William Snell, of Northampton-square, Gent., for improvements in machinery for the manufacture of farina.-Sealed 14th January-6 months for inrolment. Nathaniel Card, of Manchester, candlewick manufacturer, for certain improvements in the manufacture of candlewick, and in the machinery or apparatus for producing such manufacture. -Sealed 14th January-6 months for inrolment. Henry Hussey Vivian, of Singleton, Glamorganshire, Esq., and William Gossage, of Birmingham, manufacturing chemist, for their invention of certain improvements in treating or reducing ores of zinc; also certain improvements in furnaces to be used for reducing ores of zinc, part of which improvements are applicable to other furnaces.-Sealed 14th January-6 months for inrolment. James Hamer, of Wardour-street, engineer, for improvements in propelling vessels.-Sealed 19th January-6 months for inrolment. Thomas Earl of Dundonald, of Regent's Park, for improvements in rotatory or revolving engines, and in apparatus connected steam-engines, and in propelling vessels.-Sealed 19th January -6 months for inrolment Joseph Kirkman, Junr., of Soho-square, piano-forte manufacturer, for improvements in the action of piano-fortes.-Sealed 19th January-6 months for inrolment. Thomas William Bennett, of Gray's-inn-road, timber-merchant, for improvements in paving or covering roads, streets, and other ways or surfaces.-Sealed 19th January-6 months for inrolment. Luke Hebert, of Dover, civil engineer, for certain improvements in machines for grinding and for dressing or sifting grain, and other substances.-Sealed 19th January-6 months for inrolment. William Bates, of the Borough of Leicester, fuller and dresser, for improvements in the dressing and getting-up of hosiery goods, comprising shirts, drawers, stockings, socks, gloves, and other looped fabrics, made from merino, lambs'-wool, worsted, cotton, and other yarns, and in machinery for raising the nap or pile on the same.-Sealed 19th January-6 months for inrolment. Thomas Sunderland, of Albany-street, Regent's Park, Esq., for improvements in moving floating bodies through water and air, and in accelerating the flow of water, air, and other fluids, through shafts, pipes, and other channels.-Sealed 19th January-6 months for inrolment. Uriah Clarke, of Leicester, dyer, for certain improvements in frame-work knitting machinery, and a new kind of framework knitted fabric.-Sealed 21st January-6 months for inrolment. Frederick Albert Winsor, of Lincoln's-inn Fields, Barrister at Law, for a new apparatus for the production of light,—being a communication.-Sealed 26th January-6 months for inrolment. Charles Frederick Bielefeld, of Wellington-street North, Strand, papier-maché manufacturer, for improvements in suspending or hanging swing looking-glasses, and other articles requiring like movements.-Sealed 26th January-6 months for inrol ment. William Palmer, of Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, manufacturer, for improvements in the manufacture of candles.-Sealed 26th January-6 months for inrolment. Henry Chapman, of Arundel-street, Strand, for a fabric for maps, charts, prints, drawings, and other purposes.-Sealed 26th January-6 months for inrolment. Francis Mc Getrick, of Ernest-street, St. Pancras, artisan, and Matthew Bailey Tennant, of Henry-street, Regent's Park, Gent. for improvements in apparatus for preventing the engines and carriages from going off railways, and for removing obstructions on railways.-Sealed 26th January-6 months for inrol ment. Edward Smallwood, of North Lodge, Hampstead, Gent., for improvements in covering roads, ways, and other surfaces.Sealed 26th January-6 months for inrolment. Robert Goodacre, of Ullesthorpe, Leceistershire, Gent., for certain improvements in weighing apparatus, applicable to cranes or other elevating machines, whereby the weight of goods may be ascertained while in a state of suspension.-Sealed 26th January-6 months for inrolment. James Boydell, Junr., of Oak Farm Works, Staffordshire, ironmaster, for improvements in the manufacture of metals for edge tools-Sealed 26th January-6 months for inrolment. George Parker Bidder, of Great George-street, Westminster, civil engineer, for an improved mode of cutting that kind of slates, commonly called roofing slates, though sometimes used for other purposes.-Sealed 26th January-6 months for in rolment. William James Greenstreet, of Blackfriars-road, Gent., for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for producing or obtaining motive power.-Sealed 26th January-6 months for inrolment. Joseph Kirby, of Banbury, Oxfordshire, Gent., for improved apparatus for manufacturing bricks, tiles, and other articles, from clay or earthy materials.-Sealed 26th January-6 months for inrolment. George Philips Bailey, of 146, Fenchurch-street, brush-maker, for certain improvements in brushes.-Sealed 26th January6 months for inrolment. Henry Phillips, of Exeter, chemist, for improvements in removing impurities from coal gas, for the purposes of light.Sealed 26th January-6 months for inrolment. Martyn John Roberts, of Bryn-y-carran, Carmarthen, Esq., for improvements in dyeing wool and woollen fabrics.-Sealed 26th January-6 months for inrolment. D in or first quarter. 9 13 23 10 in inf. conj. with the O full moon Clock before the sun, 14m. 28s. Drises 6h. 42m. A. D passes mer. Oh. 19m. M. D sets 7h. 5m. M. Din Perigee Occul g1 Leonis, im. 14h. 19m. em. 15h. 19m. Vesta in oppo. to the intens. 16 7 56 with the Clock before the sun, 14m. 33s. Drises 11h. 55m. M. D passes mer. 8h. 33m. A. D sets 4h. 16m. M. 20 20 Occul b Virginus, im. 10h. 10m. em. 10h. 34m. Clock before the sun, 14m. 4s. D rises Oh. 28m. M. D passes mer. 4h. 47m. M. D sets 8h. 58m. M. Occul fi Scorpii, im. 16h. 37m. em. 17h. 43m. in conj. with the D diff. of dec. 4. 27. N. 20 9 D in or last quarter in conj. with D diff. of dec. 2. 27. N. SATURN, im. 18h. 33m. em. 19h. 53m. 19 49 h in conj. with the D diff of dec. 0.55. S. Clock before the sun, 13m. 33s. D rises 4h. 37m. M. D passes mer. 8h. 30m. M. 26 11 31 12 56 2 Saturn R. A. 19h. 31m. dec. 21. 20 stationary in conj..with the D diff. of dec. 3. 28. S. MERCURY, im. 18h. 28m. em. 19h. 22m. in conj. with D diff. of dec. The Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites are not visible at Greenwich this Month. J. LEWTHWAITE, Rotherhithe. THE London JOURNAL AND REPERTORY OF Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures. CONJOINED SERIES. No. CXXXV. Recent Patents. TO JOHN ANTHONY TIELENS, of Fenchurch-street, in the city of London, merchant, for an invention of improvements in machinery or apparatus for knitting,-being a communication.-[Sealed 7th April, 1842.] THIS invention of improvements in machinery or apparatus for knitting, consists in the construction and employment of certain apparatus, and the arrangements thereof, in conjunction with suitable mechanism, as hereafter described, for producing loops or meshes, which, being continued, form the knitted work or fabric. In Plate IV., fig. 1, is a vertical section, taken through the middle of the machine; and fig. 2, is a horizontal section, or sectional plan, taken through the line A, B, of fig. 1. The machine, which is of a circular form, is suspended from a strong beam, by means of the vertical shaft or axle a, a, and is composed principally of the four following parts, to which the minor portions of the machine are connected. These four principal parts consist of four plates b, c, d, and e, see fig. 1. The first plate b, b, is firmly secured to the vertical shaft a, a, in any convenient manner, and is in VOL. XXII. I |