No. 4737. Having thus fully described the manner in which I construct and use my sash fastener, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the employment or use of the catch D, with its hooked end, in combination with the plate F, with its mortise J, for the purpose of holding the lower sash securely down; the whole being formed, arranged, and combined substantially as herein set forth. * JAMES JONES. Having thus fully described the manner in which I construct my machine for preparing the blanks for the formation of wood screws, and which may also be applied to the forming of rivets, and other articles of a like nature, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the manner herein set forth of producing the respective alternating motions necessary to the double feeding, by combining the respective arms U’, J', and A', J', with the cams C and C', having grooves crossing each other, said cams carrying swivelling cam pins, and operating the rockshafts T, I', Z, and I, which shafts are connected with the respective operating parts of the machine, with the exception of the heading die, substantially in the manner herein made known. And this I claim, whether said motions be effected by one or more cams of the kind herein described, whilst the operating parts are substantially the same in their arrangement and action with those herein described and delineated. f I also claim the arrangement and combination with the cams C, C, and with the respective rock shafts and single heading punch of the double acting apparatus, consisting of the feeding wheels and segments d, d, the cutters t, t', the gripping tumblers W, W’, and the sliding die-holder R, the whole being made to operate substantially as herein described. THOMAS.W. HARVEY. No. 4739. Now what I claim as my invention or discovery is the application of the vibrating rack N, together with the movable cogs and the movable racks, as described, connected to the mill floor or timbers in combination with the lever R, wheel W, and the other appendages, in the manner above described. HORACE MERRELL. No. 4740. Having thus fully described my machine and its mode of operation, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the combination of two ditching machines in the manner described, so that the sods cut from two parallel ditches shall be elevated and placed with the grass out in a continuous ridge between said ditches at one operation, in the manner and for the purpose set forth. WILLIAM C. BUSSEY. No. 4741. Having thus fully described my improved brake, what I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by letters patent, is constructing the brake in the manner described, by curving the swards of the brake convexly from end to end, placing the centre swards higher than the outside ones, as herein fully set forth. THOMAS L. FORTUNE. No. 4742. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the constructing a tailor’s measuring instrument by the combination of the elastic metallic plates L and M, self-registering scale straps q and r, and the upper and lower knobs or pivots c and d, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth. I also claim the manner of taking the requisite measures for the formation of a coat, by my self-registering instrument, and the combination therewith of a tape measure, with a ring or loop at one of its ends, substantially as herein set forth. W. R. ACTON. * No. 4743. , * What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the lever (a, a,) roller strap (b.) rollers (E and D.) clasp (C) and guard (F,) to be applied to the tongues and shafts of carriages to produce a proportionate bearing as herein described. MYLO KNAPP. - No. 4744. What I claim as new, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the employment of a stove, such as described, so constructed and placed within the ordinary fireplace as to heat the room by its direct radiation, as well as by heating air entering the room from the outside, as described, serving the double purpose of a stove and hot-air furnace. JOHN H. B. LATROBE. No. 4745. What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by letters patent, is, first, the knee or brace cast on the stand, as herein explained. Second, the longitudinal openings o, o, together with the metallic boxes H. H. JOHN KRAUSER, CYRUS KRAUSER. No. 4746. Having thus fully described my improved truck, I wish it to be understood that I am aware that trucks have been formed with a single cross or centre bar, and in such a way as to allow any one of the wheels to rise and fall, as in my construction, but they have all lacked the strength of No. 4787. Having thus fully described the manner in which I construct and use my sash fastener, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the employment or use of the catch D, with its hooked end, in combination with the plate F, with its mortise J, for the purpose of holding the lower sash securely down ; the whole being formed, arranged, and combined substantially as herein set forth. JAMES JONES. Having thus fully described the manner in which I construct my machine for preparing the blanks for the formation of wood screws, and which may also be applied to the forming of rivets, and other articles of a like nature, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the manner herein set forth of producing the respective alternating motions necessary to the double feeding, by combining the respective arms U’, J', and A', J', with the cams C and C', having grooves crossing each other, said cams carrying swivelling cam pins, and operating the rock shafts T, I', Z, and I, which shafts are connected with the respective operating parts of the machine, with the exception of the heading die, substantially in the manner herein made known. And this I claim, whether said motions be effected by one or more cams of the kind herein described, whilst the operating parts are substantially the same in their arrangement and action with those herein described and delineated. f I also claim the arrangement and combination with the cams C, C, and with the respective rock shafts and single heading punch of the double acting apparatus, consisting of the feeding wheels and segments d, d, the cutters t, t', the gripping tumblers W, W’, and the sliding die-holder R, the whole being made to operate substantially as herein described. THOMAS.W. HARVEY. No. 4739. Now what I claim as my invention or discovery is the application of the vibrating rack N, together with the movable cogs and the movable racks, as described, connected to the mill floor or timbers in combination with the lever R, wheel W, and the other appendages, in the manner above described. HORACE MERRELL. No. 4740. Having thus fully described my machine and its mode of operation, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the combination of two ditching machines in the manner described, so that the sods cut from two parallel ditches shall be elevated and placed with the grass out in a continuous ridge between said ditches at one operation, in the manner and for the purpose set forth. WILLIAM C. BUSSEY. No. 4741. Having thus fully described my improved brake, what I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by letters patent, is constructing the brake in the manner described, by curving the swards of the brake convexly from end to end, placing the centre swards higher than the outside ones, as herein fully set forth. THOMAS L. FORTUNE. No. 4742. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the constructing a tailor’s measuring instrument by the combination of the elastic metallic plates L and M, self-registering scale straps q and r, and the upper and lower knobs or pivots c and d, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth. I also claim the manner of taking the requisite measures for the formation of a coat, by my self-registering instrument, and the combination therewith of a tape measure, with a ring or loop at one of its ends, substantially as herein set forth. W. R. ACTON. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the lever (a, a,) roller strap (b,) rollers (E and D.) clasp (C) and guard (F) : to be applied to the tongues and shafts of carriages to produce a proportionate bearing as herein described. MYLO KNAPP. e No. 4744. What I claim as new, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the em. ployment of a stove, such as described, so constructed and placed within the ordinary fireplace as to heat the room by its direct radiation, as well as by heating air entering the room from the outside, as described, serving the double purpose of a stove and hot-air furnace. No. 4745. What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by letters patent, is, first, the knee or brace cast on the stand, as herein explained. Second, the longitudinal openings o, o, together with the metallic boxes H. H. JOHN KRAUSER, CYRUS KRAUSER. No. 4746. Having thus fully described my improved truck, I wish it to be understood that I am aware that trucks have been formed with a single cross or centre bar, and in such a way as to allow any one of the wheels to rise and fall, as in my construction, but they have all lacked the strength of connexion to render them available, and their expense has been such as to prevent their use; therefore what I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the combination of the balance beam with the centre beam, substantially in the manner set forth, by means of the re cesses in the centre beam spring plates, having tubes thereon as described, on which the springs rest, and attached to the beam by bolts, i, by which a compact and secure connexion is formed, while all the necessary flexibility is preserved. JOHN F. RODGERS. No. 4747. Having thus fully described my improvements, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by letters patent, is, first, the combination of the sliding gate, front block (K') attached thereto in a stationary manner, and top roller, in the manner described, the said gate sliding in grooves in the outside plates of the frame, by which it is steadied and directed. Secondly, I claim constructing the rollers as herein described, so that the top roller gathers in faster than the bottom, to prevent clogging, in the manner set forth. * GEORGE CATCHPOLE. - No. 4748. Having thus described my improvements in windlass and other bedsteads, I shall state my claim as follows: What I claim as my invention, and desire to have secured to me by letters patent, is the mode herein above described (or any other mode substantially the same) of inserting the confining pins p, q, r, s, at the four corners of the bedstead frame, so that when the keys, x, y, are driven into the holes in the ends of said pins, the strain on the frame all around shall be in the same horizontal plane. In testimony that the foregoing is a true description of my said invention and improvements, 1 have here set my signature this twenty-third day of March, in the year 1846. JOSEPH W. ADAMS. No. 4749. Having thus fully described our improved cooking stove, what we claim therein as new, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the manner in which we convert a single oven coal-stove into a double oven wood-stove, by the withdrawal of the grate B, and the insertion of the movable ashpit hearth A, arranged, combined, and operating with the air chamber or flue space, m and m, substantially as herein set forth. JAMES SLOCUM. WILLIAM H. ALLEN. No. 4750. Having thus fully described the manner in which I construct my ma chine for sewing seams, and shown the operation thereof, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by letters patent, is, first, the forming |