List of Patents, 79 
James Weldon, Dec. 22, machine or mill for breaking, grinding, 
and pulverising, patched or chopped bark, for tanning ; and for break- 
ing, grinding, and pulverising, different kinds of wood, and other 
hard substances. 
William Milton, Dec. 23, method of causing ships, vessels, 
barges, boats, and craft of all sizes, to be built at prices considerably 
below what are given for them, as built in the present mode ; and 
for rendering the rudders thereof, in some cases, more effectual. 
Matthew Boulton, Dec. 30, apparatus and method of raising wa- 
ter and other fluids. 
1798. 
Anthony George Eckhardt, Jan. 16, method of making chairs, 
stools, benches, &c. adapted for rooms or carriages, with backs or 
seats and cushions fixed in such a manner as instantly to change, 
and show two different surfaces in one seat or cushion. 
Samuel Roberts, Jan. 23, working, adjusting, supporting, and fix- 
ing, slide-tube candlesticks of silver, silver plated, or other metal. 
Charles Tennant, Jan. 23, method of using calcareous earth, and 
the earths strontites and barytes, instead of alkaline substances, for 
neutralizing the muriatic acid gas used in bleaching; and for employ- 
ing those earths in the other parts of the process of bleaching, in- 
stead of alkaline substances. 
Archibald, earl of Dundonald, Jan. 25, method of manufacturing 
and procuring certain neutral salts, substances, and things, and of 
applying those and other neutral salts to valuable purposes. 
Richard Shannon, Feb. 1, method of improving the processes of 
brewing, distilling, boiling, evaporating, and of raising, and condens- 
ing, steam or vapour, from aqueous, spirituous, saccharine 3 and sa- 
line fluids. 
Henry Clay, Feb. 1 , method of saving part of the water now lost, in 
passing boats and barges through locks on navigable canals. 
Robert Howden, Feb. 10, portable and moving furnace, for the pur- 
pose of heating ovens of every description. 
Francis Farquharson, Feb. 20, machinery for making bricks and 
tiles. 
James Douglas, Feb. 20, machine for making bricks. 
Walter Taylor, Feb. 21, improvement in the construction of ma- 
chines for raising water, and clearing ships of the same ; also to take 
off the pressure of the atmosphere, or eddy winds, from the tops pf 
chimnies, to prevent what are commonly called smoky chimnies. 
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