List of Patents for New Inventions. 389 
purpose of forming an elastic resisting medium.—25th of April. 
—6 months. 
To Samuel Brown, of Eagle Lodge, Old Brompton, Mid- 
dlesex, for his improvements on his former patent dated De- 
cember 4, 1823, for an engine for effecting a vacuum, and thus 
producing powers by which water may be raised and ma- 
chinery put in motion.—25th of April.—6 months. 
To Francis Halliday, of Ham, in the county of Surrey, 
esquire, for his apparatus for preventing the inconvenience 
arising from smoke in chimneys, which he denominates a wind 
guard.—25th of April.—é6 months. . 
To John Williams, of the Commercial Road, Middlesex, 
for improvements on ships’ hearths and apparatus for cooking 
by steam.—27th of April.—2 months. 
To William Choice, of Strahan Terrace, and Robert Gib- 
son, of White Conduit Terrace, Islington, for improvements 
in machinery for making bricks.—27th of April.—2 months. 
To Charles Kennedy, of Virginia Terrace, Great Dover 
Road, Surrey, surgeon, for his improvements in the apparatus 
used for cupping. —29th of April—é6 months. 
To John Goulding, a citizen of the United States of Ame- 
rica, but now residing in Cornhill, for his improvements in 
the machines used for carding, stubbing, slivering, roving, or 
spinning wool, cotton, flax, or any fibrous materials.—2d of 
May.—6 months. 3 
To Arnold Buffurn, late of Massaehusetts, in the United 
States of America, but now residing in Jewin-street, hat ma- 
nufacturer, and John MacCardy, of Cecil-street, Strand, for 
improvements in steam-engines, communicated from abroad. 
6th of May.—6 months. 
To Sir Robert Seppings, knight, surveyor of the navy, of 
Somerset-House, for improvements in the construction of fids, 
or apparatus for striking top-masts and top-gallant-masts in 
ships.—6th of May.—6 months. 
To William Fenner, of Bushell Rents, Wapping, for im- 
provements in apparatus for curing smoky and cleansing foul 
chimneys.—6th of May.—6 months. 
To Alexander Allard de la Court, of Great Winchester- 
street, London, esquire, for a new instrument, and improve- 
ments in certain well known instruments, applicable to the 
organ of sight.—6th of May.—6 months. 
To Joseph Schaller, of Regent-street, for improvements in 
the construction or manufacture of clogs, pattens, or substi- 
tutes for the same.—6th of May.—6 months. 
To Edward Heard, of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, chemist, 
for a new composition for the purpose of washing in sea and 
other water.—8th of May.—6 months. 
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