234 List (f Patents. 



2. To George Whitmore, of Austin Friars, in the city of London, mer- 

 chant and underwriter, in consequence of a communication from a foreigner 

 residing abroad, for an invention of " a new method of combining, by means 

 of machinery and adhesive compositions, all kinds of fibrous materials, such 

 as cotton, silk, flax, hemp, tow, fur, wool, hair, &c., into manufactured arti- 

 cles, which may be applied to the purposes for which paper, pasteboard, mill- 

 board, papier mache, parchment, vellum, leather, woven fabrics, felt, floor- 

 cloth, tarpaulin, and the skins of animals are used." — 6th October 1837. 



3. To Thomas Clark, Doctor of Medicine, Professor of Chemistry in 

 Marischal College, Aberdeen, for an invention of "improved apparatus to be 

 used in manufacturing sulphuric acid." — 6th October 1837. 



4. To James Potter, of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, for an 

 invention of " certain improvements in spinning machinery." — 6th October 

 1837. 



6. To William Hearn, of Southampton Street, Pentonville, in the parish 

 of Saint James, Clerkenwell, and county of Middlesex, engineer, and Wil- 

 liam Davies, of Upper North Place, Gray's Inn Road, in the parish of Saint 

 Pancras, and countj' of Middlesex, plumber, for an invention of " a certain 

 improvement, or certain improvements in the construction of boilers for the 

 generation of steam and heating water, or other fluids." — 13th October 1837. 



6. To John Chanter, of Earl Street, Blackfriars, in the city of London, 

 and of Upper Stamford Street, in the county of Surrej', Esq., and John 

 Gray, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, engineer, for an invention of 

 " improvements in furnaces, and apparatus connected therewith, for locomo- 

 tive engines, and for other purposes." — 18th October 1837. 



7- To Henri Quentik Tenneson, late of Paris, in the kingdom of 

 France, but now residing in Leicester Square, in the county of Middlesex, 

 gentleman, in consequence of a communication from a foreigner residing 

 abroad, for an invention of" an improred construction of the portable vessels 

 used for containing portable gas, and of the apparatus or machinery used for 

 compressing such gas therein, and of apparatus or mechanism for regulating 

 the issue or supply of gas, either from a portable vessel, or from a fixed pipe 

 communicating with an ordinary gasometer." — 28th October 1837, 



8. To James Matley, of the city of Paris, in the kingdom of France, and 

 of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, gentleman, for an invention of 

 " a machine called a tiering machine, upon a new principle, for supplying 

 colour to, and to be used by block printers, in the printing of cotton, linen, and 

 woollen cloths, silks, paper, and other substances and articles to which block - 

 printing is, or may be applied, without the aid or assistance of a person to 

 tier upon." — 4th November 1837- 



9. To Thomas Bell, of South Shields, in the county of Durham, manu- 

 facturing chemist, for an invention of " improvements in the manufacture of 

 sulphate of soda, which improvements, or parts thereof, are applicable to other 

 purposes."- — 4th November 1837' 



10. To John Joseph Charles Sheridan, of Ironmonger Lane, in the 

 city of London, chemist, for an invention of " certain improvements in the 

 several processes of saccharine, vinous, and acetous fermentation." — 9th No- 

 vember 1837. 



