List of Patents. 191 



county of Kent, shipwright, ** improvements in steam-boilers, and in 

 gearing, cleansing, and propelling vessels ;" being a communication. — 

 15th November 1850. 



44. To John Robert Johnson, of Crawford Street, in the county of 

 Middlesex, chemist, " improvements in fixing colours on fabrics made of 

 cotton or other fibre." — 15th November 1850. 



45. To Clement Augustus Kurtz, of Manchester, in the county of 

 Lancaster, practical chemist, " improvements in dyeing ;" being a commu- 

 nication. — 15th November 1850. 



46. To Antoine Pauwels, of Paris, France, merchant, and Vincent 

 Dubochet, also of Paris, France, merchant, " certain improvements in 

 the production of coke and of gas for illumination, and also in regulating 

 the circulation of such gas." — 18th November 1850. 



47. To Robert Cotgreave, of Eccleston, in the county of Chester, 

 farmer, " certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for draining 

 and cultivating land." — 19th November 1850. 



48. To Alexander Mein, accountant in Glasgow, trustee upon the 

 sequestrated estate of the late James Smith of Deanston, North Britain, 

 *' certain improvements in treating the fleeces of sheep when on the ani- 

 mals," which improvements were the invention of the said late James 

 Smith of Deanston.— 20th November 1850. 



49. To John Hamilton, of Princes Square, Glasgow, and John Weems 

 of Johnstone, in the kingdom of Scotland, " improvements in warming 

 and ventilating buildings and structures." — 20th November 1850. 



50. To John Turner, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, 

 engineer, and Joseph Hardwick, of Birmingham aforesaid, builder, " a 

 certain improvement or certain improvements in the construction and 

 setting of steam-boilers." — 20th November 1850. 



51. To William and Colin Mather, of Salford, engineers, and Fer- 

 j)iNAND Haselowsky, of Berlin, in the kingdom of Prussia, engineer, 

 '* improvements in machinery for washing, steaming, drying, and finish- 

 ing cotton, linen, and woollen fabrics." — 21st November 1850. 



52. To John Matthews, of Kidderminster, foreman, " improvements 

 in sizing paper." — 22d November 1850. 



53. To William Radley, chemical engineer, and Frederick 

 Meyer, oil merchant, both of Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, " im- 

 provements in treating fatty oleaginous, resinous, bitumenous and cerous 

 bodies in the manufacture and application of them, and of their com- 

 pounds and subsidiary products, together with the apparatus to be em- 

 ployed therein to new and other useful purposes." — 22d November 1850. 



54. To Edwin Pettitt, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, 

 civil-engineer, " improvements in the manufacture of glass in the method 

 of forming or shaping and ornamenting vessels and articles of glass, and 

 in the construction of furnaces and annealing kilns." — 22d November 

 1850. 



65. To Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents, 66 

 Chancery Lane, in the county of Middlesex, mechanical draughtsman, 

 " improvements in the preparation and manufacture of caoutchouc or 

 India rubber;" being a communication. — 27th November 1850. 



5Q. To Jules Le Bastier, of Paris, in the Republic of France, but 

 temporary of Frankfort-on-the-Main in Germany, gentleman, " certain 

 improvements in machinery or apparatus for printing." — 27th November 

 1850. 



