Kingdom.] RAILWAY AND MARINE MECHANISM. 251
North Areas A. B. 10 to 34 ; C. D. E. 1 to 10, & 19 to 33; F. 1 to 32 ; G. II. 1 to 13, & 19 to 20.
Sample of patent metal machinery for cotton weft.Crank shaft bearings, of Babbitt’s patent lined metal,for a 300-horse engine.
707 Tidmarsh, Rich., 3 Jamaica Row, Bermondsey —Manufacturer and part Proprietor.
Working model of James Smith Torrop’s patent pas-sengers’ railway and steam-boat time signal; a simpleinstrument by which passengers are informed at one viewof the exact number of minutes that are to elapse beforethe starting of a train or steam-boat; and which providesa mode of notification to passengers as they are on theirway to the station.
708 Mellinc, R., jun., 5 Coupland Street, Green J-Ieys —Manufacturer.
Model of a royal state railway carriage, 1 £ inch to thefoot (broad gauge), with promenade round the outside.
709 Pearce, T. B. , 93 Newman Street, Oxford Street—Inventor.
A railway revolving fog signal-light. A red or greennght is produced by triggers being struck by a stopplaced at the side of the tram-road.
710 Hoy, Joseph, 6 Pickering Place, Paddington —Inventor and Manufacturer.
Railway signal (for day and night); to indicate “allWglit,” “caution,” “danger” or “obstruction,” ororder to stop;” by one and the same movement, oraction of a small lever. It can be elevated to any conve-nient height. This signal is shown in the annexed cut.
TRIFORM KAJLWfL'C .SIGNAL FOR DAY AMD N1.GH1
sight" "caution
TO STOP
GREEN
LICHT
LICHT
Hoy’s Triform Railway Signal.
iA l Allan, A., Crewe, Cheshire — Inventor.
. Model of hydrostatic or floating turn-table, for turn-ln 6 engines and carriages on railways^ &c., on the floatingPriaeiple; made entirely of wrought iron.
Model of an improved crane, for lifting and moving"weights. __
712 Watson, Thomas, 79 Provost Street, City Road —
Inventor.
A day or night signal for railways, &c.
. [The most perfect code of railway signals is that whichw the most simple; one sign, either by day or night, musttell the engine-driver what he has to do, without chanceef error; improvements in the machinery by which theS1 gas are made, viz., by moveable discs, or arms, by day,an d different-coloured lamps by night, tend to secureeertainty of action, and, therefore, are of great public im-portance.—S. C.]
713 Wharton, Wji, Eastern Station — Inventor.
Patent railway wheel. The body is principally of
Wood , the chief features are the radial bolts and wedgesr° 11 C0I ? 1 P ensate for shrinkage. Model of the same, quarter.1 size, with wood felloes: the tires can be put on colduistead of being shrunk on in the usual manner. Model0 the same, composed wholly of iron.
714 Hinitt, James, 22 Vauxhall Row, Vauxhall —•
T _ Inventor.
■ “Ocomotive engine and tender, working model; scale,mch and a half to the foot.
715 Mansell, Richard Christopher, Ashford, Kent _
Inventor.
_ Patent safety wheel for railway purposes, having itstire so secured that, in the event of a breakage, no partcan leave the wheel, which would still remain service-able. The tire has no holes through it, is made conical ■on its inner diameter, and is pressed tightly while in acold state on the disc or body of the wheel, which ismade to receive it: it is furnished with an endless grooveon each side, and is secured to the body of the wheel bymeans of two flanched retaining rings, which have theirHandles placed into the grooves of the tire, and arebolted laterally through the end of each wedge, formingthe timber disc or body. The iron boss is made in twoparts, and constructed so as to be tightened in the eventof any shrinkage of the timber.
Manufactured by Messrs. Fox, Henderson, & Co.,London Works, Birmingham , and other railway wheelmanufacturers.
716 Angus, Francis John, 21 King Street, Bath Street,
City Road —Inventor.
Railway accident detector, to give instant notice whenthe carriage is going off the line from the breaking of aspring or axle, or the connecting-chain; it can also be setin motion by any person in 'or on the carriage. It isequally useful in buildings where valuable property iskept,, to detect any tampering with locks or windows.
Model of a life-boat.
726 Faure, Theodore, 2 Little Argyll Street,
Regent Street —Inventor.
New snow-sweeping engine, for clearing railways androads from snow. Its power may be increased accordingto the duty required, and the same engine may be appliedto railways and common roads by changing a pair ofwheels.
728 Shaw, Joseph, & Co., 91 Paddock, near Huddersfield ■ —Inventors.
Patent signals and points or switches on railways.
732 Fairbairn, W., & Sons, Manchester —Inventors andManufacturers.
Locomotive tank engine, adapted for working witheconomy light passenger traffic.
739 Ashbury, —, Inventor.
Model of a railway truck.
750 Watts, Thomas, 3 Pelham Place —Inventor.
Model of a girder suspension bridge for railways, in-tended to be suspended upon aerial supports at a distanceof every 300 feet, proposed to establish a communicationby railway between England and France.
7 52 Barber-Beaumont, G. D., Twickenham — Inventor.Patent locomotive machinery; applicable to all opera-tions of draught, as a steam-tug, or as a substitute for ananimal drawing in the traces, on the road or at theplough.
753 Bursill, George Henry, 9 York Terrace, Queen’s
Road, Ilornsey Road, Holloway —Inventor andManufacturer.
Improved pressure gauge, of easy adjustment. Thegraduated scale has, in addition to the two columns ofresistance usually engraved upon it for a high-pressuregauge, a third column, which is the sum of the othertwo. __
754 Gunn, Joseph, 3 Ebenezer Terrace, Turner Street,
London Hospital —Inventor.
Machine to be propelled by hand-power.
756 Bowler, John, Birmingham— Inventor.
Model of a carriage to run on the rim of the wheelsinstead of the axleB: there is no friction whatever on theaxles. The wheels are one inch in diameter; in one