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15. To Andrew Smith of Princess Street, in the parish of St Martm in 

 the Fields, and county of Middlesex, engineer, for " certain improvements in 

 engines for exerting power for driving machinery, and for raising and lower- 

 ing heavy bodies."— 28th April 1836. 



16. To John Burn Smith of Salford, in the county of Ijancaster, cotton- 

 spinner, and John Smith of Halifax, in the county of York, dyer, for " a 

 certain method or methods of tentering, stretching, or keeping out cloth to 

 its width, made either of cotton, silk, wool, or of any other fibrous substances, 

 by machinery." — 28th April 1836. 



17. To Robert Copland of Brunswick Crescent, Caniberwell, in the 

 county of Surrey, Esq., for " improvements upon patents already obtained 

 by him for combinations of apparatus for gaining power." — 6th May 1836. 



18. To William Preston of Sunnyside, in the county of Lancaster, ope- 

 rative calico-printer, for " certain improvements in printing of calico and 

 other fabrics."— 10th May 1836. 



19. To Henry Sharpe of Broad Street Buildings, in the city of London, 

 merchant, for " improvements in sawing wood and other materials," commu- 

 nicated by a foreigner residing abroad. — 10th May 1836. 



20. To James Cropper of the town and county of the town of Notting- 

 ham, lace manufacturer, and Thomas Brown Milnes, of Lenton Works, in 

 the county of Nottingham, bleacher, for " certain improvements in machi- 

 nery or apparatus for embroidering or ornamenting bobbin-nett, or lace or 

 cloths, stuiF, or other fabrics made from silk, cotton, wool, flax, or hemp,'* 

 communicated by a foreigner residing abroad, and improvements made by 

 themselves 10th May 1836. 



21. To Jacob Perkins of Fleet Street, in the city of London, engineer, 

 for " improvements in the apparatus and means for producing ice, and in cool- 

 ing fluids."— 13th May 1836. 



22. To William Gossage of Stock Prior, in the county of Worcester, 

 chemist, and Edward White Benson of Wichbold, in the same county, 

 chemist, for " an improvement or improvements in the process of making or 

 manufacturing ceruse or white lead." — 20th Ma}'^ 1 836. 



23. To Henry Adcock of Summer Hill Terrace, Birmingham, in the 

 county of Warwick, civil-engineer, for " certain improvements in the loading 

 and unloading of ships, brigs, schooners, and other vessels, at docks and quays, 

 and in streams and rivers, and for the more facile transit and stowing of mer- 

 chandize taken from ships, brigs, schooners, and other vessels at docks and 

 quays, with a view to abridge human labour and economise expenses — 24th 

 May 1836. 



24. To John Whiting of Rodney Buildings Row, Kent Road, in the 

 county of Surrey, Doctor of Medicine, for " an improvement or improve- 

 ments in preparing certain farinaceous foods." — 24th May 1836. 



25. To Samuel Draper of Basford, in the county of Nottingham, lace- 

 maker, for " improvements in producing plain or ornamental weavings." — 

 24th May 1836. 



26. To George, Marquis of Tweeddale, for " an improved method of 

 making tiles for draining, soles, house-tiles, and flat roofing tiles." — 25th 

 May 1 836. 



27. To Thomas Grahame of Nantes, in the Kingdom of France, but now 

 of Suffolk Place, Pall Mall, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, for " cer- 

 tain improvements in passing boats and other bodies from one level to ano- 

 ther."— 26th May 1836. 



28. To Jeremiah Horsfall and James Kenyon, both of Addingham, 

 in the county of York, cotton spinners, for " certain improvements in engines 

 used for carding cotton, wool, and other fibrous substances."— 13th June 1 836. 



29. To Francis Pettit Smith of Hendon, in the county of Middlesex, 

 farmer, " for an improved propeller for steam and other vessels." — 15th June 

 1836. 



30. To George Holworthy Palmer, of the Canal Grove, Old Kent 

 Road, civil-engineer, for " an improvement in the purification of inflamma- 

 ble gases, and an apparatus by which the improvement is applied, such appa- 

 ratus being also applicable to other useful purposes."— 16th June 1836. 



