200 List of Scotch Patents. 



chinery for propelling boats, vessels, or other floating bodies on 

 the water, and in the manner of constructing boats and vessels 

 for canying such machinery, part of which said improvements 

 are applicable to water-wheels for driving mills or machinery, 

 and also to windmills." 

 May 20. To Tuomas Knowles of Charlton Row, in the county of Lan- 

 caster, cotton-spinner, for an invention of " certain improve- 

 ments in certain machinery', by aid of which machinery spin, 

 ning machines, commonly called mules, are or may be rendered 

 what is termed self-acting, that is to say, certain improvements 

 in certain machinery, by aid of which machinery spinning ma- 

 chines commonly called mules are or may be worked by power, 

 without requiring the usual application of the strength of the 

 spinners to give motion to the handles or wheels, and to such 

 other parts of mules as are commonly worked by the strength 

 of the spinners." 



To Sajiuel Lambert of Regent Street, in the parish of St 

 James, Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, gold-lace- 

 man, for an invention of" an improvement in throstle spindles 

 for spinning and twisting silk, cotton, wool, flax, and other 

 fibrous substances." 

 June 2. To Sir Thomas Cociibaxe, Knight, commonly called Lord Coch- 

 rane, of Regent's Park, in the county of Middlesex, for an in- 

 vention of " an improved rotatory engine to be impelled by 

 steam, and which may be also rendered applicable to other pur- 

 poses." 



To Sir Thomas Cochraxe, Knight, commonly called Lord Coch- 

 rane, of Regent's Park, in the county of Middlesex, for " appa- 

 ratus to facilitate excavating, sinking, and mining." 



To ANDREW Ure of Finsbury Circus, in the county of Middle- 

 sex, M. D., for an invention of " an apparatus for regulating 

 the temperature in evaporization, distillation, and other pro- 

 processes." 



To George Stephenson of Liverpool, civil engineer, for an in- 

 vention of " an improvement in the mode of constructing wheels 

 for railway carriages." 

 To Alexander Craig of Ann Street, St Bernard's, in the pa- 

 rish of St Cuthbert, and county of Mid-Lothian, in consequence 

 of a communication made by a certain foreigner residing abroad) 

 of an invention " of certain improvements in machines or ma- 

 chinery for cutting timber into vineers or other useful forms." 



To Michael Donovan of the city of Dublin, druggist, for an 

 invention of " an improved method of lighting places with 

 gas." 

 10. To John Aitcuison of Clyde Buildings, in the city of Glasgow, 

 and county of Lauiirk, merchant, ibr an invention of " certain 

 improvements in the concentrating and evaporating cane juice 

 solutions of sugar, and other fluids." 



