396 List of Patents. 



List of Patents granted for Scotland from 22d June to 

 22d September 1851. 



1. To John Swindells, of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, 

 manufacturing chemist, " certain improvements in obtaining products 

 from ores and other matters containing metals, and in the preparation 

 and application of such products for the purposes of bleaching, printing, 

 dyeing, and colour-making." — 25th June 1851. 



2. To John Emmanuel Lightfoot, of Broad Oak, Accrington, in the 

 county of Lancaster, calico-printer, and James Higgin, of Cobourg Ter- 

 race, Stretford Road, Manchester, in the same county, chemist, " im- 

 provements in treating and preparing certain colouring matters to be 

 used in dyeing and printing." — 26th June 1851. 



3. To Robert Hayes Easum, of Commercial Road, Stepney, in the 

 county of Middlesex, rope-maker, " improvements in the manufacture of 

 rope."— 1st July 1851. 



4. To George Fredekick Muntz, junior, of Birmingham, in the 

 county of Warwick, gentleman, " improvements in furnaces applicable 

 to the melting of metals for making brass, yellow metal, and other com- 

 pound metals." — 2d July 1851. 



5. To Thomas Allan, of the city of Edinburgh, gentleman, " certain 

 improvements in Electric Telegraphs, and in apparatus connected there- 

 with."— 2d July 1851. 



6. To Thomas Hawkins, of Inverness Terrace, Bishop's Road, Bays- 

 water, in the county of Middlesex, oilman, "certain improvements in 

 brushes."— 16th July 1851. 



7. To John Brazil, of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, 

 gentleman, " certain improvements in dyeing, and in the preparation of 

 dye woods."— 21st July 1851. 



8. To Perceval Moses Parsons, of Robert Street, Adelphi, in the 

 county of Middlesex, civil engineer, " improvements in cranes, capable 

 of being used on railways and on parts of railways." — 21st July 1851. 



9. To John Platt, of Oldham, in the county of Lancaster, engineer ; 

 and Richard Burch, of Hey wood, in the same county, manager, *' certain 

 improvements in looms for weaving." — 21st July 1851. 



10. To William Johnston, of the Offices for Patents, 47 Lincoln's- 

 Inn-Fields, in the county of Middlesex, and 166 Buchanan Street, 



