List of Patents for neiv Inventions. 155 



To George Prior, of Leeds, for his invention for perfectly de- 

 taching the escape-wheel of clirononieters from the influence of 

 the friction and inaccuracies arising from the main-s:pring, the 

 pivots, and the teeth of all the other wheels and pinions in the 

 machine during the time of its giving impulses to the halance, 

 whereby its vibration will be more accurately and uniformly sup- 

 ported tiian by any other invention heretofore made public. — 

 29th Jan. — 6 months. 



To Jolui Penwarne, of Stafford-street, St. Marylehone, for 

 certain improvements, being an improvement on the cock for 

 drawing beer,cider,and other liquors from casks and other vessels, 

 without the interruption of a vent plug, or any opening whatever 

 in the upper part of the cask or vessel, either for the purpose of 

 admitting air, or for aflising the said instrument or cock or any 

 apparatus or appendage belonging to the same. — 31st Jan. — 

 2 months. 



To Benjamin Taylor, of Mile-End, near Glasgow, for his loom' 

 to work bv the power from a steam-engine, which will weave 

 figures or flovv'ers upon either twilled or plain cloth, in either silk, 

 cotton, hnen, or worsted, or any of them intermixed. — 3 1st Jan. 

 — 2 months. 



To Sir Thomas Cochrane, knight, commonly called Lord 

 Cochrane, for his imjnovement or improvements in the process 

 or processes of purifjing a certain spirit or essential oil which is 

 known bv the name of spirit of tar or oil of tar, and which is ob- 

 tained from different ligneous, carbonaceous, or bituminous sub- 

 stances ; by means of w'hich improvement or im])rovements the 

 said oil or spirit v.ill be separated from certain impurities which 

 have hitherto prevented the application of such oil of spirit to 

 divers useful purposes. — 3d Feb. — G months. 



To Matthew Cotes Wyatt, of Hemietta-street, Cavendish- 

 square, (in consequence of a comnrunication made to him by a 

 certain foreigner residing abroad,) for a safeguard to prevent the 

 accidental movement of the lock of a gun, pistol, or other fire- 

 arm, forward towards the haunncr. — 3d Feb. — G months. 



To Jeremiah Chubb, of Portsea, in the county of Southamp- 

 ton, for certain improvements in the construction of locks. — 3d 

 Feb. — 6 months. 



To Daniel V/ilson, of Earl-street, for certain improvements in 

 the process of boiling and refining sugar. — 3d Feb. — 6 months. 



'I'o Edmund Naish, of Bristol, hosier, for certain improvements 

 on the machines or machinery used for winding cotton. — 3d Feb. 

 — 1 months. 



To Grant Preston, of Burr-street, Aldgate, for his improvement 

 in the feck glass rim, and on the safety- gate. — 3d Feb. — 2 

 montli';. 



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