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LIST OF NEW PATENTS. 



To George Richards, of Truro, Cornwall, architect, for certain improve* 

 ments in grate-stoves, furnaces, and other inventions for the consumption 

 of fuel, and in the flues connected with them, whereby tliey ai'e rendered 

 more safe, and the smoke prevented from retui-ning into the rooms in which 

 they are placed, and also for an improved apparatus for cleansing the same, 

 — Dated the 26th December 1822. — 6 months allowed to enrol speci- 

 fications. 



To James Rogers, of Store-street, Bedford-square, Middlesex, Esq. for 

 a method or apparatus for the purpose of attaching trowsers and gaiters to 

 boots and shoes. — 26th December. — 6 months. 



To James Neville, of New Walk, Shad Thames, Surry, civil-engineer, 

 for an improved method of producing and applj'ing heat to, and construct- 

 ing and erecting, furnaces and other reservoirs, severally used for the various 

 purposes of roasting or smelting metallic ores or other substances, melting 

 metals or any other matter, and for heating pans or boilers in various ope- 

 rations of producing steam, distilling, brewing, dj-eing, boiling, or baking 

 sugar, boiling soap, or any other manipulation or operation in which the 

 application ofhent is necessary; and also for the purpose of producing and 

 applying heat to furnaces, pans, boilers, and reservoirs, already ei'ected and 

 used, or to be used, for the purposes above mentioned ; and likewise for 

 effecting a saving in fuel, and producing a more complete combination of 

 smoke tlian at present takes place ; as well as a better mode than now in 

 use of collecting any volatile substance contained in, or combined with, me- 

 tallic ores or other substances, in the separation of which heat is neces- 

 sary ; and for the purpose of applying heat to the operations of baking or 

 dyeing substances in kilns, floors, or racks, or in ovens. — 8th January 1823, 

 — 8 months. 



To William Johnson, of Great Totham, Essex, Gent, for a means of ob- 

 taining the power of steam for the use of steam-engines with reduced ex- 

 penditure of fuel. — 8th January. — 6 months. 



To William Lister, of Baildon, in the parish of Otley, Yorkshire, cotton- 

 spinner, for certain improvements in the method and machinery for prepar- 

 ing and spinning wool, silk, mohair, or other animal fiore of any quality or 

 length of staple. — 16th January. — 6 months. 



To Robert Copland, of Wilmington-square, in the parish of Clerkenwell, 

 Middlesex, Gent, for his combinations of apparatus for gaining power, part 

 of which arc improvements upon a patent already obtained by him, for a 

 new or improved method or methods of gaining power by new or improved 

 combinations or apparatus applicable to various purposes. — 16th January. 

 — 13 months. 



To George Miller, of Lincoln's Inn, Middlesex, Brevet Lieutenant-Co- 

 lonel in the Royal Brigade, for a method or plan of communicating the 

 spiral motion to siiot and shells when fired from plain barrels, and for 

 igniting by percussion shells to which the spiral motion has been thus 

 communicated. — 16th January. — 2 months. 



To James Taylor, of Raven-row, Mile-end, Middlesex, master-mariner, 

 for a new method of constructing tiie bottoms of merchant siiips, and 

 placing the pumps so as to prevent damage to cai'goes by the bilge water. 

 — 16th January.— 2 months. 



To Junius Smitli, of Old Broad-street, London, merchant, for certain 

 improvements on a machine for washing, cleansing, and whitening cotton, 

 linen, silk, and woollen garments, or piece goods. — 20th January. — 

 € months. 



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