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LIST OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS. 



To Sir Thomas Cochrane, knight, commonly called Lord 

 Cochrane, for a manufacture of lamps for streets which effectuate 

 and regulate the combustion of a certain purified essential oil or 

 spirit obtained from different ligneous, carbonaceous, or bitu- 

 minous substances usually called spirit of tar, or oil of tar ; and 

 also working or making a manufacture being an arrangement or 

 arrangements of parts of lamps, whereby all other lamps in which 

 flame is inclosed as in street-lamps within glass vessels or cases, 

 capable of transmitting light and protecting the flame from the 

 wind and weather, are adapted to the production of a clear light 

 by the combustion or decomposition of the said purified oil or 

 spirit therein, and the use of the said purified essential oil or 

 spirit in such lamps. — Sth April 1818. — Allowed 6 montRs to 

 enroll. 



To John James Alexander M'Carthy, of No. 4, Spring Gar- 

 den, Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, for 

 his method or methods of applying granite or other material in 

 the making, constructing, or forming pavements, pitching, and 

 covering for streets, roads, ways, and places. — Sth April. — 6 

 months. 



To William Annesley, of Belfast, architect, for certain im- 

 provements in the constructing ships, boats, and other vessels. 

 Sth April. — 6 months. 



To William Hopkinson, of High Holborn, in the county of 

 Middlesex, coach-maker, for his machine or apparatus to pre- 

 vent the wheels of waggons, carts, coaches, and all other car- 

 riages from coming off by accident, and which he intends to de- 

 nominate or call a Wheel-detainer. — Sth April. — 2 months. 



To George Whitham, of iSheffield, manufacturer of spindles, 

 for his machinery for grinding, glazing, and dressing small cotton 

 and woollen spindles, for spinning on jenney bills and mull and 

 other kinds of machine for fine work. — Sth April. — 2 months. 



To William Booth, of Eckington, in the county of Derby, 

 turner in wood, for his method or process of making by a certain 

 machine or machines, wooden clogs for pattens, wooden clogs 

 or soles for shoes, and a description of wooden clogs commonly 

 called or known bv the name of the Devonshire clogs, or by what- 

 soever other name or names, description or descriptions the same 

 several clogs or soles are commonly called, known, described, or 

 distinguished. — 8th April. — 2 months. 



To William Church, late of the New Coffee-House, Sweeting's 

 Alley, Cornhill, in the city of London, but now of Clifton-street, 

 Finsbury-square, in the county of Middlesex, gent., for his im- 

 provements in the steam-engine. — Sth April. — 4 months. 



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