1232 THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN. June 29, 1917. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ fry 1 ____________________________ 8474. Ruths, J. C. Steam power plants, particularly for use in electric generating systems. (100693) 8810. Oldham, O. Miners’ electric safety lamps. (107074) 10690. Wiesengrund, B. Turbine pumps. (107105) 11043. British Thomson-Houston Company (General Elec- tric Company). Electric motor control. (107106) 12553. Falk, Stadelmann and Company and McClelland, A. R. Fire lighters. (107116) 12568. Stothert and Pitt and Toplis, C. M. Cranes. (107117) 12572. Hunstone, T. H. Coal saving devices for domestic fire grates. (107118) 13493. Sahlin, A. Blastfurnace hoists. (107130) 14251. Stokes, H. C. Devices for use in holding the tools of miners or colliers. (107139) 14697. Brundrit, J. Feed water heaters and steam gener- ators. (107143) 15998. Cockburn, D., and MacNicoll, D. Steam valves. (107153) 18622. Craig, A. M. Apparatus for use in casting metals. (107165) 1917. 77. Kilburn, B. E. D. (Sulzer Freres Soc. Anon.). Con-‘ tinuous distillation of tar. (107168) 1296. Wedge, U. Feeding devices for furnaces and like structures. (107175) 1344. Hurez, E. Regenerative coke ovens. (107178) 2974. Lane, G. L. Well-drilling bits. (107184) Complete Specifications Open to Public Inspection Before Acceptance. [Note.—The number following the application is that which the specification will finally bear. J 1916. 13758. Latour, M. Dynamo electric machines. (107193) 1917. 7070. Widner, G. H. Method of producing a water softening material. (107197) 8345. Stern, M. Steam traps and condensed water drainers. (107199) 8552. Westinghouse Gear and Dynamometer Company. Reduction gearing. (107202) molten metal or such like filling. The object of the conical socket E, in addition to adding a sense of security of the cappel, has the advantage of the latest holding power of this member, which is appreciable, and should the rope B by reason of not having been properly secured in the wedges A, slip along inside the wedges A, the socket E, when it comes in contact with the wedges A, would cause the latter to be moved along inside the U-shaped member F (which is hereinafter described), which owing to its wedge-like action, would produce sufficient pressure on the rope B, so as to prevent further slipping of the latter in the wedges A. The U-shaped member F is" made somewhat wider at the lower end thereof than at the top end, and is adapted so as to fit over and along the backs of the wedges A, when the latter are inserted in the member F. A suitable number of rings or bands G are provided, and which are made of different dimensions so as to conform to the shape ' of the outside of the member F, and when in position on and around the latter, are arranged at intervals along the length of the cappel. The object of the rings or bands G is to secure the wedges A containing the rope B, in the cappel, by the forcing of the rings or bands G along and towards the lower end of the cappel, as in other types of cappels. The object in providing the wedges A with holes C adapted for the bolts D is to set up particular stresses in the rope B in the first instance, by deforming the natural straight line of the rope, and thereby obtaining greater adhesion between the inner surfaces of the wedges A and the rope B than is possible with other types of cappels employing wedges with straight grooves. (Three claims.) the carbonisation process. Delivery of? gas. to the open end of the lower collector e is facilitated by reason of the for- mation of a hollow within the carbonised material as it passes below the gas collector. (Four claims.) 106168. Improvements in Tip Wagons. W. McF. Mitchell, 48, Green-street, Ayr, Scotland.—This invention has for its object to cheapen the construction and facilitate the operation and tilting of wagons, and also to admit of the boxes being nested, and thereby reduce the freight in shipment, and further to enable the boxes to be filled when sitting .at an angle or half-cock. Referring to the draw- ings, the wagon, which is formed of sheet steel plates, is of hopper configuration, having a rounded bottom or base A, tapered or sloping sides B, B, and kind of cone-shaped ends or gables C, C. At two opposite points at or near the ends or gables C, C, and on the sloping sides B, B, are mounted two bars D, D, a pair for each side of the wagon formed of cast iron, or other metal, these four bars D, D, D, D, having inner longitudinal flanges E, E, which com- mence from the base thereof, and terminate at the top por- tions of the bars aforesaid. The flanges are employed to maintain the co-acting surfaces in their proper relative positions. The base parts of the bars are formed of rounded or bulbous ends, which constitute rests or supports F, F, on which the wagon is carried, and more fully referred to hereinafter. Trunnions G, G, cast upon flanges or cleats G1, G1, jutting out from the bars at the opposite sides to the flanges E, E, are so arranged that the trun- nions on each side " ’ ’ ” box. or body is held in the tilted position, as shown in dotted lines in fig. 2, by the trun- nions G, G, resting in the recesses L, L, in the brackets J, J, and pressing- hard against the inner ends of the respective recesses L, L, locks it there thereby enabling the box to be loaded, in the tilted or half-cock posi- tion. When it is desired to complete the tilting- opera- tion; ' the box or body is pushed over by the hand or otherwise, which admits of the trun- nions G, G, gradu- ally becoming re- leased from their ? • pressure against , or grip on the inner ends of the recesses L, L„ and so admits of its being discharged, the ends of the bars D,! D, pressing against the face J1 of the brackets J, J, acting as it were as a lock or preventative to the box turning a somersault. The under carriage is built up in the “form of a rectangular frame, two sides being formed of rolled metal channel section H, H, to which are bolted or riveted the longitudinal. bar sections, I, I, I, I, com- posing the opposite and remaining sides which carry the axle boxes or bearings of the wagon, and the auxiliary sec- tions I1, ij, I1, I1. Immediately beneath the four bars D, P,;D, D, aforesaid, and bolted or riveted to the upper surface' of the rolled channels H, H, H, H, are the rigid cast iron brackets J, J, J, J, upon which the wagon may -,7> ... ‘be tilted'in one direction or the other, each bracket being \ Hall, I. Furnaces. (8901) provided with two hollows or recesses K, L, the recess K constituting a bearing or seat for the rounded or bulbous end F of the wagon bar D in the normal position thereof, ___o___? __ __ _ , , and the other recess L serving for the reception, and coac- Jackson, J. Lancashire boilers, etc. (8897) tion of "the trunnion G when the wagon is tilted in one Jeffcock, C. E. Means for separating water, etc., from direction or the other, one of which positions is shown.in compressed air, etc. (9015) dotted .lines in fig. 2. M is a buffer composed of timber Kane, W. H. Internal combustion engines. : (9064) interposed between the inner rectangular surfaces of: the ~ 1 1 " ’ cast iron brackets, and carried upon the rolled channels centrally upon the wagon. When a number of wagons are to be. coupled together to form a train, each longitudinal buffer beam is provided with a hook and shackle device, as shown in dotted lines in fig. 1. (Three claims.) 106207. ______ ,, . ing Ropes. E. A. Davies, Frondeg, Church Village, Llantwit-Fardre, Glamorgan.—This invention has for one of its chief objects the providing of a rope cappel so designed that it may be secured or fixed to the rope by any person not having the necessary skill required to secure other types of cappels, in which the rope has to be formed into a properly made cone by having the wires partly or wholly turned back. Another object is to provide a cappel in which the security of the wedges on and relatively to the rope does not depend entirely on the bands or housing of the cappel. A further object is to facilitate the work of securing a cappel with undulating grooved wedges on to the rope, by securing the wedges on to the rope in the first instance. Two wedge-shaped mem- bers A are provided which are formed with an undulating groove, and are arranged so as to nearly surround the rope B when in the fixed position on the latter, and are arranged one on either side of same. The wedges A are provided with four or more holes, which are adapted to allow bolts D to be employed whereby the wedges A are capable of being drawn towards each other. The effect thereof is to cause the rope B to con- form to the undulating groove, thereby distorting the rope B out of its natural straight line in one plane. The rope B when in the fixed position in the wedges A projects through and somewhat beyond the lower ends of the wedges A, and is provided with a hollow conical socket E, which is a separate member. The latter is arranged to encircle the end of the rope B, the strands of which might be opened out, or unstranded, in the before-mentioned socket ~E. The latter may then be filled with molten- metal of a suitable nature so as to surround the wires and to fill the space so form a solid mass on the end of the rope B. alternative, the strands of the rope B may, however, be partly or wholly turned back, so as to roughly form a cone- shaped end, and to conform somewhat to the.shape of the inside of the socket E, and without the addition of any face each other longitudinally. The HEW PATENTS CONNECTED WITH THE COAL AND IRON TRADES. Applications for Patents. [Note.—Applications arranged alphabetically under the names of the applicants (communicators in parentheses). A new number will be given on acceptance, which will replace the application number.] Anderson, W. Process of carbonisation. (8789) Anthony, A. H. Float valves for boiler feed apparatus. (8875) Babcock and Wilcox. Chain grate stokers. (8812) Bagley, D. Combined still and process for debenzolising absorbent oil and rectifying crude benzol. (8735) Bradshaw, G. E. Cylinders and pistons bustion, * etc., engines. (8828) British Thomson-Houston Company, machines. (8933, 8934) Broom, H. S., and Broom and Wade. compressors, etc. (8844) Brush Electrical Engineering Company. Turbines double rotation type. (8817) Buchanan, J. ' Internal combustion cylinders. (8903) Chance, G. B. Fuel economisers. (8943) Chilton, W. Turbines of double rotation type. (8817) .Coppin, T. I. Means for utilising waste heat of internal combustion engines. (9070) Crypto Electrical Company. Rotary transformers or con- verters. (8945) DavyjC. S. Chain grate stokers. (8812) Flanders, R. L. Howard-. Internal combustion engines. ... (8954) Graham, S. Apparatus for pulling out props in mines, etc. (8913) - Growder, J. Swivel for use in well drilling. (8806) Guy, S. S. Internal combustion engines. (8773) Hall, W- A., and Hankar, R. Process of cracking high temperature coal tar oils. (8932) Hughes, C. M. C. Fuel, and manufacture of same. (9043) (8735) for internal com- Dynamo electric Valves for air of ______ ALIEN PATENTS. The following list of patents granted to German and Austrian subjects is specially compiled for this paper by Messrs. Hughes and Young Limited, patent agents, 3, Cherry-street, Birmingham, and 55/56, Chancery-lane, London, W.C., who will furnish our readers with any further information they may require. 105281. W. Weber. Enlarging boreholes. 105341.- Siemens-Schuckertwerke. Winding and paying- out apparatus. 105548. Deutsch-Luxemburgische Bergwerks- und Hutten Akt.-Ges Iron and steel. compressed air, etc. (9015) Knowler, H. Internal combustion engines. (8953) . < Lennox, A. B. Furnace grates and fire bars for burning fuel in steam boilers, etc. (8715) Linden, L. Separating.- liquids from solids, and treating and drying the sludge, etc. (8807) „ ________________o. . x z Lovell, R. G. Fuel, and manufacture of same. (9043) Improvements in Cappels for Winding or Hoist- Lymn, A. H. Gas producers, etc., and accessories for — ■ — • ™ gas projucer plants. (8924) McClements, T. Internal combustion engines. (9064) McDonald, L. R. Electric motors. (8724) Marfell,' P. J. Automatically balancing cranes. (8938) Meiklereid, D. G. Chain grate stokers. (8812) Parker, A. E. Chain grate stokers. (8812) Pollock, A. A. -Dynamo electric machines. (8933, 8934) Rambush, N. E. Gas producers, etc., and accessories for gas producer plants. (8924) Rayner, G. H. T. and P. Percussive rock drills, etc. (8834) \ Riddiford, F. E. Internal combustion engines. (8772) Sharp, H. G., and Shaw, C. R. and J. G. Rotary trans- formers or converters. (8945) Shaw, C. R. and J. G. Rotary transformers or converters. (8945) Todman, J. C. Automatic voltage regulation. (8791) Tuckfield, C. Internal combustion engines. (8731) Turner, C. Distillation of carbonaceous material. (8743) Vickers Limited. Internal combustion engines. (8953, 8954) Wilkinson, G. Steam turbines, etc. (8920) Yardley, W. H. Means for separating water, etc., from compressed air, etc. (9015) Complete Specifications Accepted. (To be published on July 12.) [Note.-—The number following the application is that which the specification will finally bear.] 1916. 3873. Robinson, J. G., and Superheater Corporation. Steam superheaters of the multiple smoke or fire tube type. (107023) 5601. Campbell, L. S., and Grant, J. Well boring tools. (102250) 6695. Naletoff, M. Conveyors. (107029) 6926. Rostin, H., and Forwood, G. F. Treatment of hydrocarbons. (107034) 8130. Bowen, E. W., and Davies, T. L. Internal com- bustion engines. (107039) 8186. Dubber, A. Endless belt conveyors. (107044) 8343. Reepmaker d’Orville, T. Internal combustion engines. (107052) 8423. Brown and Company, J., and Dixon, A. W. Means to be employed for operating covers or doors such as are used in connection with soaking pits, vertical furnaces, and the like. (107059) _________________________ PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. Department of Mines, Geological Survey : (Mineral Resources, No. 24), “ The Molybdenum Industry in New South Wales,” by E. C. Andrews, geological surveyor, price 10s. ; “ The Journal of the South African Institu- tion of Engineers ” (Vol. 15, No. 10), May 1917, respon- sible editor, Ed. Goffe, price 5s.; “ By-Product Coking,” by G. Stanley Cooper, B.Sc. (Hons. 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Martins and Company Limited, 149, Leadenhall-street); “Proceed- ings of the Engineers’ Society of Western Pennsylvania ” (Vo]. 33, No. 4), May 1917, price 50c. ; “Journal of the Franklin Institute ” (Vol. 183, No. 6), June 1917, edited by R. B. Owens, E.E., M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.C., price 50c. in the socket, and ~ As an _________________________ Coal Mining Rights in Leitrim.—An injunction restrain- ing Patrick McTernan from opening pits and digging for coal under the lands of Tullycorka, Dromahaire, over which he lias grazing and turbany rights, was, with costs, granted by the Master of the Rolls last week-, on the appli- cation of Mary E. Townsend and six sons of the late Michael Layden, to whom she had let the coal mines at £10 a year. The defendant pleaded that the occupants of the farm he possessed had for 20 years dug for coal as a right. His lordship gave no damages. Board of Trade Index of Manufacturers.—The Depart- ment of Commercial Intelligence of the Board of Trade is now compiling the section of the index dealing with the rope, twine, and net trades; and manufacturers in these trades in the United Kingdom are invited to supply a detailed list of the articles which they manufacture, a list of the markets abroad in which they are more particularly interested, particulars of their agents abroad, their terms of business, and generally any information which would be of use in dealing adequately with enquiries from persons desirous of purchasing goods from the United Kingdom. Particulars should be sent to the Board of Trade, Depart- ment of Commercial Intelligence, 73, Basinghall-street, London, E.C. 2. Envelopes should be marked “ Index.” Trade Openings Abroad.—The Board of Trade Journal reports that the following enquiries for agencies for United Kingdom firms from persons and firms in Italy, some of whom formerly represented German and Austrian firms, have been received at the British Chamber pf Com- merce for Italy, 7, Via Carlo Felice, Genoa. Communica- tions regarding the enquiries should be sent to the secretary of the Chamber, the reference number being quoted:—A firm at Rome seeks agencies for United Kingdom manu- facturers and exporters of pig iron, tin, copper, lead, fire- bricks, etc., and coal (1,296). A Leghorn agent would represent United Kingdom shippers of chemicals, metals, coal, etc. (1,299). A Genoa agent is prepared to take up agencies on commission for United Kingdom manufac- turers and exporters of firebricks, etc., and coal (1,300).