45 1 List of Patents. 



Road, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, " improved machinery for 

 cutting or working wood." — 28th December 1840. 



7. To John Grylls of Portsea, " improvements in the machinery used 

 for raising and lowering weights."— 31st December 1840. 



8. To Samuel Brown of Hoxton in the county of Middlesex, civil en- 

 gineer, "improvements in making casks and other vessels of or from iron or 

 other metals." — 31st December 1840. 



9. To William Henry Bailey "Webster of Ipswich in the county of 

 Suffolk, surgeon in the Royal Navy, " improvements in preparing skins and 

 other animal matters for the purposes of tanning and the manufacture of 

 gelatine." — 31st December 1840. 



10. To Colin Macrae of Cornhill, Perthshire, Scotland, gentleman, 

 being a communication from abroad, " improvements in rotary engines 

 worked by steam, smoke, gases, or heated air, and in the modes of applying 

 such engines to useful purposes." — 31st December 1840. 



11. To Moses Poole of Lincoln's Inn in the county of Middlesex, gentle- 

 man, " improvements in drying Avoollen and other fabrics." — 31st December 

 1840. 



12. To Thomas Clark of Wolverhampton in the county of Stafford, iron - 

 founder, being a communication from abroad, " certain improvements in the 

 construction of locks, latches, and such like fastenings, applicable for secur- 

 ing doors, gates, windows, shutters, and such like purposes. "■ — 6th January 

 1841. 



13. To Hugh Unsvvorth of Blackrod, near Bolton, in the county of 

 Lancaster, bleacher, " certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for 

 mangling, drying, damping, and finishing woven goods or fabrics."— 7th Ja- 

 nuary 1041. 



14. To Henry George Francis, Earl of Ducie, of Woodchcster Park in 

 the county of Gloucester, Richard Clyburn of Aley, engineer, and Edwin 

 Budding, engineer, of Dursley in the same county, " certain improvements 

 in machinery for cutting vegetable and other substances." — 8th January 1841. 



15. To Thomas Spencer of Liverpool in the comity of Lancaster, carver 

 and gilder, and John Wilson of Liverpool aforesaid, lecturer on chemistry, 

 " certain improvements in the process or processes of manufacturing metallic 

 cylinders, and for engraving thereon, and for engraving on metals generally.'' 

 —9th January 1841. 



16. To John Mason of Rochdale in the county of Lancaster, machinist, 

 and Alexander Stiven of Manchester in the same county, engineer, " cer- 

 tain improvements in machinery or apparatus to be used for turning and 

 boring purposes." — 13th January 1841. 



17. To William Hill Darker sen,, and William Hill Darker jun., 

 both of Lambeth in the county of Surrey, engineers, and William Wood 

 of Wilton in the county of Wilts, carpet manufacturer, " certain improve- 

 ments in looms for weavirg." — 18th January 1841. 



18. To John Aitchison of Glasgow in Scotland, and Archibald Hastie 

 of West Street, Pinsbury Square, in the county of Middlesex, " certain im- 

 provements in generating and condensing steam, heating, cooling, and eva- 

 porating fluids." — 20th January 1841. 



19. To Joseph Haley of Manchester in the county of Lancaster, engi- 

 neer, an " improved lifting jack for raising or removing heavy bodies, which 

 is also applicable to the packing or compressing of goods and other sub' 

 stances." — 21st January 1841. 



