London Journal of Arts, Sciences and Manufacturers, and Repertory of Patent Inventions, Band 42

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William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington
W. Newton, 1853
 

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Seite 31 - ... particulars of any objections on which he means to rely at the trial in support of the pleas...
Seite 286 - ... 5 : 4. The experiments on the bars smelted with the improved coke, indicated iron of a high order as to strength, and might be considered equal to the strongest cold blast iron: the metal appeared to have run exceedingly close, and exhibited a compact granulated structure with a light grey color. March 8th. The paper read was, " Experimental investigation of the principles of locomotive boilers,
Seite 417 - An improved composition, to be used principally as a substitute for wood or other materials, where strength and lightness are required in the manufacture of various articles. 178. William Edward Newton.
Seite 287 - ... of water per pound of good coke. An investigation of the cases of economical evaporation in the table of experiments, conducted the author to the following very important equation, expressing the relation of the three elements of...
Seite 291 - McConnell gave the results of the work done by a luggage engine (No. 125) on the London and North- Western Railway, before, and after alteration. That engine originally had tubes 14 feet long, with a total surface of upwards of 800 feet. The length of the tubes was diminished to 4 feet 9 inches, and the total surface was reduced to about 500 feet, when it was found, that a saving in fuel of 40 per cent., per ton per mile run, was produced, with a saving of 23 per cent, per mile run.
Seite 149 - Im" provements in the construction of bearings or steps for shafts, " turntables, or moveable platforms, which invention he denomi" nates ' Parry's improvements.' " The invention consists in the employment of " a series of rollers made in the form of double " frustrums of cones united at their bases and adapted to run in " grooves of nearly corresponding form made in the surfaces " between which they are interposed.
Seite 403 - Bristol, for improvements in apparatus or machinery for reaping or cutting crops of corn, or other crops to the cutting of which reaping machines are applicable.
Seite 291 - As to the evaporative powers of marine boilers, as compared with that of the best locomotive boilers, if an investigation was instituted, it would be found that the general features of the best tubular marine boilers now used in ocean navigation were nearly identical with those of locomotive boilers, but the circumstances under which they were used were very different In the marine boilers, coal was used instead of coke, and the natural draught of the chimney, instead of the urging of the blast-pipe...
Seite 303 - ... to obtain a backward motion it was merely necessary to make it act on the upper side (changing the position of the spring which pressed upon it) ; then when the piston drove it down, it slipped over the...
Seite 151 - Lancaster, spinner and doubler, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for spinning and doubling cotton, and other fibrous substances October 9.

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