List of Patents, 493 



22. To Fennell Allman, of 9 Salisbury Street, in the county of 

 Middlesex, surveyor, " certain imi^rovements in apparatus for the pro- 

 duction and diffusion of light." — 14th August 1843. 



23. To William Bates, of Leicester, fuller and dresser, " improve- 

 ments in the dressing and getting up of hosiery goods and other looped 

 fabrics made from merino, lamVs wool, worsted, cotton^ silk, and other 

 yarns."— 16th August 1843. 



24. To John Laikd, of Birkenhead, in the county of Chester, ship- 

 builder, *' improvements in the construction of steam and other vessels." 

 — IGth August 1843. 



25. To Gregory Seale Walters, of Coleman Street, in the City of 

 London, merchant, being a communication from abroad, " improvements 

 in the manufacture of chlorine and chlorides, and in obtaining the oxides 

 and peroxides of manganese in the residuary liquids of such manufac- 

 ture."— 16th August 1843. 



2Q. To John Barnes, of Church, in the county of Lancaster, manu- 

 facturing chemist, and John Mercer, of Oakenshaw, in the county of 

 Lancaster, calico-printer, '^certain improvements in the manufacture of 

 articles used in printing and dying cotton, silk, woollen, and other fab- 

 rics."— 19th August 1843. 



27. To John Burns Smith, late of Salford, in the county Palatine of 

 Lancaster, but now of Stockport, in the county of Chester, cotton- 

 spinner, ** certain improvements in machinery, for preparing, carding, 

 roving, and spinning cotton and other fibrous substances." — 21st August 

 1843. 



28. To James Overend, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, 

 gentleman, being a communication from abroad, "improvements in 

 printing fabrics with metallic matters, and in finishing silk and other 

 fabrics."— 22d August 1843. 



29. To John Wood, of Parkfield, Birkenhead, in the county of Ches- 

 ter, merchant, " certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for af- 

 fording additional or artificial buoyancy to sea-going and other vessels, 

 or for lessening their draught of water, and which said improvements 

 are also applicable to raising vessels or other heavy bodies, and for se- 

 curing or supporting the same." — 23d August 1843. 



30. To William Wylam, of the borough and county of Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne, merchant, being a communication from abroad, "an artifi- 

 cial composition, which, variously modified, may be applied in preparing 

 fuel from coal and other substances, or as a cement, or as a substitute 

 for stone, or as a coating' for metals and other substances." — 28th August 

 1843. 



31. To James Greenshields, of Monteith Row, Glasgow, gentle- 

 man, " improvements in the manufacture of compositions for covering 

 roads, streets, and other ways and surfaces, and in rendering fabrics 

 waterproof, to be used for covering buildings, bales, packages, and for 

 other useful purposes." — 3l8t August 1843. 



