List of Patents. 2038 
material of wool, silk, flax, hemp, cotton, or other similar fibrous substances, 
or the same substances in any stage of manufacture, and in the preparation 
of pigments or painters’ colors.”’—10th November 1841. 
18. To Joun Annes of Plymouth, in the county of Devon, painter, “a 
new and improved method of making paint from materials not before used 
for that purpose.”—12th November 1841. 
19. To WiLt1aM Pater of Sutton Street, Clerkenwell, in the county of 
Middlesex, manufacturer, being a communication from abroad, and partly by 
invention of his own, “ improvements in the manufacture of candles.’— 
17th November 1841. 
20. To GeorcEe Bent Otzivant and ApAm Howarp, of Manchester, 
mill-wrights, “ certain improvements in cylindrical printing machinery, for 
printing calicoes and other fabrics, and the apparatus connected therewith, 
which is also applicable to other useful purposes.”—17th November 1841. 
21. To Joun Stewarp of Wolverhampton, in the county of Stafford, Esq., 
* certain improvements in the construction of pianofortes.’”,—22d November 
1841. 
22. To Grorcre Lowe of Finsbury Circus, in the city of London, civil 
engineer, “improved methods of supplying gas under certain circumstances, 
and of improving its purity and illuminating power.”—24th November 1841. 
23. To Witt1am Epwarp Newr7on, of the office for patents, 66 Chan- 
cery Lane, in the county of Middlesex, civil-engineer, being a communica- 
tion from abroad, “ certain improvements in the production of ammonia,”— 
1st December 1841. 
24, To JAMES BatperstToN of Paisley, in the county of Renfrew, manu- 
facturer, “certain improvements in machinery, or apparatus for doubling, 
twisting, twining, and finishing cotton and other fibrous substances.”—7th 
December 1841. 
25. To James Cotman of Stoke, Holy Cross, in the county of Norfolk, 
starch-manufacturer, “ improvements in the manufacture of starch.”—10th 
December 1841. 
26. To ALEXANDER Parkes of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick 
artist, “ certain improvements in the production of works of art in metal by 
electric deposition.”—10th December 1841. 
27. To Wititam Irvine of Prince’s Strect, Rotherhithe, in the county 
Surrey, gentleman, “improvements in the manufacture of bricks and tiles,” 
—10th December 1841. 
28. To Guorcz Hicxes of Huddersfield, in the county of York, agent, 
“ an improved machine for cleaning or freeing wool and other fibrous mate- 
rials, of burs and other extraneous substances.”—10th December 1841. 
29. To Josrrpu Nezpuam Tavern of Devonport, in the county of Devon, 
a post-captain in Her Majesty’s Navy, “a certain method or certain me- 
thods of abating or lessening the shock or force of the waves of the ocean, 
lakes, or rivers, and of reducing them to the comparatively harmless state 
known by the term, “broken water,” and thereby preventing the injury done to 
