

List of Patents for ?iew Inventions, 23| 



To William Whitmore, of Dudmarton, Salop, esq. for a 

 magnetic toy to facilitate the teaching of children to spell, 

 read and cypher, in any tongue, with ease to the teacher, 

 pleasure to the children, and proportional expedition. — - 

 Aug. 14. 



To Peter Durand, of Hoxton Square, merchant, in con- 

 sequence of a communication made to him by a certain 

 foreigner residing abroad, for a method for preserving ani- 

 mal food, vegetable food, and other perishable articles, a 

 long time from perishing or becoming useless. — Aug. 25. 



To James Walker, of Wapping, in the county of Mid- 

 dlesex, ship-chandler, for his machine or vessel for the safe 

 conveyance of gunpowder, and for its preservation from 

 injury by damp. — Sept. 7. 



To James Weldon, of the county and city of Litchfield, 

 engineer, for his further new improvements on a mill for 

 grinding bark and other articles. — Sept. 7. 



To Joseph C. Dyer, of Boston, State of Massachusetts, 

 one of the United States, now residing in the city of West- 

 minster, merchant, who, in consequence of a communication 

 made to him by a certain foreigner residing abroad, is be- 

 come possessed of a machine for cutting or removing all 

 the various kinds of furs which are used in hat-making 

 from the skins or pelts, and for cutting the said skins or 

 pelts into strips or small pieces. — Sept. 7» 



To David Mathews, of Rotherhithe, engineer, for his 

 improved method, of constructing and building locks with 

 a groin or Gothic conic arch. Also an improved form of 

 the gates, and an improved method of opening and shutting 

 the same. — Sept. 7» 



To Joseph Johnson, of the county of Surry, gentleman, 

 for his new mode of communicating intelligence from one 

 apartment of a house to another by means of machinery or 

 apparatus, which he denominates a domestic telegraph. — 

 Sept. 17. 



To Jonathan Varty, of Liverpool, coach-maker, for his 

 improvements in the axle-trees of carriages. — Sept. 17. 



To Peter Brown, of Henrietta-Street, Covent-Garden, 

 Middlesex, gentleman, for his new construction of buoys 

 for ships or vessels, and for mooring-chains or similar pur- 

 poses. — Sept. 26. 



To Richard Seaton, of Berwick-Street, Middlesex, liquor- 

 merchant; and Thomas Rice, of Whitecross-Street, Mid- 

 dlesex, spring roasting-jack-maker, for their new burner 

 upon an improved construction, applicable to all kinds of 

 lamps. — Sept. 26- 



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