The patentee claims, firstly, the printing of cotton, silk, woollen, and other stuffs, (without any previous preparation of the stuffs, by mordants, sizes, oils, or otherwise,) with oil or oil-colors, prepared or compounded and applied in the manner herein before set forth; secondly, the printing of stuffs, as aforesaid, with oil or oil-colors, compounded or prepared in the same manner as before set forth, however differently the same may be applied; thirdly, the printing of stuffs, as aforesaid, with oil or oil-colors, applied in the same manner as before set forth, however differently such colors may be prepared or compounded; and fourthly, the printing of stuffs, as aforesaid, partly with oil or oil-colors, and partly with water-colors, or any dischargeable resist, in the manner before-described.—[Inrolled in the Inrolment Office, August, 1842.]

To DOMINIC FRICK ALBERT, of Cadishead, near Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, Doctor of Laws, manufacturing chemist, for an improved or new combination of materials and processes in the manufacture of fuel.-[Sealed 1st February, 1841.]

THE materials used in the preparation of the fuel, are bituminous schiste, which is a slate or dark-colored stone, partaking of the nature of both coal and charcoal; aluminous clay, a refuse, or the bottoms of the acetate of alumine, in red liquor works; ground coal,-a refuse from coal-pits, which should be quite free from sulphur; vegetable gelatine or tar,-a refuse from pyroligneous acid works, or wood distilleries; mineral gelatine or tar,—a refuse from coal-tar distillation; and mineral oil,-a refuse from naphtha distillation.

In manufacturing fuel from these materials, the patentee proceeds as follows:-Five parts of the vegetable gelatine, and the like quantity of mineral gelatine, are heated in a pan, until they are brought to a proper consistence; and then ten parts of schiste, ground to a powder, ten parts of

ground coal, and five parts of aluminous clay, well dried, and mixed with four per cent. of mineral oil, are added to the gelatine. The ingredients are worked into a paste, which is deposited in a hole in the ground, near the pan, and, when cold, forms a cake or flag, without the employment of a press or mould.

The aluminous clay may be omitted, if it cannot be conveniently procured; but then the mineral oil must be mixed with the finest part of the schiste, separated from the rest by a riddle; or, as a substitute for the aluminous clay, fat marl, or common clay, free from stones, may be employed.

When the artificial fuel is being manufactured in places where there are no wood distilleries, the vegetable gelatine may be left out; but, in that case, ten parts of mineral gelatine must be used instead of five.

The patentee claims the new combination of materials and processes, above described, for the manufacture of fuel. -[Inrolled in the Inrolment Office, July, 1841.]

TO DOMINIC FRICK ALBERT, of Cadishead, near Manchester, Doctor of Laws, manufacturing chemist, for a new combination of materials, for the purpose of manufacturing a manuring powder.-[Sealed 10th August, 1842.]

THIS invention consists in a cheap method or methods of introducing into compost or manure such acids, alkalies, and salts, as are required for the nutrition of plants.

A composition or mixture is first produced, consisting of four classes of ingredients; viz., 1st class,-Seven parts of ammoniacal water, from the gas-works, or four of spent urical liquor, resulting from the scouring of woollen tissues, cloth, flannel, &c. 2nd class,-Six parts of human excrements, which should be passed through a riddle, to free them from all extraneous matters. 3rd class,-Six parts of blood and animal gelatine, fibres, or teguments; all fleshes and skins being previously boiled to a pulp, to save grinding and chopping. 4th class,-Two parts of horse or cow

dung. These ingredients are worked into a paste, in a large vat, or cemented reservoir; and their volatile ammoniacal gases are rendered stationary in the mixture, by the addition of from two to three per cent. of hydrochloric acid.

The composition is now mixed with a powder, composed of five classes of substances, which are as follow:-1st class, -Four parts of ground charcoal. 2nd class,-Two parts of either chromated lime, sulphated lime, muriate of lime, or sulphated clay. 3rd class,-One part of ground schiste, or pulverized and well-dried aluminous clay. 4th class,— One part of vegetable ashes, or alkalic silicates, such as the refuse of glass-works. 5th class,-One part of common salt. This manure will dry into a powder, if placed under a well-aired shed; or the drying may be hastened by means of a stove; but it will have a much quicker effect on the vegetation when used in a damp state. It may be spread over the land with a spade, in the same manner as bonedust, &c.

As some of the ingredients, above mentioned, may not be readily obtained in various places, the patentee has mentioned a number of matters which may be substituted for them. The following are the materials that may be substituted for those which were employed in the preparation of the composition. 1st class,-Urine, in general, from man and beast, in the proportion of two parts of the former to three of the latter; or two parts of bone-dust, macerated in half its weight of sulphuric acid, may be used instead of five parts of urine. 2nd, 3rd, and 4th classes,-All sorts of animal refuse, such as tallow-chandlers' grease bottoms, woollen rags, tanners' spent lime, containing much hair, scrapings and cuttings from hides and leather, offal from the dressing of sheep's feet, animal charcoal from prussiate of potash works, cotton spinners' waste, impregnated with oil, the refuse from glue manufactories, and from cleaning foreign wool, &c. Instead of hydrochloric acid, sulphuric may be used, to prevent the exhalation of any unpleasant smell from the composition.

With respect to the powder, those ingredients which may be substituted, are as follow:-1st class,-Equal quan

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tities of soot and charcoal. 2nd class,-The refuse of those soaperies, where kelp is employed, can advantageously represent one-half of the earths before mentioned; pulverized oyster shells also belong to this class. 3rd class,-The schiste may be reduced to powder, by exposure to the rain, in place of grinding it. 4th class,-The soap-suds, or soapy water, produced in any of the different branches of manufactures, are received into a cistern, and the mineral powders, before alluded to, are added to them; the water evaporates, leaving the grease and caustic alkali combined with the other materials. 5th class,-The worst kind of rock salt, or all kinds of sea plants, dried and rubbed into a powder, or calcined, or the animalized spent salt, from the curing of pork, &c.

The patentee claims, the combination of the materials, herein before specified, in the proportions aforesaid, and the production thereby, of a powder or manure, at a very cheap rate; which powder contains a more abundant quantity of such acids, alkalies, and salts, as are required for the nutrition of plants, than any other manure now produced, at an equally cheap rate.-[Inrolled in the Inrolment Office, February, 1843.]

To ALFRED JOHN PHIPPS, of the Blackfriars-road, in the county of Surrey, Gent., for certain improvements in paving streets, roads, and ways.—[Sealed 1st August, 1842.]

THIS invention of improvements in paving streets, roads, and ways, consists, Firstly, in the employment of blocks of wood, of peculiar shapes or forms; and, Secondly, in a peculiar method of connecting these or other blocks together, so as to preserve them in their relative positions.

In Plate IX., are several figures, shewing the methods adopted by the patentee, of carrying these objects into effect. Fig. 1, is a plan view, and fig. 2, a side view, of part of a road-way, formed by blocks of wood, made by cutting blocks, of any convenient size, from a length of

wood, as seen in fig. 3. These blocks must be cut in an angular manner, (as shewn in the figure,) and one of them placed on the top of another, with their angles subtending in opposite directions, and fastened together by cramps or other fastenings, (as shewn in fig. 2,) or in any other convenient manner.

By this arrangement, one end of each of the compound blocks, thus formed, is made convex, and the other end concave,- -so that the convex end of one block enters the concave end of the next, thereby preventing it from either rising or sinking. In laying down a pavement, to be composed of these blocks, each line of blocks must be dovetailed into the two adjoining ones, so as to form a "break-joint," as seen in the plan view, fig. 1; and, if thought desirable, a key-block may be placed in the centre of the road-way.— This key-block is made by forming both ends or sides thereof, either concave or convex, as may be preferred.

Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7. and 8, represent another form of block, which may be either constructed of one piece, or made in two parts, and connected together so as to form a compound block. Fig. 4, is a plan view of several of these blocks, combined together to form part of a pavement. Fig. 5, is a side view, and fig. 6, an end view of the same. This pavement is constructed of pairs of blocks, shewn in plan at fig. 7, and elevation at fig. 8.

The profile of this block represents two equilateral triangles, with the apex of one pointing upwards, and the apex of the other pointing downwards. Upon inspecting the plan view, fig. 7, it will be seen that the part a, of the block, does not wholly cover the side of the part b, but is shifted laterally in a slight degree, and consequently leaves a shoulder c, to support the next block. At the same time, by thus shifting the part a, of the block, this part is made to overhang the part b, as seen at d, and it is this overhanging part that lies upon, and is supported by, the shoulder c, of the next block, as will be easily understood. by a careful inspection of fig. 7, which represents the pairof blocks, slightly removed from each other, to prevent confusion, but in the same relative positions.-Although