List of Patents g^ranted in Scotlmid, 4^5 



cester, lace-manufacturer, for an invention of '^ certain improve- 

 ments in machinery for making lace or net, commonly called bob- 

 bin-net lace, part of which improvements will enable such machi- 

 nery to produce ornamental bobbin.net lace." 

 July 11. To Thomas Sharp, merchant, and Richard Roberts, engineer, both 

 of Manchester, in the county Palatine of Lancaster, in conse- 

 quence of a communication from a foreigner resident abroad, for 

 an invention of " certain improvements in machinery for grinding 

 com and other materials." 

 17. To Charles Wilson of Kelso, in the county of Roxburgh, in that 

 part of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called 

 Scotland, for an invention of certain improvements applicable " to 

 the machinery used in the preparation for spinning wool and other 

 fibrous substances." 



To William Septimus Losh of Walker, in ^the county of Northum- 

 berland, gentleman, for " an improved method of bleaching cer- 

 tain animal fats, and certain animal, vegetable, and fish oils." 



To Joseph Shee of Laurence Pountney Place, in the county of 

 London, gentleman, for an invention of " certain improvements 

 in distillation.*' 



To James Hamilton of Threadneedle Street, in the city of London, 

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

 chinery for sawing, boring, and manufacturing wood, applicable to 

 various purposes." 



21. To John Aston of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, button- 



maker, for an invention of " an improvement in the manu&cture 

 or construction of buttons." 

 To John Gold of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, glass- 

 cutter, for an invention of " certain improvements in cutting, 

 grinding, smoothing, polishing, or otherwise preparing glass-decan- 

 ters, and certain other articles." 



22. To Peter Wright, of the city of Edinburgh, manufacturer, for an 



invention of " an improved method of spinning, twisting, and 

 twining cotton, flax, silk, wool, or any other suitable substance." 



25. To Isaac Jacks junior of Bennet's Hill, in the city of London, gen- 

 tleman, for an invention of " an apparatus or machine for putting 

 or drawing on or off boots." 



30. To Luke Hebert of the Hampstead road, in the county of Middle- 

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

 machines or apparatus for and in the process of manufacturing 

 bread and biscuits from grain." 

 Aug. 1 . To Richard Simpson, late of Rouen, in the kingdom of France, 

 but now residing in Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, in the county 

 of Middlesex, gentleman, for an invention communicated to him 

 by a foreigner then resident in France, of " certain improvements 

 in machinery for slubbing and roving wool and cotton. 

 5. To William Higgins of Salford, in the county of Lancaster, ma- 

 chine maker, in consequence of communications made to him by a 



