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PATENTS FOR MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL INVENTIONS. 



New Patents sealed in February, 1831. 



To Robert Winch,of Gunpowder-alley, 

 Size-lane, London, printers' joiner, for 

 certain improvements in printing ma- 

 chines. January 29th ; 6 months. 



To Joshua Bates, Esq., of Bishops- 

 gate-street Within, London, for certain 

 improvements in refining and clarifying 

 sugar. January 31st ; G months. 



To John Charles Schwieso, Regent- 

 street, Middlesex, musical instrument 

 maker, for certain improvements on 

 pianofortes and other stringed instru- 

 ments. February 2d ; 6 months. 



To William Sumner, of Hose, Leices- 

 ter, lace maker, for certain improve- 

 ments in machinery for making lace, 

 commonly called bobbin net. February 

 3d ; 6 months. 



To George Gorham, gardener, Thread- 

 needle-street, London, gentleman, for 

 an improved rolling machine. Febru- 

 ary llth; 6 months. 



To William Westley Richards, Bir- 

 mingham, Warwick, gun maker, for cer- 

 tain improvements in the touch-holes 

 and primers suitable to percussion guns, 

 pistols, and all sorts oi fire-arms fired 

 upon that principle. February llth; 

 2 months. 



To John Gunby, George-street, Sand 

 Pitts, Birmingham, artist, for an im- 

 proved method or methods of combining 

 glass with metals or other substances 

 applicable to various useful and orna- 

 mental purposes. February llth ; 2 

 months. 



To Claude Guillotte, Crispin-street, 

 Spitalfields, Middlesex, machine maker, 

 for an improvement in the rack, appli- 

 cable to the battons of looms or machi- 

 nery for weaving plain or figured rib- 

 bons. February llth ; 6 months. 

 To William Morgan, Esq., York- 



terrace, Regent's-park, for certain im- 

 provements in steam engines Febru- 

 ary 14 ; 6 months. 



To James Thomson, of Spencer-street, 

 Goswell-street-road, Middlesex, Gent., 

 for certain improvements in making or 

 producing printing types. Feb. 14th ; 

 6 months. 



To Thomas Bailey, of Leicester, 

 framesmith, and Charles Bailey, of the 

 same place, framesmith, for certain im- 

 provements in machinery for making 

 lace, commonly called bobbin net Feb. 

 15th ; 6 months. 



To William Payne, of New Bond- 

 street, Middlesex, watch and clock 

 maker, for an improved pedometer for 

 the waistcoat pocket upon a new and 

 very simple construction,. Feb. 15th ; 

 2 months. 



List of Patents which having been granted 

 in the month of March, 1817, expire 

 in the present month of March , 1831. 



I. William Henry Osborn, Acton, 

 Warwick, new method of producing cy- 

 linders. 



. Daniel Wilson, Dublin, gas light 

 apparatus and philosophical instruments. 



II. Urbanus Sartoris, London, im- 

 proved fire-arms. 



. William Baybould, London, im- 

 proved fire grates. 



. Ludwig Granholm, London, me- 

 thod of preserving animal and vegetable 

 products. 



William Panter, Bath, method of 

 facilitating rotatory motion. 



18. John Winter, Bristol, method of 

 combining horn and tortoise-shell by heat 

 and pressure. 



21. Daniel Wheeler, London, method 

 of drying and preparing malt. 



MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



WE enjoyed during nearly a week, those south-west and westerly breezes for 

 which we prayed in our last. They were of signal benefit to the crops, and consi- 

 derably efficient in bringing the heavy wet soils into a culturable state. Since, 

 however, the wind has taken its former course of constant and suddenly repeated 

 transitions from east to west, and north to south, with equal vicissitudes of tempe- 

 rature. Those changes have had rather an unfavourable effect upon the wheats, 

 particularly the latter sown and weak. The frost, for two days severe in the ex- 

 treme, immediately became mild, and deserted us no doubt for the present season ; 

 though in the north of Scotland it is reported to have been of two months' dura- 

 tion. The fall of snow was immensely great, during the short time it lasted, and 

 has been attended with much damase, and some loss of human life, both here and 

 in Ireland. The floods occasioned bv its melting have occasioned much loss in 



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