List of Patents for veiu Inventions. 323 



To Allen Taylor, of Barking, Essex, for an engine for 

 the purpose of manufacturing all sorts of grain into flour, 

 meal, or any thing else required, which en»jine may be ap- 

 plied to manv other useful purposes. — 28th Jan. 



To John Lebcrecht Steinhoeuser, of Piccadilly, mathe- 

 inatical instrument-maker, for an improvement applicable 

 (t) fire-screens, mu^ic-siands, or reading-desks, and cande- 

 labres. — 4ih February. 



To Samuel Roberts, of Sheffield, silver plater, for his 

 method of making lavers or wash basons of metal much 

 more elegant and useful than hath hitherto been used. — 

 4th Feb." 



To Robert Goswell Giles, of the city of London, mer- 

 chant, for a caj^ or cowl of a new construction to be placed 

 on the tops of chimneys to prevent the smoke from being 

 driven d<nvn by the wind. — 6th Feb. 



To William Palmer, of Temple Place, Blackfriars Roaii, 

 in the countv of Surrv, clerk, for certain piece or pieces of 

 machinery called by him Revolving Rollers and Revolving 

 Kolltr-whetis, one or other of which may be applied to 

 every sort or description of wheel c3rriao:;e in addition to, 

 and conjunction with, part or instead of any of the wheels 

 and axle-trees at present commonly used and attached to 

 wheel carriages (as the case may be), and which being so 

 applied will greatlv help, facilitate, and render more easy 

 the draught of all carriages. — 6lh Feb. 



To Jeremiah Steele, of Liverpool, distiller, for his new 

 apparatus and method of working the same for distilling 

 and rectifying spirits. — 8th Feb. 



To Robert Dickinson, of Great Queen Street, Lincoln's 

 Inn Fields; and Henry Maudf^lay, of the parish of Saint 

 Mary, Lanribeth, for their invented process of sweetening 

 water and other liquids, and aj)plicable to other purposes. — • 

 8th Feb. 



To Thomas Figgi^is, of Portsmouth, upholsterer, for a 

 couch (which he denominates a palanquin couch) upon an 

 improved construction. — IQth Feb. 



To George Dollond, of St. Paul's Churchyard, optician, 

 for his improved method of lighting the compass commonly 

 called the binnacle compass used tor steering ships at sea, 

 and other improvements relating to ships' binnacles. — 19th 

 Feb. 



To Louis Honore Henry Germain Constant, of Bland- 

 ford Street, Portman Square, for his new method of refining 

 sugars. — 27th Feb. 



