USEFUL PROJECTS. 



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Mick, surgeon; for an improvement stich and -vvarp-work 

 to stirrups now in use, which is to 14. 

 he fixed thereto, and by means of 

 which, wliencver the stirrup hap- 

 pens to be in a reversed direction, 

 by a horseman railing from his horse, 



Dated June 



Thomas James Plucknett,of Butt- 

 lane, Deptford, in the county of 

 Kent, gentleman: for a method 

 of mowing corn, o;rass, and other 



the stirrup will immediakly la!! IVom things, by means of a machine mov- 



tiie leather, by w.'iich means the same 

 is suspended. Dated May '27. 



Samuel Miller, of the parish of 

 .St. Pancras, in the county of Mid~ 

 dlescx, engineer : for an improve- 



mg on wheels, which may be work- 

 ed either by men or horses. Dated 

 June 1 5. 



\\ illiara Collins, lieutenant in the 

 royal navy ; for a ventilator, upon 



ruent i:pon, and machinery to be at- a new or improved construction, for 



tachcd to, coaches, and various other the purpose of ventilating tents and 



carriages ; for the better accommo- niarqueesof every description. Dated 



dation of passengers. Dated May June 20. 



27. James Noble,''of Coggershall, in 



John Cox Stevens, of Xew York, the county of Essex, worsted-spin- 



North America, but now residing ner, for a machine for discharging a 



in New Bond-street, in the county woolcomb or combs, by separating 



of Middlesex, gentleman : for a new 

 method of generating steam. Dated 

 May 31. 



Alexander Brodie, of Carey-street, 

 in the liberty of the rolls, and coun. 

 ty of Middlesex, iron master and 

 founder ; for an iaiprovcd method 



the tears from the noiles, and draw- 

 ing what is commonly called a slivor 

 or slivers from the comb or combs 

 after or before the combs are work- 

 ed, or the wool is combed upon the 

 same. Dated June 29. 



AV'illiam Kent, of the borough of 



of making steam-engine-boilers, and Plymouth, iu the county of Devon, 

 steam-boilers, for various other pur- merchant and agent ; for cijrtain ad- 

 poses ; and of constructing the fliie dilions and improvements in a sort 

 for the conveying the heat to the of candlestick, (iu common use), 

 same, whereby the consumption of which will be found to prevent ac- 

 fuel is considerably lessened. Dated cideutal fires in the use of candles, 

 May 31- by which so many valuable lives arc 

 Malcolm Cownn, of Gloucester- lost, and such immense property 

 j)lace, Portman-square, in the coun- consuuied ; and which will not be 

 ty of Middlesov, commander in the confuied to chamber use, but being 

 royal navy; for improvements in niiide on a laigcr scale, will be found 



the construction of sails for ships 

 and vessels of all descriptions. Dated 

 June 1 1. 



Robert Barber, of Billborough, 

 in the county of Nottingham, gen- 

 tleman ; for new and impioved 

 nodes of making and siiaping stock- 

 ings and |jic('es, and also some new 

 and imj)roved kinds of stocking- 



e(|ually usqful in shops, warehouses, 

 oil and S|)irit cellars, and other 

 places where the use of a candle is 

 found necessiiry. Dated July 2. 



Arthur Woolf, of Wood-street, 

 Spa-fields, in the county of Aliddle- 

 scx, ffigineer ; for certain improve- 

 uienfs in ste.inicngines. Dated 

 July '2. 

 J [ '2 . James 



