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ing used thereafter. Though this car appears New-Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company; to have possessed the properties specified in the New Locomotive; &c. Hainsselin's Motive Power (with engravings). At the Annual Election of Directors of the patent of the plaintiff, (a combination of cone Tichenor's Machinery for making Window Sash, Pan- New-Jersey Railroad and Transportation Com-wheel with vibrating axle,) it does not appear nel Doors, Window Blinds, &c. (with engravings)..371 pany, held at Newark on the 4th instant, the that the vibration of the axle was declared and Improved Rotary Steam Engine, Patents for Improvements in the Manufacture of Iron; Steam Omnibus; maintained as a principle of the machine, in the following gentlemen were elected, with great New Locomotive; Economy, &c. ... ... 372 unanimity Gen. John S. Darcy, A. W. Kin-view of the inventor or of the user. New-York Guard Rail-J. L. Sullivan in reply to R. ney, A. W. Corey, and Z. Drake, of Newark road Company put upon their road a car, the In May, 1830, the Baltimore and Ohio RailBulkley; Errata; Meteorological Records.... .373 William W. Woolsey, and A. Dey, of NewBabbage on the Economy of Manufactures (continued).37 York; Thomas Salter, of Elizabeth-town; invention of which they claimed for their chief Agriculture, &c. (with engravings). Literary Notices, &c... 378 George P. Molleson, of New-Brunswick; and engineer, as a new and important achievement; 380 William R. Allen, of Burlington. the car proving eminently successful, the Company from that time constructed their cars on its plan. Hereupon the plaintiff brought his suit.

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NEW-YORK, JUNE 15, 1833.

At a subsequent meeting of the Board, Gen.
J.S. Darcy was unanimously elected President;
A. W. Corey, Treasurer; and John P.Jackson,
Secretary.

We extract from the April number of the "London Repertory of Inventions," speciIt is much to be desired that correspon-fications of two patents recently obtained dents, who favor us with their views upon new there, which we think will be useful to those inventions, should avoid every thing like per. who are concerned in constructing railways sonalities. We are desirous of eliciting free in this country, as well as iron founders, and in fact, to all who are in any way interested discussions, and equally desirous that they in the progress of internal improvements. should be free from asperity. If they are important (and we think they are), it will be a matter of gratification to us to elicit from some of our numerous subscribers

NEW-YORK AND ERIE RAILROAD.-We are

After a laborious investigation of the case for 25 days, during which the learned counsel on both sides evinced great zeal, ingenuity, and ability, the case was committed to the Jury, who, this day, at 10 o'clock, rendered a sealed verdict, which, being opened by the Court, was found to be for plaintiff damages $2,100.

This morning, on motion of the plaintiff's counsel, the Court entered judgment for $6,300, being triple damages, according to the patent law. We understand the defendants have appealed on the case.-[Balt. paper.]

Recent experiments have shown that the Engine is fit to draw thirty-two tons, easily, on a level road, at the speed of fifteen miles an hour.

PHILADELPHIA, June 7. much gratified to learn that the books are soon their opinion as to the utility of them. From vania, invented and patented by Colonel S. H. The Locomotive Engine, called the Pennsylto be opened (10th of July) for subscriptions to directors, and others engaged in construct- Long, of the United States Army, has been fairthe stock of the New-York and Erie Railroad. ing railways, we especially invite communi-ly tried and approved on the Germantown RailWe have now before us the plan, and shall cations-no matter what view of the matter road. publish it in our next, which its friends pro- they take, our columns are open for their pose to submit to the consideration of the pub- opinions, confident that by discussion the real lic, for carrying into effect this important work. value of the invention will be arrived at. It has the sanction of many of our most respectable citizens, as well as of some of our most experienced engineers; and cannot, therefore, we hope, fail to meet with friends who will give it that support which the importance

of the work demands.

The whole weight of the engine is four tons and a half; the boilers evaporate two hundred gallons in an hour, in which time they require the consumption of something less than two bushels of anthracite coal, the only fuel used.

The wheels are made of wood, each with an

iron tire of three parallel concentric circular bands, cheap in price, but very substantial, strong, lasting, and efficient.

JAMES WRIGHT US. THE BALTIMORE AN OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY.-The trial of this interesting case has at length closed. The suit was brought for an alleged invasion of a patent, obtained by the plaintiff in September, 1829, for the discovery of a new principle in railway cars, whereby curves of any radius may be traversed We understand that the stock for the Brook-with equal facility as straight roads. It was Col. Long has employed himself, for some lyn and Jamaica Railroad has been taken, and specified, essentially, as a combination of coni- time past, on experiments for the application that operations are to be commenced imme-cal wheels with vibratory axles. It was proved of the heat produced by Anthracite coal to the that in July, 1829, Ross Winans, then in Eng-production of steam for locomotive engines; diately. land, constructed a car with conical wheels, and and has succeeded in a degree above the most We have been politely furnished with the En-axles to run in his patented friction wheel, an sanguine expectations with which he started. incidental property of which last named wheel With his arrangement of the furnace and the gineer's Report, and a Circular to the Stock-is a vibration of the axle within the periphery flue, anthracite may be used, for raising steam, holders, of the New-Jersey Railroad and Trans- thereof. That after experimenting with said more advantageously than the best pine wood. portation Company, showing the condition and car on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, It sends forth no sparks to burn or alarm pasprospects of that work, which we were desirous it was sent to the United States, where it arrived sengers careful of their dresses; and emits no in the fall of 1829, and was used for several disagreeable or pernicious vapor; and it enato lay before the public this week, but are obliged weeks on the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, bles the director to travel without the encumto defer it until next week, to make room for when it was finally thrown aside-neither it brance of a tender, as the fuel and the water other matter previously in type. nor any other car of the same construction be-ll are both carried on the engine.-[Daily Chron.]

destined to receive the air which is to be forced into, and thus condensed in it, by means of the small air pump. It will be seen that two pipes o o communicated with the upper chamber of the cylinder L and the upper chamber of the two pumps K K: these pipes are to let in the condensed air upon the tops of the piston, to cause the downward movement of their alternate action; qq are two valves, each furnished with a lever t t, which levers are connected by a pointed cross-bar S, as shown in plan in the margin of the drawing No. 1. As the two arms or levers t t of this contrivance project beyond the vertical line of the pendulum I, they are acted upon alternately by the vibration of the pendulum, thus alternately opening and shutting the valves qq. The lower reservoir O may be of any convenient capacity, but the upper reservoir P should at least be able to contain as much water as 25 of the buckets can hold, and the ascending pipe N, through which the water is raised from the lower chamber of the cylinder L, to the upper reservoir P, should be of such a diameter as to contain exactly the quantity of water required to fill three of the buckets.

The cock X is to regulate the descent of

Pierre Nicholas Hainsselin's Machine or Mo-empty at the other side; the drum being the water from the reservoir P into the buc. tive Power for giving Motion to Machinery about 3 feet 6 inches in diameter, 25 of these kets, which should be just equal to what is of different descriptions, to be called "Hains- buckets can retain water at the same time, pumped up by each pump at each stroke of selin's Motive Power." [From the Re- and in order that the united weight of their the piston. An air cock is attached to the pertory of Arts, &c. for March.] contents may be 4,000 lbs. it is necessary top of the upper chamber of the cylinder L, that each of the 64 buckets shall be of a size and is to let a portion of the condensed air es(whatever be their form) conveniently to hold cape when its too great density causes the 160 lbs. of water. engine to work at too rapid a rate.

No. 1 represents a front view of the machine, and No. 2 a side view; similar letters of reference are used to denote similar parts in cach view. AA is a large drum; B B, an In order to supply the 25 descending buc- Z is a cock for emptying the lower cham. endless series of reservoirs, or (as they would kets with the required quantity of water, the ber of the cylinder L, when necessary for re. be called on a water-wheel) buckets, each two pumps K K are placed a little above the pairs or otherwise, and a similar cock or valve fastened by a hinge joint to the other, so as lewer reservoir O; the rods of these pumps should be made to the lower reservoir O, in to form an endless chain passing over the plumb with the extremities of the balance case, at any time, it should be required to drum; CC is a cogged wheel, working into beam G G, by which they are worked. empty it. the pinion D, and E is an eccentric, more The capacity of each of these pumps should As it is necessary that each bucket as it particularly explained hereafter; FF.is a fly-be such, that each stroke of the piston should empties itself should be replaced by a full wheel; G G is a balance beam, carrying the raise a column of water to the upper reser-one, the pinion D should be so regulated with segment of a circle at each end; IIIIHH is voir P, sufficient for the supply of one buc-reference to the toothed wheel c (which is what I call an escapement for I, which is a pen-ket, that is to say, 100 lbs. These pumps, fixed on the same axis as the drum A) that dulum, and 12 is the weight of the pendulum; which may be called hydropneumatic, are at every half revolution of the fly-wheel F, KK are two pumps; L is the main cylinder nearly like ordinary lift-pumps, the only dif- (which gears in with the pinion D, and is on of the machine; M, an air pump; N, a pipe ference being that the pump chamber is di- the same axis with the eccentric E,) one of the through which the water which works the en-vided into two parts by the division p, the up- buckets shall present itself in turn under the gine is raised; O is a reservoir to receive the per part being furnished with the piston of a cock X to be filled. water from the descending buckets, and P a force pump; the same rod, e, works both the The pendulum I is fixed on the same axis as reservoir to receive the water from the pipe N. piston of the upper part of the pump cham- the balance beam GG, and the object of the ecWhen it is required to make one of the said ber, and the valve of the lower part of the centric fixed on the axis of the fly-wheel is to machines, the following details must be ob- chamber. The pump rods e e are fixed to a act upon that part of the pendulum which I call served: Suppose, for instance, it is required to chain h h, which is attached to the segments the escapement, at r, thus propelling the penmake one on my plan, equal in power to a on the ends of the balance beam G G, and dulum to one side, while, as soon as the ecsteam engine of which the expansive force thereby made to work the pump rods, while centric turns away from r, and it thus escapes is equal to a resistance of 1,000 lbs. in a se- the balance weights i i, below the extremi- from the action of the eccentric for a time, its cond. It will be seen that air and water are ties of these chains, keep them at a proper own weight brings it back to be acted upon by the two principal agents in my machine.egree of tension, and keep the beam on a the eccentric again, thus keeping up the viWater, it is known, weighs from 60 to 62 lbs. just balance. The strong cast iron cylinder bration of the pendulum. The jointed bars the cubic foot, and it requires 32 cubic feet of L must be capable of resisting the force of at H H H H, which I have called the escape. air to balance one cubic foot of water; and the condensed air which it is intended to con-ment, form a part of the rod I. This rod is furhave found by various experiments, that my tain, say at least 240 lbs. The interior of nished with the weight I 2,which may be raised machine employs about three-fourths of its this cylinder is furnished with a division, by or lowered on the rod I, by rning it to the power to produce its own action. From these which an upper and lower chamber is form-right or reft on the thread of the screw Q, to premises it results, that, in order to have aed, the lower is intended to receive the water regulate the motion of the pendulum, and this machine on my plan equal to 1,000 lbs. per which the pumps K K feed it with, by means motion may be further regulated by the segsecond, there must be 4,000 lbs. of water in of the pipes m m, at every stroke of their ment bar and adjusting screw K, which exthe descending buckets, and 200 cubic feet pistons; and in this chamber the water frees pands or contracts the jointed bars H H H H of air condensed in the cylinder L, by means itself from the air which may have been pump-of the escapement at pleasure, and thus allows of the air pump M, which is worked by handed in with it, and which is suffered from time an increased or diminished action of the ec. by a lever handle. to time to escape at the cock n, when a quan-centric on the part r of the escapement. The drawing represents 64 buckets, fasten- tity has collected sufficient in any way to re- R is a lever to throw the pinion D in and ed together by hinge-joints, in such a man- tard the action of the machine. It is from out of gear with the fly-wheel F, in order to ner as to form an endless chain of buckets, this lower chamber that the water is suppli- stop the machine, or put it in action when re. their motion being so contrived that they de-ed to the upper reservoir P. quired, and it may be well here to describe scend full at one side of the drum, and rise The upper chamber of the cylinder L is that this is effected by means of a small arm,

which, when in gear, protrudes through a hole ||the small openings pp, cut in the chamber for
in the flange; O O of the pinion is drawn that purpose, and, escaping there, relieves the
away from this arm, the fly-wheel and all piston of the pressure, while the balance
upon its axis stops, and the pinion turns harm-weights, i i, keep the chain, hh, stretched
lessly with the toothed wheel.
out, and the balance beam G G in equilibrio.
Having now described the various parts of-In order to preserve the density of the air
my said invention, and their several uses, I in the upper chamber of the cylinder L,
will proceed to describe the mode of putting the operator must occasionally pump the
the machine in operation. First, put a suf-chamber full of air, by means of the pump
ficient quantity of water in the reservoir P to M; if this be done every five or six minutes,
fill 25 of the buckets, and about the same it will prevent the necessity of spending two
quantity in the reservoir O; then open the hours when the machine first starts to charge
cock, X, of the upper reservoir, and by means the chamber.

of the lever R, throw the fly-wheel out of gear Now, whereas it is evident that the power
with the pinion D. By continuing to press of the machine hereinbefore described may
lightly on this lever, R, it will cause the be applied to any of the ordinary purposes
flange, oo, to rub against the wheel c, which for which the power of steam-engines are now
it must, by means of the friction thus caused, used, I claim it as my invention, &c., &c.
be allowed to turn slowly, so as to give time
to the 25 buckets to fill themselves.

upper

The

moment the whole of the 25 buckets are full, the pinion must be smartly thrown into gear with the fly-wheel F, and by means of the lever a of the air pump M, the cham. ber of the cylinder L must be charged with air. It will be known when it is full by the sudden resistance the air will make when that is the case. The two foregoing operations will only be necessary when the machine is put in motion for the first time, or when afterwards, for any purpose, it may have been emptied of its air. and water.

Fig. 3 represents a wooden frame of timber four inches by five inches square, eight feet long, six feet wide, and three feet high, Description of Tichenor's Patent Machinery to the top of the plates, with girts a sufficient for making Window Sash, Pannel Doors, height from the bottom to hang the drumWindow Blinds, and Pannel Work gene-kind of work is done: the stuff, being planed, cranks, &c. on the frame. The following rally. Communicated by the Proprietors, for the American Mechanics' Magazine. Fig. 1

common

is taken to a small circular saw, i, set in motion on one end of the frame, and cut to an exact length by the aid of a wood slide gage, which can be set to any length, and can be screwed by set screws or keys. The next operation is tenoning: a small frame or gate, k, similar to a saw gate, is fixed on the side of the large frame: in the top of the small frame are set two chisels, The machine is now ready to act, and it y, of sufficient length for tenoning small stuff'; will only be necessary to give the first imthere are two saws, l, hung in the same gate pulse to the pendulum, which, being done, or frame, for tenoning larger stuff for doors, the weight of the water in the 25 full buckets For making window sash, &c. the plank&c. one of which can be used for dove-tailwill cause the drum to rotate, as also the tooth. is sawed up into proper lengths and widthsing, with proper gages. In the same gate or ed wheel c; this will act upon the pinion D, by the use of circular saws, which are set on frame is hung an instrument, called a coper, which it worked into, and will cause the eccen- proper frames, for that purpose, the opera-m, which is constructed of a flat piece of tric E, and the fly-wheel F, which are fixed up. tion and construction of which are too gene- steel, secured on just far enough forward to on the same axis, to revolve, the fly-wheel be. rally known to need description. serve as a gage for cutting the coping suffiing so arranged as to make just half a revolu The planing is done on a wooden frame, cient deep to form a correct fit to the tion during each vibration of the pendulum. fig. 1, made of timbers four by five inches moulding of the sash. The gate, or small The eccentric E, which is fixed upon the square, six feet long, two feet wide, and three frame, is hung within two perpendicular axis as the fly-wheel, will always act upon feet high; on the top of this frame, which is posts, nn, screwed on the side of the main the pendulum, and secure to it its via smooth surface, made so by plank laid frame, on which posts are fastened two bars brating motion while the length of the strike level with the top of the plates, stands a cir. of round iron, polished, and fitted for the gate will be easily determined by opening or cular cylinder, X, with cast steel knives or to slide on; immediately under this gate, and shutting the escapement H, which is perform-cutters, under which the stuff is passed to be on the lower girts of the main frame, hangs ed by turning the screw either to the right or planed while the cutters are in rapid motion. an eccentric wheel, o, to which a pitman, p, left, as the case may be. This cylinder may be raised or lowered is attached, which connects with the gate or

of making tenons, &c. This is done by passing the stuff along by the wooden gage, q, under the chisels, y, or up to the saws, 1, as fast as they cut clear; a screw gage is fixed to regulate the length of the tenons; when large tenons are made by the saws, the shoulders are cut by a small circular saw, i, hung for that purpose at one end of the main frame, over which the stuff is passed by a wooden gage, so as to gage it just deep enough, and moveable at pleasure.

By raising or lowering the weight, I, 2, so at pleasure, to cut the thickness of the stuff frame in which the saws, chisels and coper, as to make the vibration of the pendulum to be planed. The small morticing is done hang, and when put in quick motion by a correspond with the speed of the fly-wheel. in a small frame, fig. 2, two and a half feet strap or gearing is a very expeditious mode This weight, I, 2, should be of such a weight that when vibrating by its own weight, only, it will have the power to give full three strokes to the pumps K K. This pendulum, which is fixed on the same axis as the balance beam G G, will give an alternate movement up and down to each arm and segment of the beam, and these segments being connected with the rods e e, of the pumps K K, by means of the chains hh, their motion will work the pumps, and raise the water from the lower reservoir O to the upper P, through the lower The boring is done by a spoon-bill bit fitchamber, of the cylinder L, and the asted in a small arbor, r, set in motion at either cending pipe N, whence it will flow again side of the main frame, and is kept in its through the cock X, to fill in succession the high, and of sufficient strength to support place by slide gages. The morticing is done 64 buckets of the machine. two upright standards or posts, b, in which on the opposite side of the main frame from The pendulum I, in its * from * to passage grooves are made for a slide to move; in the the tenoning, by chisels, s, set in a similar strikes alternately the arms of the lever tt, slide are two chisels, c, set for making the frame and driven by a crank; the chisels are which opens and shuts the valves q q, in or-small mortice after boring. This is done by set transversely or crosswise, in order to der alternately to let escape and confine the two treadles or levers, d, which are moved leave a relish as in a mortice made by hand; air in the upper chamber of the cylinder by the foot, one to press it down, and the other one or more holes are bored to start from. L. The portion of the air which the alter-to raise it up, by means of a cord, e, passing The stuff is kept true to its place by slides or nate motion of the valves qq allows to pass over a pulley, which is attached to the slide, gages. The morticing is completed by passinto the upper chamber of the pumps K K, containing the chisels. The stuff to being the stuff along under the chisels, the expands, and acting with all its force on the morticed is kept in its place by the gages, same as in tenoning; a gage, t, is hung out at upper side of the piston d, forces it down to g g, which are fastened by screws, hh. leach end to govern the exact length of the

mortice.

One of these machines has been in||is to disperse and carry off as much as pos- ECONOMY." A slight knowledge of husuccessful operation for upwards of six months sible of this heat from the furnace, without man nature will show," says Mr. Colquhoun, at Ithaca, Tompkins county. One man and in the least lowering the temperature to "that when a man gets on a little in the two boys make, on an average, twelve hun- which the iron must be submitted in the world he is desirous of getting on a little furdred lights, seven by nine and eight by ten operation of puddling. Where it is possible ther." Such is the growth of provident hawindow sash, per week with ease, making the to expose the whole external surface of bits that it has been said, if a journeyman cost of the labor, allowing liberal wages to the the puddling furnace to the action of the lays by the first five shillings his fortune is hands employed, less than one cent per light. atmosphere, its sides may be composed made. Mr. William Hall, who has bestowThe proprietors, Messrs. W. & J. Wood- of plates of iron, fitly prepared, and the ed great attention on the state of the laborward, of Ithaca, will give any information on stream of atmospheric air will carry off a ing poor, declares he never knew an instance the subject, and offer to sell rights for large sufficient quantity of the heat to prevent the of one who had saved money coming to the or small districts of country. These machines consumption of the material of the furnace. parish. And he adds, moreover, "those inare about to be erected in the following coun- Wherever such exposure is impossible, the dividuals who save money are better workties: Courtlandt, Tioga, Steuben, Cayuga, patentees would surround their furnace with men: if they do not the work better, they Oneida, Jefferson, Genesee, and Orleans. a series of pipes, so constructed as to serve behave better and are more respectable; and as bridges for the furnace; and these pipes I would sooner have in my trade a hundred Improved Rotary Steam Engine. By PHILO. should be made to circulate rapidly a strong men who save money, than two hundred who To the Editor of the American Mechanics' force of water, perpetually supplied, and re- would spend every shilling they get. In proMagazine. gularly carried off as it becomes heated. Of portion as individuals save a little money course, other means might be suggested; any their morals are much better; they husband good conductor of heat may be applied to that little, and there is a superior tone given to the surface of the furnace, and the superflu- their morals, and they behave better for knowous caloric may be carried off by radiation or ing they have a little stake in society." It is scarcely necessary to remark, that habits invention of" Mr. Mollery, of Oswego," to They commence their process by throw- of thoughtfulness and frugality are at all times whom it is credited in that Journal, but of ing on to the bars of the furnace a quantity of immense importance.-[Wilderspin's EarPhineas Davis, of York, in this state. An of the slag, ore, or scoria of the smelting ly Discipline.] engine precisely similar in principle, and furnace, and when that is in a state of fusion

LANCASTER, Pa. May 11, 1833.

SIR,-The "Improved Rotary Steam Engine," of which drawings and a description are given in the third number of the American Mechanics' Magazine, is not the

otherwise.

canal, it is said are now becoming known.

At a recent session of the Circuit Court in Sussex

differing very little in construction, was made they throw in the pig iron, without its having Two hundred and thirty boats passed the town of by Mr. Davis, and used as the moving power undergone the usual operation of refining. Paterson, (N. J.) in the Morris Canal, from the 20th of the Steam Clover Mill, which was burnt in When it is melted, the heat is increased until of May, the 1st instant. The advantages of this the borough of York thirteen or fourteen the iron boils; and the puddler works it until years ago. The inventor, in connection the slag or earthy matter is all carried away, with other gentlemen, was subsequently en- and the iron remains pure: it is then ready gaged in constructing an engine on the same for the forge hammers, or other proofs of its principle and plan, at the foundry of Rush malleability. The patentees claim as their and Muhlenburg, in Philadelphia. That en-invention, only, the carrying off some portion gine was intended to be applied to propelling of the heat from the exterior of the furnace a boat in the Delaware; the enterprise how-itself, and that by means of atmospheric exever failed-from some cause which is not posure, or aqueductory pipes.

County, (N. J.,) G. Bartlett recovered $1500 of the Morris Canal Co. for damages sustained in conse quence of his forge and mills being interrupted in their supply of water during the time the canal was making.

The New Locomotive.--The new eight-wheeled Locomotive Engine Barnwell, received by the line ship Sutton, was set up and placed upon the Rail

distinctly remembered. There are many persons at York who would, from the draw-Patent granted to Geo. Jones & Co., of Wol-road in the short period of three days. She was put

PHILO.

in operation yesterday afternoon, and we feel pleas

She ap.

ed to say, from the partial trial made, was found to
exceed the most sanguine expectations.
peared to perform much better than any engine which
has yet been in operation-the steam was raised to
50 lbs. in 27 minutes, in consequence of the superi-
ority of her draught, and the smoke was thrown off
freely, and in a manner to cause much less incon-
venience to passengers than has been heretofore ex-
perienced.--[Charleston Courier.]

ings of Mr. Mollery's engine, at once recog- verhampton, Stafford co., England, for an nise the identity of the machines. Two of improvement in making malleable iron. Mr. M.'s engines, "of such dimensions that This patent carries much further the a man might easily carry one in each hand," simplifying process than that granted to the are stated to propel a small vessel "of the Messrs. Hortons. The practical men who size of a common canal boat," at the rate have united in securing its advantages to of "ten miles an hour," one engine being themselves, have seen, like Messrs. Hortons, applied to each wheel. We will not question the uselessness of the refining furnace, but the correctness of this statement, but do not they purpose to carry the metal, in its first perceive, from the drawings or description, fusion, at once from the smelting furnace to STEAM OMNIBUS.--Monday afternoon, an omnibus any such variation, in the construction the puddling furnace. They have no pigs at worked by steam, on a new and ingenious principle, adopted by the New-Yorker, as seems suffi-all: pig iron is a waste of time and material. was tried on the Paddington road. The inventor is cient to account for a more successful appli- There is no occasion, they say, to use fuel Mr. Walter Hancock, of Stradford-le-Bow, who has cation, by him, of the principle to steamboat to heat over again the iron after it has cooled machine altogether does not exceed the space which obtained a patent for his very useful discovery. The navigation, than was accomplished by the in the form of pigs. They would have it re- an ordinary omnibus with horses attached would oeoriginal inventor. I am, sir, yours, &c. tain the heat of the smelting furnace, and cupy, and the appearance is peculiarly neat. The thence they would carry it by hand, in ladles, body is capable of accommodating fourteen persons, or in pails, or by any other utensil adapted The passengers experience no inconvenience from the engine dividing that from the furnace in the rear. Patent granted to Daniel and George Horton, to the purpose, at once to the puddling furnace. heat, and coke being the fuel employed, there is no Iron Masters, Leys Iron Works, Stafford If the accidents of place would permit, annoyance by smoke. The engine works on a crank, co. England, for an improved Puddling they could, of course, prefer the obvious plan not on the axle, and the propelling power is applied Furnace, for the better production of manu-of carrying the smelted metal by a pipe, or to the wheels by means of iron chains. The chief factured iron, in the process of obtaining it channel, or drain, from the one furnace to sider most, is that there can be no possibility of exrecommendation, that which timid persons will confrom the pig. the other, and this they would claim as a plosion. The propelling power is equal to from 15 These gentlemen have found that pig iron, part of their invention. Now, it so happens, to 20 miles an hour, but even when the steam is having undergone the action of the refining that this system has, to our certain know- raised to its very highest pressure there is no risk, furnace, requires a degree of heat for its re-ledge, been acted on for upwards of twenty what are termed chamber boilers, with a valve to the water being deposited in several iron pipes, or rusion, in the process of puddling, so great that years, and that in more places than one. carry off the superfluous steam. The guide, who the materials of which this latter furnace is However, publication alone insures private sits in front,, has complete control of the vehicle, composed are very speedily destroyed or right. It is remarkable that two patents and can arrest its progress instantaneously. It left the rendered useless. They conceive that the should have been granted on succeeding Patent Steam Coach Company's yard, in Charlesrefining furnace may be altogether dispensed days for purposes acting so exactly on each plement of passengers, chiefly ladies, guided in this street, City-road, at four o'clock, with a full com. with; and they suggest a process whereby other; their combination would be a yet instance by Mr. Hancock, the patentes. At first it the puddling may be conducted on a more greater improvement. In both cases the re-proceeded at a pace of about six miles an hour; but economical and efficient plan. fining is dispensed with. If portability be having cleared the crowd, who assembled in large Their improvement is extremely simple in no object, and local circumstances are favor-increased to the rate of ten miles an hour. It is innumbers to witness the exhibition, the velocity was its principle. It is the excessive heat which able, these plans will effect a great saving of tended to ply regularly from Paddington to the Bank destroys the furnace; therefore, their object time and money. -[London Globe.]