List of Patents for new Inventions, 239 



To William Mitchell, of Glasgow, und John Lawton, of King 

 Street, Snov/ Hill, London, for their improved lock and key. — 

 7th March. — 6 months. 



To William Wood, of Shadvvell, shipwright, for his material 

 or materials, and the application thereof to the more effectually 

 making water-tight and sea-worthy, sliips and all other vessels, 

 which he denominates "• adhesive felt." — 9th March.--6 months. 



To Elizabeth Beveridge, of Hatton Garden, London, for an 

 improved bedstead. — 14th March. — 2 months. 



To John Mills, of Holywell Street, and St. Clement's Church- 

 yard, Strand, for his improved elastic stays for women and 

 children, and also to give relief to women in a state of pregnancy. 

 — 14th March. — 2 months. 



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

 Fields, in the county of Middlesex, esq. for certain improvements 

 in the making or fabrication of sundry tools, implements, or arti- 

 cles used in various arts or manipulations, or the ordinary occa- 

 sions of life. — 14th March. — 6 months. 



To William Bell, of Edinburgh, writer to the signet, for cer- 

 tain improvements in the apparatus for copying manuscripts or 

 other writings or designs. — 14th March. — 2 months. 



To Jonathan Ridgeway, of Manchester, for his method of 

 casting and fixing at the same time metallic types on the sur- 

 face of metallic cylinders or metallic rollers, or any cylinders or 

 rollers having metallic surfaces, or on blocks of metal, or on 

 blocks having metallic surfaces, or on flat metallic plates for the 

 purpose of printing patterns on cloth made of cotton, or liiicn, 

 or both. — 14th March. — 2 months. 



To Thomas Potts, of Batchworth Mills, Rickmansworth, for his 

 new mode or means of combining and applying principles already 

 known to the pinpose of producing pure fresli warm air, and of 

 such mode or means of combination and application of principles 

 already known to such purposes as aforesaid. — I4th March. — 

 6 months. 



To Henry Houldworth, of Anderston, near Glasgow, civil en- 

 gineer, for his new method of discharging the air, or air and con- 

 densed steam, from pipes used for the convevance of steam for 

 the purposes of heating buildings or other places. — ISth March. 

 — 2 months. 



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