PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS, &c. TAKEN OUT PROM JUNE 20, 1816. John Burnett, for his convolving iron axle-tree for the reduction of friction and animal labour. John Hawkins Barlow, for certain improvements on tea-urns, tea-pots, tea-boards, &c. John Barlow, for a new cooking apparatus. John Towers, for a tincture for the cure of coughs, asthmas, &c. Henry Warburton, for a method of distilling certain animal, vegetable, and mineral substances, and manufacturing certain of the products. John Hague, for improvements in the method of expelling the molasses or syrup from sugars. Robert Salmon, for further improvements in the construction of machines for making hay. John Poole, for brass and copper plating, or plating iron or steel with brass or copper, and working the same into plates, bars, &c. John Chalklen, for improvements on valve water-closets. William Henry, for improvements in the manufacture of sulphate of mag nesia. John Dayman, for a method of coating iron, steel, and other metals, or mixtures of metals. John Welch, for an improvement in making rollers used in spinning wool, cotton, silk, flax, tow, or any other fibrous substance. Samuel Nock, for an improvement in the pans of locks of guns and fire arms. Robert Tripp, for a hussar garter with elastic springs and fastenings, and also elastic springs for pantaloons, &c. James Neville, for new and improved methods of generating power by means of steam or other fluids for dri ving or working all kinds of machine. ry, &c. Edward Biggs, for improvements on the machinery used in making or manufacturing of pans and slails of various kinds. William Moult, for improvements on his former patent for an improved method of acting upon machinery. Jean Samuel Pauly, for a machine for making of nails, screws, and the working all metallic substances. Robert Salmon, for improved instruments for complaints in the urethra and bladder. John Barton, for certain improvements in pistols. John Kirkman, for a method of applying an octave stop to piano-fortes. Louis Fauche Borel, for a method of making boots and shoes without sewing, so as entirely to keep out the wet. Lewis Granholm, for a method of making articles of hemp or flax, or of hemp and flax mixed, more durable than any such articles now manufactured. William Barley and Robert Hopwood Furness, for a method of obtain ing saccharine matter from wheat, barley, rye, oats, bear, or big. Joseph Gregson, for a new method of constructing chimneys, and supplying fires with fuel. Benjamin Smythe, for a new method of propelling vessels, boats, barges, and rafts of all kinds; and also other machinery, as mill-wheels, and other revolving powers. William Day, for various improve ments in or on trunks, and on the application of machinery, by means of which they will contract or expand at pleasure. William Snowden, for an apparatus to be applied to carriages to prevent them from being overturned. Simon Hosking, for a steam-engine upon a new construction for drawing water from mines for working different kinds of machinery, and for other purposes. George Washington Dickinson, for a method for preventing leakage from vessels containing liquids, and for preventing the admission of moisture into vessels or packages intended to be kept dry within. Joseph Heathcoat, for improvements upon machinery for making that kind of lace known by the names of bobbin net, or Buckingham lace net. William Percy, for a method of making thimbles. John Day, for improvements in the construction of piano-fortes and other keyed musical instruments. Robert Stirling, for diminishing the consumption of fuel; and in particular an engine capable of being applied to the moving machinery, on a principle quite new. Robert Raines Baines, for a perpetual log, or sea ambulator. William Russell, for an improvement upon cocks and vents for general purposes. John Barker, for an improvement in the means of acting upon machinery. Robert Ford, for a medicine for the cure of coughs, colds, asthmas, and consumptions. Walter Hall, for a method of making soft lead out of hard or slaglead. James Kewley, for improvements ia and on thermometers. Richard Wright, for improvements in the construction and propelling ships and other vessels. William Dean, for machinery for waxing calico, or any other cloth previous to the process of glazing. Samuel Brown and Philip Thomas, manufacturers of iron cables, for a chain manufactured in a peculiar way by a new process, and certain apparatus in performing the same. William Manton, for an improvement in the application of springs to wheel carriages. John Raffield, for certain improvements on, and additions to, his former patent for an apparatus to be attached to fire-stoves, &c. Daniel Wilson, for improvements in the process of boiling and refining sugar. Robert Dickinson, for a method of preparing or paving streets or roads for horses and carriages, so as to render them more durable. Joseph de Cavaillon, for improvements in the preparing, clarifying, and refining of sugar, and other vegetable, animal, and mineral substances. William Wall, for a horizontal escapement for watches. George Montague Higginson, for improvements in locks. Isaac Robert Mott, for a new in strument called the Sostimente Pianoforte. William Bundy, for machinery for breaking and preparing flax and hemp. James Atkinson, for improvements on lustres, chandeliers, lanterns, lamps, &c. and in the manner of conveying the gas to the same. William Clarke, for a contrivance to be called a safeguard to locks, by which they may defy the attempts of plunderers. Robert Hardy, for improvements in the manufacturing of cast-iron bushes, or pipe-boxes, for all kinds of carriagewheels. Richard Litherland, for improve ments in the escapement of watches. Richard Holden, for machines for producing rotatory and pendulous motions in a new manner. Daniel Wilson, for gas-light apparatus, processes, and philosophical in struments. William Henry Osborn, for a principle of producing cylinders of various descriptions. Urbanus Sartoris, for improvements in the construction and use of fire arms. Ludwig Granholm, for means of pressing vegetable and animal products. William Raybould, for an improve. ment applicable to fire-stoves, grates, and ranges. William Panter, for an improve ment to facilitate rotatory motion, and lessen or improve friction in wheel-carriages and machinery of various descriptions. John Winter, for a method of joining and combining horn and tortoiseshell together. David Wheeler, for a method of drying and preparing malt. Edward Nicholas, for a plough to cover wheat and other grain with mould when sown. Antonio Joaquin Friere Marroce, for a method of manufacturing an improved machine for calculating the longitude at sea. William Collins, for an improvement in the composition of a metal for the manufacturing into sheets or plates, and the application of it for the preservation of ships; and for the improvement of chain-pumps. Henry Wilms, for an artificial leg, arm, or hand, on an improved construction. John Gerard Colbert, for improvements in the method of making screws of iron, brass, steel, or other metals, for the use of all kinds of wood-work. John Walker, for an improved method of separating molasses or treacle out of muscovado, brown, or new sugar. Richard Williams, the elder, for improvements in the manufacturing of cards for the dressing of woollen cloths. Archibald Thomson, for a machine for cutting corks. William Owen, for a portable table, or box-mangle for smoothing linen, &c. William Bound and William Stone for a method of applying certain apparatus for converting the fuel for heating the retorts for gas-lights into coak or charcoal. Robert Salmon, for an apparatus for the more useful, pleasant, and econo. mic use of candles. Benjamin Cook, for an improved method of making rollers and cylinders, both solid and hollow. Philip Hutchinson Clay, of London, for a combination of machinery, for the purpose of repairing and improving turnpike and other roads and highways, and preserving and keeping the same in good order. Seth Hunt, Esq. United States, for an improved escapement for clocks and watches, and chronometers. Communicated to him by a foreigner residing abroad. Roger Didot, of Paddington, Middlesex, son of Peter Francis Didot, jun. late a celebrated printer in Paris, deceased, for certain improvements upon the machines already in use for making wove and laid paper in continued lengths on separate sheets. George Manwaring, Esq. Lambeth, Southwark, for improvements in steamengines. Seth Hunt, Esq. United States, for certain combinations of improvements in machinery for making pins. Communicated to him by a foreigner resi-ding abroad. Charles Wyatt, Middlesex, coppersmith, for a new method or methods of preventing any disadvantageous accumulation of heat in manufacturing and refining sugar. Benjamin Ager Day, Birmingham, for certain improvements in chimneyornaments, which said chimney-ornaments are so constructed, that they may be used for fire-screens, flower or sweet jars, time-piece cases, candlesticks, toast-stands, and various other purposes. Gabriel Tigere, Middlesex, for at process or method of manufacturing writing-paper in such a manner as that it will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, afterwards to extract or discharge any writing from such paper. John Parnall, Cornwall, brazier, for a method of tinning, or covering with tin, sheets or plates of copper, brass, or zink. Thomas Whittle, wharfinger, and George Eyton, Chester, for a new or improved kiln for the purpose of drying malt, wheat, oats, barley, pease, beans, and other substances, by means of steam, assisted by air. Thomas Wedlake, Essex, agricultural implement maker, for certain improvements on ploughs. David Brewster, Edinburgh, Doctor of Laws, for a new optical instrument, called the Kaleidoscope, for exhibiting and creating beautiful forms and patterns of general use in all the ornamental arts. Samuel Brown, London, commander R. N. for an improvement in the construction of a bridge by the formation and uniting of its component parts in a manner not hitherto practised. William Henry Simpson, mechanic, Bickington, Devonshire, for certain improvements in the machinery for the spinning of wool, cotton, and other fibrous substances. Richard Farmer Brain, brewer, Salford, Lancaster, for an improvement or apparatus calculated to obtain or generate gas in a more economical manner than heretofore from coal, or any other article, material, or substance; for lighting or heating houses, manufactories, or other places where light or heat is required. Henry Tritton, Esq. Clapham, Surrey, for an apparatus for distil ling. Thomas Aspinwall, Esq. London, for an elliptic valve-pump box. Reuben Phillips, Exeter, for a method of purifying gas for the purpose of illumination. George Wyke, Esq. Bath, Somersetshire, and Edward Shorter, mechanic, Surrey, for certain improvements in the construction of wheel-carriages. Peter Hamlin, merchant, Surrey, for an improvement or improvements in the making a cement or composition for ornaments and statues, and for making artificial bricks, or an imitation of bricks, tiles, and stones, and joining and cementing the same, and for erecting, covering, and decorating buildings, internally and externally; and also an improvement or improvements in the mixing, working, and moulding of the said cement or composition upon any sort of materials, or in working and moulding whole and entire erections and substances therewith. Frederick Brunton, London, for a mode of employing silk or other materials in the making of hats and bon nets. Louis Felix Valet, London, for a new ornamental surface to metals, or metallic compositions. George Stratton, ironmonger, Middlesex, for a method of saving fuel, by improvements in fire-places, and more effectually heating and ventilating buildings. Charles Attwood, window-glass manufacturer, London, for a certain im. provement, or improvements, in the manufacture of window-glass, of the kind or description commonly wrought or fabricated into crown-glass, or German sheet-glass; and also in certain process or processes, in the manufac. ture of crown-glass. John Hawks, iron-founder, Durham, for a method of making iron-rails, to be used in the construction of rail ways. Ludvig Granholm, London, Captain in the royal navy of Sweden, for a method or methods, process or processes, mean or means, of preserving such animal and vegetable products or substances, separately, or mixed together, as are fit for the food of man, and for such a length of time as to render them fit for ships and garrison stores. Anthony Hill, iron-master, Glamorganshire, for improvements in the working of iron. John Dickinson, Esq. Hertfordshire, for a method of manufacturing, by means of machinery, paper for copperplate-printing, also paper for writing, drawing, letterpress-printing, and of a thicker sort for boards, and similar in texture and substance to card-boards, or pasteboards, and certain improvements in his patent machinery for manufacturing and cutting paper. Dennis Maccarthy, Middlesex, for certain improvements on ploughs of various descriptions. John Perks, engineer, Westminster, for improvements in the apparatus for manufacturing, purifying, and storing gas. Thomas Taft, whipmaker and bridle-cutter, Birmingham, for an improvement in bridle-bits, and leather sliding-loop, to act with reins and bits. Samuel Mersey, jun. laceman, Middlesex, for a mode or method of weaving, making, and manufacturing of livery-lace, and coach-lace. Edmund Richard Ball, paper-manufacturer, Surrey, for a method of manufacturing paper, of superior strength and durability, for bills or notes, or other uses requiring strength. James Bounsall, tailor, Middlesex, for improvements in the machinery used for tarring, reeling, and twisting of yarn, and forming the lissims or shands of cables, or other cordage, and manufacturing rope of every size. William Gildart and John Servant, house-carpenters, Leeds, Yorkshire, for improvements in mangles. Jeptha Avery Wilkinson, Esq. United States, for improvements in the application of machinery for the purpose of manufacturing of weavers' reeds by water or other power. George Medhurst, engineer, Middlesex, for an arrangement of implements to form certain apparatus, which he denominates the Hydraulic Balance, applicable to mechanical and hydraulic purposes. John James Alexander Maccarthy, Westminster, for a road or way for passage across rivers, creeks, and waters, and from shore to shore thereof, without stoppage or impediment to the constant navigation thereof, and across ravines, fissures, clefts, and chasms; and for a method or methods of constructing arches or apertures for the |