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List of Patents granted jor Scotland from 22d September to 
22d December 1849. 
1. To Jonn Mason, of Rochdale, in the county of Lancaster, machinist, 
and Grorce Coxurer, of Barnsley, in the county of York, manager, 
“certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for preparing and 
spinning cotton and other fibrous materials, and also improvements in 
the preparation of yarns or threads, and in the machinery or apparatus 
for weaving the same.”—24th September 1849. 
2. To Wirtr1am Parkinson, of Cottage Lane, City Road, in the county 
of Middlesex, gas-meter manufacturer, successor to the late Samuel 
Crossley, “ improvements in gas and water meters, and in instruments for 
regulating the flow of fluids.” —24th September 1849. 
83. To James Artxen, of Cook Street, in the city of Glasgow, North 
Britain, manufacturer, “ certain improvements in the preparation of 
cotton and other yarns for weaving, and in the machinery employed 
therein.” —27th September 1849. 
4. To Joun Rostnson, of Patterson Street, Stepney, in the county of 
Middlesex, engineer, “‘ improvements in machinery for moving and rais- 
ing weights.”—3d October 1849. 
5. To Ernest Graret, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, 
Esquire, “ improvements in marine vessels, in apparatus for the preserva- 
tion of human life, and in moulding, forming, and finishing hollow and 
solid figures, composed wholly or in part of certain gum, or combination 
of certain gums, also improvements in dissolving the aforesaid gums, and 
in apparatus or machinery to be used for the purposes above mentioned.” 
_ —8th October 1849. 
6. To Rosert Creee, JoserpH Henperson, and James Catvert, of 
Blackburn, in the county of Lancaster, manufacturers, “‘ certain improve- 
ments in looms for weaving.”—8th October 1849. 
7. To Tuomas Licurroor, of Broad Oak within Accrington, in the 
county of Lancaster, chemist, “ an improvement in printing cotton 
fabrics.”—11th October 1849. 
8. To Witt1am Gaspard Branvr, of No, 16 Compton Street, Bruns- 
wick Square, in the county of Middlesex, machinist, ‘improvements in 
the construction of the bearings.of railway-engines and railway and other 
carriages now in use.”’—11th October 1849. 
9. To Tuomas Beatz Browne, of Hampen, in the county of Glou- 
cester, gentleman, “‘ certain improvements in looms, and in the manufac- 
ture of woven and twisted fabrics,” being a communication from a foreigner 
residing abroad.—15th October 1849. 
10. To Grorar Henry Doner, citizen of the United States of America, 
‘but now residing at Manchester, in the county of Laneaster, “ certain 
improvements in machinery for spinning and doubling cotton yarns and 
other fibrous materials, and in machinery or apparatus for winding reel- 
ing, balling, and spooling, such substances when spun.”—15th October 
1849. 
