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List of Patents granted for Scotland from 18th March to 18th 

 June 1839. 



1. To Samuel Clegg of Sidmoutli Street, Gray's Inn Koad, in the 

 county of Middlesex, engineer, for an invention of " a new improvement in 

 valves, and the combination of them with machinery." — 18tli jMarch 1839. 



2. To John Leigh of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, surgeon, 

 for an invention of " an improved mode of obtaining carbonate of lead, 

 commonly called white-lead." — 18th March 1839. 



3. To Joseph Bennet of Turnlee, near Glossop, in the county of Derby, 

 cotton- spinner, for an invention of " certain improvements in the machinery 

 for carding, drawing, slubbing, roving, and spinning silk, wool, cotton, 

 worsted, flax, and other fibrous substances ; which improvements are also 

 applicable to other useful purposes." — 20th March ] 839. 



4. To John Player, the younger, of Loughor, near Swansea, in the 

 county of Glamorgan, engineer, for an invention of " improvements in fur- 

 naces and fire-places for consuming anthracite and other fuel, for generat- 

 ing steam, evaporation, smelting and heating iron and other metals." — 21st 

 March 1839. 



5. To John Robinson of North Shields, in the county of Northumber- 

 land, engineer, for an invention of " a nipping lever for causing the rota- 

 tion of wheels, shafts, or cylinders, under certain circumstances." — 22d 

 March 1839. 



6. To James Gardner of Banbury, in the county of Oxford, ironmonger 

 for an invention of " improvements in cutting Swedish turnips, mangel- 

 wurzel, and other roots used for food for sheep, homed cattle, and other 

 animals."^ — 25th March 1839. 



7. To George Cotton of Winsley Street, Oxford Street, in the county 

 of Middlesex, engineer, for an invention of " improvements in the con- 

 struction of wheels for railway and other carriages." — 25th March 1839. 



8. To Richard Roberts of Manchester, in the county palatine of Lan- 

 caster, civil-engineer, an extension of seven years, from 5th April 1839, of 

 a patent granted to him for an invention of " an improvement, or certain 

 improvements of, in, or applicable to the mule, billy, jenny, stretching 

 frame, or any other machine or machines, however designated or named, 

 used in spinning cotton, wool, or other fibrous substances, and in which 

 either the spindles recede fi-om and approach the rollers or other deliverers 

 of the said fibrous substances, or in which such rollers or deliverers re- 

 cede from and approach the spindles." — 25th March 1839. 



9. To Andrew Smith of Prince's Street, Leicester Square, in the 

 county of Middlesex, engineer, for an invention of " certain improvements 

 in apparatus for heating fluids and generating steam." — 27th March 1839. 



10. To Wilton Wood of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, mer- 

 chant, for an invention of " improved methods of making bauds and tack- 

 ling, to be used in driving, turning, or carrying machinery." — 27th March 

 1839. 



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