which improvements are applicable to cannon and other large guns. To Thomas Noon, of Burton upon Trent, in the county of Stafford. Repertory of Arts, July 1809, p. 74.

May 9. For a new plan of improving and erecting lime-kilns, by means of which a very considerable saving is made on fuel, while the lime is in a short time perfectly burnt. To Nugent Booker, of Lenie Hill, in the county of Dublin.

May 9. For improvements on certain machines, pens, or instruments calculated to promote facility in writing. To Bartholomew Totch of Oxford street, county of Middlesex. See Repertory of Arts, January 1810, p. 65.

May 15. For a new and improved process by which fluids are heated for the purposes of art and manufacture. To William Johnstone of Blackheath, in the county of Kent, gent.

May 30. For a plough upon an entire new construction. To Edward Manly of Uffculm, in the county of Devon. See Repertory of Arts, February 1809, p. 129.

May 30. For a night and day telegraph. To John Lindsay of Grove House, Edgware, in the county of Middlesex, late Lieute nant-Colonel of the 71st regiment.

June 8. For certain new modes of improvement in the making and preparing of salt. To Edward Cragg of Hertford, in the county of Chester, carpenter, and William Cragg of Old Ford, in the county of Middle. sex, builders' agent.

June 8. For an improvement in the system of distillation, rectification, and brewing. To John Frederick Archbold of Great Charlotte street, in the county of Surrey, gent. June 8. For a method of making

and constructing barrel cocks and water cocks. To Thomas Wells of Erdington, in the county of Warwick, cock-founder. See Repertory of Arts, August 1809, p. 129.

June 8. For an improved plough for under-draining land. To Mark Dobits of Kirtling, in the county of Cambridge, farmer. See Repertory of Arts, November 1809, p. 329.

June 15. For certain improve ments in the construction and working of steam and atmospheric engines, by which they may be more advan tageously worked than hitherto. To John Philip Fesenmeyer, of the p rish of St Clement Danes, in the county of Middlesex, gent.

June 15. For a piece of machi nery or instrument for cutting the wick of a lighted candle, and keep ing the same in perfect trim and of 3 proper length. To George Alexan der Thompson, of Great Charlotte street, in the county of Surrey, gent.

June 20. For certain improvements in the construction of houses and other buildings, whereby a considera. ble expence will be saved in the erection thereof, and the same ren dered more durable and secure from fire. To Charles Norton of Bir mingham, in the county of Warwick, builder.

July 26. From a residence of eight years on the continent, a method has been discovered and found out ef the manner of designing and making, and forming mosaics and ornaments in the Arabian style and manner, and which it is proposed to apply to divers arts and manufactures. To James Cavanah Murphy, of Edward street, Cavendish square, in the coun ty of Middlesex, architect.

July 26. For a rotative engine, the piston of which makes a complete revolution at a distance from the re

volving axis, shaft, or cylinder. To Samuel Clegg of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, engineer. See Repertory of Arts, November 1809, p. 321.

July 26. For a method of constructing an iron or metal roof for houses or other buildings. To Thomas Batfield of Hopton court, in the county of Salop.

July 26. For an improved method of forming pipes, and sundry other articles, in lead, pewter, or tin, or metals of that nature. To Richard Hesps of Holywell street, in the parish of St Leonard, Shoreditch, and county of Middlesex, mill-lead and patent pipe manufacturer.

July 26. For certain improvements in the musical scale of keyed instruments with fixed tones, such as pianos, organs, &c. To David Loeschman, of Newman street, in the county of Middlesex, piano forte maker. July 26. For a new and improved street lamp and burner, and lantern head, for street and other lamps and lanterns. To Charles Seward, of Lancaster, in the county Palatine of Lancaster, tin-plate manufacturer. See Repertory of Arts, October 1809, p. 263.

July 31. For a method of making sickles and reaping-hooks with iron or steel backs, fixed upon the blades thereof, whether such blades be forged, rolled, cast, hammered, or otherwise manufactured. To William Hutton of Sheffield, in the county of York, merchant. See Repertory of Arts, February 1810, p. 145.

Aug. 3. For a fixed telegraphic lighthouse, and also a moveable telegraphic light-house, for signals and intelligence, to serve by night and by day, in rain, storm, and darkness, in any required direction, and from any given centre. To Frederick Albert

Winsor of Pall-Mall, in the county of Middlesex, Esq.

Aug. 4. For a substitute, the produce of this country, for Peruvian bark. To Ferdinand Smyth Stewart, of Billericay, in the county of Essex, Esq.

Aug. 8. For a new method of preparing hemp, flax, hurds, short tow, and clearings, and other inferior parts of hemp and flax, either alone or mixed with cotton wool, for the purpose of spinning the same into yarn or thread, and also certain improvements in the mode of spinning the same. To Thomas Dickin of Abreware mills, in the county of Staf ford, cotton manufacturer, and Henry Bradley of the same place, cottonspinner.

Aug: 9. For an improved rotative machine or engine to be worked by the power of steam, for raising water, grinding corn, and various other useful purposes. To Edward Lane of Shelton, in the parish of Stoke upon Trent, in the county of Stafford, schoolmaster.

Aug. 12. For a machine for hackling or dressing hemp, flax, and other materials. To John Hives of Hol. beck, in the parish of Leeds, in the county of York, linen manufacturer.

Aug. 21. For an improved machine for shearing woollen and other clothes. To Isaac Kellogg, late of Connecticut, in North America, but at present residing in Addle street, in the city of London, gent.

Sept. 4. For certain improvements on horizontal windmills. To Samuel Long of the town of Leicester, in the county of Leicester, gent.

Sept. 23. For a method of making and constructing pens for writing. To Joseph Bramah, of Pimlico, in the county of Middlesex, engineer.

Sept. 23. For certain improve

ments in the process of refining sugars. To George Vaughan, of Purim place, Whitechapel road, in the county of Middlesex, gent.

Sept. 26. For a method or process by which one is enabled to give the statues and other ornamental works in plaster, (commonly called Plaster of Paris,) an appearance nearly resembling the finest statuary marble; at the same time rendering them more hard and durable, less liable to be soiled, and easier to be cleaned. To John Penwarne, of the parish of St Pancras, in the county of Middlesex, gent. See Repertory of Arts, July 1810, p. 78.

Sept. 26. For certain improvements in the processes of brewing. To Randolph Tschiffeli de Roche, of Great Pulteney street, in the county of Middlesex, gent. See Repertory of Arts, April 1810, p. 264.

Sept. 26. For methods of combining and disposing machinery, and applying the different powers of wind, water, and cattle thereto, so as to effect improvements on mills. To William Watts, of the city of Bath, gent. See Repertory of Arts, December 1810, p. 15.

Sept. 26. For certain improvements in ships' binnacles and compasses, and in the mode of lighting the same. To Egerton Smith, of Liverpool, optician, and Michael Harris, of the same place, mechanic.

Sept. 26. For a new metal nave, axle, and box, for wheeled carriages, by means of which the danger of overturning, and the concussion arising from carriages coming in contact at the nave is considerably lessened, the nave much stronger, and gives more lightness of appearance to the carriages, than those now in general use; the oiling of the wheels, which need not be taken off for that

purpose, is performed with greater ease and facility, and the oil is ef fectually prevented from communicting to the spoke of the wheels. To Benjamin Flight, of St Martin's lane, in the liberty of Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, organ builder. See Repertory of Arts, August 1810, p. 141.

Sept. 28. For certain improvements in the manufacture of skelps for fire arms. To John Jones, of Birmingham, in the county of War wick, gun-lock and barrel maker. See Repertory of Arts, March 1810, p. 215.

Sept. 28. For a method of heading pins. To William Bundy, of Camden town, in the county of Middlesex, mathematical instrument ma

Nov. 9. To Edward Griffith of Birmingham, optician, for his new avented air-tight agitable lamp.

Nov. 14. For a method of making nd manufacturing shives or shivers, nd pulley wheels of every descripon, and various other articles, from ertain materials or compositions of arths and minerals, which render e said articles more durable than uch as are made in wood or metal. o James Hall, of Newbold, Astury, in the county of Chester, ookbinder. See Repertory of Arts, ept. 1810, p. 217.

Nov. 21. For certain improve ents in the construction of hafts or andles for razors. To Robert Vass, of Sheffield, cutler.

Nov. 21. For certain improveents in the casting of iron roofs for ouses, warehouses, and other buildigs, and in covering them with ate. To John Cragg, of Liverpool,

Nov. 21. For various improve ents in the construction of machines,

for making cards for carding wool, cotton, flax, silk, and all substances capable of being carded. To John Towel Ruff, of Basinghall street, London, John Tretton, of St Andrew's Hill, and John Webb, of Clapton, in the county of Middlesex.

Nov. 28. For certain improvements on a machine or press for letter press printing, and also for printing various ornaments and figures, part of which improvements may be applied to presses now in use. John Brown, of Mile-End town, in the county of Middlesex, stationer.

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Nov. 28. For a method whereby heated water, steam, or air, can be rendered serviceable, and more serviceable for new purposes, and every purpose for which they have ever been applied, with less expence of fuel than is now used, especially for the purpose of working the steamengine, and of warming and heating buildings and stoves, and also vessels and coppers for all purposes, by which water, steam, and air (heated) may be applied to many purposes hitherto unknown. To William Cornelius English, of Twickenham, in the county of Middlesex, Esq.

Nov. 28. For a rotative pump or engine for raising and forcing air, water, and other fluids. To Thomas Herbert, officer of the customs at the port of Malden, in the county of Essex.

Dec. 5. For improvements on the apparatus used for rollers for windowblinds, maps, and other similar objects. To James Barren, of Well street, in the county of Middlesex, brass-founder. See Repertory of Arts, March 1810, p. 211.

Dec. 5. For apparatus and machinery for the support and excercise of the human frame, and for the pre

vention of bodily deformity. To George Ware of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, gent.

Dec. 9. For a botanical or medicinal preparation, being a remedy for gravel and stony concretions, which is denominated mucilage of marshmallows. To Samuel Felton, of Berwick street, Soho, in the county of Middlesex, botanist.

Dec. 9. For a new sort of instrument or machine for preparing and cutting cotton and linen candlewicks. To John Jones of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, cotton-spinner.

Dec. 11. For an improved lock for guns and pistols. To John Manton, of Dover street, in the county of Middlesex, gun-maker. See Repertory of Arts, March 1810, p. 217. Dec. 14. For a portable stove or furnace, which may be made of cast iron, forged or plate iron, or of other metals or materials, by which a current of air is heated and discharged, so as to distribute the heat more equally than by stoves such as are in common use, and avoid the unpleasant smell which they produce; and which air, if necessary, may be brought from the external atmosphere, so as to produce ventilation as well as warmth. A stove of this construction may be usefully applied in warming and ventilating churches, public rooms, halls, stair-cases, and,

by means of tubes connected with it, the apartments of houses; and will also be useful for ventilating and heating ships and manufactories, dry. ing different articles of manufacture, ventilating mines, and for other par poses. To John Murray, of Nichol son's street, Edinburgh, Esq., and Adam Anderson, of South Bridge street, Edinburgh, tin-plate worker.

Dec. 14. For an invention com municated to him by a foreigner, of snuffers on a new and improved con struction. To John Duff, of Great Pulteney street, in the county of Middlesex, cutler. See Repertory of Arts, February 1810, p. 145.

Dec. 14. For an improvement on chain and hand pumps, and a new-invented fire-extinguishing engine and steam engine. To Mark Noble, of the parish of Battersea, in the county of Surrey, Esq. engine-maker.

Dec. 20. For an improvement in the manufacture of woollen stocking. pieces, by raising and producing ou his improved manufacture a nap or pile in resemblance of kerseymere and broad clothes; and also an improve ment on the manufacture of kersey. mere and broad cloths, by of transverse elasticity given to his manufacture, equal in use from its ease in the woollen manufactures. To Charles Frederick Davis, of the pa rish of Ilchcombe, in the county Glocester, clothier.

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