188 List of Patents. 



List of Patents granted for Scotland from IQth September 

 to 26t/t December 1850. 



1. To Thomas Coats, of Ferguslie, in the town of Paisley, and county 

 of Renfrew, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, thread-manu- 

 facturer, " certain improvements in turning, cutting, and shaping wood 

 and other materials." — 23d September 1850. 



2. To William Benson Stones, of Golden Square, in the county of 

 Middlesex, Manchester warehouseman, " improvements in treating peat 

 and other carbonaceous and ligneous matters so as to obtain products 

 therefrom." — 23d September 1850. 



3. To Evan Leigh, of Miles Platting, near Manchester, in the county 

 of Lancaster, cotton-spinner, " certain improvements in machinery or 

 apparatus for preparing and spinning cotton and other fibrous substances," 

 —25th September 1850. 



4. To Joseph Wheeler Rogers, of Dublin, civil-engineer, " certain 

 improvements in the preparation of peat, and in the manufacture of the 

 same into fuel and charcoal." — 30th September 1850. 



5. To Jesse Bridgman, of London, gentleman, " certain improve- 

 ments in separating the fatty and oily from the membranous portions of 

 animal and vegetable substances." — 30th September 1850. 



6. To Richard Prosser, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick 

 civil-engineer, " improvements in machinery and apparatus for manu- 

 facturing metal tubes ; which improvements in machinery are in part ap- 

 plicable for other purposes where pressure is required ; also for im- 

 provements in the mode of applying metal tubes in steam-boilers or other 

 vessels, and in the mode of cleaning out the tubes of steam-boilers, and 

 in the mode of feeding or supplying steam-boilers with water." — 1st 

 October 1850. 



7. To William Keates, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, 

 merchant, " improvements in machinery for manufacturing rollers and 

 cylinders used for calico printing and other purposes." — 4th October 1850. 



8. To James Young, of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, manu- 

 facturing-chemist, " certain improvements in the treatment of certain 

 bituminous mineral substances, and in obtaining products therefrom." — 

 7th October 1850. 



9. To Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents, QQ Chan- 

 cery Lane, in the county of Middlesex, mechanical draughtsman, " im- 

 provements in dyeing yarn and in manufacturing certain woven fabrics ;" 

 being a communication. — 8th October 1850. 



10. To William Tudor Mabley, of Manchester, in the county of 

 Lancaster, patent agent, " certain improvements in the manufacture of 

 soap ;"*being a communication. — 10th October 1850. 



11. To CuTHBERT DiNSDALE, of Newcastle-upou-Tyne, dentist, "im- 

 provements in the manufacture of artificial palates and gums, and in the 

 mode of setting or fixing, natural and artificial teeth." — 11th October 

 1850. 



12. To John Beattie, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, en- 

 gineer, " certain improvements in steering vessels." — 14th October 1850. 



13. To John Grant, of Hyde Park Street, in the county of Middle- 

 sex, *' improvements in heating and regulating temperature." — 14th 

 October 1850. 



