Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1846

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Page 202 - Having thus fully described our improvements and their application, •what we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by letters patent, is...
Page 277 - ... as means of operating or giving motion to machinery which may be used to imprint signals upon paper or other suitable material, or to produce sounds in any desired manner for the purpose of telegraphic communication at any distances.
Page 262 - What I claim as my invention, and which I desire to secure by letters patent, is the...
Page 274 - Having thus fully described the nature of my improvement in the self acting brake for spring carriages, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the manner in which I have combined...
Page 82 - ... a written description of his invention, and of the manner of using, or process of compounding the same, 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 ma.ke, compound, and use the same.
Page 215 - I do claim as new, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the manner in which I have arranged and combined the respective parts, so as to constitute a new, useful, and improved machine for the cutting of book-binders...
Page 215 - ... what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by letters patent is, the manner in which I have arranged and combined with each other Ihe breaking rollers and the screen; the respective parts being formed and operating substantially as herein set forth and made known.
Page 251 - What I claim as my invention, is sustaining the roller next the house, by means of a cord passing over pulleys, and winding up with the cloth, conducted in the manner and for the purpose set forth; I also claim, in combination with the awning, the rollers, one for the awning, and the other for the sustaining cords, as described.
Page 251 - I do not claim the use of the galvanic current, or current of electricity, for the purpose of telegraphic communications, generally ; but what I specially claim as my invention and improvement, is making use of the motive power of magnetism, when developed by the action of such current or currents, substantially...
Page 264 - What we claim as our invention is the hereinbefore described means by which we are enabled to effect the above highly important improvement in surgical operations, viz. : by combining therewith the application of ether, or the vapor thereof, substantially as above specified.

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