Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts: Devoted to Mechanical and Physical Science, Civil Engineering, the Arts and Manufactures, and the Recording of American and Other Patent Inventions

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Franklin Institute, 1830 - Meteorology
Vols. 1-69 include more or less complete patent reports of the U. S. Patent Office for years 1825-1859. cf. Index to v. 1-120 of the Journal, p. [415]
 

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Page 389 - Nicole, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are...
Page 242 - I do hereby declare this to be my specification of the same, and that I do verily believe this my said specification doth comply in all respects fully and without reserve or disguise with the proviso in the said hereinbefore in part recited letters patent contained ; wherefore I hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said invention.
Page 110 - ... is equal to that which a heavy body would acquire in falling through a space equal to the depth of the...
Page 313 - ... in such full, clear, and exact terms, as to distinguish the same from all other things before known, and to enable any person, skilled in the art or science of which it is a branch, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make, compound, and use the same.
Page 191 - It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions of the enthusiastic speculatist will be realized, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or treenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their adoption or general improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense...
Page 94 - Pennsylvania, have invented or produced •a new and original design for a composition in alto relievo, and I do hereby •declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same.
Page 153 - ... the several modes in which he has contemplated the application of that principle, or character by which it may be distinguished from other inventions; and shall particularly specify and point out the part, improvement, or combination, which he claims as his own invention or discovery.
Page 395 - I claim such process whether the whole be effected by hand or manual labour, or by the use and adaption of any machinery to the purpose ; And I further declare that although I have in the foregoing description exhibited my invention of giving a metallic surface to cotton, silk, linen, and other fabrics, by the employment of tin only yet the same process may be used with corresponding results, whether that metal or silver, lead, bismuth or antimony, either separately or in combination, is or are the...
Page 194 - The fire in the boiler shall then be lighted, and the quantity of fuel consumed for getting up the steam shall be determined, and the time noted. The tender-carriage, with the fuel and water, shall be considered to be, and taken as part of the load assigned to the engine.
Page 417 - ... inclined planes, the Locomotive Engine would be the power employed. Indeed, the feeling at the moment, was very prevalent, that it was immaterial whether the Engine travelled up an inclined plane, or on a level...

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