List of Patents for New Inventions. 287 



To James Rawlinson, of the town of Derby, gent.; for 

 his certain improvements or apparatuses, commonly made 

 use of as trusses, or bandages for ruptures. Dated August 1. 



To Peter Marsland, of Heaton Norris, in the county of 

 Lancaster, cotton spinner ;Tor his improved method of weav- 

 ing cotton, linen, woollen, worsted and mohair, and each or 

 any of them, by machinery. Dated August 1 . 



To Thomas Fricker, of New-Bond Street, in the county 

 of Middlesex, paper-hanger; and Richard Clarke, of Manor 

 Street, Chelsea, in the said countv, paper hanging manu- 

 facturer ; for their new mode of decorating the walls of 

 apartments, in imitation of fine cloth : without joint, seam, 

 or shade, by means of cementing of flock on walls of plaster, 

 wood, linen or paper. Dated August 1. 



To Ralph Walker, of Blackwall, in the county of Mid- 

 dlesex, engineer; for his improved mode of making ropes, 

 and cordage of every dimension or size, by not only mak- 

 ing all the yarns bear equally in the strand, and laying the 

 strands uniformly in the rope, but also, by making the rope 

 or cordage from the yarns in the same operation. Dated 

 August 9. 



To Josias Robbins, of Liverpool, in the county of* Lan- 

 caster, mill-Wright; and James Curtis, of the city of Bris- 

 tol, coppersmith ; for certain improvements in boilers for 

 manufacturing sugar, and in the nrade of fixing the 

 same, whereby much labour and fuel will be saved. Dated 

 August 20. 



To John By water, of the town and county of the town 

 of Nottingham ; for his improvement in certain sails of 

 ships, and other navigable vessels, and the mode of work- 

 ing the same. Dated August 22. 



To John Curr, of Belle Vue house, in the county of 

 York, gent. ; for his method of laying and twisting the 

 yarns that compose a rope, by which method the yarns of a 

 rope have a better and more equal bearing than they have in 

 a rope made in the common way. Dated August 23. 



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