List of Patents. 427 



a new and improved mode of making or moulding tiles, bricks, retorts, and 

 such like work, from clay." — 20th January 1840. 



19. To Samuel "White White of Charlton Marshall, in the county of 

 Dorset, Esq., " improvements in preventing persons from being drowned." 

 —20th January 1840. 



20. To Arthur Eldred Walker of Melton Street, Euston Square^ en- 

 graver, " improvements in engraving by machinery." — 20th January 1840. 



21. To EoBERT LoRiMEK, brassfounder, No. 45 Jamaica Street, Glasgow, 

 in the county of Lanark, North Britain, " an improvement or improvements 

 in stoves. "^ — 25th January 1840. 



22. To Miles Berry of the office for Patents, CC Chancery Lane, in the 

 county of Middlesex, patent agent, being a communication from a foreigner 

 residing abroad, " an invention or discovery by whicli certain textile or 

 fibrous plants are rendered applicable to making paper, and spinning into 

 yams, and wea^■ing into cloth, in place of flax, hemp, cotton, and other fibrous 

 materials, commonly used for such pm-poses." — 27th January 1840. 



23. To John Joxes of Westfield Place, Sheffield, in the county of York, 

 " a new frying and gi-illing pan, for the cooking of steaks, chops, and otlier 

 meats."— 29th January 1840. 



24. To Egbert Hervey of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, dry- 

 salter, " certain improvements in the mode of prepai'ing and pui-ifying alum, 

 alumina, aluminous mordants, and other aluminous combinations and solu- 

 .ions, and the application of such improvements to the purposes of manu- 

 facture." — 31st January 1840. 



25. To Francis Worrell Stevens of Chigwell, in tlie county of Essex, 

 schoolmaster, " certain improvements in apparatus for propelling boats and 

 other vessels on water." — 1st February 1840. 



26. To William Isaac Cookson of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Esquire, 

 " certain improved processes or operations for obtaining copper and otlier 

 metals from metallic ores." — 3d February 1840. 



27. To George Wilson of St Martin's Court, St Martin's Lane, in the 

 county of Middlesex, stationer, " an improved paper-cutting machine." — 3d 

 February 1840. 



28. To Miles Berry, of the office for Patents, 60 Chancery Lane, in the 

 county of Middlesex, patont agent, being a communication from a foreigner 

 residing abroad, " certain improvements in machinery, or apparatus for 

 making or manufacturing pins, and sticking them in paper." — 5th February 

 1840. 



29. To Godfrey Anthony Ermen of Manchester, in the county of Lan- 

 caster, cotton spinner, " certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for 

 spinning, doubling or twisting cotton, flax, wool, or other fibrous materials, 

 part of which improvements are applicable to macliiucry in general." — 

 5th February 1840. 



30. To James Capi'le Milleu of Manchester, in the county of Lan- 

 caster, gentleman, " certain iinpi-ovemeuts in printing calicoes, muslins, and 

 other fabrics." — 7th Febru;u-y 1U40. 



31. To John Alexander Piiilu- de Val Making of No. 17 Cliflbrd 

 Strcot, Boiul Street, iii the county vf Middlesex, Esquire, " certain improve- 



