«16 List of Patents, 



process or processes for obtaining or manufacturing certain substances or 

 compounds applicable in bleaching, and for rendering useful certain pro- 

 ducts which result therefrom, also improvements in the apparatus employed 

 therein, and in bleaching, and for the application thereto of a certain agent 

 not hitherto so employed ; which improvements are also in whole or in part 

 applicable to other uses." — 15th Nov. 1838. 



31. To RoBEiiT Beart, of Huntingdon, miller, for an invention of "im- 

 provements in apparatus for filtering liquids." — 27th Nov. 1838. 



32. To AuGTisTE Victor Joseph Baron D'Asda, of Millman Street, 

 Bedford Row, in the county of Middlesex, in consequence of a communica- 

 tion made to him by a certain foreigner residing abroad, for an invention of 

 ** improvements in producing or affording light, which he intends to deno- 

 minate a solar light."— 29th Nov. 1838. 



33. To John Barnett Humphreys, civil engineer, for an invention of 

 " improvements in marine and other steam-engines." — 29th Nov. 1838. 



34. To Richard Lamb, of David Row, Southwark, gentleman, for an in- 

 vention of " improvements in apparatus for supplying atmospheric air in the 

 production of light and heat."— 29th Nov. 1838. 



35. To James Timmins Chance, of Birmingham, in the county of War- 

 wick, glass manufacturer, for an invention of " improvements in the manu- 

 facture of glass."— 29th Nov. 1838. 



36. To Paul Chappe of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, spinner 

 and manufacturer, for an invention of " certain improvements in the means 

 of consuming smoke, and thereby economizing fuel and heat in steam-en- 

 gine or other furnaces or fire-places ; which improvements are also appli- 

 cable in preventing the explosion of boilers." — 30th November 1838, 



37. To Samuel Seaward of the Canal Iron- Works, Poplar, in the 

 county of Middlesex, engineer, for an invention of " certain improvements 

 in marine steam-engines." — 30th November 1838. 



38. To Henry Davies of Stoke-Prior, in the county of Worcester, en- 

 gineer, for an invention of " certain improved apparatus or machinery for 

 obtaining mechanical power, also for raising or impelling fluids, and for as- 

 certaining the measure of fluids." — 7th December 1838. 



39. To Joseph Bolton Doe of Hope Street, Whitechapel, in the county 

 of Middlesex, iron-founder, for an invention of " certain improvements in 

 apparatus used in the manufacture of soap." — 7th December 1 838. 



40. To Fanquet Delarne junior, late of Daville, near Rouen, in the 

 kingdom of France, but now residing at the London CoiFee-house, in the 

 city of London, gentleman, for an invention of " certain improvements in 

 printing and fixing fast, red, black, and other colours, upon cotton, silk, 

 woollen, and other fabrics, without the usual process of dyeing." — 11th 

 December 1838. 



41. To Theodore Cotelle of the Haymarket, in the county of Middle- 

 sex, civil-engineer, for an invention of " improvements in extracting the 

 salt from sea or salt water, and rendering it pure or drinkable, and in puri- 

 fying other water." — 14th December 1838. 



42. To William Crofts of Radford, in the county of Nottingham, 

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

 lace."— 1 4th December 1838. 



43. To Henry Adcock of Mount Place, Liverpool, in the county of Lan- 

 caster, civil-engineer, for an invention of " certain improvements in the 

 raising of water from mines and other deep places." — 14th December 1838. 



44. To William Thorp and Thomas Meakin of Manchester, in the 

 county of Lancaster, silk-manufacturers, for an invention of " certain im- 

 provements in looms for weaving, and also a new description of fabric to 

 be produced or woven therein. — 14th December 1838. 



