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List of Patents granted for Scotland from 22d June to 

 22d September 1849. 



1. To David Smith, of the city of New York, in the United States 

 of America, lead-manufacturer, and a citizen of the said United States, 

 " certain new and useful improvements in the means of manufacturing 

 certain articles in lead." — 24th Jane 1849. 



2. To Walter Neilson, of Hyde Park Street, in the city of Glasgow, 

 North Britain, engineer, " an improvement or improvements in the ap- 

 plication of steam for raising, lowering, moving, or transporting heavy 

 bodies."— 24th June 1849. 



3. To Edmund Gkcndy, of Bury, in the county of Lancaster, woollen 

 manufacturer, and Jacob Farrow, of the same place, manager, " certain 

 improvements in machinery or apparatus for preparing wool for spin- 

 ning, and also improvements in machinery or apparatus for spinning wool 

 and other fibrous substances." — 25th June 1849. 



4. To Robert William Lawrie, of Carlton Place, in the city of 

 Glasgow, North Britain, " improvements in means or apparatus to be 

 employed for the preservation of life and property, such improvements, 

 or parts thereof, being ajjplicable to various other articles of furniture 

 dress, and travelling apparatus." — 29th June 1849. 



5. To Edward Hawkins Payne, of Great Queen Street, in the county 

 of Middlesex, coach-lace manufacturer, and Henry William Currie, 

 engineer, " improvements in the manufacture of coach-lace, and other 

 similar looped or cut pile fabrics." — 9th July 1849. 



6. To Robert Urwin, of Ashford, in the county of Kent, engineer, 

 " certain improvements in steam-engines, which may in whole or in part 

 be applicable to pumps and other machines not worked by steam-power." 

 —9th July 1849. 



7. To William Wilson junior, residing at Campbellfield of Glasgow, 

 in the county of Lanark, Scotland, " improvements in casting plastic 

 tubes or tiles." — 10th July 1849. 



8. To James Godfrey Wilson, of Millman Row, Chelsea, in the 

 county of Middlesex, engineer, " certain improvements in obtaining per- 

 fect combustion, and in apparatus relating thereto, the same being appli- 

 cable generally to furnaces and fire-places, as also to other purposes 

 where inflammable matter or material is made use of." — 11th July 1849- 



9. To Georoe Benjamin Thorneycroft, of Wolverhampton, in the 

 county of Stafford, iron-master, " improvements in manufacturing rail- 

 way tyres, axles, and other iron where great strength and durability is 

 required."— 16th July 1849. 



