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XLVIII. List of Patents for new Inventions ivhick have 

 passed the Signet Office from Nuvemler 2^ to Decem- 

 ber 24, 1804. 



J. o Thomas Margrave, of the parish of St. Mary, White- 

 chapel, in the county of Middlesex, silk throwster, for the 

 sole use, benefit, and advantage, of his invention of certain 

 mills and machinery, upon a new or improved construc- 

 tion, for thrcfwing, spinning, doubling, and twisting silk 

 thread, cotton thread, fiax thread, hemp thread, and all 

 such other articles as usually arc or may be thrown, spun, 

 doubled, or twisted. 



To Samuel Guppy, of the city of Bristol, merchant, for 

 his invention of certain additions and improvements on 

 machines for cutting, heading, and finishing nails, and the 

 mode of working thereof, for which machines he obtained 

 his majesty's letters patent, bearing date on or about the 

 19th ot August 1796, whereby considerable labour is saved, 

 and which additions and improvements may be used with, 

 or independent of, such former machines. 



To Richard Willcox, of the city of Westminster, engi- 

 neer, for certain machinery for more expeditiously cutting, 

 stripping, or plucking the various furs of beavers, seals, 

 wool, hair, &c. from the various "'kins now cut, plucked, 

 or stripped by hand, and for sundry methods of preparing 

 and cleansing the said skins. 



To Stcpht.-n Pasquier, of Wi!derness-row, Charterhouse- 

 square, in the covinty of Middlesex, professor of languages, 

 forancw manufacture, system, or method of writing^ print- 

 ing, engraving, drawing, painting or stamping, workinff 

 and using certain characters, figures, instrumenls and ma- 

 chines for facilitating correspondence and other literary 

 operations. — This patent extends to all his majssty's colo- 

 tiies and plantations abroad. j 



To Joseph Wickham Mayer, of Soho-square, in the 

 county of Aliddlesex, oq., for certain improvenientsonbits 

 of bridles. 



T(i Abraham Undcrdown, of the parish of Ealing, in the 

 rounly of Soulhanipion, for a neu- mode or method of 

 making flour without grain. 



I'o Solomon Hougham, of Aldcrssratc-street, in the city 

 of London, goldsmith, forspring clasps for buckles, Ipcketis, 

 and other ornaments of dreis;. 



