1825.] New Patents. ^37 



S. Roberts, Parke Grange, near Sheffield, silver-plater, for his 

 improvement in the manufacture of plated goods of various descrip* 

 tions. — Dec. 18. 



P. J. B. V. GoBset, Clerkenwell Green, for improvements in looms 

 or machinery for weaving various sorts of cloths or fabrics. — Dec. IS. 

 ' J. Gardner, smith, and J. Herbert, carpenter, both of St. Leonards, 

 Gloucestershire, for improvements on machines for shearing or cropping 

 woollen cloths. — Dec. IS. 



W. F. Snowden, Oxford-street, machinist, for his invented wheel- 

 way and its carriage for the conveyance of passengers, merchandize, 

 and other things along roads, rail, and other ways, either on a level or 

 inclined plane, and applicable to other purposes. — Dec. 18. 



J. Weiss, Strand, surgical- instrument maker and cutler, for improve- 

 ments on exhausting, injecting, or condensing pumps or springs, and 

 on the apparatus connected therewith, which improvements are 

 applicable to various useful purposes. — Dec. 18. 



J. and W. H. Deykin, Birmingham, button-makers, for an improve- 

 ment in the manufacture of military and liverj' buttons. — Dec. 23. 



D. Stafford, Liverpool, for improvements on carriages. *-Dec. 24. 



S. Denison, Leeds, whitesmith, and J. Harris, Leeds, paper-mould* 

 maker, for improvements in machinery for the purpose of making wove 

 and laid paper. — Jan. 1, 1825. 



P. Erard, Great IMarlborough-street, musical-instrument maker, for 

 improvements in piano-fortes. — Jan. 5. 



A. Tilloch, LL.D. of Islington, for improvements in the steam- 

 engine or apparatus connected therewith. — Jan. 11, 



W. Henson and \V. Jackson, Worcester, lace-manufacturers, fot 

 improvements in machinery for making bobbin-net. — Jan. 11. 



G. Gurney, Argyle-street, Hanover-square, surgeon, for his im- 

 proved finger-keyed musical instrument, in the use of which a per- 

 former is enabled to hold or prolong the notes, and to increase or 

 modify the tone.^ — Jan. 1 1 . 



F. G. Spilsbury, Leek, Staffordshire, silk-manufacturer, for improve- 

 ments in weaving Jan. 11. 



W. Hirst, Leeds, cloth-manufactuier, for improvements in spinning 

 and shabbing machines. — Jan. 11. 



.1. F. Smith, Dunston Hall, Chesterfield, for improvements in the 

 preparation of slivers or tops from wool, cotton, or other fibrous mate- 

 rials. — Jan. 1 1. 



J. F. Smith, Dunston Hall, Chesterfield, for improvements in dress- 

 ing atul finishing woollen cloths. — Jan. II. 



J. F. Atlee, 3Iarchwood, Southampton, for a process by which 

 planks and other scantlings of wood will be prevented from shrinking, 

 and will be altered and materially improved in their durability, close- 

 ness of grain, and power of resisting moisture, so as to render the same 

 better adapted for ship-building and other I)uilding purposes, for furni- 

 ture and other purposes where close or compact wood is desirable ; 

 insomuch that the wood so prepared will become a new article of 

 commerce and manufacture, which he intends calling " condensed 

 wood." — Jan. 1 1. 



G. Sayner, Hunslet, Yorkshire, dyer, and J. Greenwood, Gomersall, 

 in the said county, machine-maker, for improvements in the mode of 

 sawing wood by machinery. — Jan. 1 1 . 



