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shutters the double properties of shutters and blinds. — Dated the 

 15th of June 1827. — 2 months allowed to enrol specification. 



To L. Dexter, of King's Arms yard, Colenian-street, London, 

 esquire, for improvements in machinery, communicated from abroad, 

 for the purpose of spinning wool, cotton, and other fibrous sub- 

 stances. — 16th of June — 6 months. 



To Rear- Admiral Henry Raper, of Baker-street, Mary-le-bone, 

 for a new system of signals ; first, for communicating by day, by 

 means of flags, &c. in which system the colours of the flags which 

 have heretofore served to distinguish the signals, and are subject to be 

 mistaken, may be dispensed with ; and secondly, for communicating 

 by night, by means of light, and which system of signals is more 

 conspicuous, expeditious and certain than any hitherto employed. — 

 21st of June. — 2 months. 



To Lieut. James Marshall, of Chatham, Kent, for improvements 

 in mounting guns or cannon. — 26th of June. — 6 months. 



To John Felton, of Hinkley, Leicestershire, for a machine for 

 an expeditious and correct mode of giving a fine edge to knives, 

 razors, scissors, and other cutting instruments. — 28th of June. — 

 2 months. 



To Thomas Fuller, of Bath, for improvements on wheel car- 

 riages. — 28th of June. — 2 months. 



To Walter Hancock, of Stratford, Essex, for his improvements 

 on steam-engines — 3d of July. — 6 months. 



To William Wilson, of Martin-lane, Cannon-street, for extracting 

 spirits and other solvents used in dissolving gums and other articles 

 employed for stiffening hats, &c. and converting such spirit (after 

 rectification) into use. — 4th of July. — 2 months. 



To Rene Florentin Jenar, of Bunhill-row, for improvements in 

 lamps. — 4-th of July. — 6 months. 



To George Poulton, of Stafford- street, Old Bond-street, for an 

 instrument for writing, which he denominates a self-supplying pen. 

 — ^th of July. — 6 months. 



To Thomas Sowerby, of 'Change Alley, Cornhill, for improve- 

 ments in the construction of ships' windlasses. — 4th of July. — 2 mon. 

 To Ren<i Florentin Jenar, of Bunhill-row, for his method of filling 

 up with metal or other suitable material the holes or interstices in 

 wire, gauze, or other similar substances, which he denominates 

 metallic linen. — 4th of July. — 6 months. 



To John Snelton Shenton, of Husband Bosworth, Leicestershire, 

 for improvements in the mechanism of water-closets. — 12th of July. 

 — 2 months. 



To Edward Barnard Deeble, of St. James's-street, Westminster, 

 for a new construction and combination of metallic blocks for form- 

 ing caissons, jetties, piers, quays, embankments, light-houses, foun- 

 dations, walls, &c. — 12th of July. — 6 months. 



To Robert Vazie, of York-square, St. Pancras, Middlesex, for 

 improvements in processes, utensils and apparatus, applicable to the 

 y)reparing, extracting, and preserving various articles of food, the 

 component parts of which are of different dimensions proportionate 

 to their uses. — l-2tli of July. — 6 months. 



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