1813.] New Patents. 317 



horse-<nns and steam-engines, constructed with the said perpen- 

 dicular drum shafts, are preserved from material injury. Dated 

 June 29, 1813. 



Thomas Tod, Bristol, for a machine on an improved con- 

 struction for the purpose of separating corn, grain, and seeds, 

 from the straw. Dated June 29, 1813. 



Charles Wyatt, Bedford-row, London ; for a method of 

 casing or facing brick and other buildings with stone. Dated 

 June 5, 1813. ' 



Ambrose Tickell, Lambeth ; for an alarum and machinery 

 for the discovery and detection of depredators in a house or 

 premises. Dated July 1, 1813. 



Edward Thomason, Birmingham; for various improve- 

 ments in the construction of whips. Dated July 3, 1813. 



Robert Adams, Holbom, London ; for a method of pre- 

 paring blacking, whereby a higher polish is given, and the 

 leather better preserved. Dated July 7, 1813. 



John Millard, Cheapside, London; for a method of manu- 

 facturing cotton-wool free from mixture into cloth, for the pur- 

 pose of regulating perspiration. Dated July 14-, 1813. 



John Clark, Bridgewater, Somerset; for a method of 

 making or constructing beds, pillows, hammocks, cushions, and 

 various other articles of that sort, in a different manner, and of 

 different materials from any hitherto used. Dated July 14, 1813. 

 Alexander Moody, Southwark, tanner; for a method of 

 tanning or dressing white buff leather. Dated July 14, 1813. 



William Godfrey Kneller, Croydon, Surrey, chemist; 

 for a method of manufacturing verdigris of the same quality 

 as is known in commerce by the name of French verdigris. 

 Dated July 14, 1813. 



George Ferguson and Joseph Ashton, Carlisle, hatters; 

 for an improved, light, elastic, water-proof hat, commonly called 

 a beaver. Dated .July Ik 1813. 



Robert Prettymax, fpswieh, Suffolk ; for improvements 

 in the pan, touch-hole, and pan-cover, of a gun lock. Dated 

 July 19, 1813. 



Richard Peking, Dock-yard, Stoke Demerel, Devon; for 

 an anchor made on new principles; which consists, first, in con- 

 tinuing the grain of iron from the shank into the arms, similar 

 to the shape of a knee or arm oi' a tree, whereby the nec< -sity 

 effecting a junction at the crown, as at present welded, is 

 superseded : Becondly, in currying a piece of iron across the 

 crown from the centre of each arm, making thereby a perfect 

 trau. which when welded resembles the form of i imss beam: 

 thirdly, in forming both the shank and anus of flat bars, placed 

 so m to act edgewise on the line of resistance when the anchor 



