List of Patents. 211 



county of York, machine-maker, — " certain improvements in machinery 

 for preparing and spinning flax and other fibrous substances." — 23d 

 September 1845. 



2. John Kershaw of Ramsbottom, in the county of Lancaster, cotton 

 spinner, — " certain improvements in machinery or apparatus used in the 

 preparation of cotton or other fibrous substances for spinning." — 24th 

 September 1845. 



3. To Joseph Francois Laubereau, of Paris, in the kingdom of 

 France, gentleman, — " improvements in obtaining power." — 24th Sep- 

 tember 1845. 



4. To Charles Pooley, of Chorlton-upon-Medlock, in the county of 

 -Lancaster, cotton -spinner, — " improvements in certain machines used in 

 preparing to be spun, and in spinning cotton wool and other fibrous sub- 



-stances." — 24th September 1845. 



5. To MosEs Poole, of the Patent Office, London, gentleman, being 

 H communication from abroad, — *' improvements in rails for railways," — 

 :g4th September 1845. 



6. To Bennet Woodcroft, of Manchester, engineer, — " improve- 

 ments in propelling vessels." — 24th September 1845. 



7. To William Cormack, of Dalglish Street, Commercial Road, in 

 the county of Middlesex, chemist, — " improvements in purifying gas." 

 .rr-24th September 1845. 



8. To James Taylor, of Lochwinnoch, in the county of Renfrew, car- 

 pet and rug manufacturer, — '' certain improvements in the manufacture 

 of carpets, rugs^ and piled fabrics." — 25th September 1845. 



9. To James Murray, residing at Garnkirk, county of Lanark, Scot- 

 land, partner of and acting for his co-partners of the Garnkirk Coal 

 Company, — " certain improvements in the manufacture of bricks, tiles, 

 pipes, or other articles made of ground or pulverized fire-clay or other 

 clay, by pressure." — Ist October 1845. 



10. To Samuel Knight, of Spotland, near Rochdale, in the county of 

 Lancaster, bleacher, — " certain improvements in machinery or apparatus 

 for scouring, washing, cleansing, and other similar purposes."^ — 2d Oc- 

 tober 1845. 



11. Xo William Broughton, of New Basinghall Street, in the city 

 ^f London, millwright, — " improvements in machinery, or apparatus for 

 grinding grain, drugs, colours, or other substances." — 2d October 1845. 



12. To Dominic Frick Albert, of Manchester, in the county of Lan- 

 caster, consulting manufacturing chemist, doctor of laws, — " a certain 

 improved application of materials to the manufacture of soap." — 2d 

 October 1845." 



13. To William Henry Ritchie, of Lincoln's Inn, in the county of 

 Middlesex, gentleman, being a communication from abroad, — " improve- 

 ments in carding engines." — 2d October 1845. 



14. To James Knowles junior, of Bolton-le-Moorsi in the county of 

 Lancaster, coal-merchant, and Alonzo Buonaparte Woodcock, of Man- 

 chester, in the said county, engineer, — *' certain improvements in ma- 

 <?hinery, or apparatus to be employed for raising coal or other matters, 

 from mines, which improvements are also applicable to raising or lower- 

 ipg men, or animals, or other similar purposes." — 6th October 1845. 



15. To John Mercer, of Oakenshaw, in the county of Lancaster^ 



