nufacturing lace or other netted fabrics.-Sealed 8th March6 months for inrolment.

Henry Smith, of Liverpool, engineer, for improvements in the construction of wheels and breaks for carriages.-Sealed 10th March-6 months for inrolment.

Richard Beard, of Earl-street, Blackfriars, Gent., for improvements in the means of obtaining likenesses and representations of nature and of other objects.-Sealed 10th March-6 months for inrolment.

William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancerylane, Middlesex, civil engineer, for certain improvements in boilers, furnaces, and steam-engines,-being a communication. -Sealed 10th March-6 months for inrolment.

Charles William Firchild, of Woley Park, Northfield, Worcestershire, farmer, for an improved propelling apparatus, for marine and other purposes.-Sealed 14th March-6 months for inrolment.

Reuben Partridge, of Cowper-street, Finsbury, engineer, for cer

tain improvements in machinery or apparatus for splitting and shaping wood into splints, for the manufacture of matches and other similar forms.-Sealed 14th March-6 months for inrolment.

Alfred Green, of Sheffield, surgical instrument maker, for certain improvements in trusses or surgical bandages.-Sealed 15th March-6 months for inrolment.

Edwin Ward Trent, of Old Ford, Bow, rope maker, for an improved mode of preparing oakum and other fibrous substances, for caulking ships and other vessels.-Sealed 21st March-6 months for inrolment.

Sydney Jessop, of Sheffield, merchant, for an improved mode of preparing wrought iron, intended for wheel tires, rails, and certain other articles.-Sealed 21st March-6 months for inrolment.

Zachariah Parkes, of Birmingham, manufacturer, for an improved mode of preparing wrought iron, intended for wheel tires, rails, and certain other articles.-Sealed 21st March-6 months inrolment.

John Clay, of Cottingham, near Hull, Yorkshire, and Frederick Rosenborg, of Sculcoates, Yorkshire, Gent., for improvements in arranging and setting-up types for printing.-Sealed 21st March-6 months for inrolment.

William Hancock, the Younger, of Amwell-street, Gent., for certain improvements in combs and brushes.-Sealed 21st March-6 months for inrolment.

Edward John Dent, of No. 82, Strand, chronometer maker, for certain improvements in chronometers and other time-keepers. -Sealed 21st March-6 months for inrolment.

William Brockedon, of Queen-square, Middlesex, Gent., for improvements in manufacturing fibrous materials, for the cores of stoppers, to be coated with India-rubber, and used for stopping bottles and other vessels.-Sealed 21st March-6 months for inrolment.

John Haughton, of Liverpool, clerk, for improvements in the method of affixing certain labels.-Sealed 21st March--6 months for inrolment.

William Palmer, of Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, manufacturer, for improvements in the manufacture and preparation of pills and some other articles of a medicinal or remedial nature.Sealed 21st March-6 months for inrolment.

Mark Freeman, of Sutton Common, Gent., for improvements in the construction of inkstands.-Sealed 21st March-6 months for inrolment.

Robert Hazard, of Clifton, Somerset, confectioner, for improve

ments in apparatus for heating public and private buildings.— Sealed 21st March-6 months for inrolment.

Moses Sperry Beach, of Norfolk-street, Strand, printer, for improvements in machinery used for printing with type, and in the construction of type for printing,-being a communication. -Sealed 23rd March-6 months for inrolment.

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Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures.

CONJOINED SERIES.

No. CXXV.

Recent Patents.

To JOHN CLAY, of Cottingham, in the county of York, Gent., and FREDERICK ROSENBORG, of Sculcoates, in the county of York, Gent., for their invention of improvements in arranging and setting-up types for printing.[Sealed 27th November, 1840.]

THIS invention of improvements in arranging and settingup types for printing, consists in a novel construction of machine, in which printing types (being placed in a certain order) may be severally selected and brought together for the formation of words and sentences, by striking keys with the finger, in a similar manner to playing upon an organ.

In Plate X., fig. 1, represents a front elevation of the machine; fig. 2, is an elevation of the left-hand end of the machine, part of the wooden frame being in section; fig. 3, is a horizontal view of the machine, shewing the parts as they would appear when seen from above; and fig. 4, is a vertical section, taken through the middle of the machine, 2 E

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in a transverse direction, or at right angles to fig. 1; in all which figures similar letters of reference point out the same parts of the mechanism.

A complete font of types being provided, of any size required, consisting of upper and lower case, that is, capitals and small letters, points, spaces, figures, &c., both Roman and Italic,-all the types of one letter or character are placed in similar positions, in one of the perpendicular grooves of the vertical plates A, or B, fixed at the top of the machine, and all the types of another letter or character in another perpendicular groove of the plates, and so on; the types of all the letters, points, spaces, figures, &c., being arranged in this way in the most convenient order for use.

The grooved plates A, and B, being thus filled with letter, A, A, A, with capitals, and B, B, B, with small letters, &c., the movements of the mechanism are to draw out, severally, from the grooved plates, such letters or characters, successively, as are required for composing a word or sentence.

These movements are effected by striking, with the finger, certain of the keys c, c, C, or D, D, D, in front of the machine; which keys, being connected to levers, perform the operations by the means about to be described.

In the vertical section, fig. 4, will be best seen the forms of the levers c, c, c, and d, d, d, connected to the keys c, and D, by which the fingers of the operator are enabled to act upon the letters.-These levers c, c, c, and d, d, d, hang upon fulcrum rods e, e, e, fixed in the wood frame, and at their reverse ends act against the mechanism which selects and conducts the types into the chamber f, the receptacle of the composition.

Let it be supposed that the machine has been properly furnished with types. The compositor places himself in front of the machine, and presses with his finger the par