382 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



a method of making women's pat- 

 tens. Dated May 15. 



Peter Davy of the parish of Christ 

 Church, in the county of Surrey, 

 coal-merchant ; for improved fuel. 

 Dated May 20. 



Robert Meares, of Froome, in 

 the county of Somerset, dyer ; for 

 a machine for cutting standing corn, 

 grass, and the like. Dated May 20. 



Chester Gould, of the town of 

 Rome, in the county of Oneida, in 

 the state of New York, merchant ; 

 for an instrument or log for ascer- 

 taining a ship's distance at sea. 

 Dated May 20. 



Joseph Gaston John Baptiste de 

 Thiville, of Boulton-street, Picca- 

 dilly, in the county of Middlesex, 

 gentleman ; for a lamp or light, for 

 lighting chambers, rooms, halls, 

 &c. Dated May 26. 



Dudley Adams, of Fleet-street, 

 London, optician ; for a method of 

 rendering telescopes more portable 

 than hitherto, upon a new princi- 

 ple. Dated May 30. 



William Turner, of Penshurst, 

 Kent, paper-manufacturer ; for a 

 machine tobe applied to, and adopted 

 in, the construction of wheel car- 

 riages ; for improving the principle, 

 and increasing the power of the 

 draught, so as to reduce the quan- 

 tity of active force necessary to be 

 employed therein. Dated May 30. 



Joseph Weekes, of Plympton- 

 Maurice, Devon, tanner ; for an 

 apparatus, or set of machinery, for 

 a tannery. Dated June 10. 



Samuel Wyatt, of Chelsea-col- 

 lege, Middlesex, architect ; for a 

 method of making and constructing 

 bridges, warehouses, and other 

 buildings without the use of wood, 

 as a necessary constituent part there- 

 of. Dated June 10. 



William Johnson, of Widmore- 



house, Bromley, Kent, esq. ; for a 

 machine with new means of obtain* 

 ing power in mechanical opera- 

 tions of the nature of a self-moving 

 power, or perpetual motion. Dated 

 June 10. 



Ebenezer Palmer, Cheapside, 

 London ; for a metallic hinge of 

 chain, whereby the art of binding 

 books is greatly aided and improved, 

 particularly merchants accompt-i 

 books. Dated June 1 3. 



Henry Tickell, Mansel-street, 

 Whitechapel, brewer ; for a method 

 of more effectually dissolving and 

 extracting the virtues and f preser- 

 ving the essential oil of hops, malt, 

 and other vegetable substances used 

 in brewing, distilling, &c. Dated 

 June 13. 



John Cooch, of Harleston, Nor- 

 thampton, farmer ; for a machine 

 for the purpose of winnowing or 

 dressing of corn or grain for the use 

 of bread, cattle, or seed. Dated 

 June 17. 



William WeIIer,Cavendish-street, 

 Cavendish-square, Middlesex, gen- 

 tleman ; for a method of manufac- 

 turing, forming, making, and en- 

 graving, copper-plates, for printing 

 policies to secure persons from loss 

 of property of certain descriptions. 

 Dated June 17. 



George Smart, of Camden Town, 

 Middlesex, timber-merchant ; for a 

 method of combining masts, yards, 

 bowsprits, &c. hollow, so as to give 

 them lightness and strength ; and 

 which may be applied to other use- 

 ful purposes. Dated June 17. 



Robert Fr)'er, of Rastrick, near 

 Halifax, Yorkshire, woollen-manu- 

 facturer, and James Bennett, of 

 Manchester, Lancaster, wool-sta- 

 pler ; for a method of manufacturing, 

 cutting, dressing, dying, and finish- 

 ing of cloth. Dated June 20. 



