List of Patents. 393 



Kerr, power-loom cloth manufacturers, ** improvements in weaving by 

 jacquard looms by power." — 5th January 1847. 



14. To William Air Foster, leather-merchant and bootmaker, in 

 Glasgow, in the county of Lanark, " an improved mode of making belts 

 (for driving machinery and for other like purposes), traces, reins, and 

 other articles of leather, pelt, or parchment, and also certain apparatus 

 or machinery therein applicable." — 7th January 1847. 



15. To Henry Const antine Jennings, of No. 6 Cumberland Terrace, 

 Regents Park, in the county of Middlesex, practicat chemist, *' a new me- 

 thod, or apparatus, or machine, for the better or more economic evapora- 

 tion of fluids or liquids containing crystaline or other matters to be con- 

 centrated or crystalized." — 12th January 1847. 



16. To Lionel Campbell Goldsmid, of Rue Magador, Paris, Esq., 

 being a communication from abroad, " improvements in applying rudders 

 to ships and other vessels." — 21st January 1847. 



17. To John Buchanan, of Queen Square, Westminster, gentleman, 

 '* certain improvements in the construction of ships or vessels, and in 

 propelling thereof." — 21st January 1847- 



18. To Samuel Canliffe Lister, of Manningham House, in the pa- 

 rish of Bradford, in the county of York, Esquire, " improvements in pre- 

 paring and combing wool." — 25th January 1847. 



19. To Edward Cobbold, of Millford, in the county of Suffolk, clerk, 

 M; A., " improvements in the preparation of peat, rendering it applica- 

 ble to several useful purposes, particularly to fuel." — 25th January 



1847. 



20. To Matthew Gibson, of Wellington Street, in the borough and 

 county of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, machine-maker, " a machine for reap- 

 ing, cutting grass, and other similar purposes." — 26th January 1847- 



21. To Henry Bessemer, of Baxter House, Old Saint Pancras Road, 

 in the county of Middlesex, engineer, '* certain improvements in the 

 manufacture of glass, and in the machinery and apparatus connected 

 therewith, and also in silvering and coating glass, parts of which im- 

 provements are applicable to the manufacture of tin-foil, and thin sheets 

 of other metal or alloys of metal." — 28th January 1847. 



22. To John Thompson Carter, of Drogheda, in the county of the 

 town of Drogheda, in Ireland, flax-spinner, '* improvements on machinery 

 for crushing, bruising, and preparing flax, hemp, and other fibrous 

 materials requiring such treatment." — 29th January 1847. 



23. To Richard Walker, of Rochdale, in the county of Lancaster. 



