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SCIENTIFIC NE^VS. 



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APPLICATIONS FOR LETTERS PATENT. 



The following selfcted list of applications has been compiled especially 

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

 Patent Agents, of 323, High Holborn, London, W.C. ; Newcastle 

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

 Manchester ; and 6, Lord Street, Liverpool. 



No. " 



12907. — Horace Robinson, 12, Albert Street, Manchester. " Hot- 

 air engines." 23rd September, 1887. 



12946. — William Guest, Tom Guest, George Guest, and Arthur 

 Guest, 34, Copper Street, Mapplewell. " Invention to take the 

 waste gases from coke ovens to fire boilers and light work, and to 

 make shale and waste dirt into oxide of iron and calcine and creo- 

 sote oil." 24th September, 1887. 



12947. — Frederick Nicoladies Priestley and Mahlon Hirst, 

 Sunbridge Chambers, Bradford. " Forming the connecting joints 

 between jack-levers and blades of wytch engines." 24th September, 

 )887. 



12966. — William Phillips Thompson. A communication from 

 Schiffer and Kircher, Bavarian Palatinate. " Grinding, cleaning, 

 and sorting apparatus." 24th September, 1887. 



12982.— Charles Knight, 108, High Street, Newport, Isle of Wight. 

 " Automatically supplying oil or spirits to lamps, or for supplying 

 any fluids automatically from a tank or cistern to another vessel." 

 26th September, 1887. 



12994.— Carl Brader, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester. " Coverings 

 for steam or hot-water pipes, cylinders." (Complete specification.) 

 26th September, 1887. 



13000. — David Parsons, David John Parsons, Joseph Henry 

 Parsons, and Samuel Jesse Parsons, 128, Colmore Row, Bir- 

 mingham. " Automatic feed water regulators for steam boilers." 

 26th September, 1887. 



13014. — Edwin Albert Hayes, 328, West Fifty-seventh Street, New 

 York, United States, " Bags for distributing oil on water." 26th 

 September, 1887. 



13019. — Joseph Hill, William Smith, and John Patrick 

 O'Donnell, Cambridge Road, New Maiden, Surrey. " Working 

 and ground-interlocking of railway point and signal apparatus.' 

 26th September, 1887. 



13025. — Joseph Alfred Fisher and Lawrence Booth, 28, Southamp- 

 ton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C. " Fire-proof curtains or 

 screens for theatres and other public buildings." 26th September, 

 1887. 



13056. — William Aldred, Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, 

 W.C. " Electro-magnetic motors." 27th September, 1887. 



13080. — Waldemar Fritsche, 45, Southampton Buildings, London. 

 " Dynamo-electric machines." 27th September, 1887. 



13094. — John Young Short, 70, Chancery Lane, W.C. " Construc- 

 tion of torpedo and other vessels." (Complete specification.) 27th 

 September, 1887. 



13110. — Augustus Harris and James Ballantyne Hannay, 87, 

 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow. "Theatre curtains designed to pre- 

 vent the spreading of fire." 2Sth September, 1887. 



13124 — William Bruce Thompson, 82, High Street, Dundee. 

 " Strengthening steam and feed pipes for use in marine and other 

 engines." 28th September, 1887. 



13128. — ^Joseph Pregardien, Barmen, Germany. "Self-acting 

 regulating valve for steam and other pipes." 28th September, 

 1887. 



13147. — James O'Kelly and Bernard Ambrose Collins, 23, 

 Southampton Buildings, W.C. "Torpedoes, and in apparatus 

 connected therewith." 28th September, 1887. 



•3'59- — William Wallace Dunn, 45, Southampton Buildings. 

 " Electro-motors and dynamo-electric machines." 28th September, 

 1887. 



13232. — Arthur Edward Porte, 43, Great Brunswick Street, 

 Dublin. " Communicating with a railway train in motion." 30th 

 September, 1887. 



13237. — Clement Holdswortii and Joseph Horton, Commercial 

 Street, Plalifax. " Improved mechanism for changing the 

 shuttles in looms for weaving." 30th September, 1887. 



13245. — Emil Graefe, 89, Chancery Lane, W.C. " Placing railway 

 trains in communication with an electric conductor separate there- 

 from." (Complete specification.) 30th September, 1887. 



13309. — Charles Vandeleur Burton, 24, Wimpole Street, London, 

 "New dynamo- electric machine." ist October, 18S7. 



13312.— John Alfred Radley, Pelham House, Old Nelson Street, 

 Lowestoft. " Apparatus for dredging by suction or pumping." ist 

 October, 1887. 



13374. — John Macdonald, 96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow. "Explo- 

 sive projectiles or shells for artillery and other guns." 3rd October, 



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13404.— Robert Younger, Victoria Villa, Heaton, Newcastle-upon- 

 Tyne. " Slotting and shaping machine tools." 4th October, 

 1887. 

 13729-— Bernard Staniforth Harrison, Unston Steel Works, 

 Dronfield, near Sheffield. "Making scythe blades." nth 

 October, 1887. 

 I3734-— Kate Rachel Kilbourn, 55 and 56, Chancery Lane, W.C. 



" Generating heat." nth October, 1887. 

 13736.— Alonzo Smith Kimball and George Loomis Brownell, 

 52, Chancery Lane, W.C. " Electric spinning and twisting 

 machines." (Complete specification.) nth October, 1887. 



I3745-— Francis Robert Baker, 4, Cherry Street, Birmingham. 

 " Extinguishing apparatus for hydro-carbon and other oil lamps." 

 nth October, 1887. 



13746. — Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills. A communication from 

 Thomas B. Fogarty, United States. " Manufacturing ammonia." 

 (Complete specification.) nth October, 1887. 



13758. — Alfred Julius Boult. A communication from Smith and 

 Rimble. " Electrical apparatus especially applicable for use in 

 dental operations. (Complete specification.) nth October, 1887. 



I3797-— William Wiley, 36, Lancaster Street, Birmingham. 

 "Syringes for hypodermic injections." 12th October, 1887. 



13858.— Jean Baptiste Rottenstein and Henry Andrew 

 Cousins, 55 and 56, Chancery Lane, W.C. " Inlaid designs or 

 letters in artificial marble and like substances." 13th October, 

 1887. 



13884.— Archibald McLean Gordon, 89, Wigmore Street, 

 Cavendish Square. " Bullet Extractor " (electrical). 13th October, 

 1887. 



13926. — William Henry Penning and Hugh Gwynne Owen, 

 n, Wellington Street, Strand. "Saving fine or flour gold in 

 milling, hydraulicing, and sluicing." 14th October, 1887. 



13967. — Walter Thomas Goolden and Alexander Pelham 

 Trotter, 23, Andalus Road, Clapham, S.W. " Brushes and their 

 holders for dynamo-electric generators and motors." I4lh October, 

 1887. 



13978- — Andrew Noble, Jesmonddene House, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 

 "Electric firing gear for rapid firing and other guns." 14th 

 October, 1887. 



13999- — James Sturrock, Dundee Advertiser Office, Dundee, Forfar- 

 shire. "Photographic photometer." 15th October, 18S7. 



14009. — Alfred Julius Boult, A communication from Leopold 

 Bon, Cuba. " Cutting sugar-cane." 15th October, 1887. 



14054. — Desmond Gerald Fitz-Gerald, 6, Akerman Road, Brixton. 

 " Electro-chemical process for the extraction of the precious 

 metals from their ores." 17th October, 1887. 



14069. — Thomas Melvin, 1, Jasmine Villas, Northumberland Park, 

 Tottenham. "Pulley block, with automatic check action, for 

 raising, lowering, and sustaining weights at any height." 17th 

 October, 1 887. 



14094.— Herbert John Allison. A communicatio.n from Leopold 

 Cohn, United States. " Atomizers and in devices for operating the 

 same." (Complete specification.) 18th October, 1887. 



14107. — Norcliffe George Thompson, 4, Queen Victoria Street, 

 London. "Continuous current commutatorless dynamo." 1 8th 

 October, 18S7. 



14126. — Alfred Julius Boult. A communication from Jean Pierre 

 Roger, France. "Lawn mowers." 18th October, 1S87. 



14143.— George Richard Hildyard, 169, Fleet Street, E.G. 

 " Artistic lithography." 18th October, 1887. 



14150. — Joseph Coates, 166, Fleet Street, E.G. "Reduction of ores 

 by stamps." 18th October, 1887. 



14180. — Matthew Raymond and Frank Raymond, 7, Maidenstone 

 Terrace, Point Hill, Blackheath, S.E. " Railway engines and 

 trains, spring bolts, shunting couplings." 19th October, 1887. 



14196. — Henry Mercer Girdwood, 4, Mansfield Chambers, 17, 

 St. Ann's Square, Manchester. "Retting, ungumming, washing, 

 and otherwise treating Rhea Ramie or china grass, hemp, jute, 

 flax, and certain other fibres." 19th October, 1887. 



14204. — John Randolph Hard and Thomas Wilson, 191, Fleet 

 Street, E.G. "Contact and binding devices for electrical appara- 

 tus." (Complete specification.) 19th October, 1887. 



14241.— William Henry Watkinson, Mytholmes, Haworth, 

 Keighley, Yorkshire. " Hydraulic transmission of power, appli- 

 cable also for telegraphic purposes." 20th October, 1887. 



14259. — Charles Hall and Henry Binko, 2, Peter's Lane, Cow- 

 cross Street, E.C. "Application of primary batteries for electric 

 signals, telephones, lights, or other purposes." 20th October, 

 1887. 



14290. — Thomas Edward Wilson, 28, Southampton Buildings, 

 Chancery Lane, W.C. " Automatic appliance for protection 

 against fire." 20th October, 1887. 



14310. — John Wilson, 62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, " Lace- 

 making machines." 2lst October, 1887. 



