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) ) MARINE REVIEW. ? 9 Illustrated Patent Record. SELECTED ABSTRACTS OF SPECIFICATIONS OF A MARINE NATURE--FROM LATEST PATENT OFFICE REPORTS. 613,622. DEAD-LIGHT. Alexander McDougall, Duluth, Minn., assignor to the American Steel Barge Company, New York, N. Y.. and West Superior, Wis. Filed Oct. 22, 1892. Serial No. 449,692. (No model.) In an improved dead-light for vessels, the combination of the plate A, having openings therein; the plate B, secured thereto by means of rivets and provided with openings corresponding with openings in the plate A, but of smaller diameter at their upper ends, so as to form shoulders d, dead-lights resting on said shoulders and held in place by cement; the wall of wainscoting C, of the vessel, and the glass pane E, in said wainscoting beneath the dead- lights. 513.523. SHIP'S HATCH. Alexander McDougall, Duluth, Minn., assignor to the American Steel Barge Company, New York, N. Y., and West Superior, Wis. Filed Oct. 22, 1892. Serial No. 449,690. (No model.) Claim: Ina vessel, a hatch-way cut in the plating A, thereof; an angle iron B, around said hatch-way and below the same; a strip C around said hatch-way and above thesame; bushings 6, tapped through said plating A, angle iron B, and strip C; anda hatch D, having a packing ¢, secured to the SS SS under side thereof all around; openings in said hatch between said packing and the edges thereof; and screw bolts a in said openings, and engaging with said bushings. 613,624. Alexander McDougall, Duluth. Minn., assignor to the American Steel Barge Com- pany, New York, N. Y., and West Superior, Wis. Filed Nov.4, 1892. Serial No. 450,- 992. (No model.) : Claim: The combination with a vessel provided with a casing therein, of a turret movable up and down within said casing, andcarrying a working deck or cabin, and co-incident openings or doors in said casing and said turret. 513,836. PADDLE-WHEEL FOR STEAMBOATS. Porter B. Speer, Muscatine, lowa. Filed Jan. 11.1893. Serial No, 457,996. (No model.) Claim: A paddle-wheel having a hub secured to the drive shaft formed with faceted ends; pairs of spokes cc having their inner ends secured to facets 6 on the opposite ends of the hub; paddles connecting the outer ends of the spokes in each pair and rigidly secured directly thereto flatwise, and the brace hoops attached tothe spokes at each side of the wheel. 613,865. ANCHOR FOR VESSELS. Ruben Zertuche, Saltillo, Mexico. Filed Feb. 27, 1893. Serial No. 463,897. (No model ) Claim: An anchor consisting of a single flat metal plate A, formed at one end with an integral extension A', the table B having a series of branches connected with the plate as shown, and another cable connected with the said integral extension. pS Annual Meeting of Canadian Vessel Owners, Special Correspondence to the MARINE REVIEW. Toronto, Ont., Feb. 8.--At the annual meeting of the Canadian Marine Association, held here on Thursday, the following officers were elected: President, W. A. Geddes of Toronto ; first vice-president, Thomas Marks of Port Arthur; second vice-president, R. O. McKay of Hamilton; secretary, treasurer, Capt. J. V. Trowell of Toronto ; executive committee, Messrs. J. B. Miller of Parry Sound, S. Neelon of St. Catherines, G. E. Jaques of Montreal, Capts. Crangle and Sylvester of Toronto, Capt. John Gaskin of Kingstyn, Capt. J. D. Fairgrieve and C. Myles of Hamilton. Among others present at the meeeting were Captains Ewart and Tripp and Messrs. A. M. Smith, J. H. G. Haggarty, W. W. Keighley and A. R. Christie of Toronto, D. G. Thompson of Montreal, A. D. McKay of Hamilton and Capt. Corson of Brighton. A series of resolutions adopted at the meeting asked for a reduction in the charge of 20 cents per gross ton in force at the government dry dock at Kingston. This rate is higher than the rate charged at other Canadian docks and it also exceeds the charges made by docks of the United States in lake cities. The resolutions also make the claim "that the law fixing a high rate of duty on repairs upon Canadian vessels in American ports is most unjust,and 513,523. sHIP's HATCH: 513,524. VESSEL. KA bears very hardly on the lake marine. Under the present state of affairsa vessel may be built in the Uni'ed States, brought into Canada and registered as a Canadian vessel, with a duty of only 10 per cent., while, should a Can- adian' vessel through necessity repair in an American port, the duty on such repairs is 25 per cent. Therefore it is resolved that this association urge upon the dominion government, that the marine interests should be enabled to make the necessary repairs in case of disaster, so as to place the vessel in a seaworthy condition, at the first available port, and that no duty should be imposed upon such repairs." In view 'of the prospects of the free admission of Canadian coal to the United States, through the operation of the Wilson bill, the associa- tion urges the dominion government to reciprocate in this matter, as, in the opinion of the association, such action would be of decided benefit to the man- ufacturing and marine interests of both countries. The government is again asked to build a grain elevator at Kingston, and the grain forwarders at that port will be asked to reduce the charges for discharging grain, on the ground that it is against their own interest to keep the tariff of charges above that in force at Buffalo and Erie. The secretary was instructed to write to the minister of marine, urging the great necessity of a light at the inner end of Burlington piers, and at the same time to draw his attention to the fact that the bell buoy at Niagara river was removed on Novy. 1, and also that no Canadian lights were lighted on Lake Superior on Noy. 30.