or drive-pipe, C, D, of the hydraulic ram; said valve being placed in a box made of brass, or any other suitable materials; which valve, by closing on the reaction of the water in the drive-pipe, prevents the said reaction from distributing the water in the spring or reservoir. The box of said valve is bolted to the drive pipe, as represented in the annexed drawing; and said valve may be a hinge-valve, or any other suitable valve. WILLIAM FIELDS, JR. No. 7919.-Improvement in drawing Regulators for Spinning Machines. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the arrangement of the trumpet, as herein described, in connexion with the system of weighted levers, escapements, and reversed conepulleys, whereby the force required to move the trumpet is made to vary, under different circumstances, to a sufficient extent to prevent over-sensitiveness in the mechanism, which changes the relative speed of the drawing rolls to inequalities in the slivers; while at the same time but little force is required to effect such changes, thus proportioning the draw more nearly than heretofore to the quantity of fibre in the slivers, and thereby rendering the latter of more uniform diameter and density. NEWELL WYLLYS. No. 7920.—Improvement in Pens for Ruling Paper. Whatever may be the number of thicknesses of metal of which the back bar and pens are composed, my improvement, and what I claim, consists in not only making the upper one longer than the others, but in making it the marking part, and soldering the next one below it to it, as specified. Such improved mode of making the pen or pens, I claim as my invention, whether the plates of metal placed upon another be of different metals, or of different thicknesses of metal, as described. And I also claim the improvement on the construction of the back bar; the same consisting in making it with a slit, or opening, u, between any two pens, and extending nearly or quite up to the vertex of the angle or bend of the bar, as specified; the same producing the advantage above mentioned. And when the pen is composed of more than two thicknesses of metal, I claim the improvement by which one single soldering of the upper and lower parts together, suffices to bind or keep all the parts together, or in place; the said improvement consisting in making the lowest thickness of metal longer than any of the others, except the first or upper, and marking one, as described. And I also claim the method of making the pens and back bar, as shown in figures 5 and 6, when the same are composed of two different thicknesses of metal, or of two plates of different metals; the said improvement consisting in making the lower plate to enclose or lap over the one or other above it, as seen at g, in figure 6, and thus make the back bar of one more thickness of metal than the pens are composed of. And I also claim to make the different thicknesses of the pen of different metals, as specified. ALFRED HATHAWAY. No. 7921.-Improvement in Lard Lamps. Having thus described my invention and improvement in lamps, I disclaim the invention of every part of the lamp except the angular chambers, i, or grooves, above the reservoir, a, on either side of the wick tubes, bc, for preventing the spilling or waste of the oil when the stem of the lamp is held in a horizontal or inclined position; and also the dove-tailed slide, d, and the aforesaid angular channels or grooves, i-1 claim as my invention, in combination with a lamp of the peculiar form and construction represented in the annexed drawings, or other form, substantially the same; said channels or grooves serving also to receive and hold the sliding. cover, d, used for closing the supply opening, instead of the ordinary screw-cap, and in combination with the aforesaid angular channels. I also claim the said sliding cover, d, when made with correspondingly shaped sides to fit and move in said channels, all as herein described and represented. DELAMAR KINNEAR. No. 7922-Improved method of obtaining Motive Power. Having thus fully described the nature of my invention, and pointed out its distinctions from all others, what I claim, and desire to secure by letters patent of the United States, is actuating an engine, such as are now usually driven by steam, or of any convenient form, by means of the combustion allied to an explosion of a measured or detailed quantity of a charcoal (or other solid, carbonaceous fuel, similar in nature, and of like effect) in a measured quantity of highly compressed air, (or oxygen;) said combustion being effected in a vessel which, at that time, is not in connexion, either with the reservoir or main source of compressed air, or with that of the charcoal; and the gases resulting from each separate and distinct explosion being allowed to act on the pistons, or their equivalents, before the other charges are introduced into the exploding or combustion vessel; the whole operation being effected through the agency of apparatus in nature substantially such as are herein specified, or ap paratus that shall effect the whole operation in the manner claimed. I also claim in actuating an engine, as just claimed, using the combustible in a granulated or pulverized form, for the purposes and various reasons made known. WM. MT. STORM. No. 7923.-Improvement in Cooking Stoves. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the construction of the adjustable and sliding partitions, (G and G, fig. 3,) by which the draught of the stove and the distribution of the heated air under the bottom of the lower oven is varied and controlled at pleasure, adjusting the same to the particular place and circumstances of each stove; the whole being arranged and constructed substantially as set forth and described. BACHUS A. BEARDSLEY. No. 7924.-Improvement in Machines for Preparing Hides. I do not, therefore, wish to limit myself to the precise arrangement and construction herein set forth; but what I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the method of consolidating and smoothing leather by drawing it with a continuous motion beneath a series of stampers, which alternately rise, fall, and rest upon its surface, a portion of the stampers being at all times in contact with the leather, so that the smoothing of its surface is constantly going on simultaneously with the consolidation by the blows of the falling stampers. THOMAS W. JONES. No. 7925.-Improvement in Fancy Check Power Looms. I have thus fully described my improvement in fancy check power looms, and have adverted to many things in this description which I do not mean to claim as new. Some of them are of my own invention, and heretofore used by me--such as the revolving box, shuttle boxes on each end of the lay, to weave thread about the pin wheel, or chain bands of pins by themselves, having long since used them all myself; and, in a word, I disclaim, together with the forenamed, considered singly, everything pertaining to the common power-loom. But I do claim as my invention the connecting a series of shuttleboxes by joints at their lower corners, or attaching them to a flat-jointed chain, and connecting their extremities so as to form an endless chain of boxes, and bringing them into a parallelogramic figure by means of two square heads of a size to fit the space between the joints of the boxes, or the chain, and hung on journals, one on the end of the race-beam, and the other on the sword of the lay, substantially as heretofore described. Second. I claim the combination of the irregular worm, the two sets of double rectangular levers, the connecting bars, and the vertical-notched levers on which the bars operate, the pin band and knees, and the wires connecting the knees and vertical notched levers, through which the notched levers are moved forward and backward, to embrace the bars, giving them, with the heddles, an upward and downward movement, in any irregular manner desired, substantially as described in the specifications, constituting a new and advantageous modus operandi of forming a variegated shed. ENOCH BURT. No. 7926.—Improved method of adjusting the packing of Rotary Engines. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure byetters patent, is the method, substantially as above described, of regulating the packing ring interposed between the steam wheel and head of the cylinder, or outer casing of rotary steam-engines, by combining with the said packing-ring a series of segment wedges, operated simultaneously, in manner substantially as described. IIENRY G. THOMPSON. No. 7927.-Improved Ship's Light. Having thus fully described my invention, I will now proceed to state what I claim as new, and desire to secure by letters patent. I claim hanging the screwed socket, or frame, C, containing the glass, so as to turn freely within a frame, H, which swings on a hinge, K, K, I, provided with a slot, K, or its equivalent, whereby the socket, C, can be screwed into, or unscrewed from, the fixed socket, B, and, when unscrewed, be swung back, substantially as herein described. LEONARD GOODRICH. No. 7928.-Improvement in Grain Harvesters. Having thus described my improved reaping machine, I first claim combining with a reaping machine a self acting weighing apparatus, for weighing the grain into any required quantity, to form sheafs or bundles of a uniform weight, as described, and depositing the same upon the ground in readiness to be tied, whilst the reaping machine is drawn forward and cuts the grain-the said weighing apparatus being made adjustive so to increase or diminish the size of the bundles at pleasure: and this I claim, whether the weighing apparatus be made and arranged as described, or in any other way which is substantially the same, or whether combined with the aforesaid reaping machine, or any other of a similar character. Second. I likewise claim the combination of the beat-holders, W, W, with the inclined endless conveyor for holding the grain thereupon, whilst conveying it to the weighing and depositing apparatus, as aforesaid. SIDNEY S. HURLBUT. No. 7929.-Improved Scraper. Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the combination and arrangement of the scoop, A, standard, B, beam, G, arm, E, and handles, H, in such manner that when the scoop is tripped it will revolve sufficiently far to allow the earth to slide off, and then remain in such position that the operator, by a slight movement of the handles, can level down the earth with the scoop, and without the aid of another hand, or another scraper, as herein described and represented. CHARLES SCHOFIELD, No. 7930.-Improvement in Seeding Apparatus of a Seed Planter. Having thus fully described the manner of constructing and operating our revolving multiplied distributor, and several of the modified forms of the same for distributing seed, and grain, and manures, and other substances, for various purposes, what we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the employment of the ring, or cylinder, A, having projections on its periphery in combination with the notched and toothed cylindrical gange caps, C, D, constructed, arranged, and operated substantially in the manner herein set forth, for increasing and diminishing the size and number of the distributing receptacles as represented in figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. We likewise claim the combination of the helical spring, I, screw shaft, E, flanged nut, N, and clamp nut, H, with the notched and toothed cylindrical gauge caps, to which the ends of the springs are attached for turning the gauge cap, in order to change the relationship of the teeth or projections of one of the caps with the teeth or projections on the adjacent cap, for enlarging the distributing receptacles, as described in the foregoing specifications, and represented at fig. 5 in the annexed drawings. We also claim the combination of the screw-shaft, E, clutch-nut, G, clutch washer, F, and clamp nut, H, with the toothed cylinder cups, C, D, for enlarging or diminishing the distributing receptacles, as described and represented in fig. 6. We likewise claim the modifications of the distributing apparatus, in their simplified forms, as represented in figures 14 and 15, the several parts being operated in the manner herein set forth. SAMUEL PENNOCK, No. 7931.-Improvement in Sewing Machines. What we claim as our invention, and desire to have secured to us by letters patent, is the use of two needles operating alternately-one working vertically, and the other horizontally, substantially as hereinabove described, and uniting two pieces of cloth, or forming the seam, by means of the double loop stitch, as hereinabove set forth. WILLIAM O. GROVER, No. 7932.-Improvements in operating the Waste Gate in Hydraulic Rams. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by letters patent, is, the use of the regula ing slide, M, and nut, or other similar arrangement, in combination with the levers, wires, springs, rods, weights, or other devices, substantially similar to those described for adjusting the "waste" valve, and operated on, and in connexion with a float, F, at the spring, or source, which float rises and falls with the water. I also claim the use of the hammer, R, resting or falling on a springing piece, S, for opening the "waste" valve, D, or starting the hydraulic ram, and worked as described, or in any other similar manner. JOHN OSBORN. No. 7933.-Method of securing Ranges of Short Plank in pavements. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the method, above described, of securing ranges of short pieces of the planking of a street or road, in longitudinal lines, over water or gas pipes, by means of screws, or keys, with staples, aided by the double-bevel of the short planks, and the ends of the permanent, interval planks securely holding and permitting the easy removal of such short piece. JOSEPH E. WARE |