78 List of Patents . 
pumps and engines for evacuating water or other fluids, extinguish- 
ing fires, Sec. 
William Chapman, Sept. 13, method of laying, twisting, or mak- 
ing ropes or cordage, of any number of yarns or strands, or any 
number of threads, tarred or untarred. 
Samuel Stanfield, Sept. 13, machine for roving or spinning of cot- 
ton, flax, hemp, worsted, yarn, wool, &c. and for doubling and twist- 
ing silk, cotton, and thread. 
Charles Baker, Oct. 1 1, method of preventing the smut in wheat. 
Edmund Cartwright, Oct. 11, an incombustible substitute for 
certain materials commonly used in constructing dwelling-houses 
and other buildings. 
Harry Watts, Oct. 19, implement for draining land. 
Joseph Bramah, Oct. 31, method of retaining, clarifying, preserv- 
ing, and drawing off all kinds of liquors ; with sundry improved 
casks, and implements, necessary to give his contrivance the full 
effect. 
John Harriott, Oct. 31, new invented cog-wheel crab, or capstan, 
with geers, to work ships’ pumps, engines, and hydraulic ma- 
chines, to give a ship way through the water, in calms or light 
winds. 
Thomas Paton, Oct. 31, new invented press. 
John Parrish, Oct. 31, method of rendering all kinds of woollen 
doth impenetrable to moisture or wet, or water-proof, without af- 
fecting their beauty, colour, or wear. 
Robert Beatson, Oct. 31, method of applying the power of wind 
or water to horizontal mills, the principle of which may be also ap- 
plied to several other purposes. 
Henry Overend, Nov. 9, machine which may be used as a wag- 
gon, cart, or dray, in a more perfect and expeditious manner, and 
with fewer horses, than usually and heretofore done. 
Edmund Cartwright, Nov. 11, improvements in the construction, 
working, and application of steam engines. 
Daniel Langton, Nov. 18, locks, springs, and machinery, for the 
security of doors, and for preventing rain or wet from passing under 
them, and which will cause doors to pass over carpets, See. and will 
prevent cold air from passing under or over the same, and, by that 
means, keep rooms warm. 
John Crooks, Dec. 12, method of making soap, and bleaching, by 
means and use of mineral and vegetable alkalies. 
