404 List of English Patents. 



ing, by night, by means of light; and which system of signals is 

 more conspicuous, expeditious, and certain, than any hitherto em- 

 ployed. 

 June 26. To Lieutenant James Marshall, of Chatham, Kent, for improve- 

 ments in mounting guns or cannon. 

 28. To John Felton, of Hinkley, Leicestershire, for a machine for 

 an expeditious and correct mode of giving a fine edge to knives, 

 razors, scissors, and other cutting instruments. 

 To Thomas Fuller, of Bath, for improvements on wheel-carriages. 

 July 3. To Walter Hancock, of Stratford, Essex, for his improvements 

 on steam-engines. 

 4. To William Wilson, of Martin Lane, Cannon Street, for extract- 

 ing spirits and other solvents used in dissolving gums and other 

 articles employed for stiffening hats, &c. and converting such spi- 

 rit (after rectification) into use. 

 To Rene Florentin Jenar, of Butihill How, for improvements 



in lamps. 

 To George Poulton, of Stafford Street, Old Bond Street, for an 

 instrument for writing, which he denominates a self supply mg pen. 

 To Thomas Sowerby of Change Alley, Cornhill, for improvements 



in the construction of ships' windlasses. 

 To Rene Florentin Jenar, of Bunhill Row, for his method of 

 filling up, with metal, or other suitable material, the holes or in- 

 terstices in wire-gauze, or other similar substances, which he de- 

 nominates metallic linen. 



12. To John Snelton Shenton, of Husband Bosworth, Leicester- 



shire, for improvements in the mechanism of water-closets. 



To Edward Barnard Deeble, of St James's Street, Westminster, 

 for a new construction and combination of metallic blocks for form- 

 ing caissons, jetties, piers, quays, embankments, light-houses, 

 foundations, walls, &c. 



To Robert Vazie, of York Square, St Pancras, Middlesex, for im- 

 provements in processes, utensils, and apparatus, applicable to the 

 preparing, extracting, and preserving various articles of food, the 

 component parts of which are of different dimensions, proportionate 

 to their uses. 



13. To William Church, of Birmingham, for improvements in appa- 



ratus for spinning. 

 18. To George Anthony Sharp, of Putney, for an improved table 

 urn. 

 To Robert More, of Underwood, Stirlingshire, distiller, for im- 

 provements, communicated from abroad, in the process of prepar- 

 ing and cooling worts or wash fi-om vegetable substances, for the 

 production of spirits. 

 To Edward Dodd, of No. 62. Berwick Street, for improvements on 

 piano-fortes. 



