';;:si List of Patents far New Inventions, 



county of Surrv, barge-builder; for a floating hollow buoy 

 on a new construction, for supporting mooring chains^ 

 cables, ropes, Sec. April 8. 



Vo William Chapman, of the town and county of New- 

 castle-upon-Tyne, civil engititer ; for a method or methods 

 of reducing the wear, and prblonging the duration of ropes 

 used in drawing coals, or other ihinerals from pits of shafts 

 of mines. April 8. 



To Samuel Williams, of Finsbury-square, itl the city of 

 London, merchant, in consequence of a communication 

 made to him by a foreigner residing abroad ; for a new and 

 improved machine and machinery for spinning wool, cotton, 

 hemp, and other filamentous substances. April 8. 



To Richard Francis Hawkins, of the parish of St. Ann, 

 Lunehouse, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman; for cer- 

 tain improvements to all kinds of gun and carronade car- 

 riaees, so as to facilitate the workini*, or using, securing, 

 and housing thereof, particularly adapted to ships, April 8. 



To William Southwell, of the city of Dublin, musical- 

 iastrument-maker ; for certain improvements upon a piano- 

 forte, which is so constructed as to prevent the possibility 

 of its being so frequently out of tune as piano-fortes now 

 generally are, which he denominates ** A Cabinet Piano- 

 Forte." April 8. 



To William Chapman, of the town and county of New- 

 castle-upon-Tyne, civil engineer ; for a method or methods 

 of putting coals on board of ships, lighters, and other 

 vessels, so as to prevent a great portion of the breakage of 

 the coals, which takes place in the usual method of shipping 

 them by spouts. April 11. 



To Thomas Paty, of St. Thomas's Watering, Kent-road, 

 in the parish of St. Giles, Camberwell, in the county of 

 Surrv, manufacturer; for a method of dyeing, spinning, 

 weavintr, and manufacturing of East India Sun-Hemp into 

 carpets, and carpet-rug mats, which will be more durable 

 and less expensive than any now in use. April 11. 



To Alexander John Forsyth Clerk, of Belhelvie, Aber- 

 deenshircj in Scotland ; for his advantageous method of 



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