THE

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Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures.

CONJOINED SERIES.

No. CXXII.

Recent Patents.

To JOSEPH MAUDSLAY, of Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, engineer, for an improvement in the arrangement and combination of certain parts of steam-engines, to be used for steam navigation.-[Sealed 16th March, 1841.]

THIS improvement relates to the arrangement and combination of certain parts of steam-engines, of that kind or class whereof the centre of the steam-cylinder (wherein the piston works) is situated immediately beneath the rotative axis of the crank. And the particular parts of steamengines, to which the arrangement and combination relates, are the steam-cylinder, with its bottom and cover, the piston and piston-rod, the cross-head belonging to the pistonrod, and the connecting-rod,-together with all requisite appurtenances to the several parts.

In Plate I., several views of the improved construction of engine are shewn; fig. 1, being a longitudinal vertical section; fig. 2, a horizontal plan of the upper part of the

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