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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844. Excerpt: ... herein shewn and described, of constructing and floating the improved sea-and-wind barrier; but he claims the employment of portable sloping platforms or inclined planes, partially immersed in the water, in whatever manner, or of whatever materials such inclined planes may be constructed, or in whatever way they may be floated or buoyed up, in or on the water, and held in the required situations, when such portable and buoyant inclined planes are employed for the purposes or objects above stated.--Inrolled in the Rolls Chapel Office, August, 1842. Specification drawn by Messrs. Newton and Son. To Robert Faraday, of Wardour-street, Soho, in the county of Middlesex, gas-fitter, for improvements in ventilating gas-burners, and burners for consuming oil, tallow, or other matters, --being a communication.--Sealed 25th March, 1843. These improvements consist in ventilating the burners of gas, oil, or other lamps, by arranging the glass chimneys thereof in such a manner that the products of combustion will rise up an inner chimney, and, instead of passing into the atmosphere of the room or apartment in which the lamp is burning, will be caused to descend, by a downward draft, and be conducted, by a tube or enclosed passage, out of the room. The mode of applying this invention to all descriptions of lamps will be understood by reference to Plate V., in which fig. 1, represents an argand gas-burner, with the chimneys, shade, and tube thereof, in section, a, is the burner; b, the supply-pipe; c, and d, two glass chimneys; e, a ground-glass shade; f, the gallery for supporting the chimneys and shade; and g, the tube for carrying off the products of combustion. The upper end of the chimney d, is closed; and, for this purpose, the patentee prefers to use a sheet of mic..
