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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



Jabez Carter Hornblower, of 

 John's Row, City-road, in the pa- 

 rish of St. Luke, in the county of 

 Middlesex, engineer; foraraethod 

 of glazing calicos, cottons, muslins, 

 linens, &c. Dated February 4. 



Phineas Crowther, of the town 

 of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, engineer; 

 for a method of applying the power 

 of a reciprocating steam-engine to 

 the crank or rotative axis, for 

 drawing of coals, lead, tin, &c. 

 out of mines, &c. Dated Fe- 

 bruary 28. 



Richard Maullin, of Cosely, in 

 the county of Stafford,screw-maker, 

 for a machine or contrivance to 

 mould or withdraw patterns for the 

 casting of wood, bed, and all other 

 screws which are got up in cast- 

 iron, brass, or other metallic com- 

 positions. Dated February 28. 



Robert Stuart,atBlantyre cotton- 

 mills, near Glasgow, cotton-spin- 

 ner; for a method of starching 

 and preparing cotton-yam in that 

 state called the cop, by which means 

 it is at once fitted for being made 

 into warp, on the chain of the web, 

 without undergoing certain opera- 

 tions at present in use ; and also 

 that the cotton-yarn, so prepared by 

 him in the cop, is in like manner at 

 once fitted for the purpose of weft 

 or woof, by which means certain 

 expensive operations are also saved> 

 Dated March IQ. 



Edward Steers, of the Inner 

 Temple, London, esquire; for a 

 machine to be applied to boats or 

 vessels, for the purpose of moving 

 them along with ease and celerity- 

 Dated March ip. 



James Wood, of Hart-street, in 

 the parish of St. Paul, Covent-gar- 

 den, in the councy of Middlesex, 

 musical wind-instrument maker; 

 for an improvement upon the mu- 



sical instrument commonly called 

 the clarinet; which invention is 

 also, as to part thereof, applicable 

 to an improvement upon most of 

 such other musical Wind-instru- 

 ments, as are played upon with 

 keys. Dated March ip. 



William Johnson, of Widmore- 

 house, in the parish of Bromley, in 

 the county of Kent, esquire; for a 

 machine with new means of ob- 

 taining power in mechanical ope- 

 rations, of the nature of a self- 

 moving power or perpetual motion. 

 Dated March ig. 



David Hardie, of St. James's 

 Street, in the parish of St. James's, 

 in the county of Middlesex; for an 

 apparatus for weighing, in a man- 

 ner less liable to error, and with 

 greater expedition than by any 

 of the modes of weighing hitherto 

 used. Dated March ip. 



John Glover, of Great Lever, in 

 the county of Somerset, manufac- 

 turer; for a method of bleaching 

 linen cloth, and other cloths. Dated 

 March 24. 



John Horatio Savigny, of King- 

 street, in the parish of St. Paul, Co- 

 vent-garden, surgeon's-instrument- 

 maker; for an instrument called 

 a tourniquet, for more effectually 

 hindering and stopping the eifusion 

 of blood in gun-shot and other bad 

 wounds, &c. Dated March 31. 



Charles Random Berenger, of 

 Old Bond-street, print-seller; for a 

 method of printing and colouring 

 transparencies on silk, cotton, linen, 

 and other wove manufactures, for 

 carriage and window blinds, screens, 

 &c. Dated March 31. 



Benjamin Blackmore, of Wands- 

 worth, in the county of Surrey, 

 • bolting-cloth manufacturer; for an 

 elastic spring, for the improvement 

 and more complete manufacturing 



