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in any manner at the pleasure of the 
manufacturer, They may be rivetted 
together at proper intervals with strong 
iron wires, or laced or stitched together. 
The easiest way of stitching then is, 
whilst they are laid at length in the rope- 
ground, to attach each strand to a rope, 
on which, by means of leading pulleys, 
equal loads or weights may be suspended, 
which will streteh each strand equally, 
If these weights descend to the ground, 
they may be raised by heaving at the 
opposite end of the proposed belt. Means 
of course must be taken to prevent the 
strands untwisting, which may easily be 
done by fastening a sufficient weight below 
each where they are attached to the 
stretching ropes, so as to prevent their 
turning round. The degree of tension 
upon each strand should be proportionate 
to what the whole belt has to bear, 
The remaining process is to combine 
the strands side by side, which, as betore 
observed, may be dowe in any manner 
at the pleasure of the operater. In the 
use of the belts for raising weights of 
any kind, it will be most adviseable for 
the belt to be confined to roll upon itself 
as aspiral; but in some cases this may 
be dispensed with. The hauling forward 
of the truck any determinate space be- 
tween each stitch, may be done by means 
of a winding barrel on the sledge, and a 
chain or rope leading from it to any fixed 
object, and in a varicty of ways so obvious 
as to require no description, although 
the progressive transition of the inachine 
from place 'to place is one of its most 
essential constituent parts; because with- 
out this moveability it could not be 
applied to the stitching of any belt, 
where, its parts to be thus connected are 
lying stretched at length side by side. 
Butif the operator prefer drawing torward 
the belt or flat band as it 1s stitched, then 
the truck or frame.may be stationary 
and without wheels, All that this in- 
‘ vention consists ol, 1s the use of strands 
laid side by side, so as to acquire a strength 
which ropes used in this manner would 
not have; and also, the invention of the 
truck er frame with its apparatus, for 
combining speedily and correctly together 
any requisite number of strands or other 
flexible substances laid side by side. 
Wri «aoe 
‘MR. OBADIAH ELLIOT’S (LAMBETH,) for 
Improvemeats in the Construction of 
Couches, Chariots, and various other 
Four-Wheel Carriages. ~ 
‘It will be difficult to describe this in- 
vention without the assistance of figures ; 
New Patents ldtely enrolled. 
[Feb. 1, 
it consists however in the constructing 
of coaches er any four-wheeled carriages 
without a perch or cranes. For this 
purpose there are fore and hind springs 
which are fastened to two beds that 
project from the body or boot; and two 
pieces of timber are framed before, and 
two when required behind, from the 
front and hind seat rail, which project 
out at each end of the body to receive 
the spring bed or beds. There is also 
a horizdutal wheel fixed to the body or 
the boot for the purpose of locking round : 
the top front springs are fixed to the 
bed which projects from the horizontal 
wheel: there is a spindle bar fixed into 
the bed: the hid springs are fixed with 
@ projection from the body, the same 
as the front, but without the horizontal 
wheel. The drawing that accompanies 
the specification exhibits the whole con- 
struction in a very clear manner, The 
Patentee makes use of springs either 
with or without braces as most conve- 
nient; and he claims to vary the size, 
shape or form, and the application of 
such springs according to existing cir- 
cumstances, oras different roads may re- 
quire: and, if necessary, he fixes braces, 
ropes, or chais, from any part of oie 
axle-tree to the other,-and from the fore 
axle-tree fo the splinter bar. 
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MRS, ELIZABETH BELL’S (BLACKHEATH,) 
Jor certain Improvements in an artifi- 
cial Method of Sweeping Chimnies, 
and an Improvement in the preparing 
and manufacturing Pieces used for 
constructing the Chimnies, §e. 
Mrs. Belk about four years ago took 
out a patent for objects similar to those 
just mentioned. By the presentinvention 
she professes to remedy the inconve- 
niences which attached to it in a former 
state. In our sixteenth volume we gave 
a description of the first specification, and 
offered some reasons why the plan could 
not answer in general, so as to supersede 
the necessity of climbing boys. We 
have found no océasion to alter that 
opinion. We have attended much to 
this subject, and regret that no plan has 
“yet been fallen upon, in which the public 
-can have perfect confidence, in place 
of that which, though of long use, is cer- 
tainly detrimental to the bealth of the 
children employed in the business. Mrs. 
‘Bell denominates her present plan an 
improved methcd: and it consists of a 
frame of iron, or other materials con:posed 
of two semicircles, which should possess 
“a considerable degree of adjustinent by 
WEARS 
