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LIST OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS. 



To William Archer Deacon, of Pilgrim's Hatch in the parish 

 of South Weald, Essex, gentleman, for certain improvements in 

 the manufacture of boots and shoes and clogs, by the application 

 of certain materials hitherto unused for that purpose. — 1st No- 

 vember IS 19. 



To Sir William Congreve, of Cecil-street, Strand, in the county 

 of Middlesex, bart., for his improved mode of enlarging or com- 

 bining different metals or other hard substances applicable to 

 various useful purposes. — 1st November. 



To Israel Gundy, gent., Edward Neave and Josiah Neave, 

 shopkeepers, allof Gillingham, Dorsetshire, for their application 

 of various gases or vapours to certain useful purposes. — 1st No- 

 vember. 



To William Hudson, of Cranbroke, Kent, for improvements in 

 the manufacture of boots and shoes. ■^— 1st November. 



To Samuel Shorthouse, of Dudlev, Gloucestershire, for a ma- 

 chine to cut straw of any length required, thereby rendering straw 

 a better and more convenient winter food for cattle, and the ma- 

 nure produced in farm-yards, &c. fit for immediate use ; also for 

 rendering dry straw a manageable manure; also for cutting straw 

 to mix with horses' corn ; also for cutting straw to any given length 

 for any other purpose. — 1st November. 



To John Heard, of Birmingham, for his improvements on 

 cooking apparatus. — 4th November. 



To .John Grafton, engineer to the Edinburgh Gas Light Com- 

 pany, for his new and improved apparatus for purifying gas used 

 for illumination. — 18th November. 



To Louis Fauche Borel, of the Haymarket, in the parish of 

 Saint Martin in the Fields, gent, for an invention called The 

 moveable and iriodorous conveniencer. — 1 6th May. 



To John Sinclair, for a new method of introducing coloured 

 threads into flowers and other fancy figures in the process of 

 weaving, whether the said articles are made of silk, cotton, 

 worsted and hemp, or mixtures thereof. — ISth November. 



To Joseph Glenny, of Saint John's square Clerkenwell, and 

 John Darby of Gee-street, Middlesex, for a machine and apparatus 

 calculated to answer the purposes of a fire and burglary alarum. 

 — 23d November. 



To George Lilley, of Briggin, Lincolnshire, for certain im- 

 provements in the construction of engines or machinery (to be 

 wrought by steam or other elastic fluids) applicable to the driving 

 of mills, and other useful purposes. — 23d November. 



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