1814.] New Patents. SI7 



by the destruction of a part of the surrounding limestone. Slaty 

 pitch coal occurs in thick seams near Reynosa, in Old Castile ; at 

 Gijon, in Galicia; and at Laredo, in the province of Burgos. I 

 have also, both in Spain and Portugal, observed very generally clay 

 sJate hilli capped with quartz distinctly stratified." 



Article XIV. 



New Patents. 



John Sutherland, Liverpool, coppersmith ; for an improve- 

 ment in the construction of copper and iron sugar-pans and sugar- 

 boilers, and a new method of hanging the same; and also an 

 improvement in the construction of the furnaces or lire-places in 

 which such pans and boilers ought to be placed. Dec. 20, 1813. 



William Spratley, London, coal-merchant; for an improve- 

 ment upon the axlctrcc of wheels for carriages of different descrip- 

 tions. Dec. 20, lhl3. 



William A LLA.M us Day, Poplar, Middlesex; for a method of 

 extracting all the gross or mucilaginous matter from finks, or Green- 

 land blubber, produced from whales when boiled into oil ; which 

 method not only renders the oil so boiled more free from its usual 

 rancid smell ar.d taste, but in a great degree adds to its burning and 

 Inflammable qualities. Dee. 20, 1813. 



James Cavanah Murphy, Cavendish-square, London, archi- 

 tect ; foi an Arabian method of pieserving timber and various other 

 substances from corruption or decay. Dec. 2^, 1813. 



Ui^LPH SurroN, Birmingham, brass-founder; for an effectual 

 security to prevent the accidental discharge of fowling-pieces ; 

 which invention is unconnected with the lock, and applicable to all 

 kind of fire-arms. Dec. 24, 1813. 



Sir Thomas Corn rank, Knt. commonly called Lord Cochrane; 

 for iiiethodt; of regulating the atmospheric pressure In lamps, 

 globes, and other transparent cases; of supplying combustible matter 

 to flames, and preserving uniform intensity of light. Dec. 24, 1813. 



William Stocker, of Maltock, Somersetshire, gunsmith; for 

 a cocJ< made of metal and wood for drawing liquor from casks, 

 which produces a stop superior to that wliieh Is effected by common 

 cocks, and prevents t!ie liquor from coming in contact with the 

 metals, except when it is in the act of being drawn and is running 

 from the cask. Jan. 10, 1814. 



John Duffv, jun. Ballsbridge, near Dublin, calico printer; for 

 a method of producing patterns on cloths made of calico or linen, 

 or both, by preserving or defending mordants or colours previously 

 applied to ihem from injury, when it is required to pass such mor- 

 dants or colours through solutions of acids, of acid salts, ()f metallic 

 salts, or of conibinatioas of the oxymuriaiic acid, Feb. 8, 1814. 



