The Repertory of patent inventions [formerly The Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture]. Vol.1-enlarged ser., vol.40, Volume 6

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1771
 

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Page 1 - Now Know Ye, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Adolphe Nicole, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon...
Page 334 - I do hereby declare this to be my specification of the same, and that I do verily believe this my said specification doth comply in all respects fully and without...
Page 333 - Walton do hereby describe the manner in which my said Invention is to be performed by the following statement thereof reference being had to the Drawing annexed and to the figures and letters marked thereon that is to say DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Page 334 - I do verily believe that this my said specification, doth comply, in all respects fully, and without reserve or disguise, with the proviso in the said hereinbefore in part recited letters patent contained, wherefore I do hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said invention.
Page 242 - This is to be continued till the lac, now white, separates from the liquor. The supernatant fluid is now to be poured away, and the lac is to be well washed in repeated waters, and finally wrung as dry as possible in a cloth. The lac obtained...
Page 132 - I was out of my depth, and therefore swam to the visitors' stairs — the stairs for the workmen being occupied by those who had so far escaped. My knee was so injured by the timber stage, that I could scarcely swim or get up the stairs ; but the rush of the water carried me up the shaft. The three men who had been knocked down with me were unable to extricate themselves, and, I am grieved to say, they are lost ; and, I believe also, two old men and one young man, in other parts of the work.
Page 242 - ... the bleaching liquor, and thus proceed till the colour of the mixture has become pale. A second bleaching liquor is now to be added, made by diluting muriatic acid with thrice its bulk of water, and dropping into it pulverized red lead, till the last added portions do not become white. Of this acid bleaching liquor, small quantities at a time are to be added to the...
Page 354 - The packet is then passed between the rollers, and is received by the man who turns the winch, and who has time to lay the sheets on one side, and to hand over the tin plates by the time that the boy has prepared a second packet.
Page 357 - J;edious and expensive operation of bringing the soda to the state of crystal. I pointed out the following plan to a Turkey-red dyer here, who immediately put it in practice, and it is now gradually adopting by the trade. Into a cast-iron boiler capable of holding 450 gallons of water, I put ten hundred weight of pearl-ash (first sort), seven hundred weight muriate of soda, and four times the weight of the muriate of soda of water, applying heat, and stirring until both are dissolved.
Page 1 - London, merchant, for his invention of certain improvements on a machine or apparatus for more readily producing light. Sealed 20th March : six months for enrolment.

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