CELESTIAL PHENOMENA, FOR JANUARY, 1838. 6 18 44 7 1 31 D. H. M. 17 22 5 16 full moon. diff. of 24 13 11 15 1 25 17 21 24's first satt. will im. 11 10 24 2's fourth satt. will em. 21 10 in Perihelion. 2's first satt. will im. 12 11 49 Vesta R. A. 23h, 57m. dec. 7.5. S. Juno R. A. 17h. 1m. dec. 12. 19. S. Pallas R. A. 1b. 59m. dec. 20. 44. S. Ceres R. A. 4h. 37m. dec. 23. 37. N. Jupiter R. A. 11h. 19m. dec. 5. 46. N. Saturn R. A. 15h. 40m. dec. 17. 26. S. Georg. R. A. 22h. 23m. dec. 9. 55. S. Mercury passes mer. Oh. 27m. in inf. conj. with the sun. 2's first satt. will im. Clock before the sun, 11 m. 20s. Drises 2h. 15m. M. passes mer. 6b. 48m. M. > sets 11h. 9m. A. h in conj. with the D diff. of dec. 5. 36. N. greatest hel. lat. N. 4's second satt. will im. in conj. with the diff. of dec. 8. 38. N. Clock before the sun, 12m. 38s. Drises 8h. 10m. M. passes mer. 11k. 42m. M. D sets 3h. 23m. M. Ecliptic conj. or new moon. in conj. with the D diff. of dec. 3. 36. N. Din Perigee. 2's first satt. will in. H in conj. with the D diff. of dec. 2. 41. N. greatest hel. lat. S. 67 in conj. with the D diff. of dec: 6.0. N. 4's first satt. will im. 10 16 2 at greatest brilliancy. stationary. Mer. R. A. 20b. 13m. dec. 17. 1. S. Ven. R. A. 20h. 49m. dec. 6. 15. S. Mars R. A. 20h. 32m. dec. 19. 59. S. 30 14 27 J. LEWTHWAITE, Rotherhithe. 31 15 46 's second satt, will im. THE London JOURNAL AND REPERTORY OF Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures. CONJOINED SERIES. No. LXXI. Recent Patents. To MILES BERRY, of Chancery-lane, in the county of Middlesex, civil-engineer and mechanical draftsman, for a certain improvement or improvements in power looms for weaving, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad.-[Sealed 5th December, 1835.] THESE improvements in power looms for weaving, consist in the adaptation of certain parts and appendages to a power loom, for the purpose of enabling such looms to weave bristles, horse-hair, whalebone, reeds, straw, cane, or other materials of limited lengths, as weft or shoot, with warps of silk, cotton, flax, wool, or other fibrous strands or threads for the production of webs for various useful purposes. Plate XI., fig. 1, is a front elevation of a loom, capable of being worked by rotary power, to which the improved parts are attached. Fig. 2, is a horizontal view VOL. XI. 2 M of the same, as seen from above; fig. 3, is an end elevation; fig. 4, a transverse section taken through about the middle of the machine, parallel to fig. 3; and fig. 5, represents the back part of the lathe: A, is the driving shaft, carrying the toothed wheels by which the working parts of the mechanism are actuated; B, is the warp beam; c, is the work beam; D, the headles; E, the slay; F, the pecker lever, worked by excentrics on the lower shaft G: upon the same shaft, are also the excentrics for working the headle levers, or treadles H. These, and the other ordinary parts of a power loom, shown in the drawing, are well understood, and therefore require no further explanation. The new parts or appendages to the loom, are the boxes or receptacles for containing the lengths of bristles, or hairs, or other materials to be brought into the web as weft, or occasional weft or shoot; the forceps or nippers, for drawing such lengths of bristles, &c., from the boxes, and placing them between the sheds of the warp; the arms or levers, and tappets for moving these forceps, and the mechanism for suspending the throw of the shuttle at certain intervals. In order to illustrate these improvements, I will proceed to explain their application to the weaving of a fabric suited to the making of cravat-stiffeners, or stocks for the neck, having thread warps, with occasional bristles introduced into the fabric with the weft. For this and similar purposes, where the fabric to be produced is required to be only of narrow width, the warps, reed, headles, and other corresponding parts, are of narrow extent, as shown in the drawing. The boxes containing the bristles are shown at a, a, attached to the back of the slay; they are about six inches long, three-eighths of an inch wide, and four |