REPERTORY OF PATENT INVENTIONS: AND OTHER DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN ARTS, MANUFACTURES, AND AGRICULTURE; BEING A CONTINUATION, ON AN ENLARGED PLAN, OF THE Repertory of Arts & Manufactures, A WORK ORIGINALLY UNDERTAKEN IN THE YEAR 1794, AND STILL CARRIED ON, USEFUL INVENTIONS OF ALL NATIONS. VOLUME XIII. LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETOR, BY EFFINGHAM WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE. 1832. OF THE THIRTEENTH VOLUME. Specifications of Patents. Mr. Stephenson's, for an improvement in the axles and parts which form the bearings at the centre of wheels for carriages which are to Mr. Stephenson's, for an improved mode of making wheels for Mr. Hobday's, for a certain improvement in a machine to be work- ed by steam, that may be applied for the moving of ships' boats and barges on the water, and to carriages either on the road or tram- ways; and in a fixed position may be applied to all purposes that steam engines are now used for Mr. Barnard's, for certain improvements in locks, and other spring fastenings for doors and other places Mr. Westhead's, for certain improvements in the manufacture of Messrs. Mordan and Brockedon's, for certain improvements in the construction of writing pens and pen holders, and in the me- Mr. Perkins's, for certain improvements in the apparatus or me- - PAGE 65 68 193 Mr. Perkins's, for improvements in generating steam Mr. Poole's, for certain improvements in steam engines, and in propelling boats and other floating bodies, parts of which improve- Mr. Forrester's for improvements in wheels for carriages and ma- chinery, which improvements are applicable to other purposes Mr. Jellicorse's, for certain improvements in spinning machinery 321 Mr. Drake's, for an improvement in tanning hides and skins 325 Abridged Account of New Patents, with Remarks on Mr. Coleman's, for an improved roller for horses Messrs. Westrup and Gibbins's, for improvements in converting Mr. Wallace's, for an improvement or improvements in the safety Mr. Wood's, for an inking apparatus, to be used with certain de- Mr. Wetterstedt's, for a composition or combination of materials for sheathing, painting, or preserving ship bottoms, and for other Mr. Jaquesson's, for certain improvements in machinery, applica- Mr. Batten's, for an apparatus for checking or stopping chain ca- Mr. Maw's, for an improved method of using fuel so as to burn Mr. Young's, for certain improvements on locks and latches, with regard to the security of the same, and the construction of the inte- Mr. Perkins's, for his improvement on his former patent, dated July 2, 1831; making the same applicable to the evaporating and Mr. Aingworth's, for an improvement in the making and construct- Mr. Hall's, for an improvement in machinery used in the manu- Mr. Jaquier's, for improvements in machinery for making paper 203 Mr. Cochrane's, for certain improvements in machinery for pro- pelling or moving locomotive carriages, and giving motion to mills Sir J. C. Anderson's, for certain improved machinery for propel- ling vessels on water, which machinery is applicable to other useful Mr. Bickford's, for an instrument for igniting gunpowder Mr. Lowe's, for an improvement in the manufacture of gas for Messrs. Smith and Dolier's, for a durable copy book, or writing tablet, and improved delible ink to be used therewith Mr. Cowderoy's, for manufacturing bread and biscuits Mr. Christopher's, for an improvement in clothes buttons Mr.Hale's, for improvements in machinery for propelling vessels; also applicable for raising fluids Mrs. Guppy's, for cabinet work, upholstery, &c. Mr. Rivafinole's, for a machine for facilitating the washing of ores Mr. Atwood's, for an improvement in the machinery for taking the wool from the wool-carding machine Mr. Lewis's, for lock paddle wheels, for propelling canal and Mr. Wing's, for the making of reaction water wheels entire, of one single piece of cast metal; and the mode of forming the pattern Mr. Jenning's, for an improvement in the production of light, by Mr. Griswold's, for an improvement in the grist mill Messrs. King and Blasdel's, for an improvement in the mode of Mr. Disbrow's, for improvements in the apparatus for boring the Mr. Williams's, for a new and useful method of supplying the Mr. Rice's, for an improvement in cyder mills Mr. Bruce's, for an improvement in the mode of combining print- Mr. Burnap's, for an improvement in machinery for sawing veneers 150 Mr. Palmer's, tor an improvement in the press for pressing oil, cot- ton, tobacco, and other substances requiring great pressure Mr. Stowell's, for an economical oven Mr. Lister's, for a washing machine Mr. Beckwith's, for an improvement in the art of boring timber Messrs. Eastman and Abbott's, for a machine for cutting screws, 274 Mr. Carletown's, for an improvement in percussion gun locks Mr. Thompson's, for a machine for making window sashes Mr. Mallory's, for an improvement to the steam engine, and feeder Mr. Porter's, for a machine for tempering clay and moulding bricks 277 Mr. Jewell's, for a mode of causing cloth to pass, and be stretched while passing, over a revolving cylinder, prepared with points or teazles, for teazing, or raising, the pile or nap upon the cloth Mr. Macomber's patent, for an improvement in the composition of Mrs. Steinhour's, for an improvement in the cylindrical sheet-iron Mr. Eastman's, for a mode of constructing the rotary steam engine, French Patents and Inventions. Monsieur Gaches', for a measure or mechanical pattern, fit for the Messrs. Fougere, Villiers, and Meunier's, for a decoration upon Monsieur Bastier's, for a process of culture, bleaching, and plat- ting straw, destined for the manufacture of hats, from what is term- Monsieur Doderot's, for the employment, in embroidery, of trans- parent and opaque cuttings of quills, of tortoise-shell, and of whale A machine for reducing to a circle iron bars for carriage wheels, barrels, &c. Description of a machine calculated to accelerate the manufacture Description of a mechanism adapted to the German flute, as well as to all wind instruments, and which commands every tone on the instruments to which it is applied. By Monsieur Delavena Description of the apparatus erected by the Dutch Company, for the making of bouillon, and the dressing of vegetables, &c. By Mon- |