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New Patents, 



of winch M. Mannoury Dectot lias resolved, in a manner as 

 varied as ingenious, this hydraulic problem, which has the air of 

 a paradox: To raise water by means of machines, of which all the 

 parts are constantly imnioveahle, and ivhich of coarse are neither 

 furnished with piston^ nor valve^ ?ior any thing equivalents^ . 



(To he continued:) 



Article XI.; 

 New Patents, 



Robert .Dickinson, of Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn 

 Fields,, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. and Hen-ry Mauds- 

 ley, in the parish of St. Mary Lambeth, in the county of 

 Surrey, engineer ; for a process for sweetening water and other 

 liquids, and applicable to other purposes. Dated February 

 1812. 



The process recommended is to blow a current of air through 

 the water. There is nothing new in this process. It was pub- 

 licly recommended long ago, and tried in the British navy. We 

 believe it was proposed by Dr. Hailes. 



William Cbapman, of Morton House, in the county of 

 Durham, civil engineer, and Edward Walton Chapman, of 

 Wellington Ropery, in the parish of Wallseod, in the county 

 of Northumberland, rope-maker ; for a method or methods of 

 facilitating the means, and reducing the expense, of carriage on 

 railways, and other roads. Dated December 30, 1812. 



Joseph Raynor, of Sheffield, in the county of York, cot- 

 ton-spinner; for improved machinery for roving and spinning 

 cotton, silk, fiax, and wool. Dated January I, 1813. 



William Wilkinson, of Grimesthorpe, in the county of 

 York, shear-smith ; for improved horse shears, wool shears, and 

 glovers' shears. Dated January 5, 1813. 



William Allen, of the Curtain-road, Shoreditch, for an 

 improvement on machinery to be worked by wind. Dated 

 January 15, 1813. 



William Bundy, of Camden-town, in the county of Mid» 

 dlesex, mathematical instrument maker; for an improvement in 

 the manufacture of lint. Dated January IS, 1813. 



Matthew Bush, of Longford, in the county of Middlesex, 

 calico printer ; for improvements for printing calicoes, Dated 

 January 15, 1813. 



Richard Cawkwp:ll, of Newark-upon-Trent, in the county 

 of Nottingham, miller; for a machhie for washing, cleansing. 



An acconnt of these curious raachiqcs will be found in the third number 

 #r this Journal, 



