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LIST OF NEW PATENTS. 



To Charles Random Baron De Berenge, of Target Cottage, Kentish 

 Town, in the parish of St. Pancr3s, Middlesex, for his improvement as to a 

 new method or methods of applying percussion to the purpose of ignitin<* 

 charges in fire-arms generally, and in a novel and peculiar manner, whereby 

 a reduction of the present high price of fire-arms can be effected, and the 

 priming is also effectually protected against the influence of rain or other 

 moisture; such invention and contrivances rendering the percussion principle 

 more generally applicable even to common pistols, blunderbusses and 

 muskets, as well as to all sorts of sporting and other guns, by greatly re- 

 ducing not only the charges of their manufacture, but also those impeding 

 circumstances which persons have to encounter whilst loading or dischar- 

 ging fire-arms when in darkness, or whilst exposed to wet, or during rapid 

 progress— serious impediments which soldiers and sailors, and consequently 

 the service, more particularly and most injuriously experience. — Dated 

 27th July 1824. — 2 months allowed to enrol specification. 



To Alexander Nesbitt, of Upper Thames-street, London, broker, who, in 

 consequence of a communication made to him by William Van Houten the 

 younger, a foreigner residing abroad, is in possession of a process by 

 which certain materials may be manufactured into paper or felt, or a sub- 

 stance nearly resembling coarse paper or felt, which material so prepared 

 is applicable to various useful purposes. — 27th July. — 6 months. 



To Thomas Wolrich Stansfeld, of Leeds, Yorkshire, merchant, for 

 certain improvements in power looms and the preparation of warps for 

 the same.— 27th July. — 6 months. 



To Edward Cartwright, of Brewer-street, Golden-square, in the parish 

 of St. James, Westminster, Middlesex, engraver and printer, for his im- 

 provements on or additions to roller printing presses. — 27th July. — 2months. 



To Charles Jefferies, of Havanah Mills near Congleton, silk thrower, and 

 Edward Drakeford, of Congleton, watch-maker, both in the county of 

 Chester, for their method of making a swift and other apparatus thereto 

 belonging, for the purpose of winding silk and other fibrous materials. — 

 29th July. — 2 months. 



To William Wheatstone, of No. 1 18, Jermyn-street, St. James's, Middle- 

 sex, music-seller, for his method of improving and augmenting the tones 

 of piano-fortes, organs, and euphonons— 29th July.— 2 months. 



To John Price, of Stroud, Gloucestershire, engineer, for certain improve- 

 ments in the construction of spinning machines. — 5th August. — 6 months. 



To George Graydon, of Bath, esquire, a captain in our Royal Engineers, 

 for his compass for navigation and other purposes. — 5th August. — b' mon. 



To William Johnson, of Great Tothan, Essex, gentleman, for a means 

 of evaporating fluids, for the purpose of conveying heat into buildings for 

 manufacturing, horticultural, and domestic uses, and for heating liquors in 

 distilling, brewing, and dyeing, and in making sugar and salt with reduced 

 expenditure of fuel. — 5th August. — 4 months. 



To Jacob Perkins, of Fleet-street, London, engineer, for certain improve- 

 ments in propelling vessels.— 9th August. — 6 months. 



To John rassell, of Mells, Somersetshire, edge-tool maker, for his im- 

 proved method of heating woollen cloth for the purpose of giving it a 

 lustre in dressing. — lltli August. — 2 months. 



To Herman Schroder, of Hackney, Middlesex, broker, for his new filter. 

 — 11th August. — months. 



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