210 List of Patents. 



in machinery or apparatus for dressing stones for grinding corn, grain,; 

 and other substances." — l7th April 1846. 



22. William Mather, of Salford, near Manchester, in the county of 

 Lancaster, and Colin Mather, of the same place, millwrights and en- 

 gineers, *' improvements in metallic pistons." — 21st April 1846. 



23. Edouard Auguste Desire Guichard, of Rue des Jenueurs, 

 Paris, in the kingdom of France, " improvements in printing calico and 

 other fabrics." — 21st April 1846. 



24. Bennet Woodcrofts, extension of a patent for the period of six 

 years, of " certain improvements in the construction and adaptation of a 

 revolving spiral paddle for propelling boats and other vessels in water." 

 —21st April 1846. 



25. William E coles, of Blackburn, in the county of Lancaster, 

 power-loom manufacturer, William Crook, of Livesey, hand-loom 

 weaver, and William Lancaster, of Blackburn, in the county of Lan- 

 caster, power- loom weaver, '* certain improvements in looms for weav- 

 ing."— 24th April 1846. 



2Q. John Barsham, of Long Melford, in the county of Suifolk, manu- 

 facturer of bitumen, " improvements in the manufacture of mattresses, 

 cushions, brushes, and brooms, and in machinery for preparing certain 

 materials applicable to such purposes." — 27th April 1846. 



27. John Nott, of the city of York, gentleman, "certain improve- 

 ments in the means of communicating intelligence from one place to 

 another."— 29th April 1846. 



28. William Price Struve, of Swansea, civil-engineer, *' improve- 

 ments in ventilating mines." — 29th April 1846. 



29. Julian Van Oost, of Genbrugge, near Ghent, but now of Osna- 

 burg Street, Regent's Park, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, " im- 

 provements in treating seed, and in preparing materials used for ferti- 

 lizing land, and for aiding vegetation." — 29th April 1846. 



30. George Hinton Bovill, of Millwell, and Robert Griffiths, of 

 Havre, in the Kingdom of France, engineers, " improvements in appa- 

 ratus applicable to the working of atmospheric and other railways, canals, 

 and mines, and improvements in transmitting gas for the purpose of 

 lighting railways and other places." — 29th April 1846. 



31. Peter Carmichael, manager for Baxter Brothers and Company, 

 flax-spinners and linen manufacturers in Dundee, " improvements in 

 hackling or dressing flax, hemp, and other fibrous substances, and im- 

 provements in machinery for rubbing, stretching, and equalizing the 

 breadth of cloth made from flax, hemp, jute, and other fibrous sub- 

 stances." — 6th May 1846. 



32. John Lloyd Bullock, of Conduit Street, Hanover Square, 

 chemist, being a communication from abroad, " improvements in the 

 manufacture of quinine." — 6th May 1846. 



33. John Blyth, of St Anne Limehouse, in the county of Middlesex, 

 " an improved mode of closing the orifices of bottles or other vessels ap- 

 plicable to inkholders." — 7th May 1846. 



34. Samuel Cunliffe Lister, of Manningham, near Bradford, in the 

 county of York, gentleman, " improvements in carding and combing 

 wool."— 11th May 1846. 



35. To Alexander Parkes, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, 

 iirtist, •' improvements in the preparation of certain vegetable and animal 



