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for cutting metal washers and other articles, and in the construction of 

 buffers." — 4th November 1848. 



31. To Christian Schiele, of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, 

 mechanician, " certain improvements in the construction of cocks or valves, 

 which improvements are also applicable for reducing the friction of axles, 

 journals, bearings, or other rubbing surfaces of machinery in general." — 

 4th December 1848. 



32. To William Young, of the firm of Henry Bannerman and Sons, 

 of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, merchant, " certain improve- 

 ments in machinery or apparatus for winding, balling, or spooling thread- 

 yarn, or other fibrous materials." — 8th December 1848. 



33. To Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents, No. 66 

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

 " improvements in casting printing types and other similar raised sur- 

 faces, and also in casting quadrats and spaces ; " being a communication 

 from a Foreigner residing abroad. — 11th December 1848. 



34. To James Henry Staple Wildsmith, of the City Road, experi- 

 mental chemist, " improvements in the purification of naphtha (likewise 

 called wood- spirit and hydrated oxide of naphtha), pyroligneous acid and 

 cupion, and certain other products of the destructive distillation of wood, 

 peat, and certain other vegetable matters, and of acetate of lime and 

 shale, and in the purification of coal-tar and mineral naphtha, likewise 

 spirits, being the product of fermentation." — 12th December 1848. 



35. To Henry Newton, of Smethwick, near Birmingham, in the county 

 of Stafford, " an improvement or improvements in trusses." — 13th De- 

 cember 1848. 



36. To Duncan Mackenzie, of Goodman's Fields, in the county of 

 Middlesex, manufacturer, " certain improvements in Jacquard machinery 

 for figuring fabrics and tissues generally, and apparatus for transmission 

 of designs to the said Jacquard machinery, parts of which are applicable 

 to playing musical instruments, composing printing types, and other like 

 purposes." — 22d December 1848. 



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