List of Patents for New Inventions. £85 



discharging or giving fire to artillery, and all other fire- 

 armsj chambers, cavities, and places in which gun-powder, 

 or other combustible matter, is or may be put for the pur- 

 pose of explosion. April 11. 



To Anthony Francis Berte, of the parish of St. Dunstan 

 in the West, in the city of London, merchant, in conse- 

 quence of a communication made to him by a certain 

 foreigner residing abroad ; for certain improvements in 

 casting printers' types and sorts, and other articles of metah 

 April 15. 



To James Forbes Dalton, of Hlgh-Holborn, in the 

 county of Middlesex, coach-maker j for certain improve- 

 ments in the construction of four-wheel carriages. April 21. 

 To William Shotwell, of the city of New York, in 

 America, now residing in the city of London, merchant; 

 for certain machines and improvements upon machines for 

 the purpose of bleaching, washing, and cleansing linen and 

 every other article that can be done by hand. April 21. 



To Abraham Matterface, of the parish of Christ Church, 

 in the county of Surry, millwright; for certain improve- 

 ments in the construction of a machine for mashing and 

 mixing malt. April 2 1 . 



To Mark Noble, of the parish of Battersea, in the 

 county of Surry, engine-maker ; for a new chain-pump, a 

 new hand-pump, and a new improved extinguishing fire- 

 engine. April 25. 



To Robert John Stanley, of the town of Gainsborough, 

 HI the county of Lincoln, gentleman ; for a new method of 

 tanning leather without the use or application of bark (or 

 mineral a'^tringent) except in the tanning of backs and bins, 

 Yielding a great advantage both in respect to time and ex- 

 pense, whereby as good, if not a superior, article or com- 

 modily is produced. The ingredients required by this 

 method of tanning are entirely of a vegetable quality, and 

 the principal [jart thereof the produce of the United King- 

 doms. April 2S. 



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