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requisite force against the hammer-head, 
and against the fixed piece of metal. In 
the side of the hammer’s handle, above the 
fixed piece, a notch is filed, into which the 
sear or inner arm of the trigger falls, and 
holds the spring in a compressed state, after 
the gun has been cocked. The barrel is 
charged with powder and shot in the usual 
way, and the priming is effected by un- 
screwing the tube from the breech; which 
being effected, the cocking is performed by 
lifting or turning up the horn top on its 
hinge ; and this, by means of the bridle 
and its button, draws up the hammer-han- 
dle in the tube, compressing the spring, at 
the same time until the sear of the trigger 
falls into the notch, and so retains the ham- 
mer as above-mentioned, when the horn 
top is shut down to its usual position: the 
bridle-rod and its. button, at this time, 
pushing up, into a cavity formed for their 
reception in the horn-head. 
For discharging this gun, when raised to 
the shoulder, and aim is taken along the 
side of the barrel, the trigger is pulled, by 
which the sear is drawn from the notch, 
and the hammer slides forwards, and strik- 
ing the detonating priming, or else the 
flint, the charge is fired,—the patentee 
asserts, with only half the charge of powder 
necessary in common guns, owing to the 
powder being here fixed in its centre; and 
they will kill as far off as any guns that are 
made. To accommodate those sportsmen 
who may prefer a butt to these patent guns, 
such are prepared, to be carried in the 
pocket, and screwed on in the place of the 
horn top. Gentlemen farmers may walk 
with these guns, seeure from injury by wet 
er common accidents, the patentee re- 
marks, ‘‘ without the formidable appear- 
ance of carrying a gun ;’-—so also, we add, 
may the poacher, the foot-pad, and the 
house-breaker, should these guns come 
into common use, as, from their great sim- 
plicity of construction, perhaps they may. 
A List or tae Parents which, having been 
granted in June 1811, will expire in the 
present Month, viz. 
For machines for combing and dressing 
wool and flax, and preparing them for spin- 
ning ; for an improved breaking-frame, and a 
fire or steam-heated stove for the combs: to 
Grorce Girrin, of Sheffield, Yorkshire.— 
Dated 11th June 1811. 
For an improved mode of manufacturing 
gun~skelps : to Witt1am Piper, of Woolver- 
ley, Worcestershire. —11th June. 
For machinery for glazing, burnishing, 
graining or making impressions on the surfaces 
of piece-goods, or other flewible articles: to 
JoserH Tarte, of Bermondsey New-road ; 
Bryan Donxin, of Bermondsey; and Wit- 
11am Dixon, of Bermondsey, Surrey.— 
I1th June, 
For a new method of manufacturing pot- 
tery ware: to Ricuarp Waters, of Fore- 
street, Lambeth, Surrey.—14th June. 
Lists of Expiring and New Patents. 
[June I, 
For a combination of wheels to gain power, 
increase the velocity and diminish the friction 
of machines: to Timorny Surcpraxk, of the 
Strand, Westminster.—1 5th June, 
For an improved machine for sawing, cut- 
ting and planing wood: to Cuartes Ham- 
monn, of Milk-street, London —27th June. 
For a method of combining and connecting 
together metals or woods, by invisible joinings : 
to Tuomas Arwoop and Brnsamin Coox, 
of Birmingham.—27th June. 
A List or New Parents, granted in 
March and April, 1825. 
March 22,—For an improved bath: to 
Roserr Hicxs, of Conduit-street, — Six 
months to enrol specification. 
23.—For a new tracing apparatus for 
drawing from nature; to Francis Ronaups, 
of Croydon, Surrey— Two months. 
25.—For an improvement in the method of 
lighting by gas: to Ricuarp Witty, of 
Kingston-upon-Hull.—Six months, 
25.—For ditto in looms for making cloths, 
silks, &c.: to Jounn Marvin Hancuerr, of 
Crescent-place, Blackfriars, London; and 
JoserH De tvatie, of Whitecross-street, 
Middlesex.——Six months. 
25.—For ditto in shot: to JoserH May- 
rtoN, of Hanover-square.—Six months. 
25.—For ditto on chronometers: to Joun 
Gornes Utricn, of Bucklersbury.—Six 
months, 
29.—For improvements in preparing and 
working pearl-shell for ornamental uses: to 
Aaron Jennins and Joun Betreriner, 
both of Birmingham.—Six months, 
29.—For ditto in machines for spinning : 
to Ricuarp Rosrrts, of Manchester. —Six 
months. 
29.—For ditto in dyeing and calico-print- 
ing: to James Hanmer Baker, of Antigua. 
—Six months. 
29.—For ditto in spinning machines, mules, 
jennies, stubbers, &c.: to Maurice pe 
Joucu, of Warrington. —Six months. 
29.—For ditto in machinery for raising the 
pul, on woollen or other cloths: to Enwarp 
Suerrarp, of Uley, Gloucestershire.—Two 
months, 
29.—For a mode of paving parts of public 
roads, whereby the draught of waggons, &c. 
is facilitated: to Tuomas Parkin, of Bache’s 
Row, City-road, Middlesex. —Six months. 
30.—For improvements on machinery for 
raising water: to Rupvotew Capane., of 
Melina-place, Westminster-road, Lambeth. 
—Six months, 
31.—For improved methods of figuring or 
ornamenting manufactured silks, cottons, 
&e.:, to Joun Hearucor, of ‘Tiverton, 
Devonshire.—Six months. 
April 2,—For a new application of rail- 
ways, and the machinery to be employed» 
thereon: to Jacos JepprR Fisner, of 
Ealing, Middlesex.—Six months. 
2.—For an apparatus for exhausting, con- 
densing or propelling air, smoke, gas, &c.- to 
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