202 List c/ Patents, 



tion " of certain improvements in looms for weating Vaiious kinds of cloth." 

 —18th March 1840. 



2. To William Maltby junior, of Mile-End, chemist, and Richard 

 CuERTOx, brassfounder, of Percy Street, in the county of Middlesex, for 

 an invention of " improvements in extracting and concentrating the colour, 

 tanin, and other matters contained in vegetable and animal substances." — 

 18th March 1840. 



3. To Sir William Burnett of Somerset House, in the county of Mid- 

 dlesex, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, for 

 an invention of " improvements in preserving animal, vegetable, woollen, 

 and other fibrous substances, from decay." — 25th March 1840.- 



4. To Peter Lomax of Little Bolton, in the county of Lancaster, weaver, 

 for an invention of " certain" improvements in looms for weaving'." — 26tii 

 March 1840. 



5. To Peter Bancroft of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, mer- 

 chant, and John MacInnes of the same place, manufacturing chemist, for 

 an invention of " an improved method of renovating or restoring animal 

 charcoal, after it has been used in certain processes or manufactures, to 

 which charcoal is now generally applied, and thereby recovering the pro- 

 perties of such animal charcoal, and rendering it again fit for similar uses." 

 — 6Lh April 1840. 



6. To William Hunt of the Portugal Hotel, Fleet Street, in the city of 

 London, manufacturing chemist, for an invention of " improvements in the 

 manufacture of potash and soda, and their carbonates." — 11th April 1840. 



7. To Thomas Robinson Williams of Cheapside, in the city of London, 

 gentleman, for an invention of '' certain improvements in the manufacture 

 of woollen and other fabric or fabrics, of which wool or fur form a principal 

 component part, and in the machinery employed for eiFecting that object." — 

 11th April 1840. 



8. To Henry Philip Rouquette of Norfolk Street, Strand, in the 

 county of Middlesex, merchant, for an invention, communicated by a fo- 

 reigner residing abroad, for an invention, " being a new pigment." — 18th 

 April 1840. 



♦ 9. To Pierre Auguste Ducote of No. 70 Saint Martin's Lane, in the 

 county of Middlesex, lithographer, for an invention of " certain improve- 

 ments in printing china, porcelain, earthenware, and other like wares ; and 

 for printing on paper, calicoes, silks, woollens, oilcloths, leather, and other 

 fabrics ; and for an improved material to be used in printing."— 20th April 

 1840. 



10. To William Stone of Winsley, in the county of Wilts, gentleman, 

 for an invention of " improvements in the manufacture of wine." — 20th 

 April 1840. 



11. To John Inkson of Ryder Street, St James's, in the county of Mid- 

 dlesex, gentleman, for an invention, communicated by a foreigner residing 

 abroad, of " improvements in apparatus for consuming gas for the purposes 

 of light."— 20th April 1840. 



12. To Jean Francois Victor Fabien of King William Street, in the 

 city of London, gentleman, for an invention, communicated by a foreigner 

 residing abroad, of " improvements in rotary engines to be worked by steam 

 or other fluid."— 20th April 1840. 



13. To Matthew Uzielli of King William Street, in the city of Lon- 

 dQU, merchant^ for aa, invention, communicated by a foreignei; residing 



