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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 



[August, 



Samuel Eccles, of Hulme, Lancaster, machinist, and Matthew Curtis, of 

 Chorlton-upon-Medlock, machinist, for " improvements in looms for weav- 

 ing." — June 22. 



Mose Poole, of Lincoln's-inn, gentleman, for " improvements in collars 

 for horses and other animals. (A communication.) — June 23. 



Nicholas Troughton. of Swansea, Glamorgan, gentleman, for " improve- 

 ments in dressing ores requiring washing." — June 23. 



William Needham, of Birmingham, gunsmith, for " improvements in fire- 

 arms." — June 24. 



John Duncan, of 72, Lombard-street, gentleman, for " improvements in 

 the casting and construction of types for printing." (A communication.) — 

 June 26. 



Charles Townsend Christian, of Saint Martin's-place, Saint Martin's-Iane, 

 East India army agent, for " improvements in the construction of steam- 

 engines. (A communication.) — June 27. 



Richard Waller, of Bradford, York, coach-builder, for "improvements in 

 locomotive carriages, and in steam boilers and engines." — June 27. 



John Thomas Betts, of Battersea, gentleman, for " improvements in cover- 

 ing and stopping the tops of boxes, jars, pots, and other vessels." (A com- 

 munication.) — June 27. 



Edward Johnson, of Nelson-square, Blackfriars-road, Surrey, surgeon, for 

 "improvements in apparatus for bathing." — June 27. 



Alexander Parkes, of Birmingham, artist, for "improvements in preparing 

 solutions of certain vegetable and animal matters, applicable to preserving 

 wood and other substances, and for other uses. — June 27. 



Charles Kurtz, of Liverpool, manufacturing chemist, for " an improved 

 lamp, for the combustion of naphtha,' turpentine, and other resinous oils." — 

 June 30. 



Charles Tetley, of Bradford, gentleman, for " an improvement or improve- 

 ments in the construction of boilers, otherwise generators, for producing 

 steam." — June 30. 



James Lancaster Lucena, of Garden-court, Middle Temple, Rarrister-at- 

 law, for " improvements in steam engines, and in machinery for propelling 

 vessels, which improvements are applicable to other purposes, being an ex- 

 tension of a patent for the term of five years granted by his late Majesty 

 King George the Fourth to Alexander Galloway, of King-street, Southwark, 

 engineer." — July 1. 



James John Green, of Woolwich, surgeon, for " improvements in appa- 

 ratus for securing, or fixing, standing, rigging and chains, and other tackle." 

 — July 1. 



Charles Phillips, of Chipping Norton, Oxford, engineer, for " improve- 

 ments in apparatus or machinery for cutting corn, grass, and such like 

 standing or growing crops, and in apparatus or machinery for cutting vegeta- 

 ble substances as food for cattle." — Julv 3. 



Thomas Wedlake, of llornchurch, Essex, machinist, for " improvements in 

 machinery for making hoy, ichich improvements are applicable to other 

 agricultural purposes." — July 3. 



James Verity, of Leicester-street, Regent-street, boot and shoemaker, for 

 " improvements in the heels and soles of boots and shoes."— July 3. 



James Hartley, Wear Glass 'Works, Sunderland, glass manufacturer, for 

 "improvement in the manufacture of glass. — July 3. 



James Boydell, junr,, of Oak Farm Works, Stafford, iron master, for "im- 

 provements in the manufacture of metallic roofs and joists, and improve- 

 ments injoining sheets or plates of metal, for various pnrpoi.es."— July 6. 



Florimond Delcroix, jun., of Norfolk-street, Strand, merchant, for''n»- 

 provements in furnaces for locomotive and other engine; and in the appa- 

 ratus used for regulating the escape of steam, and' the passage of air in 

 chimneys of furnaces. (A communication. 1— July 6. 



James Neville, of Walworth, civil engineer, for" improvements in the form 

 and manufacture of horse shoes." — July 6. 



John Wright and Richard Wright,' both of Richmond, York, boot and 

 shoe makers, for " improvements in boots and shoes, and other like covering 

 for the feet."— My 6. 



Joseph Cooke Grant, of Stamford, Lincoln, ironmonger, for " improve- 

 ments in the construction of harrows."— July 6- 



John Woodhouse Day, of Well Field, Durham Colliery, and land agent, for 

 " improvements in apparatus to facilitate the loading of vessels with coal, 

 culm, or cinders. — July 6. 



George John Newberry, of King William- street, London, artist, for " im- 

 provements in the manufacture and construction of window blinds, screens, 

 shutters, and other similar articles, parts of which improvements are appli- 

 cable to other purposes." — Julv 6. 



Henry Clarke Ash, of Birmingham, manufacturer, for " improvements in 

 the construction of teapots." — July 6. 



James Booth, of Liverpool, clerk, and doctor of laws, for " improvements 

 in the means of converting rectilinear into rotary motion, and of converting 

 rotary into rectilinear motion." — July 6. 



^ Thomas Masters, of Upper Chariot te-street, St. Pancras, confectioner, for 

 " an improved freezing, cooling, churning, and ice-preserving apparatus, the 

 parts of which may be used separately or in combination."— July 6. 



James Joseph Brunet, of Limehouse, esquire, for •' improvements in pro- 

 jellmg, parts of which improvements have been communicated to him by a 

 foreigner residing abroad." — July 6. 



George Parsons, of West Lambrook, Somerset, gentleman, for "a portable 

 root. tor various agricultural, and for other purposes."— July 7. 



George Parsons, of West Lambrook, Somerset, gentleman, and Richard 



Clyburn, of Uley, Gloucester, engineer, for " improvements in machinery for 

 beating, cleansing, and crushing various animal and vegetable materials or 

 substances." — July 10, 



Jacob Samuda, of Southwark Iron-works, engineer, for " improvements n 

 the construction of steam-engines, particularly applicable to the purposes of 

 steam navigation." — July 10. 



John Laird, of Birkenhead, Cheshire, ship-builder, for " improvements in 

 the construction of steam and other vessels."— July 10. 



William Edward Newton, of Chancery-lane, civil engineer, for " an im- 

 proved agricultural machine, or implement for ploughing, harrowing, or tilling 

 land." (A communication.) — July 13. 



Richard Laming, Radley's Hotel, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London, 

 gentleman, for " improvements in the purification and application of ammonia, 

 to obtain certain chemical products." — July 13. 



Joseph Maudslay, of Lambeth, engineer, for " improvements in machinery 

 used for propelling z*essels by steam power." — July 13. 



George King Sculthorpe, of Frederick's cottages, Coleharbour-lane, gentle- 

 man, for " an improved method of fastening and securing bedsteads." — July 13. 

 Henry Pinkus, of No. 1, Duke-street, Portland-place, esquire, for "im- 

 provements in the methods of applying motive power in combination with 

 apparatus and machinery, to certain purposes in propelling, and applicable 

 In railways, to ships, or other vessels afloat." — July 13. 



Stephen Geary, of Hamilton-place, King's-cross, architect and civil engi- 

 neer, for " improvements in machinery or apparatus for clearinq, cleansing, 

 watering, or wholly or partially covering with sand, or other materials, roads, 

 streets, or ways, and which machinery is also applicable to other similar pur- 

 poses." — July 13. 



William Midworth, of Mansfield, Nottingham, brass founder, for " im- 

 provements in the construction of what are commonly called street guard 

 plates for public water services, and in the mode of constructing the stop- 

 valves, stoppers, or stop-cocks, used therein, and which stop-valves, stoppers, 

 or stop-cocks are also applicable to various other purposes, where the flow of 

 water, or other liquids, is required to be regulated or suspended." — June 13. 



Henry Smith, of Birmingham, Warwick, for "improvements in apparatus 



for fastening doors, and in apparatus for giving action to alarums." — July 13. 



William Hutchison, of Ivy Bridge-lane, Strand, marble and stone mer- 



chant, for " improvements in machinery for cutting marble and other stones." 



July 13. 



James Neville, of Walworth, civil engineer, for •' improvements in obtaining 

 powerby means of gases, applicable to working machinery." — July 13. 



Ann Wise, of Saville-row, Burlington-gardens, Parisian corset-maker, for 

 " improvements in the construction of stays and umbilical belts." — July 13. 



Robert Ransome, of Ipswich, ironfounder, Charles May, of the same place, 

 also ironfounder, Arthur Biddell, of Playford, Suffolk, farmer, anil William 

 Worby. of Ipswich, foreman to Messrs. T. R. and A. Ransome, for "im- 

 provements in machinery and apparatus used for ploughing and scarifying 

 land, and for raking, and for improvements in machinery and apparatus used 

 for thrashing, cutting, and grinding for agricultural purposes, and for im- 

 provements in the construct iun cf irliippte-trees."- — July 15. 



James Overend, of Liverpool, gentleman, for " improvements in printing 



fabrics with metallic matters, and finishing silks and other fabrics." — July 15. 



William Garnett Taylor, of Halliwell, Lancaster, cotton spinner, "for 



improvements in machinery for spinning cotton and other fibrous substances, 



and in preparing and dressing yarn for weaving." — July 15. 



James Gallop Beater, of St. Clement's-place, Worcester, tailor, for " im- 

 provements in the fastenings for trouser-straps, and in fastenings for wear- 

 ing apparel generally. — July 20 



Henry Austin, of Hattou-garden, civil engineer, for "improvements in the 

 construction of water-closets." — July 20. 



Charles Bertram, of the Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, esquire, for 

 " an improved mastic or cement, which may be also employed as an artificial 

 stone, and for coating metals and other substances." — July 20. 



Joseph Harvey, of James-street, Buckingham-gate, gentleman, for " im- 

 prorements in the construction of two-wheeled carriages." — July 20. 



William Daniell, of Abercarne, near Newport, Monmouth, tinplate manu- 

 facturer, for " improvements in rolling iron into plates or sheets." — July 22. 



James Nasmyth,of Manchester, engineer, for "improvements in machinery 

 or apparatus for driving piles, part or parts of which improvements are 

 applicable also to forging or stamping metals and other substances." — July 

 22. 



Joseph Daniel Davidge, of Greville-strret, Hatton Garden, machinist, for 

 " improvements in manufacturing certain materials as substitutes for 

 whalebone applicable to various useful purposes, and in the machinery for 

 effecting the same." — July 24. 



David Napier, of Y'ork-road, Lambeth, engineer, for " improvements ap- 

 plicable to boilers or apparatus for generating steam." — July 25. 



Frederic Lewis Westenholz, of 151, Regent-street, merchant, for "a 

 double-centred steam-engine." — July 25. 



Samuel Faulkner, of Manchester, cotton-spinner, for " improvements in 

 the machinery or apparahts for carding cotton and other fibrous sub- 

 stances." — July 25. 



Edward Eyre, of Poole's Hotel, London, gentleman, for " improvements 

 in railways, and in the machinery or opparatus employed thereon." — (A 

 communication.) — July 26. 



William Crofton Moat, of 28, Upper Berkeley. street, Marylebone, sur- 

 geon, for " a method of obtaining atrial locomotion." — July 26. 



