Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents, Volume 1

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1866
 

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Page 247 - I also claim inclosing all the moving parts of an instrument in the surrounding casing through which the water, or other fluid, passes to be measured, constructed, and operating in the manner and for the purpose substantially as described.
Page 3 - Patents, of the 10th ultimo, and asking my official opinion on the question stated by him. The Commissioner states the question to be: " Can an inventor, under the 6th section of the act entitled 'An act in addition to an act to promote the progress of science and the useful arts...
Page 383 - It was admitted, in the bill of exceptions, that evidence was given on the trial, by the defendant, tending to show that prior to the plaintiff's invention, boarded or pebbled grain or finish, described in his patent as produced by him, had been produced on leather by subjecting it to the pressure of a short revolving cylinder of steel or other metal, having the required design or figure engraved or sunk on its periphery, and rolling over a table upon which the leather was placed ; and that the said...
Page 230 - This invention consists of a gas engine, in which the explosive force of the gaseous mixture acts " upon an intermediate column •". of water, and thus indirectly upon the piston. The cylinder, in " which the piston works, is separated from the tubes wherein the " explosion takes place ; the power resulting from the dilatation " of the gases is employed to expel a certain quantity of water •" from the explosion tube and to produce a vacuum, the effect of " which is added to that due to the condensation...
Page 319 - ... and applied together substantially in manner and so as to operate as described. [The air space here referred to is that by which the hearth of the furnace and other parts are cooled and prevented from destruction by the intense heat.] "We also claim the arrangement and combination of the air chamber or space D, or the same and the space E, with the furnace, regenerators, conduits, and damper chests applied thereto, the whole being substantially as specified. [The air chamber D admits the atmospheric...
Page 273 - ... in the manner and for the purpose substantially as herein set forth ; said compound constituting a new manufacture.
Page 461 - ... the whole being constructed and arranged in the manner and for the purpose substantially as set forth.
Page 464 - Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by letters patent is
Page 300 - B', constiucted and operating in the manner and for the purpose substantially as set forth.
Page 425 - I; the spiral flanch and valve operating in the manner and for the purpose substantially as herein shown and specified.

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