318 New Patents. [Oct. 



Article XV. 



NEW PATENTS. 



W. Wigston, of Derby, engineer, for certain improvements on 

 steam-engines. — Aug. 1 1 . 



H, C. Jennings, Esq. of Devonshire-street, Marylebone, Middlesex, 

 for an instrument or machine for preventing the improper escape of 

 gas, and the danger and nuisance consequent thereon. — Aug. 14. 



R. Rogers, of New Hampshire, in the United States of America, but 

 now of Liverpool, Lancashire, master-mariner and ship-owner, for his 

 improved lanyard for the shrouds and other rigging of ships and other 

 vessels, and an apparatus for setting up the same. — Aug. 18. ^ 



* J, Malam, of Wakefield, Yorkshire, engineer, for his mode of apply- 

 ing certain materials hitherto unused for that purpose, to the construct- 

 ing of retorts and improvements in other parts of gas apparatus.— 

 —•Aug. 18. 



T. Leach, of Friday-street, London, merchant, but now residing at 

 Litchfield, Staffordshire, for his improvements in certain parts of the 

 machinery for roving, spinning, and doubling wool, cotton, silk, flax, 

 and all other fibrous substances. — Aug. 18. 



R. Higgins, of Norwich, shawl-manufacturer, for his improved 

 method of consuming or destroying smoke. — Aug. 18. 



G. Diggles, of College-street, Westminster, for his improved bit 

 for riding horses, and in single and double harness. — Aug. 19. 



E. Elwell, of Wednesbury Forge, Staffordshire, spade and edge tool 

 maker, for certain improvements in the manufacture of spades and 

 shovels. — Aug. 20. 



M. A. Robinson, of Red Lion-street, Middlesex, grocer, for certain 

 improvements in the mode of preparing the vegetable matter com- 

 monly called pearl barley, and grits or groats made from the corns of 

 barley and oats, by which material when so prepared, a superior muci- 

 laginous beverage may be produced in a few minutes. — Aug. 20. 



J. Goode, of Tottenham, Middlesex, engineer, for certain improve- 

 ments in machinery, tools, or apparatus, for boring the earth for the 

 purpose of obtaining and raising water. — Aug. 20. 

 H; B. Rotch, Esq. of Furnival's Inn, London, for his improved lid for the 

 upper masts of ships and other vessels. —Aug. 21. 



J. Surrey, of Battersea, Surrey, miller, for his method of applying 

 heat for producing steam and for various other purposes, whereby the 

 expense of fuel will be lessened. — Sept. 4*. 



W. Woodman, of York Barracks, veterinary surgeon of the 2d Dra- 

 goon Guards, for his improved horse's shoe, which he denominates 

 the beveled heeled expanding shoe. — Sept. 11. 



B. Donkin, of Great Surrey-street, Surrey, engineer, for his disco- 

 very or invention on the means or process of destroying or removing 

 the fibres from the thread, whether of flax, cotton, silk, or any other 

 fibrous substance composing the fabrics usually termed lace net, or any 

 other denomination of fabric, where holes or interstices are formed by 

 such thread in any of the aforesaid fabrics. — Sept. 11. 



