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On a cheap and simple crane
354 CaZiico Prinder?s
Drying
Stove.-Cheap
and SiVZ$lkCrantz.
of causing al1 the doors of his premises to Shut Of theirbwn accord, hinder the cold air from entering, and thus counteracting Order to
in
by applying to each door a very the effect of his heating a[JpratUS9 simple spring of his contrivance, and which he termed his bc&sta s]Jring, from its bein.= formed in a manner somewhat similar to the ancient Roman warlrke machine of that name. This spring consister! of a piece of rqx tied together at its ends, and formmg a coil, whrch was secured &WC? and below by being passed through two staples driven into the door frame, behind the door; the four parts of the rope received within them, at their middle part, a square piece OF wood, two inches thick and four in&es long, tapered away towards its ends, and having four grooves made at each end of it, for the ropes to lodge in. aIong its edges A mortise hole was also made through the middle of the block, in which one end of a Aat bar of wood could be placed, after the ropes had been twisted together, by turnin, w the block round within them; and the other, or longer end of- the wooden bar, then acted against the door by the untwisting of the ropes, so as to close it exactly in a These cheap substitutes similar manner to the usual door springs. for the ordinary door springs, had long continued in use, and most CTe&. Rg, completely amvwered their purpose.
same. THE editor has examined the above mentioned stove. It w-~.s. heated by means of a red hot cast-iron cockIe, placed in the middle of its ground Hoor; but its other ,floors consisted of flat ret&.&c;tfed arches of brick-work, through the apertures in which the heat &r-culsted through the whole building_. He was almost afraid at first sight, to step upon this seemingly rusecure species of floor, but was afterwards convinced that his fears were without any proper foundation, and that the fI00rS were abundantly strong for their requEred purpose. The YOWS of ZI~CIICS abu ttd against up+$C plates Of cast_ Iron, with projecting Iedges underneath thcm~ on each side, u110n which the bricks were also lodged; and tllese Iron plates were sup_ ported upon cast-iron piliars, the wlhole being thus aIs0 rendered completely fire proof. ‘i%e interstices were formed try the bricks Ilot tOUCflillg each other E?ZdWU?JS, although ing: against each (lther sidewuys, to insure
they
Ilad
a
S~&cientbear_
their firmness and stability, ft must have been a bold undertakin g on the part of the architect who first constructed such a floor! r_JfJ-
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152~the sume, IN a cotton warehouse several stories high, at Manchester, &II-, Gill examined a cheap and simple crane, the construction of which he thu-s describes. IIt consisted of what is termed a rag-wheel, or
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if
S’cCltCh
~#%Li&:y,
IT is a remarkablc fact, says m?,jol‘-~Cnel-*~l S~tcWnrf, in iIll afficle On the prevention of smuggling In tllC ‘E-figl~l;~rlcip, in[icrfCd in the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, that a spirit of’ the best nudity and Ravour has been distilled by men with their ap11arat1.1~at thr: a& of a burn, and, perhaps, changing weekly from f-ear of a discover ; malting on the open heath far up the hik, and hurrying on the whoTB process to avoid detection; yet, with aI1 these disadvantages, they received the highest price in the market for tllc spirit thus manyfactured. The quantity might, perhaps, be less than what could be produced by a more regular process of diStiliation; but then the fiquor was so much superior in flavour and quality, as to compensste Several of these lncn liavc been emfor the deficient qtiantity. ployed, by way of experiment, in a Iicensed distil\crg011 the cstatc of Garth, with directions to proceed in their own “zy, onlz to he regulated by the iaws under the control of an of%iccr; yet, WI& tha advantage of the best utensils, the purest water, and the best fne& they produced a spirit quite inferior in quality and flaTour to what they made under the shelter of a roclf, or in a den, and it ~IJ~~~@~ neither the same price nor character m the market[ QuaT-f_ Jonm, 43@.
Drying
Stove.-Cheap
and SiVZ$lkCrantz.
of causing al1 the doors of his premises to Shut Of theirbwn accord, hinder the cold air from entering, and thus counteracting Order to
in
by applying to each door a very the effect of his heating a[JpratUS9 simple spring of his contrivance, and which he termed his bc&sta s]Jring, from its bein.= formed in a manner somewhat similar to the ancient Roman warlrke machine of that name. This spring consister! of a piece of rqx tied together at its ends, and formmg a coil, whrch was secured &WC? and below by being passed through two staples driven into the door frame, behind the door; the four parts of the rope received within them, at their middle part, a square piece OF wood, two inches thick and four in&es long, tapered away towards its ends, and having four grooves made at each end of it, for the ropes to lodge in. aIong its edges A mortise hole was also made through the middle of the block, in which one end of a Aat bar of wood could be placed, after the ropes had been twisted together, by turnin, w the block round within them; and the other, or longer end of- the wooden bar, then acted against the door by the untwisting of the ropes, so as to close it exactly in a These cheap substitutes similar manner to the usual door springs. for the ordinary door springs, had long continued in use, and most CTe&. Rg, completely amvwered their purpose.
same. THE editor has examined the above mentioned stove. It w-~.s. heated by means of a red hot cast-iron cockIe, placed in the middle of its ground Hoor; but its other ,floors consisted of flat ret&.&c;tfed arches of brick-work, through the apertures in which the heat &r-culsted through the whole building_. He was almost afraid at first sight, to step upon this seemingly rusecure species of floor, but was afterwards convinced that his fears were without any proper foundation, and that the fI00rS were abundantly strong for their requEred purpose. The YOWS of ZI~CIICS abu ttd against up+$C plates Of cast_ Iron, with projecting Iedges underneath thcm~ on each side, u110n which the bricks were also lodged; and tllese Iron plates were sup_ ported upon cast-iron piliars, the wlhole being thus aIs0 rendered completely fire proof. ‘i%e interstices were formed try the bricks Ilot tOUCflillg each other E?ZdWU?JS, although ing: against each (lther sidewuys, to insure
they
Ilad
a
S~&cientbear_
their firmness and stability, ft must have been a bold undertakin g on the part of the architect who first constructed such a floor! r_JfJ-
4112 cc a‘Ywq
crnd
&7lple
C!mnc.
152~the sume, IN a cotton warehouse several stories high, at Manchester, &II-, Gill examined a cheap and simple crane, the construction of which he thu-s describes. IIt consisted of what is termed a rag-wheel, or
ib%Tl?~fUC~UTC
if
S’cCltCh
~#%Li&:y,
IT is a remarkablc fact, says m?,jol‘-~Cnel-*~l S~tcWnrf, in iIll afficle On the prevention of smuggling In tllC ‘E-figl~l;~rlcip, in[icrfCd in the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, that a spirit of’ the best nudity and Ravour has been distilled by men with their ap11arat1.1~at thr: a& of a burn, and, perhaps, changing weekly from f-ear of a discover ; malting on the open heath far up the hik, and hurrying on the whoTB process to avoid detection; yet, with aI1 these disadvantages, they received the highest price in the market for tllc spirit thus manyfactured. The quantity might, perhaps, be less than what could be produced by a more regular process of diStiliation; but then the fiquor was so much superior in flavour and quality, as to compensste Several of these lncn liavc been emfor the deficient qtiantity. ployed, by way of experiment, in a Iicensed distil\crg011 the cstatc of Garth, with directions to proceed in their own “zy, onlz to he regulated by the iaws under the control of an of%iccr; yet, WI& tha advantage of the best utensils, the purest water, and the best fne& they produced a spirit quite inferior in quality and flaTour to what they made under the shelter of a roclf, or in a den, and it ~IJ~~~@~ neither the same price nor character m the market[ QuaT-f_ Jonm, 43@.