Providence Daily Advertiser

PROVIDENCE DAILY ADVERTISER
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1829.

Inventions.—The fertility of the present age in inventions, particularly in the useful arts, is truly astonishing. As an evidence of this, the single fact will be hardly credited that the September Number of the Pennsylvania Franklin Institute, edited by Dr. T. P. Jones, gives a list of no less than sixty seven patents, granted for American inventions and improvements in the month of June, viz,

For manufacturing carpeting, rugs, &c. from woollen cloth—improvements in glass knobs for drawers—washing machine—2 improved threshing machines—2 new modes of construction of rail-ways—improved mode of striking fire—do. in the construction of lamps—Hydraulic steam engine—improved cotton gin—cooking stove—improvement in the ploughshare—improved rifle for scythes—improvement in taking wool from the doffer—do. in commode knobs—do. in the hollow auger for tenoning wheel spokes.

Machine for making hat bodies, by Hiram Chase, and Alexander Clark, of Falmouth, Massachusetts. [The description of this machine is so similar to the specification of Grant & Townsend's machine, in this State, that there can be little doubt that the former is a copy from the latter, with trifling variations.]—For a churn—new mode of propelling boats—cider press—rotary steam engine—an emagalactiptorus, for tropical blood letting and artificial nursing of females when weaning infants, &c. invented by a Dr. Houghtaling. (This must take, if there is any virtue in hard names.) An improvement in bedsteads—the safe washer, with six close pages, describing its various in cleaning clothes—improvement in steam boilers—pegging machine—improved rope maker.—2 machines for breaking and cleaning hemp and flax—improvement in stoves—do. in the plough; to plough the sides of a hill backwards and forwards—improved boxes for wheels, self-wedging, or self fastening box—improvement in cast iron plough, just like all other ploughs—for hoeing Indian corn; no better than one invented 20 years ago—the diamond plough; only difference is that the mould board, is partly iron and partly wood—application of escape heat from steam engines, to the manufacture of salt—improvement in fire arms; a revolving chamber, containing seven charges—improvement in blanks, for checks &c.—do. bellows tubes for furnaces &c.—machine to clean chimneys; one out of fifty attempts that have been made to dispense with climbing boys—another improvement in bedsteads—do. in crimping boots—improved fire place furnace.

Improvement in the manufacture of combs, by John Brown, Providence, R. I. by which fine tooth combs are made out of small scraps of ivory, joining two such pieces for forming the teeth, by an intermediate piece of wood or horn, cemented.—For Manufacturing raw hides into a hard and transparent material, to be made into combs, snuff-boxes, lanterns, veneering, &c. by Samuel Pike, Providence, R. I.—improved gudgeons, for mills, wheels, &c. merely a lining of lead, which answers little purpose—for preventing the ascendency of bed bugs, upon bed posts, &c. by setting the posts in a tin box filled with oil; no touch to a streak of molasses drawn around the bed, as a sort of cordon sanitaire.

The running Cap Spinner, or spinning cotton yarn and roping, by John Thorp, Providence, R. I. Machine for making ornamental lamps, mantel ornaments, &c. by crystallization—a fork or digging garden soils—improvement in representing notes in music by letters instead of dots—or weighing loading in boats and other water craft, by means of vertical graduated tubes, dipping into the water, indicating the weight by the rise of the water another machine for making hat bodies, by Van Hosen, Norwalk, Conn. The claim sets up over Grants' invention, is in the mode of vibrating the sheet of wool, as it is weaved upon the cones, and forming from one to six bodies, at the same time, by crossing the fibres.—Improved canal passage-boats—cutting out boots and shoes by a scale, or every man his own shoe-maker—another cooking stove, for Lehigh coal—another improved churn—improvement in making and ornamenting combs, by Ebenezer Mustin, Philadelphia, by laying on gold or silver size, and applying the leaf; nothing more than claiming a patent for gilding combs. One might as well be claimed, for laying on Day Martin's blacking to polish boots.—Machine for making felt of wool, without spinning or weaving—Well's improved printing press—a power windlass—an improvement in steam boilers, by Coffin & Reich, Boston—and a new and useful machine for fastening window shutters, consisting of two latches and two catches; a very common affair, and worth just as much as a hundred others, which you may try at the risk of breaking half your windows in a high gale.

The patentees of the above inventions and improvements, very few of which will ever get into general use, are the citizens of the following states, viz:—New York 26, Massachusetts 7. Pennsylvania 7, Maryland 2. Ohio 5, Kentucky 2. South Carolina 3, New Hampshire 2, Maine 1, Connecticut 7. New Jersey 1, Rhode Island 3, Virginia 1. The fees for entering these patents in the Patent office, amounted to $2000. At this rate the annual receipts of that office would be $24,000 per annum.