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List of Patents, 
List of English Patents.* 
(Continued from Page 237.) 
1796. 
John Luke, Esq. July 4, machinery for lifting, drawing, and con- 
veying loaded and light vessels from one canal to another. 
Valentine Close and James Keeling, July 5, improvements in 
ovens, kilns, and firing-places ; firing, hardening, and baking, porce- 
lain and earthen wares, &c. 
Gabriel Aughtie, July 20, a coffin, so secure, as to render it im- 
practicable either to break, cut, or otherwise open it. 
Robert Hoakesly, July 20, making British potash, for all kinds 
of manufactures in which foreign potash, or any alkali, is useful. 
Henry Walker, July 20, method of erecting houses, &c. in one 
entire mass or body. 
Thomas Potts, July 20, machine attached to the stern of any ves- 
sel, boat, or barge, for moving it. 
Charles Haley, Aug. 17, marine timekeeper, for the better as= 
certaining the longitude at sea. 
Samuel Guppy, Aug. 19, method of cutting and heading nails, 
whereby much labour is saved. 
Arnold Wilde and Joseph Ridge, Aug. 25, method of making 
saws, and divers other articles, of iron and steel united, also of 
iron or steel. 
Francis Lowndes, Sept. 9, machine for exercising the human body 
Thomas Cooper, Sept. 9, machine for mashing or mixing malt, 
for the purpose of brewing or distilling, by means of which both a 
vertical and horizontal motion is produced. 
Ralph W edgwood, Oct. 3, method of making earthen ware, where- 
by that article may be made at a less cost than hitherto. 
Ralph Wedgwood, Oct. S, composition for making glass upon 
new principles. 
Ralph Wedgwood, Oct. S, stove upon a new principle. 
John Pepper, Oct. 3, mode of building ovens and kilns, for firing 
and burning of china, earthern ware, bricks, tiles, and other earths 
and compositions. 
Edward Thomason, Oct. 25, steps for coaches, chariots, &c. 
John Steedman, Oct, 31, machine for threshing corn. 
Edmund Lloyd, Oct. 31, teakettle or teaboiler on a new con- 
struction, boiling water more expeditiously, and at much less ex- 
pense. 
Repertory, vol. 7. 
