List of Scottish Patents, 219 



15. To William Holme Hegikbotham of Stockport, in the county of 



Chester, gentleman, for an invention of " certain improvements in the con- 

 struction of gas retorts." — 2Cth April 1838. 



16. To Pierre Armakd Lecomte de Foxtainemoreau of Charles's 

 Street, City Road, in the county of Middlesex, for an invention of " an im- 

 proved method of preventing the oxydation of metals,'' being a communica- 

 tion from a foreigner residing abroad." — 7th May 1838. 



17. To Thomas Ridgwat Bhidson of Great Bolton, in the county of 

 Lancaster, bleacher, for an invention of " certain improvements in the con- 

 struction and arrangement of machinery, or apparatus for stretching, mang- 

 ling, drying, and finishing woven goods or fabrics, and part or parts of which 

 improvements are applicable to other useful i)urposes." — 11th May 1838. 



18. To John Whyte of Haddington, in the county of Haddington, iron- 

 monger, for an invention of " certain improvements on stoves for producing 

 heated air, applicable to ovens, or where heated air is required." — 11th May 

 1838. 



19. To HippoLYTE Francois, Marquis de Bouffet Montauban, Colo- 

 nel of Cavalry, now residing in Sloane Street, Chelsea, in the county of 

 Middlesex, and John Carvalho de Medeirgs of Old London Street, in 

 the city of London, merchant, in consequence of a communication from a 

 foreigner residing abroad, for an invention of '* certain improvements in the 

 means of producing gas for illumination, and also in the construction of bur-, 

 ners for consuming gas/' — 14th May 1838. 



20. To William Neale Clay of West Bromwich, in the county of Staf 

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

 manufacture of iron."— 23d May 1838. 



21. To Charles Hullmandel of Great Marlborough Street, in the 

 parish of Saint James's, Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, lithogra- 

 phic printer, for an invention of " a new mode of preparing certain surfaces 

 for being corroded with acids, in order to produce patterns and designs for 

 the purpose of certain kinds of printing and transparencies." — 23d May 1838. 



22. To Jeremiah Grime of Bury, in the county of Lancaster, engraver, 

 for an invention of •' certain improvements in manufacturing wheels which 

 are applicable to locomotive engines, tenders, and carriages, and to running 

 wheels for other useful purposes, and also in the apparatus for constructing, 

 the same.'*— 23d May 1838. 



23. To John Upton of Battersea, in the county of Surrey, engineer, for 

 au invention of ** an improved method or methods of generating steam power, 

 and applying the same to ploughing, harrowing, and other agricultural pur- 

 poses, which method or methods is or are also applicable to other purposes 

 to which the power of steam is or may be applied." — 23d May 1838. 



24. To James Hill of Haley Bridge, in the county of Chester, cotton- 

 spinner, for an invention of " a certain apparatus applicable to machinery 

 used in the preparation of cotton and other fibrous materials for the purpose 

 of spinning.'' — 29th May 1838. 



25. To Edmund Shaw, of Fenchurch Street, in the city of London, sta- 

 tioner, in consequence of a communication made to him by a certain foreigner, 



