248 Class' 5.— MACHINES FOR DIRECT USE, INCLUDING CARRIAGES, [United

North Areas A. B. 10 to 34 ; C. D. E. 1 to 10, & 19 to 33 ; F. 1 to 32; G. H. 1 to 13, & 19 to 26.

655 Harlow & Young, Paradise Street, Rotherhithe —Inventors and Patentees.

Model of patent atmospheric railway, with metal valvesand discs.

656 Jones, Thomas Moreton, Southampton Chambers,

53 Chancery Lane —Inventor.

Model of a railway train and breaks. The invention isintended to stop railway trains within a short distance bymeans of breaks fixed to the carriages, of such a form asto take the wheels off the rails with ease and safety. Thebreaks are successively brought into action with a rapidityproportionate to the velocity of the train, so as to avoidthe danger of sudden jerking. They only require the ap-plication of a lever near the engine, to set in motion a rod,which passes underneath the carriages and communicateswith the separate breaks. By moving the train backwards,the wheels immediately become free of the breaks. Asimple spring buffer is substituted for those at present inuse.

659 Crutwell & Co., Newport —Inventors.Model of permanent way for railroads.

660 Boydell, James, 54 Threadneedle Street —Inventorand Manufacturer.

Pair of wheels placed under a truck, for facilitating thedraught of hea'vily-laden carriages, especially on softgrounds. Applicable to the wheels of railway carriages,in certain circumstances.

661 Stanton, Robert, 73 Shoe Lane —Inventor andManufacturer.

Electro-magnetic engine.

Locomotive steam-engine.

662 Long, Charles Albert, 1 King St., Portman Square—Inventor.

Railway signal, worked by the agency of electricity; in-tended to obviate the danger of one train overtaking ano-ther. By the use of this signal, trains may always be keptat a given distance apart: a train on passing the signal-postcauses a red board to be exposed in daytime, and a redlight at night, which signals remain until the train has pro-ceeded a certain distance in advance. The changing of thesignal depending on the distance passed over, and not onthe time which may elapse after passing the post.

666 Banks & Chambers , German Street, Manchester —Manufacturers.

Railway-carriage wheel, upon Banks ’ patented inventionfor inserting steel segments in that part of the tire whichis most exposed to friction by running upon the rail.

Another, with part of one of the steel segments leftout, so as to show the shape of the dove-tailed groove inthe tire.

The improvement consists in turning a dove-tailedgroove in the hollowed or.wompart of the tire, and insert-ing solid steel of a particular kind, instead of turningaway the surface of the tire to the level of tjie wornpart, or re-tiring the wheel. It is stated that the steelsegments do not cost half as much as new iron tires, andthat the wheel wears twice as long by this method.

[The surface of the tiro of a wheel running upon edge-rails— and all railways of recent construction, for travel-

ling at least, are laid with edge-rails—bears upon a verynarrow breadth of the rail, whilst the whole of thebreadth of the rail is small compared with the requisitebreadth of the bearing-surface of the tire. As theswerving of the wheel, and of its tire, is in practicevery small, that part of the tire which bears upon therail becomes worn and rendered concave, while the flangeand the remaining surface of the tire remain unworn. Inthis condition the wheel no longer runs freely andsmoothly over the rail, and it becomes necessary to putit into the lathe, and then reduce the uneven part ofthe tire to obtain a new and even face at the depth ofthe concave groove, or to put a new tire on the wheel,unless the groove can be filled in and the worn part berestored without subjecting the wheel to either of the twoprocesses.—W. H.]

668 Copling, J., jun., The Grove, Hackney —Inventor.

Railway signal, for instant communication between theguards, passengers, and engine-driver.

670 Lipscombe, Frederick, 233 Strand —Inventor andManufacturer.

Contrivance for preventing vibration in railway wheels,and making them run without noise.

Portable fountains, for drawing-room tables, conserva-tories, &c.

672 Eastwood & Frost, Morledge Iron Works, Derby —Manufacturers.

Rolled bar, forming when bent a segment of a wheel;bar, forming the centre of a wheel, viz., the boss, aims, andrim. Wheel-centre, complete, for carriages; and forengines. The wheel is made of wrought-iron, fromrolled bars, so as to give strength and lightness to thearms and rim, and so secure uniformity of weightthroughout.

674 Dicker, John, Clarence Terrace, 2 Botherfield Street,Islington —Inventor.

Improved automatic apparatus for transferring mailbags or parcels, on railways, at any speed, and capableof receiving and delivering them, from the weight of asingle letter to that of 70lbs.

This apparatus consists of a wooden frame and net at-tached, shown in plan A; and an iron post B, fixed in theground at the side of the railway in a direct line witheach other; and a corresponding apparatus affixed to theside of the carriage C, viz., a projecting arm D, to supportand deliver the envelope E (with bags or parcels enclosed),into the net A, which is fitted with conveying guide-lines F, to receive them. These lines are of great im-portance, the acute angle being the part in which theenvelope is griped to detach it from the locks; it alsoprevents the possibility of escaping. G is a folding-netattached to the side of carriage to receive the envelopefrom the standard B. This apparatus has been longemployed with uniform success on the South EasternRailway. Fig. 1 is a ground plan, and Fig. 2 an eleva-tion of this apparatus.

Dicker’s Automatic Apparatus for Mail Trains.