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Article XII. 

 New Patents, 



John Heathcoat, of Loughborough ; for certain improve- 

 ments and additions to a machine for the making or manufac- 

 turing of bobbin lace, or lace nearly resembling foreign lace. 

 Dated March 29, 1813. 



John Bennet, of Bristol; for a metal dovetail joint, appli- 

 cable to portable and other furniture, and any kind of frame- 

 work requiring strength and durability, and to many useful pur- 

 poses. Dated April 7, 1813. 



David Thomas, of Bristol ; for a new and improved method 

 of burning animal bones for the purpose of extractiug the grease 

 or fat property thereform, and likewise for extracting tJie spiri- 

 tuous quality therefrom, and for reducing the remainder, or dry 

 parts of bones, into a substance sufficiently prepared for being 

 ground into ivory black. Dated March 30, 1813. 



Joseph Egg, London ; for a method of applying and im- 

 proving locks. Dated March 30, 1813. 



Robert Hall and Samuel Hall, of Basford; for a 

 machine for dressing, getting up, or furnishing frame-work 

 knitted goods from tlie stocking frame, whether consisting of 

 hose, socks, caps, mitts, gloves, or of any other kind or de- 

 scription whatever, and whether made of cotton, lamb's wool, 

 Vigonia wool, silk, mohair, or any other vegetable or animal 

 substance whatever, or any intermixture of these substances one 

 with another. Dated March 30, 1813. 



James Timmins, of Birmingham ; for an improved method 

 of making and erecting hot-houses, and all horticultural build- 

 ings, and also the making of pine pits, cucumber lights, sashes, 

 and church windows. Dated April 7^ 1813. 



John Rangeley, of Oakwell-hall, near Leeds ; for an im- 

 proved method of constructing and working engines or machines 

 for lifting or raising of weights, turning of machinery of all de- 

 scriptions, drawing carriages on railways, and capable of being 

 applied to all purposes v.here mechanical power is required. 

 Dated April 13, 1813. 



Robert Lewis, of Birmingham ; for a method of making 

 brass (or any other metal of which the component parts are 

 copper and zinc) chimney-pieces, or chimney-piece frames, 

 plain or ornamented, either cast or of rolled metal mounted on 

 any other substance, or of which the outward mouldings, or 

 * frame and inward pilasters, shall be composed of such metal. 

 Dated April 13, 1813. 



Charles Plinth, London; for various improvements in the 

 construction of a vessel^ machine, cylinder, reservoir, or foun- 



