List of Patents for new Inventions. 3ig 



'method of using plates and presses, and for combining 

 various species of work in the same plate for the kind of 

 printing usually called plate printing, designed for the ob- 

 jects of detecting counterfeits, for multiplying impressions, 

 and saving labour. — Oct. 1. 



To George Miller, of Panton-street, near the Haymar- 

 ket, musical instrument-maker, for his method of making 

 wind instruments commonly called military fifes, of sub- 

 stances never before used for that purpose. — Oct. J. 



To John Towill Rutt, of Goswell-street, in the county 

 of Middlesex ; John Webb, of Hoxton, in the said county; 

 and John Tretton, of the city of London, card manufac- 

 turers, for their improved apparatus to machines for making 

 fillet, sheet, and hard cards, such as are used for carding 

 wool, cotton, flax, silk, and all substances capable of being 

 carded. — Oct. 8. 



To Ebenezer Parker, of Highfield^ in the parish of Shef- 

 field, in the county of York, silver-plater ; and Francis 

 Cleeley, of Sheffield aforesaid, surgeons' instrument-manu- 

 facturer, for their method or plan of making an adjusting 

 bedstead on a double frame with a four- fold method, for the 

 relief of sick, lame, infirm and aged persons. — Oct. 8. 



To John Hazledine, of Bridgenorth, in the count v of 

 Salop, engineer, for his manifest improvements in the con- 

 struction of a plough for the cultivation of land. — Oct. 8. 



To George Hodson, of the city of Edinburgh, North 

 Britain, ash-manufacturer, for his improved method of se- 

 parating the alkaline salt from the acid as it exists in the 

 following substances, viz. kelp, black ashes, soaoer's salts, 

 spent leys, sosa natrose, j-ock salt, common salt, brine, sea 

 water, caput mortuum of aqua-fortis, caput mortuum of 

 oil of vitriol, and caput mortuum of salt used by bleachers, 

 being on a principle entirely new. — Oct. 8. 



To Charles Francis, of Phcenix Wharf, Nine Elms, in 

 4 the parish of Battersta, Surry, temper lime-burner; and 

 William Waters, of Princes-street, in the parish of St. 

 Mary, Lambeth, Surry, potter, for their improved method 

 of joining pipes. — Oct. 8. 



To Henry Stubbs, o,f Piccadilly, in the county of Middle- 

 sex, blind-maker, for his new grand imperial aulaeum, from 

 three to 18 or 20 feet wide, without seam, and to any length 

 or colour, for decorating the most super!) or useful room, for 

 such as drapery, curtains, and fringes, chairs, sofas, tables, 

 &c. or finished on one side only for ornamental hangings, 

 borders, and every other species of dt-joration. — Oct. 8. 



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