156 List of Palenls for new InveiUion^. 



r.IST OF PATENTS FOR NEU' INVENTIONS. 



To Joseph de Cavaillon, of Sambrook-coiirt, Basinghall-street, 

 London, for certain improvements in the preparing, clarifying, 

 and refining of sngar, and other vegotabic, animal, and mineral 

 substances, and in the machinery and utensils used therein. — 

 6 months, 2od January 1S17. 



To Robert Dickinson, of Great Queen-street, Lincrla's-inn- 

 fields, in the county of [Middlesex, for his new improved method 

 or methods of preparing or paving streets and roads for horses 

 and carriages, so as to render the parts or pavements when so 

 done, more durable and ultiuiateiy less expensive than those in 

 common use, and presenting other important advantages. — 

 6 months, 23d January. 



To Daniel \^'ilson, of Dublin, for certain improvements in the 

 process of boiling and refining sugar. — 6 months, 23d Jan. 



To George Montague Higginson, of Eovery Tracy, Chud- 

 leigh, for certain improvements in locks. — 2 m.onths, 1st Feb. 



To William Wall, of Wandsworth in the county of Surry, for 

 his new or improved horizontal escapement for watches. — 

 2 months, 1st February. '^' 



To Isaac Robert Mott, of Brighton, for his method of pro- 

 ducing from vibrating suljstances a tone or musical sound, the 

 peculiar powers in the management whereof are entirely new, 

 and which musical instrument he denominates The Sostinente 

 Piano-forte. — 2 months, 1st Feli. 



To William Bundy, of Pratt-place, Camdcn-town, in the pa- 

 rish of St. Pancras, for machinery for breaking and j)rcparing 

 flax and hemp. — 6 months, 1st Feb. 



i''' To James Atkinson West, of Crane-court, Fleet-street, Lon- 

 don, for certain improvements in or on lustres, chandeliers, and 

 lamps of various descriptions, and in the maimer of conveying 

 gas to the same. — 6 months, 6th Feb. 



To William Clark, of the city of Bath, for his contrivance 

 called a safeguard to locks, applicable to locks in general, by 

 which they may he so secured as to defy the attempts of plun- 

 derers using picklocks or false keys. — 2 months, Sth Feb. 



To Robert Hardy, of Worcester, for certain improvements in 

 the manufacturing ol cast iron bushes or pipe boxes, for chaise, 

 coach, waggon, and all other sorts of carriage v\ heels. — 6 months, 

 20th Feb. 



To Richard Litherland, of Liverpool, for certain improvements 

 in or on the escai)ement of watches. — 6 months, 20th Feb. 



To Richard Ilolden, of Stafford-street, in the parish of St. 

 Mary-le-bone, for his machines for producing rotatory and pen- 

 dulous motion in a new manner. — 6 nionths, 20th Feb. 



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