The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-01 00:00:00

IMPORTANT INTENTION.

Amongst the various enactments which have .received
the sanction of the legislature, of recent date, nose seems
more likely to affect the manufacturing industry. of Eng-
land than the new patent law which came into operation
on the Ist October last. Since then, owing to the facili-
ties afforded to inventive genius, and the comparative low
fees, upwards of .1;000 patents have been obtained, and
amongst them oneefirst introduced into this town by two
gentlemen from America, to which attention was promi-
nently drawn by lectures delivered at the Liverpool Poly-
technic and Archecological Societies, when a working
'hand machine, showing the advantages.cf the event on,
was exhibited. The invention is callar a ne ,v mode of
banding pulleys; and though applicable to all machinery
requiring rotary motion, as blowers, fans, rice
saw mills, cotton factories, &c., has as yet only been ap-
plied to hand-sawing machines, steam :saw mills, and
blowers. At both lectures, some of our-frst consulting
engineers and other practical gentlemen attended, and
considerable discussion.ensued amongst thorn. Mr. New-
lands, the engineer for the borough of Liverpool, at once
recommended it to the Health and Baths Committees,
both of whom have adopted it. It was universally admit-
ted that the machine was a perfect tool, indispensable
to alljoiners and carpenters, whereby wood either bard or
soft,.ef the thickness of half an inch to four inches, could
be cut by hand with the rapidity only previously attained
by steam-power; but, at the same time, considerable
doubt .was expressed whether the principle would be
equally.effective when applied to larger machinery, re-
quiring greater power. That .question is now satisfac-
torily answered. One of the ohiest and most respectable
firms in 'Liverpool engaged in cawing timber, Messrs. M.
Gregson and Son, has erected a machine to which the
principle is attached, for driving a circular saw of 3 feet
4 in diameter, and by this all that the inventor claimed is
fully established,—viz.' that, with a saving of steam-
power to the extent of from 25 to 50 per cent., a velocity
at least double., say 1,300 to 2,000 revolutions per minute,
,can be obtained, at the same time 'performing more work
'than by the old method of banding. Several other firms
liege purchased the right to use the invention, and no
doubt can be entertained that we shall shortly see it in
universal application. The saving of power in old-esta-
blished saw mills, where the machinery is already erected,
and the fires are fed by the sawdust, entailing little cost
for coals,—the advantages will evidently not be so appa-
rent as when new concerns are erected, or where applied
to blowere. fans, &c., in manufactories depending solely
upon coal for the production of steam. In all instances
the invention will secure a saving of power, increased
weed, with little or no addition of motive power, and
economy of space and belting : these are advantages so
important to the manufacturing public, that immediate
success for the spirited gentlemen who have introduced
it into this country is certain. The simplicity in this,
like most other useful and practically beneficial disco-
veries, is one of its strongest recommendations; and we
would recommend all who are interested in machinery,
(and who is not ?) to inspect either the working hand-
sawing machine, or the 3 feet 4 inch circular saw, at Mr.
Gregson's establishment.

TO GENTLEMEN DINING IN LIVERPOOL.
MR. FezNy begs to return his sincere thanks to his
numerous patrons and kind friends for the interest ex-
pressed by them in his behalf since disposing of his
share in the Merchant's Dining-rooms, Tithebarn-street,
established in 1848.

He has now great pleasure in informing them that, under
the auspices and through the interest of some of the prin-
cipal eentlemen on 'Change, he has succeeded in obtain-
ing suitable premises in Slater•court, Castle-street,which,
after undergoing extensive alterations and improvements,
will be opened in a style hitherto unequalled in Liverpool
for elegance and comfort.

Mr. Feeny is about visiting the principal hotels and re.
staurants, on the Continent, in order to carry out his ar.
rangements on the most perfect scale, so that his new es-
tablishment may be unequalled in every respect.
Mr. F. regrets that he has not been able earlier to corn.
mence operations; but, although several sites were kindly
offered to him, none presented features in every way so
suited to his object as the premises which he has now en.
gaged, and /the early opening of which will be duly an_
nounced.

SLATER-COURT, CA STLE.STREET,
(fourth:door, from Mr. Nizon's,)_corner of Dale-street,

February 24th;1853.

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trieen Liverpool, New York;. and Chigiiea,l lately estab.
fished by the Cunard Cob, was launched frOrathe building.
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