394 List of Patents. 
23. To Arntnur Watt of Bisterne Place, Poplar, in the county of 
Middlesex, surgeon, ‘‘ certain improvements in the manufacture of steel, 
copper, and other metals.” —21st January 1845. 
24. To Wit114M Berts of Smithfield Bars, in the city of London, 
distiller, and ALexanpER Soutuwoop Stocker, of the same place, gentle- 
man, ‘‘ improvements in bottles, jars, pots, and other similar vessels, 
and in the mode of manufacturing, stoppering, and covering the same.” 
—22d January 1845. 
25. To Squire Dice of Bury, in the county of Lancaster, machine- 
maker, ‘“‘ certain improvements in looms for weaving.”—22d January 
1845. 
26. To Prerre Armano Le Comte pe Fontainemoreav, of No. 7 
Skinner Place, Size Lane, in the city of London, being a communica- 
tion from abroad, ‘‘ certain improvements in covering or coating metals 
and alloys of metals.” —24th January 1845. 
27. To ALexanvEr Bain of Charlotte Street West, in the county of 
Middlesex, engineer, “‘ improvements in apparatus for ascertaining and 
registering the progress and direction of ships and other vessels through 
water, and for ascertaining the temperature in the holds of ships and 
other vessels, for taking soundings at sea, and in apparatus used in 
lighthouses.” —27th January 1845. 
28. To Grorce Brown of Glasgow, in Scotland, merchant, being a 
communication from abroad, “‘ certain improvements in the manufacture 
of soda.”—27th January 1845. 
29. To Jonn Reepv Hux of No. 98 Chancery Lane, in the county of 
Middlesex, civil-engineer and patent agent, ‘‘ improvements in a press 
or presses, machine or machines, for letterpress printing.” —28th January 
1845. 
30. To Jonn Grorce Bopmer of Manchester, in the county of Lan- 
caster, engineer, ‘“ certain improvements in locomotive steam-engines 
and carriages to be used upon railways, in marine engines and vessels, 
and in apparatus for propelling the same, and also in stationary engines, 
and in apparatus to be connected therewith.”—29th January 1845. 
31. To Joun James Russert and Tuomas Henry Russewt, both of 
Wednesbury, in the county of Stafford, tube-manufacturers, “ improve- 
ments in the manufacture of welded iron tubes.”’-——30th January 1845. 
32. To Joun Ranp of Howland Street, Fitzroy Square, in the county 
of Middlesex, artist, being a communication from abroad, “ improve- 
ments in piano fortes.’’— 30th January 1845, 
33. To CurisrorHer Dunkin Hays of Bermondsey, in the county of 
Surrey, master mariner, “certain improvements in machinery or appara- 
tus for propelling vessels.” —31st January 1845. 
34. To Wixiiam Epwarp Newton of the office for patents, 66 Chan- 
cery Lane, in the county of Middlesex, civil-engineer, being a communi- 
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