S96 List of Patent n for nciv Inventions. 



To Robert Ford, of Crouch End, in theparishof Hornscy and 

 conntv of Middlesex, clieniist, for his medicine for the cure of 

 couj^h'^, colds, asthmas and consumptions, which he denominates 

 *' Ford's Balsam of Horehound." — 19th November. — 2 months. 



To George Washington Dickinson, of Great Queen-street, 

 Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the county of Middlesex, for his new 

 improved method, means, or contrivance, for preventing leakage 

 from vessels employed to contain liquids, and for the preventing 

 the admission of moisture into ])ackages or vessels intended to 

 be kept dry within. — 1st November. — 6 months. 



To Simon Hosking, of the parish of St. Phillack, Cornwall, for 

 his steam engine, on a new construction, for drawing water from 

 nines, for working different kinds of machine?v, and for other 

 purposes for which steam engines are generally applied. — Ist 

 November. — 6 months. 



To William Day, of the Strand, county of Middlesex, for va- 

 rious improvements in or on trunks, and also in the application 

 of certain machinery, by means of which they will contract or 

 expand at pleasure. — Ist November. — 2 months. 



To William Piercy, of Birmingham, for his new method of 

 making thimbles. — 1st November. — 2 months. 



To John Heathcoat, of Loughborough, for certain impro\e- 

 ments upon machines or machinery, invented and in use for the 

 purpose of making that kind of lace commonly known or distin- 

 guished bv the name or names of bobbin-net or Buckinghamshire 

 lace net. — Ist November. — G months. 



To William Snowden, of Doncaster, for his new improved ap- 

 paratus or machine to be attached or applied to carriages to 

 prevent them being overturned.— 1st November. — 2 months. 



To Robert Stirling, of Edinburgh, for improvements in di- 

 minishing the constmiption of fuel, and in particular an engine 

 capable of being applied to the moving machinery on a principle 

 entirely new. — 16th November. — G moiitiis. 



To John Day, of Bromjjton, for certain improvements and 

 additions in the construction of piano-fortes and other keyed 

 musical instruments. — 16th November. — 6 months. 



To Robert Rains Baines, of Mytou, in the county of the town 

 of Kingston-upon-Hull, for his perpetual log or sea perambula- 

 tor. — 16th November. — 6 months. 



To William Ru.ssell, of Averv Farm Row, Chelsea, Middlesex, 

 for his imjjrovement upon cocks and vents for general purpose^, 

 particularly useful to brewers, distillers, private families, &c.— - 

 19th November. — 6 months. 



To John Barker, of Cottage Green, Camberwoll, Surrey, for • 

 his improvement or improvements in the method or means of 

 acting. upon machinery. — 19th November. — 6 months. 



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