List of New Patents. 399 



of rttaking that kiinl of lace commonly known or distinguished by the name 

 of bobbin, net, or Buckinghamshire lace-net.— 1st November.— (5 months. 



To The Rev. John Somerville, A.M. minister of the parish of Currre, 

 Edinburgh, for a method or methods applicable to fowling-pieces or other 

 fire-arms, by which method or methods all accidental discharge of such 

 fowling-pieces or other fire-arms will be completely prevented. — 4th No- 

 vember. — 2 months. 



To John Crosley, of Cottage-lane, City Road. Middlesex, gentleman, 

 for his contrivance for better ensuring the egress of smoke and rarefied air 

 in certain situations. — 4th November. — 6 months. 



To Thomas Richard Guppy, of Bristol, gentleman, for certain improve- 

 ments in masting vessels.— 4th November. — 6 months. 



To John Head, of Banbury, Oxfordshire, hosier, for certain improve- 

 ments in machinery for making cords or plait for boot and stay laces, and 

 other purposes. — 4th November.— 4 months. 



To William Church, of Birmingham, Warwickshire, esquire, for certain 

 improvements on augers and bits for boring, and in the apparatus for 

 making the same. — 4th November. — 6 months. 



To William Busk, of Broad street, London, esquire, for certain im- 

 provements in propelling ships, boats, or other vessels or floating bodies. 

 — 4th November. — 6 months. 



To John White the younger, and Thomas Sowerby, both of Bishop 

 Wearmouth, Durham, merchants, for their improved air-furnace for the 

 purpose of melting or fusing metallic substances. — 6th November. — 

 4 months. 



To John Moore, of Broad Weir, Bristol, gentleman, for certain ad- 

 ditions to an improvement upon the steam-engine or steam-engine appa- 

 ratus. — 6th November.— 6 months. 



To Thomas Cartmell, of Doncaster, Yorkshire, gun-maker, for an im- 

 proved cock to be applied to the lock of any gun, pistol, fire-arms, or ord- 

 nance, for the purpose of firing the same by percussion, acting either by 

 self-priming or otherwise, and whereby the priming is rendered wholly im- 

 pervious alike to the wind, rain, or damp. — 6th November.— 2 months. 



To Charles Heathorn, of Maidstone, Kent, lime-burner, for his method 

 of constructing and erecting a furnace or furnaces, kiln or kilns, for the 

 more speedy, more effectually, and more economically manufacturing of 

 lime, by means of applying, directing, and limiting, or regulating the flame 

 and heat arising in the manufacturing or burning coal into coke, and thus 

 making lime and coke in one and the same building, and at one and the 

 same time. — 11th November. — 2 months. 



To William Leathy, of Great Guildford-street, Borough ofSouthwark, 

 engineer, for various improvements in the machinery or apparatus used in 

 the making of bricks, and certain improvements in the drying of bricks, by 

 means of flues and steam. — 11th November. — 6 months. 



To Pierre Brunet, of Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Middlesex, 

 merchant, who, in consequence of a communication made to him by a 

 certain foreigner residing abroad, with whom he is connected, is in pos- 

 session of an invention of a furnace made upon a new construction. — 11th 

 November. — 6 months. 



To Joseph Clisild Daniell, of Stoke, Wilts, clothier, for certain im- 

 provements in dressing woollen cloth. — 20th November. — 4 months. 



To Isaac Taylor junior, of (.'hipping Ongar, Essex, gentleman, for a 

 newly invented cock or tap for drawing off' liquids. — 20th November. — 

 2 months. 



To William Rhodes, of Baulins, Iloxton, Middlesex, brick-maker, for 

 hi* improvement in the construction of clamps for burning raw bricks. — 



-Oth November, — 6 months. 



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