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NEW PATENTS. 



G. E. Harpur and B. Baylis, of Weedon, Northamptonshire, engi- 

 neers ; for a method of impelling machinery. — March 18. 



R. Badwell, the younger, of Leek, Staffordshire, silk-manufacturer, 

 for certain improvements in the throwing, twisting, or spinning of 

 sewing-silk, Organzine, Bergam, and such other descriptions of silk as 

 the said improvements may be applicable to. — March 18. 



H. H. Price, of Neath Abbey, Glamorganshire, engineer, being one 

 of the people called Quakers, for an apparatus for giving increased 

 effect to paddles used in steam vessels, applicable to rotary movements, 

 by which they are generally worked. — March 18. 



W. Crighton and J. Crighton, both of Manchester, Lancashire, 

 machine-makers ; for an improvement in the construction of the cylin- 

 ders used in carding-engines, and other machines employed in the pre- 

 paration for the spinning of cotton, flax, wool, silk, and mixtures of the 

 said materials or substances. — March 18. 



W. Bailey, of High Holborn, Middlesex, ironmonger, and T. 

 Home, the younger, of Belmont-row, Birmingham, Warwickshire, 

 brass-founder, for improvements in the manufacture of metallic window 

 frames, and other metallic mouldings, applicable to the ornamenting of 

 furniture. — March 18. 



T. Rogers, of Buckingham- street, Strand, Middlesex, Esq. for an 

 improvement on stays and bodices which improvement is also applica- 

 ble to boots.— March 18. 



W. Hope, of Jedburgh, Roxburgh, North Britain, ironfounder, for 

 certain improvements in the construction of printing-presses.-— 

 March 18. 



T. Hancock, of Goswell Mews, Saint Luke, Old-street, Middlesex, 

 patent cork manufacturer, for an improvement in the preparation, for 

 various useful purposes, of pitch and of tar. — March 22. 



T. Wickham, of Nottingham, lace-manufacturer, for a compound 

 paste and liquid, for improving and colouring lace and net, and all 

 other manufactured articles made of flax, cotton, wool, silk, or any 

 other animal or vegetable substance. — March 24. 



W. Jessop, of Butterley Hall, Derbyshire, ironmaster, for an elastic 

 metallic piston, or packing of pistons, to be applied either externally 

 or internally to cylinders. — March 27. 



W. Warcup, of Darlford, Kent, engineer, for an improvement in the 

 construction of a machine called a mangle. — April 3. 



J. Frost, of Finchley, Middlesex, builder, for improvements in the 

 process of calcining, and preparing calcareous and other substances, 

 for the purpose of forming cements. — April 3. 



C. Pope, of Bristol, spelter-maker and metal-merchant, for a compo- 

 sition of certain metals to be used for the purpose of sheathing the bot- 

 toms of ships and vessels, and of roofing the tops of houses, or for any 

 other purpose to which such composition may be applicable. — April 8. 



D. W. Acraman, of Bristol, iron-manufacturer, and W. Piper, of 

 the Cookley Ironworks, Worcestershire, iron-manufacturer, for certain 

 improvements in the preparation of iron, for the better manufacture of 

 chains aud chain-cables.— April 12. 



