Remarks by the editor

26 FOSTER and ~a'oua'~NnuRt~rt's Garments b~/ Felling-. 1st. A carding machine without Lheroller, and the doffer covered with cards so as to bring the wool f~om the machine in a continued web. ~fido The web is thrown on an apron ~'of teatherl or other material, which revolves round a platform~ Or table~ with rollers to each end. Sd. From this apron tile web is wound upona pattern of the arti~ des to be constructed~ (liagonally, so as to cross the wo01 in,every: di:rection~ until a proper thickness of the web is obtained, and is: then taken from the pattern, and hardened, either by steam, or hea~ and is then fulled or planked, to a suitable consistence~ and dressed and finished, with or without colouring. , • ~ ,, ~( '4th. Patterns of the articles may be made of wood, and suitalJi~ adapted to each garment. Pantaloorls are made in two entire leg"s and upper parts, requiring asingle seam ~to ~eonnect them and tbrn/ the article. Stockings, petticoats~ are mlade:entire~ and other at;ti, ¢le-s according to patterr~. i.',i, ~:'. S,~!:~i/;~:)~! .~: "

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JA~ES STOUTENBURGH.

17emarks by the Editor.--The foregoing specification seems to proceed, upon the idea . that . the . thing . proposed . . to .be done is perfectly new m every particular, yet there is not any thing m It-different from the mode in which hat bodies have beer~ set up, There is, it is true, some di/liculty in knowing what is intended to be patented, yet if we take the words of tile specitication itself, it is for the method of making tile various articles mentioned; in this lease there must be some novelty in tile machinery, upon which to found a claim; thi~re, however, is no drawing accompanying the description, whi/:h there iiiUst have been, had tile patent been taken for ar~thing admittin of drawings By the term method, therefore, w e must not uriderStand the employment of a macliine. Is the me~hod felting? thisis not only old in itself, but the mode of laying the~woo! upon a piece serving as a pattern is so also. There remains, we thi~l~

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