372 List of Patents. 



Lancaster, manufacturer, *' certain improvements in the manufacture of 

 woollen cloth, and cloth made from wool and other materials, and in 

 machinery or apparatus for manufacturing the same." — iVth March 

 1852. 



46. To John Ramsbottom, of New Mills, in the county of Derby, 

 engraver, " certain improvements in machinery, or apparatus for measur- 

 ing and registering the flow of water, and other fluids or vapours, which 

 machinery or apparatus is also applicable to registering the speed of, and 

 distance run by vessels in motion, and also in obtaining motive power 

 and other similar purposes." — 19th March 1852. 



47. To William Pidding, of the Strand, in the county of Middlesex, 

 gentleman, " improvements in mining operations, and in the machinery 

 or apparatus connected therewith." — 22d March 1852. 



48. To Emanuel Charles Theodore Crontelle, manufacturer, of 

 Rheims, in the republic of France, " certain improvements in machinery 

 or apparatus for preparing woollen threads, and other filamentous sub- 

 stances for weaving." — 22d March 1852. 



49. To Edward Mosley Parkins, of Mark Lane, in the city of 

 London, " improvements in the manufacture of cast-metal pipes, retorts, 

 or other hollow castings." — 22d March 1852. 



50. To Charles Barlow, of 89 Chancery Lane, London, Esq., " im- 

 provements in rotary engines ;" being a communication. — 22d March 

 1352. 



51. To William Symington, of Trafalgar Place, West Hackney 

 Road, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman; and Charles Finlayson, 

 of Manchester, engineer, and John Reid, of the same place, gentleman, 

 "improvements in flues, and in heating air, and in evaporating certain 

 liquids by heated air." — 22d March 1852. 



52. To John Wallace Duncan, of Grove End Road, Saint John's 

 Wood, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, " improvements in 

 engines for applying the power of steam, or other fluids, for impelling 

 purposes, and in the manufacture of appliances for transmitting mo- 

 tion."— 22d March 1852. 



53. To James Joseph BrUnet, of the Canal Iron- Works, Poplar, in 

 the county of Middlesex, engineer, " certain improved combinations of 

 materials in ship-building ;" communicated to him by Lucien Armand, 

 of Bordeaux, France. — 22d March 1852. 



54. To Richard Archibald Brooman, of the firm of J. C. Robert- 

 son and Company, of 166 Fleet Street, in the city of London, patent 

 agents, " improvements in presses and pressing, in centrifugal machinery, 

 and in apparatus connected therewith , part or parts of which are applicable 

 to various useful purposes ;" being a communication. — 24th March 1852. 



55. To Colin Mather, of Salford, in the county of Lancaster, machine- 

 maker, and Ernest Rolffs, of Cologne, in the kingdom of Prussia, 

 gentleman, " certain improvements in printing, damping, stiffening, 

 opening, and spreading woven fabrics." — 24th March ^ 852. 



