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to be woven in a common stocking 
frame, ora frameupon the same principle, 
instead of the loom commonly used for 
‘felted cloths. When the civth is taken 
out of the frame, list, taken froin felted 
cloth, or made for the purpose, should 
be sewed round the edges, and then the 
cloth should be finished in the same 
manner, and by the same processes, 
as the felted cloths in common use are, 
when taken from the boom. 
~ If found convenient, two ot more 
pieces may be sewed together, and the 
list sewed round the whole. 
The following are said to be the supe. 
rior advantages which this new article 
possesses. Independently of novelty, 
there is ease, elegance, and durability; 
and it is a cloth, notwithstanding the 
transverse elastictiy, more wnpervicus to 
wet than any cloth ever made, void of 
artificial means to render it water-proof; 
a thread cannct be made to twill or ran 
from the edges, even with the assistance 
of apm or needle. ~~ 
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WR. JAMES GODBARD’s, (NEWMAN- 
STREET, LONDON,) for a@ Method of 
Manufacturing « certain Description 
of Wooden Bowes, called Chip- Boxes, 
or Pill. Boxes, of al! various Sizes and 
Shapes. 
We have in the specification before 
us, drawings that represen’ views of all 
the machinery used tor cutting wood into 
chips, veneers, &e. for making these 
boxes, or for any other uses. The knife, 
or cutting instrument, is made 6f plate- 
steel, having the edge thereof bevilled, 
or ground only on the side of the face 
farthest from the wood intended to he 
cut, and the line of the said edge is 
‘sloped, or inclined to the line in which it 
is moved by the carriage, in an angle of 
about thirty degrees ; in other words, the 
angle of slope in cutting is such, that 
the length of the said kmife, in propor- 
tion to the breadth thereof, as six to one. 
This mode of operation will be understood 
by the following description:—By turning 
a handle, the carriage and its cu:ter, &c. 
are brought to the endcf the machinery ; 
the screws and nuts being in a prepared 
state, the wood nearly shaped to its pre- 
per size, is put into its place, resting 
upon a plattorm, and having its facea 
very little beyond the groove in which 
the cutter is made tomove. The screws, 
&c. are now breught to act fairly upon 
the wood; and thie carriage!beiny drawn 
throngh its ‘course, cuts off.a slice, or 
- shaving. ‘The carnage is r¢turned back, 
Paients lately Enrolled. 
{Aug. 1, 
and the haudie turned so as to press the 
said piece forward in the way of the cut= - 
ter. The carriage is again drawn_for= 
ward, and the cuttér takes off a shaving 
of uniform thickness, more or less stout, 
according to the quaatity of motion pros 
duced by the action of the screws. By 
proceeding in this manner, the whole 
piece may be cut up,.until a thin pors 
tion only remains, and the remainder of | 
a number of pieces may afterwards he 
glued together, and then cut into shav- 
ings, or slices, of the requisite thinness; 
as before. The tops and bottoms of the 
boxes are made by means of a seat and 
cutting-punel, worked by a fy-press in 
the same manner as metallic blanks are 
cut out for coms, buttons, and other 
works. Mr. Goddard cuts. his pieces 
for making boxes into fit lengths by 
guages, as in the usual method, and he 
‘glues them up upon cylinders, or blocks, 
and then puts them to dry in frames 
adapted for the purpose. . 
MR. PENWARNE’S, (PANCRAS,) for an 
Invention, or Process, for giving Sta- 
tues, or other ornamental Works in 
Plaster, an appearance nearly resem 
bling Marble. ie ' 
The prmciple of this invention is to 
impregnate the said plaster of Paris 
with sulphate of alamine (alum,) which 
is done in the following manner. A so= 
lution of alum in water is prepared in the 
proportion of one part of alum to three- 
of water. The liquor is then made to 
boil, or is heated to a degree of tem- 
perature sufficient to dissolve the aluin. 
The plaster-cast previously dried, and 
finished off, is then immersed in the 
above solution, and suffered to remain. 
therein from fifteen minutes to half an 
hour; it is then taken out and suspended 
over the vessel, containing the solution, 
and when cooled, some of the solution is 
dipped up and thrown over it, or applied 
to it by means of .a sponge, or linen 
cloth, and which is continued till the 
alum forms a fine crystallization over its 
surface, of a due degree of thickness; 
when it is sufficiently dry, it may be 
brought to a proper degree of smoothness, 
or polish, by means of sand paper, or 
glass-paper,_and finished by being rub- 
bed witha fine linen cloth, slightly mois-_ 
tened with clean water. The vessels 
made use of in this business are made of 
wood, heated by steam introduced 
through a leaden pipe, from a boiler. 
Specimens of this imitation of statuary 
marble, may be seen at No. 12, Picket- 
street. 
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