USEFUL PROJECTS. 



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William Devercll, of Blackwall, 

 In the county of Middlesex, engi- 

 neer; for certain improvements on 

 the steam-engine. Dated Septem- 

 ber 2. 



Samuel Caldwall, of Ilathern, in 

 the county of Leicester,frame.smith ; 

 for machinery and apparatus to be 

 attached or annexed to certain plain 

 frames or machines called stocking- 

 frames, plain-piece-frarncs. or any 

 other frames, for the purpose of 

 working, making, or manufacturing 

 silk, cotton, mohair, worsted, or 

 any other sort of stuff whatsoever, 

 into plain hose, or any plain sort of 

 piece-work whatsoever, whereby 

 these frames will 'vork, make, or ma- 

 nufacture, all kinds of plain stock- 

 ings and piair) piece-work by me- 

 chanical machinery and motion. 

 Dated September 9. i . 



John Nyren, of Brom.ley, in the 

 county of Middlesex, mnslin-bleach- 

 er and tambour-worker ; for a mods 

 of printing fancy patterns on silk 

 and cotton lace-net^ instead ef tam- 

 bouring or working them in colours. 

 Dated September 27. ., 



Stephen Clii))b, of Colchester, in 

 <he county of Essex, Millwrighl ; 

 for an improved mangle. Dated 

 September 27. 



James Macn:ii!ghtan, of Great 

 Qiieen-street, Lineolns-inn fields, in 

 the county of Middlesex, ironmon- 

 ger; for a stove or grate, and range, 

 upon a new construction, by which 

 fooms will be much more ofre(tu;t!ly 

 wanned than (hey now are, and tlic 

 Chimnies prevented from smoaking. 

 Dated September 27. 



John Syeds, of Fountain-stairs, 

 Rothcrhithe-wall, in the county of 

 Surrey, mathematical instrument- 

 maker; for a steering amplitude or 

 azimuih-compass and scale for find- 

 ing and working courses of ships. 

 Jl^ated October 7. 



Daniel Desormeaux, of Barking, 

 in the county of Essex, surgeon and 

 apothecary, and Samuel Hutchings, 

 of llford, in the said parish of 

 Barking, weaver; for certain im~ 

 -proveraents in the making and ma- 

 nufacturing of wax, spermaceti and 

 tallow candles. Dated October 22. 



Bichard Rentish, late captain io 

 the Cambridgeshire militia, but now 

 of Birmingham, in the county of 

 Warwick, esquire; for an armour- 

 waistcoat, which is a sure defence 

 against the bayonet, sword, pike, or 

 any pointed instrument, and in ma- 

 ny instances may prevent the wound 

 from a musket ball. Dated Octo- 

 ber 30. 



Joseph Huddart, of Highbury- 

 terrace, in the parish of Islington, 

 in the county ot Middlesex ; for 

 sundry new improvements in the 

 manufacture of large cables, and 

 cordage in general. Dated Octo- 

 ber 30. 



Samuel Miller, of Gresse-street, 

 in the parish of Saint Pancras, iri 

 the county of Middlesex, engineer ; 

 for certain improvements on steam- 

 engines. Dated October 30. 



JohnHaitop, of Brightside,in the 

 parish of Shetheld, in the county of 

 York, iron-master ; for certain im- 

 provements in the method of pre- 

 paring malleable iron for the pur- 

 pose of making the same into bars, 

 sheets, and slit rods, and manufac- 

 turing the same also into hoop-iron ; 

 and for certain improvements in the 

 method of preiKiring all other malle- 

 able metals. Dated November 7. 



John Trotter of Soho-squaro, in 

 the counly of Middlesex, esquire; 

 for a rotary engine, for applyuig the 

 powers ol fluids as first movers. 

 Dated November l4. 



William Milton, vicar of Ileck- 



fifld, in the county of Southampton, 



M. A. for a moje of rendering car- 



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