Litt of Patenii. 20lB 



abroad, of " certain improvements in the arrangement and construction of 

 ships' hearths, or apparatus for cooking, and for obtaining distilled or pure 

 water from salt or impure water." — 22d April 1840. 



14. To Thomas Aitken of Chadderton, in the county of Lancaster, ma- 

 nufacturer, for an invention of " certain improvements in the machinery or 

 apparatus for drawing cotton and other fibrous substances." — 22d April 

 1840. 



15. To Anoibr March Perkins of Great Coram Street, in the county 

 of Middlesex, civil-engineer, for an invention of " improvements in appara- 

 tus for transmitting heat by circulating water."— 6th May 1840. 



16. To Orlando Jones of the City Road, in the county of Middlesex 

 accountant, for an invention of " improvements in treating or operating on 

 farinaceous matters to obtain starch and other products, and in manufac* 

 turing starch."— 6th May 1840. 



17. To Francis Gybbon Spilsbury of Wallsall, Staffordshire, chemist, 

 Marie Francois Catharine Doetzer CoRBAuxof Upper Morton Street, 

 in the county of Middlesex, and Alexander Samuel Byrne of Montague 

 Square, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, for an invention of " im- 

 provements in paints or pigments, and vehicles, and in modes of applying 

 paints, pigments, and vehicles." — 7th May 1840. 



18. To Joseph Clinton Robertson of 166 Fleet Street, in the city of 

 London, patent agent, for an invention, communicated by a foreigner re- 

 siding abroad, for " an improved method or methods of obtaining mechanical 

 power from electro-magnetism, and the engine or engines by which the said 

 powef may be made applicable to motive purposes." — 7th May 1840. 



19. To John Wilson of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, lecturer 

 on chemistry, for an invention of " an improvement or improvements in the 

 process or processes of manufacturing the carbonate of soda." — 11th May 

 1840. 



20. To Antoine Blanc of Paris, in the kingdom of France, merchant, 

 and Theophile Gervais Bazille of Rouen, in the same kingdom, mer- 

 chant, now residing at Sablioniere's Hotel, Leicester Square, in the county 

 of Middlesex, for an invention, communicated by a foreigner residing abroad, 

 of " certain improvements in the manufacturing or producing soda and other 

 articles obtained by or from the decomposition of common salt, or chloride 

 of sodium."— 11th May 1840. 



21. To Robert Gill Ranson of Ipswich, paper-maker, and Samuel 

 Millpourn of the same place, foreman to the said Robert Gill Ranson, 

 for an invention of " improvements in the manufacture of paper." — 13th 

 May 1840. 



22. To James Knowles of Little Bolton, in the county of Lancaster, 

 coal-merchant, for an invention of *' an improved arrangement of apparatus 

 for regulating the supply of water to steam-boilers." — 13th May 1840, 



23. To Thomas Myerscough of Little Bolton, in the county of Lan- 

 caster, manager, and William Sykes of Manchester, in the county of Lan- 

 caster, machine-maker, for an invention of " certain improvements in the 

 construction of looms for weaving or producing a new or improved manu- 

 facture of fabric, and also in the arrangement of machinery to produce 

 other descriptions of woven goods or fabrics." — 13th May 1840. 



24. To Henry Trbwhitt of Newcastle-on-Tyne, in the county of Nor- 

 thumberland, Esq., for an invention of " certain improvements in the fabri- 

 cation of china or earthenware, and in the machixiery or apparatus applicable 

 tiiereio»"-»15tb May 1840. 



