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For the New York Coach-maker's Magazine. SCALE DRAFTING, AS APPLICABLE TO CARRIAGES.

BY JOSEPH IRving, of briDGEPORT, CONN.

Continued from page 159.

LESSON FIFTH.

In drawing a carriage of this description, commence, as in the last, by drawing the top line, A, and line B from your back, at right angles, then calculate from the top to the seat; from the seat to the bottom; from the seat-line mark 20 inches from the top of the back, and 3 inches from the back line B. From the bottom line c mark 24 inches for the depth of the rocker immediately under the front of the seat. Then on the seat-line mark 12 inches from line B; from this point mark 22 inches to the doorjoint. Having those points laid down, commence and sketch off the hind part of the body, and draw back your loop. From the loop calculate for the spring, beds, and axle, and strike the circle for the hind wheel; then draw the base-line. From this line mark the height you require the neck of the body for the front wheel to pass under, then continue sketching your body, and place the front seat in its proper position. From the seat to the dash mark off 24 inches. As I intend to devote one chapter in finding out the proper place for the front wheel, I will merely here state that for a 5-foot track draw a perpendicular line 26 inches from the centre of the arch, for the centre of the wheel, and then describe the circle for the front wheel, and lay off your reach. If you have studied the preceding articles on drafting, you will be able to make a sketch like the present one, by applying the scale to the draft to get all your sizes. This carriage completed will appear in the next number, in one of the plates, as it will make a neat engraving for that purpose.

INVENTIONS APPERTAINING TO COACH-MAKING AT HOME AND ABROAD.

AMERICAN PATENTED INVENTIONS. Dec. 14. SLED-BRAKE.-Albertus Larrowe, of Cohocton, N. Y. I claim the arrangement of lever, c, scrapers, e, and rods, f, operating, as described, for the purpose of a self-acting brake, and self-relieving and backing the sled as set forth.

CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES.-Gilbert Maynard, of Greenfield, Mass.: I do not claim broadly the employment of coil springs in connection with carriages, but I claim connecting the axle, C, with the tongue, N, by means of the peculiarly-formed rods, B, which also serve as springs for the vehicle, as shown and described.

ADJUSTABLE CARRIAGE SEATS.-Henry H. Potter, of Carthage, N. Y.: I do not confine myself to the precise arrangement shown, for various similar or equivalent plans might be devised for effecting the same result or adjustment of the seat, although, perhaps, the plan shown and described would be as simple and efficient as any.

I claim attaching the seat, B, to the body, A, of the vehicle, substantially as shown, or in any equivalent way, so as to admit of the seat being turned obliquely with the body, either to the right or left, for the purpose set forth.

ATTACHING CARRIAGE THILLS TO AXLES.-John W. Sibbet, of Cincinnati, Ohio: I claim the plate, C, and socket or tube, D, attached to the clip, B, in connection with the pin, G, attached to the thill, f, and the hook, H, provided with a shank, I, and nut, J, and ratchet, K, the shank of the hook being fitted in the tube, D, and the ratchet having a panel, I, catching into or engaged with it, the whole being arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

Dec. 21.-BRUSH.-Reuben Shaler, of Madison, Conn.: I am aware that brushes have been made in which the bristles have been attached to a cylinder in tufts, spirally arranged in rows around it; I make no claim to such a form of arranging the bristles.

I am also aware that bristles have been secured in position, after they have been attached to the handle, by pouring melted resin upon their ends, or by filling the end of the brush with glue. I do not claim these modes of cementing in the bristles.

I claim, as a new article of manufacture, a brush, the bristles of which are secured by winding them into a spiral groove, and fastening them in the manner described, or by winding them into cement, as set forth.

Dec. 28.-TRACE FASTENINGS.-Nil J. Reynolds, of Webster, N. Y.: I do not claim the face plate, A, or bolt and spiral spring, E, as new.

But, I claim, first, the formation of the eye, d, which receives the tongue, E, for the purpose described and set forth.

Second, I claim the tongue, E, in combination with the tube, c, spiral spring and bolt, E, which fastens tongue, E, in the eye, d, as described.

January 4.-MEANS OF OPERATING CARRIAGE BRAKES.-William Gourley and Isaac Krebs, of Winchester, Va.: We claim the construction and application of the compound or double lever, d d, e e, as described, and the crank-shaped rubber-rod or brake-bar, g h i, and T-shaped spring, L, when combined and operated, substantially as set forth and described.

MEANS OF OPERATING CARRIAGE BRAKES.-Isaac Krebs, of Winchester, Va. Having described the nature, construction and operation of my improvement, and being fully aware that rubber blocks and brakes have been applied to the hubs of wheels, and operated also by draw-rods and levers, therefore, such devices, in themselves, I do not claim.

But I claim the levers, h i j, with movable fulcrum, g g, the sliding adjusting connection-rod and tap, n n P, the slotted clip or fulcrum support, de f, and the spring rubber, r s, when constructed and arranged in combination, as before set forth and described.

SPOKE MACHINE.-N. Olney and C. H. Kellogg, of Amherst, Mass. We are aware that expanding cutter-heads have been previously used, and we, therefore, do not claim, broadly, such device.

But we claim the expanding cutter-heads, D, in connection with the guides or patterns, G G I, attached to the reciprocating carriage, F, in which the stick, A, to be operated upon, is placed; the guides or patterns, G G I, actuating the cutterheads respectively, by means of the mechanism, substantially as shown and described, for the purpose set forth.

We further claim, in combination with the expanding cutterheads, D, and the guides or patterns, G G I, on the carriage, F, the circular saws, Y Y, fitted in the frame, V, operated automatically by the carriage, F, substantially as set forth.

MACHINE FOR MAKING HAMES.-Henry Burt and James Y. Hedden, of Newark, N. J., patented February 17, 1857: I claim the forging of metal into useful forms by the employment of two or more pairs of rolls, having their surfaces cut away, and combined, and rotating and pressing the metal progressively into shape, being conducted from one pair of rolls to another through the agency of the guide.

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In the Senate of the United States, on the 17th ultimo, Senator Dixon, of Conn., submitted the following resolution, which was duly considered, and by unanimous consent agreed "Resolved-That the Committee of Patents and the Patent Office be instructed to inquire what legislation is necessary to enable the Commissioner of Patents to compel the attendance and examination of witnesses, and the production of books, contracts and vouchers, and a full disclosure by patentees of all facts upon which any claim for the extension or re-issue of a patent may be claimed, and that said Committee report by bill or otherwise."

The Humorists' Column.

"A little nonsense, now and then,
Is relished by the best of men."

"Now, Allie, dear, let me impress one thing upon your mind; don't be rude with the other little girls at the party." "And mother," replied the quick-witted pet, "let me impress one thing upon your mind; don't come away till the party's out."

MISS DUBOIS says that, the first time a coat-sleeve encircled her waist, she felt as if she was in a pavilion built of rainbows, the window-sills of which were composed of Eolian harps. A grand sensation, that.

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JENKINS youngest daughter adopted the fashion of expansive skirts, at a dangerous season. A violent cold was the consequence. "My dear," said Mrs. J., "aren't you afraid Jane Anne has got the consumption?" "No, my dear," said Jenkins, "it's nothing but the hooping cough.

A MODEL young lady, just graduated from a certain distant academy, remarked the other day: "I cannot deceive how the young gentlemen can drink to such a recess, when they know it is so conjurious to their institutions."

"You have lost your baby, I hear," said one gentleman to another. "Yes, poor little thing! It was only five months old. We did all we could for it. We had four doctors, blistered its head and feet, put mustard poultices all over it, gave nine calomel powders, leeched its temples, had it bled, and gave it all kinds of medicines; and yet, after a week's illness, it died."

A FEW evenings since, Jones resolved to "screw his courage to the sticking point, and make his destiny secure. ." Accordingly, he fell on his knees before the fair "Dulcinea," and made his passion known. Much to his surprise, she refused him out flat. Jumping to his feet, he informed her, in no choice terms, that "there were as good fish in the sea as ever were caught." Judge of the exasperation of our worthy swain, when she coolly replied: "Yes, but they don't bite at toads." Jones has learned a lesson.

A GREEN YANKEE.-The editor of the Knickerbocker says: "I should like you to have seen a specimen of a green Yankee who came down the Sound in a Hartford steamer with me.

"He had never been to York before, and he was asking questions of everybody on board the boat. However, if he was green as grass,' he was picking up a good deal of information, which will doubtless stand him in good stead hereafter. One of his comparisons struck me as being decidedly original:

"Up to Northampton,' said he, 'I took breakfast, and they taxed me tew shillin's! 'Twas a pooty good price, but I gin it to 'em. 'Twas enough, any way. Well, when I came down to Hartford, I took breakfast agin, next morning, and when I asked how much, they looked at me and said, half a dollar. I looked back at 'em pooty sharp, but I paid it. I sot down, and ciphered up inside how much it. would cost a fellow to board long at that rate; and I tell you what, I pooty soon found eout that 'fore the end of a month it would make a fellow's pocket-book look as if an elephant had stomped onto it! Sam Slick himself never employed a more striking simile."

Vol. I.

The Coach-Maker's Portrait Gallery.

For the New York Coach-maker's Magazine. BIOGRAPHY OF WM. D. ROGERS, ESQ.

(WITH PORTRAIT.)

Or the multiform subjects which engage the minds of thinkers at the present day, that of "success and failure in life," in its various phases, holds a conspicuous place, and, in view of this fact, and the truism, that the most impressive lessons of philosophy are taught us by living examples, the history of living men-whose web of success has been woven within memory, and, we may say, under the eye of the present generation-becomes not only a matter of intelligent interest, but of substantial importance, to all, and, more especially, to young men who are about to engage in pursuits for a living. Hence it is that these biographic sketches, presenting, in brief outline, the business career of their respective subjects, possess a peculiar value in the experimental landmarks they afford to younger

mariners on the sea of active life.

The subject of this sketch-WILLIAM D. ROGERS, Esq., of Philadelphia-whose portrait appears in the present number, was born in the city of Baltimore, in 1819, and is consequently, at this writing, about forty years of age. When quite young, his parents removed to the city of New York, and subsequently to Philadelphia, where their son William, after leaving school, was apprenticed to learn the business of coach-trimming. It is in the self-sacrificing energies of this period in the life of the boy that was sired the spirit of successful enterprise in the future man. The trials to which he was exposed, during the greater part of the six years of his apprenticeship, were such as only those who have been similarly situated can appreciate; yet, in the face of every obstacle, young Rogers persevered with a heroism that cared for nothing but the acquirement of a perfect knowledge of everything pertaining to his future business. Nor was this fidelity entirely lost upon his employer. Two years before the expiration of his term, he had so thoroughly mastered his profession, and evinced so much fidelity and vigilance in the absence of his employer, that the entire charge of the shop was given to him.

No. 10.

At the expiration of the time for which he was bound, having scrupulously discharged his obligations, to the letter, he determined to avail himself of whatever knowledge could be gained as a traveling journeyman; and, having learned that the coach-makers of New England were acknowledged to be the most skillful practitioners of the craft in this country, he at once set out for Boston, where he arrived early in 1841, carrying with him letters of introduction to the most celebrated coach-makers of that city. As the reader will remember, this was at a period when, under the depressing operations of the tariff, which was supplanted in 1842, the business of our country, and especially of our factories, was so prostrated as to make non-employment of operatives the rule, and employment the exception. After having made a manly effort to obtain a job in Boston, without success, Mr. Rogers, who had now attained his majority, at length procured employment for a short time in a shop at Roxbury, for which, however, as Mr. R. has been frequently heard to acknowledge with warm expressions of gratitude, he was mainly indebted to the good offices of Mr. Dennis, who was at that time the partner of Mr. Goddard, now one of the leading carriagebuilders of Boston. In addition to this act of disinterested kindness, Mr. Dennis took great pains to describe to his young applicant the manners of the people of New England, their mode of dealing, &c.; he also gave him a memorandum of the shops in that part of the State, all of which was of signal service to Mr. Rogers in his future tour through the Eastern States.

As has often been realized in the life of a worthy artisan, the first job led to numerous others. He had no sooner completed his Roxbury engagement than a door was open for him at Lynn, and subsequently at Amesbury and Newbury. He next went to Exeter, New Hampshire, where, as the writer has frequently heard Mr. Rogers relate, he passed among the snow-drifts one of the happiest, most eventful, and instructive winters of his life, working at his trade in a snug little shop, at the rate of seventeen dollars month per and his board. In the spring he left Exeter, but returned again the following year-the auspicious change wrought by the new tariff during this short interval being signally attested in the fact that, instead of returning to work at the rate of seventeen dollars per month, his new engagement in the same town, after the lapse of a single year,