List of Patents. 209 



List of Patents granted for Scotland from VI th March to 

 19th June 1851. 



1. To William Eccles, of Walton le Dale, in the county of Lan- 

 caster, cotton-spinner, ** certain improvements in looms for weaving." — 

 17th March 1851. 6 months. 



2. To Edward Lloyd, of Dee Valley, in the county of Merioneth, 

 North Wales, engineer, ** certain improvements in steam-engines, which 

 improvements are in part or on the whole applicable to other motive 

 power." — 17th March 1851. 4 months. 



3. To Richard Archibald Brooman, of the firm of J. C. Robertson 

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

 '* improvements in purifying water, and preparing it for engineering, 

 manufacturing, and domestic purposes;*' being a communication — 17th 

 March 1851. 6 months. 



4. To Herbert Taylor, of No. 46 Cross Street, Finsbury, in the 

 county of Middlesex, merchant, " certain improvements in the manufac- 

 ture of carbonates and oxides of barytes and strontia, sulphur or sulphu- 

 ric acid from the sulphates of barytes and strontia, and for consequent 

 improvements in the manufacture of carbonates and oxides of soda and 

 potassa;" being a communication. — 19th March 1851. 6 months. 



5. To David Davies, of Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, in the 

 county of Middlesex, coachmaker, " certain improvements in the con- 

 struction of wheel-carriages, and in appendages thereto." — 24th March 

 1851. 4 months. 



6. To Thomas Charles Xavier de Colmar, Chevalier de la Legion 

 d'Honneur, of Paris, in France, " an improved calculating machine, 

 which he calls Arithmometer." — 25th March 1851. 4 months. 



7. To William Milner, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, 

 patent safe and safety-box manufacturer, " certain improvements in 

 safes, boxes, or other depositories for the protection of papers or other 

 materials from fire." — 26th March 1851. 6 months. 



8. To John Stephens, of the Albynes, in the parish of Astley, Abbots, 

 in the county of Salop, gentleman, " certain improvements in thrashing- 

 machinery." — 28th March 1851. 6 months. 



9. To James Cheetham, the younger, of Chadderton, near Oldham, in 

 the county of Lancaster, manufacturer, " certain improvements in the 

 manufacture of bleached, coloured, or parti-coloured threads or yarns." 

 - 2d April 1851. 6 months. 



10. To William Bogqett, of St Martin's Lane, in the county of 

 Middlesex, gentleman, and William Smith, of Margaret Street, in the 

 said county, engineer, " improvements in producing and applying heat, 

 lighting, and in engines to be worked by steam or other elastic fluid, 

 which engines are also applicable as pumps." — 3d April 1851. 6 

 months. 



VOL. LI. NO. CI. — JULY 1851. 



