List of Patents. 189 



14. To Etienne Joseph Hanon Valcke, of the kingdom of Belgium, 

 miller, ** improvements in grinding." — 14th October 1850. 



15. To John Merger, of Oakenshaw, within Clayton-le-Moors, in the 

 county of Lancaster, gentleman, *' improvements in the preparation of 

 cotton and other fabrics and fibrous materials." — 14th October 1850. 



16. To William Eeskine Cochrane, of Cambridge Terrace, Regent's 

 Park, in the county of Middlesex, and Henry Francis, of Princes Street, 

 Rotherhithe, *' improvements in propelling, steering, and ballasting ves- 

 sels, in the pistons of steam-engines, in fire-bars of furnaces, and in 

 sleepers of railways." — 14th October 1850. 



17. To Alexander Dixon, of Abercom Foundry, Paisley, " improve- 

 ments in moulding iron and other metals." — 16th October 1850. 



18. To William Palmer, of Sutton Street, Clerkenwell, manufac- 

 turer, '* improvements in the manufacture of candles and wicks." — 16th 

 August 1850. 



19. To Engine Ablon, of Panton Street, Haymarket, in the county of 

 Middlesex, " improvements in increasing the draft in the chimneys of 

 locomotive and other engines ;" being a communication. — 16th October 

 1850. 



20. To William Henry Green, of Basinghall Street, in the city of 

 London, gentleman, " improvements in the preparation of peat, and in 

 the mode of converting and applying some of the products derived there- 

 by to the preservation of substances which are subject to decay." — 16th 

 October 1850. 



21. To Charles Bury, of Salford, in the county of Lancaster, ma- 

 nager, " certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for cleaning, 

 spinning, doubling, and throwing raw silk." — 18th October 1850. 



22. To William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents, &Q 

 Chancery Lane, in the county of Middlesex, civil-engineer, " improve- 

 ments in manufacturing yarns;" being a communication. — 18th October 

 1850. 



23. To John Percy, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, doc- 

 tor of medicine, and Henry Wiggin, of Birmingham aforesaid, manufac- 

 turer, " a new metallic alloy or new metallic alloys." — 21st October 1850. 



24. To Etienne Masson, of Place St Michel at Paris, gardener to the 

 Central Society of Horticulture of France, ^' improvements in the pre- 

 paration of certain vegetable alimentary substances, for the provisioning 

 of ships and armies, and other purposes where the said substances are 

 required to be preserved." — 25th October 1850. 



25. To Zachariah Morley, Esq., of Regent's Park, in the county of 

 Middlesex, '* certain improvements .in the means or methods of, or appa- 

 ratus or machinery for, decomposing water, and applying the prodycts to 

 useful purposes ;" being a communication. — 28th October 1850. 



26. To Robert Lucas, of 3 Fumival's Inn, in the county of Middle- 

 sex, mechanical draughtsman, " improvements in telegraphic and print- 

 ing apparatus;" being a communication. — 31st October 1850. 



27. To George Michiels, of London, gentleman, " improvements in 

 treating coal, and in the manufacture of gas, and also in apparatus for 

 burning gas;" being partly a communication. — 5th November 1850. 



28. To William Henry Ritchie, of Kennington, in the county of 

 Surrey, gentleman, ** improvements in stoves;" being a communication. 

 — 6th November 1850. 



