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List of Patents granted for Scotland, from 24th December 1844, 
to 22d March 1845. 
1. To Wrtttam Tuomas of Cheapside, in the city of London, mer- 
chant, being a communication from abroad, “‘ improvements in manu- 
facturing stays, bandages, and other similar articles.”—24th December 
1844. 
2. To Witi1am Hieuam of Notty Ash, near Liverpool, in the county 
of Lancaster, plumber, and Davip Brtxiuovuse, also of Liverpool afore- 
said, merchant, ‘‘ improved constructions of boilers, for evaporating saline 
and other solutions for the purposes of crystallization, and also for the 
evaporation of fluids generally.”—24th December 1844. 
3. To JosrpH Locxerr of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, 
engraver, ‘“‘ improvements in apparatus for preparing to be engraved or 
turned such copper or other metal cylinders or rollers as are to be used 
for printing, or embossing, or calendering calico or other fabrics.” —26th 
December 1844. 
4. To Roprrt Waker of Saint Helen’s, in the county of Lancaster, 
colliery agent and manager, ‘‘improvements in apparatus for riddling 
coals at collieries.” —26th December 1844. 
5. To Curisrorner Purrrs of River, near Dovor, in the county of 
Kent, paper-manufacturer, being partly a communication from abroad, 
and partly by his own invention, “an improvement or improvements in 
the manufacturing of paper, and in making writing and other papers, or 
in the machinery employed for those purposes.’”’—26th December 1844. 
6. To James Nrexp of Taunton, in the state of Massachusetts, in the 
United States of North America, machinist, ‘certain improvements in 
looms.” —27th December 1844. 
7. To Henry Cuartes Lacy of Kenyon House, near Manchester, in 
the county of Lancaster, Esquire, and Grorcr Watson Buck of Man- 
chester, in the said county, civil-engineer, ‘‘ a new manufacture for, and 
method of sustaining, the rails of railways.’ —28th December 1844. 
8. To Joun Swinpetts of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, 
manufacturing chemist, ‘‘ several improvements in the preparation of 
various substances for the purpose of dyeing and producing color ; also 
improvements in the application and use of several chemical compounds 
for the purpose of dyeing and producing color not hitherto made use of.” 
—30th December 1844. 
9. To Moss Pootz of the Patent Office, London, gentleman, being a 
communication from abroad, “improvements in preparing or treating 
hemp flax and other textile plants.”—30th December 1844. 
10. To Bensamin Batuuie of Henry Street, in the county of Middle- 
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