List of Ne'jo Patents. 399 



To William Davis, engineer, of Leeds, and of Gloucestershire, for his 

 improvements in machinery for reducing wool into slivers or threads of any 

 desired length, unlike worsted, namely, presenting more numerous hair 

 points projecting from the surface of the slivers or threads. — 7th May. — 

 6 months. 



To Thomas Hill the younger, of Ashton-under-Line, Lancashire, land- 

 surveyor and engineer, for improvements in the construction of railways, 

 and tram roads, and in carriages to be used thereon and on other roads. 



— 10th May. — 6 months. 



To Edward EUiss, of Crexton, near Rochester, lime-merchant, for his 

 improved brick, orsnbstitute for brick, manufactured from a material hitherto 

 unused for or in the making of bricks. — 14th May.— 6 months. 



To Samuel Pratt, of New Bond-street, Middlesex, camp-equipage manu- 

 facturer, for a manner of combining wood and metal, so as to form rails or 

 rods adapted to the manufacture of bedsteads, cornices, and other works 

 where strength and lightness are desirable, which he denominates Union or 

 compound rods. — 14th May.— 6 months. 



To John C.C. Raddatz, of Salisbury-square, Fleet-street, in consequence 

 of a communication made to him by Ernst Alban, of Rostock, M.D., for 

 improvements in steam-engines. — 14th May. — 6 months. 



To Jean Francois Gravier, of Cannon-street, London, for a method, com- 

 municated from abroad, of regulating the emission or flow of gas from por- 

 table reservoirs, and increasing the security of such reservoirs. — 14th May. 



— 6 months. 



To Thomas Dyke, of Broadway, near Ilminster, Somersetshire, dissenting 

 minister, for an apparatus to prevent the overturning or falling of carriages 

 — 14th May.— 2 months. 



To Alexander Galloway, of West-street, London, engineer, for a machine ' 

 for the forming and moulding of bricks and other bodies usually made from 

 clay, plastic, or any of the usual materials. — 14th May. — 6 months. 



To William Grimble, of Cowcross-street, Middlesex, for improvements 

 in apparatus for distilling spirituous liquors.— 14th May. — 6 months. 



To Edward Garsed, of Leeds, flax-spinner, for improvements in machinery 

 for hacking, combing, or dressing flax, hemp, and other fibrous materials. — 

 14th May. — 6 months. 



To Henry Oswald Weatherky, of Queen Ann-street, Mary-le-bone, 

 Middlesex, for his apparatus or machinery for splitting, cutting, or cleaving 

 of wood, and forming and securing the same in bundles. — 14th May. — 

 6 months. 



To Goldsworthy Gurney, of Argyle-street, Hanover-squai-e, Middlesex, 

 surgeon, for his apparatus for propelling carriages on common roads, or on 

 railways 14th May.— fi months. 



To John Young, of Wolverhampton, cooper, for his improvements in 

 the construction of locks for doors and other purposes. — 14th May. — 

 6 months. 



To James Fox, of Plynioutli, rectifying distiller, for an improved safe to 

 be used in the distillation of ardent spirits. — 14th May. — 2 months. 



To Charles Macintosh, of Crossbasket, in the county of Lanark, esq., for 

 a new process for making steel. — Hth May. — 6 months. 



To John Badams, of Ashted, near Birmingham, chemist, for a new me- 

 thod of extracting certain metals from their ores and jjurifying certain 

 metals. — Kith May. — fi months. 



To Isaac Rcviere, of ;n5, Oxford-street, Middlesex, gun-maker, for an 

 improved construction, arrangement, aiul simidification of the machinery 

 by which guns, pistols, and other fire-arms are discharged. — ;20th May. — 

 6 months, 



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