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SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



[Oct. 1st, 1887 



APPLICATIONS FOR LETTERS PATENT. 



The following selrcted list of applications has been compiled especially 

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

 Patent Agents, of 323, Higfi Ilolborn, London, IV.C. ; Newcastle 

 Chambers, Angel Kow, Notlingfiam ; t)ucie Buildings, Banfi Street, 

 Manctiester ; and 6, Lord Street, Liverpool. 



No. ■ ~ 



108S5. — Oscar HajiIMERstein, 52, Chancery Lane, London. " Art 

 of forming long fillings for cigars." (Complete specification.) 9th 

 August, 1887. 

 10887. — Greenwood King, 3, Bank Chambers, Keighley. " Machines 



for cutting files." 9th August, 1887. 

 10913.— John Rolph McCartey, 53, Chancery Lane, London. 



"Permanent way of railways." 9th August, 1S87. 

 10918. — Frederick William Dahne, 21, Cockspur Street, London. 

 " Refining copper, copper regulus, and copper precipitate, and 

 more especially such copper products as contain arsenic and other 

 volatile impurities." 9th August, 18S7. 

 10931. — William Hutchinson, 15, Kirkham Street, Weaste, Salford. 

 " An improved drying cylinder, with improved expander combined." 

 loth August, 1887. 

 10937. — Frederick Henry Gurney, 2, Woodstock Street, Oxford 

 Street, London. " Self-adjusting soft inodorous india-rubber pad 

 for the relief of hernia." loth August, 1887. 

 10945. — Roland Hugh Edwards and Graham William Betham 

 Edwards, 34, Southampton Buildings, London. "Mathematical 

 instruments." loth August, 1887. 

 10957. — LuDWiG MoND, 323, High Holborn, London. " Treating 

 solids by gases, also applicable to other purposes." loth August, 

 1887. 

 1 0992. — William Henry Stead, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool. " Treat- 

 ment of cotton seed for the removal of fibrous matters therefrom, 

 and in apparatus therefor." nth August, 1887. 

 11017. — John Leeming, Town Hall Buildings, Halifax. "Taking 



up motions of looms for weaving." 12th August, 1887. 

 11020. — George Christie and Alexander Dunlop, 55, Ladywell 

 Street, Glasgow. "Wire-drawing machinery." 12th August, 

 1887. 

 1 1040. — Tom Cooke and William Henry Boyens, 323, High 

 Holborn, London. "Medicinal baths, applicable for other pur- 

 poses." I2th August 1887. 

 11041. — Robert Edwards, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool. " Lithographic 

 stones formed out of certain natural silicates, and the removal of 

 the hthographic ink therefrom." 12th August, 1887. 

 11067.— Julian Money Vernon Money-Kent and Sidney Sharp, 

 70, Chancery Lane, London. "Construction and working of 

 electric railways." 13th August, 1887. 

 1 1069. — William Henry Duncan, Coalbrook-dale, Shropshire 

 "Endless toboganning slide, sloping railway, and skating decline, 

 elevated by power." 13th August, 18S7. 

 1 1089.— George Eustace Skliros, 289, Regent Street, London. 



" The wheel or siren breakwater." 13th August, 1887. 

 n too.— Joshua Murgatroyd, 3, Beaumont Street, Mount Pleasant, 

 Batley. " Letting-off motion of power looms." 15th August, 

 1887. 

 11115. — William Patrick Kelly, 54, Fleet Street, London. "A 



new composition to be used as a lubricant." 15th August, 1887, 

 11149.— James Castle, Eleanor Castle, and Edmund Braith- 

 waite, 77, Chancery Lane, London. " Arrangement of reflectors 

 for distributing, concentrating, increasing, and shading artificial 

 light." 15th August, 1887. 

 11167. — James Kelman, 42, Maryhall Street, Kirkcaldy, N.B. 

 " Electric differential dial indicator for telegraphic, telephonic, 

 and electric bell purposes." i6th August, 1887. 

 II i8i.— Jacob Hays Linville, 24, Southampton Buildings, London. 

 " Printing telegraphs." (Complete specification.) i6lh August 

 1887. 

 I1188. — Henry Harris Lake. A communication from Willard 

 Erastus Case, United States. " Conversion of chemical energy 

 into electrical energy and apparatus therefor." (Complete speci- 

 fication.) 16th August, 18S7. 

 11200. — Alfred Julius Boult, 323, High Holborn, London. A 

 communication from James Francis McLaughlin, United States. 

 "Electrical motors." (Complete specification.) l6th August 

 1887. 

 II2I3 — Thomas Joseph Digby, 71, St. Paul's Road, Camden Town, 

 London. " Electrical accumulators or secondary batteries." 17th 

 August, 1887. 

 1 1252.— Henry Mower, 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. " Secon- 

 dary batteries or electrical accumulators." 17th August, 1887. 



11275. — James Seed, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester. "Spinning 

 and doubling cotton and other fibrous substances." i8th August, 

 1887. 

 1 1285. —Robert Hannan, 23, Southampton Building;, London. A 

 communication from James Joseph Charles Smith, United States. 

 " Rubber composition strips used in the manufacture of insulated 

 wires and cables." i8th August, 1887. 

 11289. — Julius Greth, 8, Quality Court, London. "Coloured 



photographic printing." iSth August, 1887. 

 11331. — Robert Morton, of the firm of Alexander Morton and Co., 

 and Gavin Morton, 62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow. " Manu- 

 facture of Axminster or chenille carpets and other fur-pile fabrics, 

 and in apparatus therefor." 19th August, 1S87. 

 11351. — Charles Henry Mallham, George Street, Sheffield. 



" Cartridge extractors for drop-down guns." 19th August, 1887. 

 11356. — Charles Runels, 67, Strand, London. "Electric couplings." 



(Complete specification.) 19th August, 1887. 

 11361. — John Samuel Ross and Henry Baines, 15, Gunterstone 

 Road, West Kensington, London. " Automatic apparatus for 

 faciUtating telephonic communication." 19th August, i8i>7. 

 11385. — Thomas Aloysius Segrave, 10, Leinster Street, Dublin. 

 " New or improved continuous screw-propeller for ships." 20th 

 August, 1887. 

 1 13S8.— Charles Harvey, George Street, Sheffield. "Spikes for 

 holding do An railway-chairs and other like purposes." 20th 

 August, 1S87. 

 11393. — James Shannan Stevenson, 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 

 London. " Manufacture of elements or plates for secondary 

 batteries or electrical accumulators. " 20th August, 1887. 

 11415. — Alfred William Armstrong, 132, Southwark Street, 

 London. "Adaptation of the electric light or heat from primary 

 or secondary batteries in conjunction with the mechanism of an 

 automatic delivery box weighing-machine, or other machines for 

 similar purposes." 22nd August, 1S87. 

 11448. — John Scudamore Sellon, 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Lon- 

 don. "Secondary batteries or electrical accumulators." 22nd 

 August, 1887. 

 1 1451. — Ladislas NiEVSKY and Butler Humphreys, 5, Elms 

 Road, North Dulwich, London. " Automatic fire-alarm." 23rd 

 August, 1887. 

 11454, — Edwin H. B. Lynb, 54, London Street, Fitzroy Square, 



London. " Photographic print washer." 23rd August, 1887. 

 11463. — Robert Craib Ross, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester. 

 "Galleys, chases, and frames for printers' use." 23rd August, 1887. 

 11478. — Leon Laurent Lefevre, junr., 45, Southampton Buildings, 

 London. A communication from Clement Payen, United States. 

 "Crystallised metal, and articles made thereof." 23rd August, 

 18S7. 

 11483.— George Clulow and John Loader, 169, Fleet Street, 

 London. " Adjusting the seats of music stools, and other like 

 articles.'' 23rd August, 1887. 

 11496. — Alfred Julius Boult, 323, High Holborn, London. A 

 communication from Franz Czech, Austria. " Decorating ceramic 

 ware." (Complete specification.) 23rd August, 1887. 

 11502. — Edward Frederick Hermann Heinrich Lauckert, 

 28, Southampton Buildings, London. "Dynamo-electric and 

 electro-dynamic machines." 23rd August, 1887. 

 1 1517. — Harry Whiteside Cook, 54, Fleet Street, London. "Ap- 

 paratus for controlling steam-engines by electricity." 24th August, 

 1887. 

 11528 — John Arthur Drayton and Michael Patrick McCoy, 

 55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London. "Casting printers' com- 

 position rollers." 24th August, 1887. 

 11535. — Henry Francis Joel, 44, Lavender Grove, Dalston, Lon- 

 don. " Pneumatic bell's and signals." 24th August, 18S7. 

 11568. — Jacques David, 77, Chancery Lane, London. "Electrically 



driven sewing machines." 25th August, 1887. 

 11578. — George Shepheard and Henry Francis Holman, 35, 

 Southampton Buildings, London. " Determining the range for 

 guns or other firearms." 25th August, 1887. 

 1 159S.— Richard Alvin Breul, 52, Chancery Lane, London. 



"Wire chain.'' (Complete specification.) 26th August, 1887. 

 11604. — Alfred Steer, 13, Grosvenor Street, Camberwell, and 

 Edmund Octavius Eaton, 28, Martin's Lane, Cannon Street. 

 "Means for facilitating the delivery of prepaid goods." 26th 

 August, 1SS7. 

 11612. — Hugo Martinz, 33, Chancery Lane, London. "Dressing 



textile fibres." (Complete specification.) 26th August, 1887. 

 11623. — Henry William Holland, 98, New Bond Street, and 

 John Robertson, 4, Dansey Road, London. "Extractor 

 mechanism for drop-down small-arms." 26th August, 1S87. 

 11631. — William Forest Bowen, 288, Halliwell Road, Bolton. 

 ' ' Regulating and controlling the speed of steam and other en- 

 gines." 27th August, 1887. 



