfred Julius Boult, 323, High Holborn, London. A 

 communication from Theodore 'Yates, United States. " Breech- 

 loading ordnance." (Complete specification.) I2th April, 1887. 



5299.— George Valiant and Josiah Nesbitt, 323, High- Holborn, 

 London. "Stamping and embossing machines." (Complete 

 specification.) 12th April, 1887. 



5303.— Henry Willock Ravenshaw, Walter Thomas Goolden, 

 and Alexander Pelham Trotter, 23, Andalus Road, Clap- 

 ham, London. " Dynamo-electric machines." 12th April, 

 1887. 



5307.— James Thomas Bostock Ives, Toronto, Ontario. " Illustra- 

 ting geological stratification and the attendant phenomena." 12th 

 April, 1887. 



5308. — Samuel Herbert Fry, Fairfield Villa, Kingston-on-Thames. 

 " Giving rigidity to flexible photographic films." 12th April, 

 1887. 



5361.— Thomas Henry Simmonds, 57, Chancery Lane, London. 

 " Microscopic slide-holders. " 13th April, 1887. 



5379. — John Robert Alsing, 9 and 10, Southampton Buildings, 

 London. " Triturating cylinders." 13th April, 1887. 



5433- — William Phillips Thompson, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool. 

 " Manufacture or treating of cotton-seed oil and other products 

 from cotton-seed, cotton-seed oil, or its residues." 14th April, 

 1887. 



S493-— Robert William Anderson, 177, Upper Parliament Street, 

 Liverpool. "Type- visiters." 15th April, 1887. 



5504. — Amos Lefevre Keeport, 77, Chancery Lane, London. 

 " Obtaining the oxides, etc., of metals from their ores or from 

 crude minerals." (Complete specification.) 15th April, 1887. 



5305. — Henry Willock Ravenshaw, Walter Thomas Goolden, 

 and Alexander Pelham Trotter, 23, Andulas Road, Clap- 

 ham, London. "Dynamo-electric machines." 15th April, 

 1887. 



5509. — Alfred Julius Boult, 323, High Holborn, London. A 

 communication from Paul Jacques Victor Letang, France. 

 " Electric arc-lamps." (Complete specification.) iSth April, 

 1887. 



5534-— Albert L. Parcelle, 24, Southampton Buildings, London. 

 "Electrical synchronous movements." (Complete specification.) 

 15th April, 1887. 



5537. — Harry Julius Maclure and Robert Davy Bowman, 

 24, Southampton Buildings, London. "Telephones." 15th April, 

 1887. 



5562. — William Maxwell, 34, Claybrook Road, Fulham, S.W. 

 " Generating, reproducing, and distributing electricity." i6th 

 April, 1887. 



5707. — Edward Frederick Hermann, Heinrich Lauckert, and 

 Henry Walter Kingston, 28, Southampton Buildings, London. 

 " Automatic cut-outs for electric arc-lamps, worked in series." 

 19th April, 1887. 



5709.— Alphonse Isidore Gravier, 6, Breams Buildings, London. 

 " Dynamo-electric machines." 19th April, 1887. 



5712. — David Joy, 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, "Steam- 

 engines." 19th April, 1887. 



5714. — William Stevens Squire, Clarendon House, St. John's 

 Wood Park, London. " Manufacture of sulphuric anhydride." 

 19th April, 1887. 



5720. — Carl Coerper, 45, Southampton Buildings, London. "Dy- 

 namo-electric machines." 19th April, 1887. 



5743.— Henry John Lawson, Coventry, Warwickshire. " Veloci- 

 pedes for the better fitting them for war purposes." 20th April, 

 1887. 



5775.— Leon Soulerin, 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. " Steam- 

 engines." 20th April, 1887. 



5786.— Richard Morris, 28, Southampton Buildings, London. 

 " Magazines for firearms." 20th April, 1887. 



5824,— James West Knights and William Dennison Gall, 323, 

 High Holborn, London. " Manufacture of carbolic acid and other 

 tar acids." 21st April, 1887. 



5831.— William Benjamin Ball, i66, Fleet Street, London. " Stop- 

 ping, weaving, or knitting machines." 21st April, 1887. 



5840. — Alfred Vincent Newton. A communication from Alfred 

 Nobel, France. " Projectiles." 21st April, 1887. 



5845. — Frederick Brookholding Jones, St. Augustine's Chambers, 

 College Green, Bristol. "Automatic tracheotomy tubes." 21st 

 April, 1887. 



5849. — John Ditchfield, Ashton Road, Denton. " Method of filling 

 wash boilers." 22nd April, 1887. 



5855. — ^John Allan, 6, Panmure Street, Dundee. " Weaving fabrics, 

 with various colours of wefts, with two or more shuttles." 22nd 

 April, 1887. 



5862. — William Blenheim, Englefield Green, Egham. " Driving of 

 a number of clocks by magneto-electricity." 22nd April, 18S7. 



S920. — Fred Shaw and James William Senior, Commercial 

 Street, Halifax, " 'Jerrys,' or perpetual cutting machines." 23rd 

 April, 1887. 



S923. — George Sallnow Martin, Birkbeck Institution, Breams 

 Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C. "Controlling the action of in- 

 stantaneous photographic shutters with detent spring." 23rd 

 April, 1887. 



5951. — William Dent Priestman and Samuel Priestman, igi, 

 Fleet Street, London. " Motor engines operated by the combus- 

 tion of liquid hydrocarbon." 23rd April, 1887. 



6077. — Alfred Julius Boult, 323, High Holborn, London. A 

 communication from George W. Morse, United States. " Mani- 

 pulating cartridges or cartridge shells for firearms." (Complete 

 specification.) 26th April, 18S7. 



6082. — Solomon Andrews and Francis Emile Andrews, 6, Lord 

 Street, Liverpool. " Camera obscura, for use in taking views and 

 the like." 26th April, 18S7. 



6086. — SiLVANUs Phillips Thompson, 323, High Holborn, London. 

 " Processes in electro-deposition." 26th April, 1887. 



6087. — Edwin David Wassell, 77, Chancery Lane, London. 

 " Reducing the point in carbon in steel, and forming a homo- 

 geneous weld." (Complete specification.) 26th April, 1887. 



6117.— George Bell Williamson, Wild's Hotel, Ludgate Hill, 

 London. A communication from Houston Francis Logan, New 

 Zealand. " Smelting crude antimony." 27th April, 1887. 



6119. — ^JOHN BousFiELD, 59A, Micklegate, York. " Dating tickets at 

 both ends with one compression, or stamp applicable to railway 

 tickets." 27th April, 1887. 



6135. — Howard Field, 4, Clayton Square, Liverpool. "Packing 

 for steam and other engine and machine glands." 27th April, 

 1887. 



6151. — Ferdinand Bosshardt, 8, QuaHty Court, London. A com- 

 munication from Johann Rudolf Frikart, France. " Valve gear for 

 steam-engines." (Complete specification.) 27th April, 1887. 



6157. — Thomas Edward Hussey, Northwold, Norfolk. "Armour- 

 plating for vessels of war and other purposes." 27th April, 1887. 



6165. — Richard Smith Casson, 55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London. 

 " Manufacture of steel or ingot iron and phosphate of lime." 27th 

 April, 1887. 



6169. — Philipp Tafel, 67, Strand, London. " Rolling mills." 27th 

 April, 1887. 



6172. — Edward Dunning Barker, iij. Cannon Street, London. 

 " Grinding wheels." 27th April, 1887. 



6173. — Robert Abbott Hadfield, 33, Southampton Buildings, 

 London. " Treatment of steel." 27th April, 1887. 



6251.— Henry Skerrett, 6, Livery Street, Birmingham. A com- 

 munication from Leon Fritz, France. "Machinery for cutting or 

 making dovetails." 29th April, 1887. 



6254. — George Tolson, Commercial Street, Halifax. " Drying 

 fabrics and fibres." 29th April, 1887. 



6260. — John Bennett and Joseph Bulton, Brimscall, near Chorley. 

 " Temple steps and apparatus thereto for looms used in weaving." 

 29th April, 1887. 



6267. — Arthur Cecil Cockburn and Eustace Thomas, 26, 

 Petherton Road, Canonbury, N. " Lock switches for use in 

 electric circuits." 29th April, 1887. 



6278. — George Howard Harrison, 191, Fleet Street, London. 

 " Steering screw steamers and other vessels." 29th April, 1887. 



6295. — Edward Kohler .and Morris Lachman, 6, Breams Build- 

 ings, Chancery Lane, London. "Sewing machines." 29th April, 

 1887. 



6300.^Walter Bethell, 20, High Holborn, London. " Packing 

 employed for stuffing boxes of steam-engines, pumps, and the like." 

 29th April, 18S7. 



6314. — Ambrose Fleming, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester. 

 "Signalling in foggy weather upon railways." 30th April, 1887. 



6339. — IsiDRO Plou, 67, Strand, London. " Preventing railway and 

 other vehicles from leaving the rails." (Complete specification.) 

 30th April, 1887. 



6354. — Paul Kirchoff, 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. "A 

 rotary steam-engine or motor." (Complete specification.) 30th 

 April, 1887. 



