List of Patents for new Inventions. 73 
To William Johnson, of Salford, Manchester, Lancashire, for 
certain improvements in the construction of furnaces or fire- 
places for the purposes of heating, boiling, or evaporating water 
and other liquids ; which improvements are applicable to steam- 
engines and other purposes, whereby a greater saving in the con- 
sumption of fuel is effected, with a more complete destruction or 
consumption of smoke, by combustion, than has hitherto been 
produced.—24th Dec.—2 months. 
To Henry Faveryear, of Castle-street, Leicester-square, gen- 
tleman, for a machine for the cutting of veneers in wood and 
other substances.—24th Dec.—6 months. 
To Frederick Clifford Cherry, of Croydon, Surrey, for his box- 
ease or frame-forge, which may be readily transported from place 
to place, applicable to shipping, agriculture, and a variety of 
other purposes where portability and eeconomy are desirable.-— 
2d Jan. 1819.—2 months. 
To Charles Tanner, of Plymouth, in the county of Devon, 
tanner, for certain improvements in preserving or curing raw 
hides and skins by the application of certain materials hitherto 
unused for that purpose.—4th Jan.—2 months. 
To William Carter, of Shoreditch, Middlesex, printer, for his 
improved methods of preparing cork bark usually employed in the 
manufacture of corks.—6th Jan.—6 months. 
To John Pontifex, of Shoe-lane, London, coppersmith, for 
improvements in the means of raising water for giving motion to 
machinery and other purposes.—7th Jan.—6 months. 
To John Simpson, of Birmingham, Warwickshire, plater, for 
his method of constructing and making harness on an improved 
principle for horses and other animals used for the purpose of 
drawing or conveying carriages—to be called Release harness. — 
15th Jan.—6 months. 
To Charles Smith, of Piccadilly, Middlesex, superfine colour- 
manufacturer, for his improvement in the method or form of 
making up superfine oil- and water-colours for drawing, painting, 
and other purposes.— 15th Jan.—6 months. 
To Robert Salmon, of Woburn in the county of Bedford, esq., 
and William Warrell, of Chenies in the county of Buckingham, 
engineer, for sundry apparatus for cooling, condensing and ven- 
tilating worts, liquors, and all other fluids or solid matters. — 
15th Jan.—6 months. 
' To John Gregory, of Penny Fields, parish of All-Saints Pop- 
lar, Middlesex, shipwright, for his combination of machinery 
consisting of a fire-escape ladder, and the various apparatus ne- 
cessary for the safety of persons and property in such cases, part 
of which machinery is applicable to other useful purposes.— 
15th Jan.—6 months. 
COMETS. 
