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NEW PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED. 
MR. MATTHEW ‘'GREGSON’S (LIVER- 
’ POOL), fora Method of cleaning Fea- 
thers for Beds, &c. in the moft perfect 
Manner, andin fuch a Way as to render 
them more healthful, feet, and plea- 
fant for Use. 
ME; GREGSON places the faid fea- 
thers, hair, wool, &c. or other na- 
tural coverings of birds and animals, or 
any of thein, attached to fkins or hides, 
in a chamber or veffel, or other proper re- 
ceptacle, clofed on all fides except at that 
part where the heat, or: heated elaitic 
fluid, is to be introduced, and aifo at an- 
other part, where the exhalations or va- 
pours of animal oil, and other impurities, 
are fuffered to pafs out. The faid fea- 
thers, &c. are difpofed thinly, openly, 
and lightly, within the faid chamber, by 
means of fhelves or other fupports, in- 
fuch manner that the heat or heated fluid 
may be duly applied to every part thereof. 
Steam or heated air is introduced 
through an aperture, by means of pipes 
or flues, into the receptacle, {o as to give 
fuficient heat to its contents-to evapcra’e 
or drive off the offenfive animal oil, for 
“which purpofe the {team or heated air 
is permitted to efcape with the: offen- 
five effluvia, through another aper- 
tures .The fire and aperrures are fo regu- 
lated, that the heat is adequate for pro- 
ducing the propofed effects, and conti-, 
nued long.enough to complete the ope- 
ration. : 
The patentee makes ufe of cther elaf- 
tic fluids or gaffes, either in conneétion 
with, or independently of, the fteam or 
heated air; and he ufes the altered refi-- 
due, or fteam of heated.and burned com 
mon air, which has paffed through or 
amongtt certain bodies in combu‘ion, or 
fuel, which do not give out any taint or 
fmell, or otherwife injure the good quali- 
ties of the faid feathers, hair, wool, &c. 
fo intended to be rendered {weet and plea- 
fant for ufe. 
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MR. STEPHEN CLUBB’S (COLCHES- 
TER), for an improved Mangle, 
In this newly invented mangle are two 
hollow rollers, which may be both of a 
fize and length, about thirty inches long 
fourteen inches in diameter, and they may 
be made with a. flat fide to each, which 
fhould confit of full one-fourth of the 
circumference, and an inch and a half 
deep from the true circle, which fhould 
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rife regular from the deepeft part of the 
flat tothe higheft or true circle, fo that by 
turning the handle the two flats will meet 
together and give room, three inches or 
more, totake @ut or putin. The three 
inches will alfo make room enough to put 
the {mall rslier in whea the linen is wound 
on it; which when done, and the bandle 
turned round, it will bring the weight of 
the upper roller, which muft be loaded, 
upon the linen, or fmall roller. The fat 
is made to open to put in the loading, 
The centre of the upper roller, and the 
centre of the pinion, fhould be connested, 
and have room to rife and fall three or 
four inches. The two wheels may be 
both of a fize, and about two inches larger 
in the diameter than the rollers on whith 
they are fixed. The two pinions alfe 
which work in them fhould be both of a 
fize, and about two inches and a half in 
diameter. The {mall roller is fixed in 
the frame by a button, which turns over 
the fpindle or centre of it. On the other 
fide of the frame, the end of the cloth 
which goes round the linen woiks up and 
down when the mangle is at work. . The 
_ frame may be fattened together with ftrong 
{crews, or i9 any other workman like 
manner, and the mangle itfelf mzy be 
made of any fize, according to the fancy 
of the purchafer. 
The chief advantages expected to be 
gained by this invention are, that as the 
Weight is conftantly upon the linen, from 
the time itis mtroeduced into the mangle 
until delivered out, the work mu‘ be ex- 
ecuted fatter than if the linen were to be 
worked off one roller on to another, as in 
mangles of the ufual conftre&ion.— 
Agam: as the weight uled in this man- 
gle is but little more than half the weiche 
required in other mangles, it is faid that 
but. little more than half the labour em- 
ployed in other mangles will be neceflary 
ia this. ; 
MRa ALEXANDER WILSON’S (TITCH- 
BORNE-STREET), for certain Improvea 
ments applicable to Shot-belts, Powder- 
fates, and Fire-arms of all Defcrip- 
1105. 
The utility of this invention may be 
thus defcribed: the advantages to be de- 
rived from the improved breeching or 
plugs are, that they have an interior me- 
tal touch-hole, placed in a peculiar man- 
ner behind the centre of the charge, pre- 
z jecting 
