List of Patents for new Inventions. 237 
LIST OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS, 
To James Hume, of Percy-street, in the parish of St. 
Pancras, and county of Middlesex, esq. for his sweeping 
machine or brush, or improvement on a sweeping machine 
or brush, or sweeping machines or brushes.—February 28, 
W811. 
To Robert Salmon, of Woburn, in the county of Bed- 
ford, surveyor, for certain instruments for the relief of 
hernia, which instruments he calls Salmon’s new royal pa~ 
tent artificial abdomens.—March 4. 
To William Southwell, of Gresse-street, Rathbone- 
place, in the county of Middlesex, piano-forte-maker, for 
certain improvements in the construction of a piano-forte, 
—March 4. 
To Edward Savage, of Oxford-street, in the county of 
Middlesex, tin-plate worker, for a machine for washing 
and bleaching of linen and other articles, and for cooking 
by means of steam, with a roaster or oven, and warm 
closets attached, all heated by the same fire.—March 4. 
To John Trotter, of Soho-square, in the county of Mid- 
dlesex, esq. for improvements in musical instruments. 
March 4, 
To Sarah Guppy, wife of Samuel Guppy, in the city of 
Bristol, merchant, for her mode of erecting and construct- 
ing bridges and rail roads without arches or sterlings, where- 
by the danger of being washed away by floods is avoided. 
—March 4. 
To William Turner, of *?Change-alley, in the city of 
London, merchant, for his pike or halbert, with conteaus, 
—March 4. . 
To John Plaskett, of Garlick-Hill, in the city of Lon- 
don, stave-merchant, and Samuel Brown, of Norfolk- 
street, Southwark, in the county of Surrey, cooper, for’ 
their method of making or manufacturing of casks and 
other vessels by improved machinery, which machinery 
is applicable to other useful purposes.—March 6. 
To Thomas William Sturgeon, of Howland-street, in 
the county of Middlesex, esq. for his improved castors.— 
March 6. we 
To Abraham Willis, of Deritend, in the parish of Aston, 
and county of Warwick, for his new method of producing 
steel toys of different descriptions, such as barbers’ curling- 
irons, sugar-nippers, snuffers, and other articles—March 6. 
To Richard Jackson, of the Bear Garden, Southwark, 
in the county of Surrey, iron-manufacturer, for his me- 
thod or methods of making the shanks of anchors and 
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