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duced a complete revolution in the apparatus for floatinglights, and enabled the beautiful Argand lamps, withparabolic reflectors, to be used instead of the old lampswith smoky flat wicks. (Main Avenue.)
158 Cochrane, A., 17 Bryanstone Street, Bryanstone
Square— Inventor.
Patent lock, to be entitled the “ Catch-key Lock.”When a picklock, or false key, or even when the real keyis introduced into the lock, it is immediately caught andcannot be released except by the owner.
Smoke condenser, air conductor, and animal food andvegetable preserver by means of a machine or apparatus.
159 Eettie, Robert, Edinburgh — Inventor.Inventions for use at sea, consisting of lamps, lights,
lighthouse apparatus, reflectors, signals, life-boats, fire-extinguisher, breakwater, &c. The following cut repre-sents the marine signals.
llettie’s Patent Marine Signals, &c.
Inventions for use in mines, railways, towns, andhouses, consisting of safety lamps, “ corves” or cages,shields, ropes, and traps; signals, fog, day, &c. Venti-lating apparatus; sewer and effluvia traps; portable closet,glazed-jointed pipes, &c.
Stoves for heating large buildings, ramoneurs, smoke-preventers, vegetable-steamers, bottling cranes, fire-protectors, & c.
160 King, William, 8 Woodstock Street, Bond Street —Inventor and Manufacturer.
Section of a model of a floating breakwater for a har-bour of refuge. Scale 3-8ths of an inch to the foot.
Section of a model for a foundation of a lighthouse, orplace of refuge, on the Goodwin Sands. Scale 3-8ths ofan inch to the foot.
162 Perkes, S„ &Co., Emerson Street, Southwark Bridge
—Producers.
Bearers for principal beams in buildings. Models ofpatent combination bridges, &c.
163 Rovere, Felix Paulin, C.E., 2 New Inn,
St. Clement’s —Designer.
Design for a wrought-irou girder bridge at West-minster ; consisting of a combination of wrought and castiron girders, to allow of the maximum water headway,the site of the present bridge being preserved.
164 Maplin, —, Producer.
Model of a lighthouse, from designs by Messrs. Walkerand Burgess, founded on Mitchell’s screw piles. (InLocomotive Passage.)
165 Smith, William Henry, 1 Royal ExchangeBuildings— Inventor.
Recoil breakwater, with drawings—the principle ofwhich is applicable to harbours, groynes, coffer-dams,clearing away of shoals, protection of the shore from seaencroachments, piers, landing-places, &c.
This breakwater is moored by lewising bolts, mushroomanchors, screw or atmospheric piles, or Smith’s anchorpile. If a ship runs foul of any part, she will strike ayielding buttress, the braces of which are equal to a dozencables: all injurious shock is converted into a steadydownward pressure. The structure is in separate lengths,each having an independent spring.
Lighthouse breakwater—applicable to beacons and\ marine batteries, in all situations.
j Tubular suspension girder bridge, designed to prevent: vibratory action: adapted for railways.
Plan for a suspension tunnel.
166 Fox & Barrett, Thames Chambers, 12 George Street,Adelphi —Proprietors.
; Specimens of patent fire-proof flooring or roofing.
169 Nasmyth, G., 7 Park Road, Kensington —i Inventor and Patentee,
j Two models of wrought-iron girders ; a small quantity| of materials being used, combined so as to sustain thej greatest weight. ( With Classes 5 and 6.)
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! 170 Newnham, Thomas Garrett , Newtown,j Montgomeryshire, Wales —Architect and Inventor.Model, to a scale of one inch and a half to the foot ofa portion of the roof of a church in course of erection atDolfor, near Newtown.
Model, to a scale of one inch to the foot, of open roof,constructed with ribs of terra cotta, supporting raftersand slating battens, similar to the former.
Model, to a scale of from one-half to one-third full si^ e >of stone, or of terra cotta, mullioned windows, withsliding sashes.
171 Young, J., Gas Works, Selkirk, Scotland —Inventor.Model of coal-gas apparatus, with set of retorts, washed
purifiers, valves, condenser, and gas-holders, constructedon a new arrangement, and adapted for a provincial town.The condensers and purifier can be cleaned out whilst Woperation.
172 Metropolitan Association for Improving tb®
Dwellings of the Industrious Class® •_Charles Gatliff, Sec., 19 Coleman Stree >William Beck, Architect, 33 Finsbury Square-Model dwellings for artizans, in Albert Street, hl9 eEnd New Town, erected by the exhibitors.
173 Macrory, F., 4 Milton Terrace, Vauxhall BridgeRoad, Pimlico —Inventor and Manufacturer. ^
Newly-invented window to prevent the entrancedust and wet, and the noise caused by the wind.
174 Nixon, Thomas , Kettering —Inventor, Manufa c
turer, and Designer. _
Registered design for a self-ventilating garden- >8or sky-light, which can be made water-tight.
175 Remington, Anne, 138 Sloane Street, Chelsea—•
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Improved roasting apparatus, with self-actingand heat reflector.