charts, &c.

AndrewSymington and

Improved clock.

stop rod. Excavating tool.

Leicester

Henry Worthington

John Jones.....

Nov. '4

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square

Galvanic pipe.

Stock and shirt collar.
Spirit torch.

Cornopean, or cornet a piston. Reflecting luminator for astronomical and other purposes.

Lock.

The Brighton shower bath. Design for the shape or confi. guration of the back of a button.

Diving helmet.

Edwin Heinke

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LIST OF ENGLISH PATENTS GRANTED BETWEEN OCTOBER 25 AND NOVEMBER 20, 1845.

John Davies, of Manchester, patent agent, for certain improvements in the method of dyeing and staining woven, or piece goods, or fabrics, and in the machinery or apparatus to be used for such. or similar operations. (Being a communication.) October 25; six months.

Benjamin Nickels, of York-street, Lambeth, machinist, for improvements in piano-fortes. October 27; six months.

Reginald Orton, of Villiers-street, Sunderland, surgeon, for improvements in life-boats, life-buoys, and apparatus for conveying persons ashore from wrecked or stranded vessels. October 27; six months.

Samuel Childs, of Earls-court-road, Kensington, wax-chandler, for improvements in the n anufacture of candles. October 27; six months.

Dennis Jonquet, of Chateaudun, France, for improvements in machinery for preparing skins for tanning and dressing. October 31; six months.

Robert William Brandling, of Low Go forth, Northumberland, Esq., for improvements in railways and railway carriages for the security and convenience of the public. October 31; six months.

Charles Henry Collins, of Lambeth, engineer, for improvements on atmospheric railways. October 31; six months.

Henry Clark, of Redcross-street, Cripplegate, London, oil merchant, for certain improvements in the preparation of materials to be employed for producing illumination. October 31; six months.

James Hardcastle, of Firwood, Bolton-le moors, Esq., for certain improvements in the methods of scouring, bleaching, preparing, dyeing and finishing piece goods, or woven fabrics. October 31; six months.

Thomas Forsyth, of Salford, Lancaster, engineer,

for certain improvements in signals, or in the method of giving signals, which are applicable to the working of railways, and which are also applicable to maritime purposes, and for certain other improvements in the working of railways. October 31; six months.

Dalrymple Crawford, of Birmingham, gentleman, for certain improved means of, or machinery for arresting the progress of railway carri ges and trains. October 31: six months.

Henry Waller, of Vauxhall-road engineer, for improvements in sluice cocks. October 31; six mon hs.

Richard Archibald Brooman. of the Patent Office, 166. Fleet street, gentleman, for improvements in printing and figuring silk, cotton, and other textile fabrics. November 3; six months.

Richard Archibald Brooman, of the Patent Office, 166, Fleet-street, London, gentleman, for certain improvements in gas meters. (Being a communication.) November 3; six months.

Richard Biddle, of Leadenhall-street, surgical mechanician, for certain improvements in driving mills and other machines or machinery, by the power of the wind. November 3; six months.

Christopher Binks, of Friar's-grove, Durham, chemist, for certain improvements in manufacturing certain compounds of nitrogen, particularly cyanogen, ammonia, and their compounds, and the use or application in these manufactures, of a substance or substances not hitherto so employed. November 3; six months.

Chandos Hoskins, of Dublin, gentleman, for certain improvements in trusses. November 3; six

months.

Thomas Edwards, of Islington Foundry, Birmingham, engineer, for certain improvements in steam engines. November 3; six months.

Paul Ackerman, doctor of medicine, of Skinner'splace, Size-lane, for certain improvements in harpoons and other similar instruments. November 3; six months.

George Ewart, of the New-road, zink manufacturer, for improvements in the manufacture of chimney pots. November 3; six months.

Thomas Bell, of Don Alkali Works, South Shields, for improvements in certain processes in the manufacture of alkali, which improvements are applicable to the purposes of condensation. November 3; six months.

Alfred Watney, of Wandsworth, gentleman. for improvements in the manufacture of horse-shoes, and in applying shoes to horses and other animals. November 3; six months.

George Minter, of Gerard-street, Soho, patent chair manufacturer, and Jonathan Badger, of Walworth, carpenter and builder, for improvements in the construction of easy chairs. November 4; six months.

Edward Augustin King, of Warwick-street, Middlesex, gentleman, for improvements in obtaining light by e ectricity. (Being a communication.) November 4: six months.

Richard Atha, of Walton, near Wakefield, engineer, for atmospheric eng nes. November 4; six

months.

Charles Sanderson, of West-street, Sheffield, manufacturer, for improvements in combining steel and iron into bars for tyres for wheels, and for other purposes November 4; six months.

Samuel Carson, of Norwood, gentleman, for imTrovements in treating eggs for the purposes of food. November 5; six months.

Henry Blumberg, of Camberwell-grove, distiller, for improvements in the purification of spirits for the use of brewing, distillers and rectifiers. November 5; six months.

George Scolfield, of Manchester, agent for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus to be employed for lithographic printing. November 5; six months.

William Thomas, Cheapside, merchant, for improvements in apparatus for impregnating liquids

with gases. (Being a communication.) November 5; six months.

Laura Laughton, late of Plymouth-grove. Manchester, but now of Everton, Nottingham, the wife of Edmund Laughton, of the same place, gentleman, for improvements in the manufacture of soap. November 6; six months.

Uriah Clark, of Leicester, dyer, for certain improvements in manufacturing and marking looped fabrics. November 6; six months.

John Soloman Bickford, George Smith, and Thomas Davey, all of Tuckingmill, Camborne, Cornwall, patent safety fuze manufacturers, for certain improvements in manufacturing the miners' safety fuze. November 6; six months.

John Campbell, of Bowfield, Scotland, bleacher, for certain improvements in the apparatus or machinery for drying and finishing of bleached cotton and other goods. November 6; six months.

Robert Burton Cooper, of Swinton-street, Gray's Inn-road, gentleman, for improvemen's in the manufacture of taps or cocks, and in stopping bottles and other vessels. November 6; six months.

Peter Armand Lecomte de Fontainmoreau, of Skinner's-place, Size-lane, for certain improvements in producing artificial fuel. (Being a communication.) November 6; six months.

Benjamin Donkin, of the Paragon, New Kentroad, civil engineer, for improvements on wheels as applicable to railway carriages, and on the mechanical contrivances by which railway carriages are made to cross from one line of rails on to another line, or on to what are generally called sidings. November 11; six months.

William Henson, of Skinner-street, St. John'sstreet-road, civil engineer, for improvements in machinery for weaving. November 11; six months.

Christopher Vaux, of Frederick-street, gentleman, for improvements in machinery or apparatus for tilling land. November 11; six months.

Charles Frederick Bielefield, of Wellington-street, Strand, papier machié manufacturer, for improvements in the manufacture of embossed leather and other fabrics and articles. November 11; six months.

George Hill Dutton, of Dutton, brewer, for certain improvements in conveying intelligence from one part of a railway rain to another. November 11; six months.

Samuel Thomas Cromwell, of Romsey, Hants, teacher of music, for improvements in apparatus to be applied to piano-fortes. November 11; six months.

Robert James Hendrie, jun., of Blossom-street, Norton Folgate, dyer, for an improvement in the preparation of silk. November 11; six months.

Jacob Brett, of Hanover-square, Middlesex, Esq., for improvements in printing communications made by electric telegraph. (Being a communication.) November 13; six months.

Joseph Ramor Yglesias, of Mark-lane, London. merchant, for a new mode of application and combination of mechanical arrangements (or of mechanical and hydrostatical arrangements) already known and in use for the purpose, by such application and combination, of augmenting, the power or moving force of first moving machines or engines. (Being a communication.) November 13; six months.

Thomas Palmer, of Tavistock, in the county of Devon, currier, for certain improvements in minelifting machinery, which are also applicable to other purposes. November 15; six months.

John Ayre, of Tynemouth, in the county of Northumberland, sailmaker, for an improved fabric for sailcloth. November 15; six months.

Edward Hall, of Dartford, Kent, civil engineer, for an improved double cyl nder condensing engine. November 15; six months.

Stephen R. Parkhurst, of Liverpool, mechanist, for a method of propelling vessels. November 17; six months.

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James Boydell, jun., of the Oak Farm Works, Dudley, iron-master, for improvements in the manufacture of hinges and handles of knives and other instruments. November 17; six months.

James Boydell, jun., of the Oak Farm Works, Dudley, iron-master, for improvements in the building of ships and other vessels. November 17; six months.

William Newton, of Chancery-lane, civil engineer, for improvements in manufacturing types and other similar raised surfaces for printing. (Being a communication. November 17; six months.

Frederick Oldfield Ward, of Cork-street, Middlesex, gentleman, and Malcolm William Hilles, of Henrietta street, Covent-garden. gentleman, for improvements in the construction of railways, and in machinery and apparatus for working carriages thereon. November 18; six months.

Richard Wright, of Hermitage-terrace, sugar refiner, for improvements in refining sugar. November 18; six months.

Christopher Vaux, of Brighton, gentleman, for improvements in apparatus or machinery for preventing accidents to carriages and passengers on railways, parts of which improvements are applicable to save lives and property in other places. (Being a communication.) November 18; six

months.

Henry Dircks, of Nicholas-lane, London, engineer, for improvements in the m ans of obtaining and preparing extracts from certain vegetable matters, and in the apparatus connected therewith, which apparatus may be also applied to other similar purposes. November 18; six months.

Edward Brown Wilson, of Leeds, engineer, for improved apparatus applicable to swivel bridge and turn tables. (Being a communication.) November 18; six months.

John Finlay, of Glasgow, ironmonger, for a certain improvement or certain improvements in raising and lowering gis, and other lamps, lustres, and chandeliers. November 18; six months.

Henry Buckworth Powell, of Pennington-house, Southampton, lieutenant and captain in the Grenadier Guards, for certain improvements in carriages to be used on rail and other roads. November 18; six months.

William Malins, of Mansion-house-place, London, and West Bromwich, Stafford, iron master, for improvements in constructing roofs and other parts of buildings of ion or other metals, and in the preparation of the materials of which the same are or may be constructed. November 18; six months.

Moses Poole, of London, gentleman, for improvements in raising and transporting earth and other heavy bodies. (Being a communication.) November 18; six months.

James Laming, of Mark-lane, London, merchant, for improvements in making the cyanides and ferrocyanides of potassium and sodium. (Being a communication.) November 18; six months.

Thomas Hunny bun and Edward Venden, of Cambridge, coachmakers, for improvements in that description of passenger carriages called omnibuses. November 20; six months.

Frederick Gye, of South Lambeth, Surrey, gentleman, for improvements in moulding sugar. (Being a communication.) November 20; six months. Thomas Samuel Parlour, of Holloway, in the county of Middlesex, for improvements in propelling · vessels. November 20; six months.

Nathaniel Chappell, of Arcadian-villa, Cumberland-road, Bristol, gentleman, for improvements in the manufacture of worts. November 20; six months.

John Depledge, of the Thorncliff iron-works, near Sheffield, draughtsman, for a certain improved metallic broacher. November 20; six months.

William Johnson, of Faruworth, near Bolton, agent, for certain improvements in machinery, or apparatus for preparing cotton and other fibrous substances for spinning. November 20; six months.

William Corscaden Thompson, of Liverpool, master mariner, for certain improvements in machinery, or apparatus for propelling vessels on water. November 20; six months.

James Donaldson, of Haslingden, Lancaster, woollen-printer, for certain improvements in the processes of scouring, bleaching, and washing wool, cotton, silk, and other fibrous substances, both in a raw or manufactured state. November 20; six months.

Ernest Edge, of Manchester, mechanic, for certain improvements applicable to the wheels and axles of engines, tenders, carriages, and wagons, to be used on railways. November 20; six months.

George Skinner, merchant, of Stockton-upon-Tees, and John Whalley, of South Stockton-upon-Tees, earthenware manufacturer, for certain improvements in the manufacture of earthenware pas'es and vitreous bodies, and also a new composition and material for the same, with certain new modes of combination thereof, which improvements, compositions, and combinations, are applicable to the manufacture of earthenware pastes, vitreous bodies, slabs, tiles, and pavement, and various other useful and ornamental purposes. November 20; six

months.

Eugene Francois Vidocq, of Gallerie, Vivienne, France, for improvements in combining materials to be employed in the manufacture of tea-trays, boxes, trunks, table-covers, oil-cloths, and other articles to be used in place of the materials now employed in such manufactures. November 20; six months.

LIST OF PATENTS GRANTED FOR SCOTLAND FROM THE 22ND OF OCTOBER TO THE 22ND OF NOVEMBER, 1845.

John Campbell, bleacher, Bonfield, Renfrew, in Scotland, for certain improvements in the apparatus or machinery for drying or finishing of bleached cotton and other goods. Sealed, October 24, 1845.

James Higgins, of Salford, Lancaster, machine maker, and Thomas Schofield Whitworth, of Salford, aforesaid, mechanic, for certain improvements in machinery for preparing, spinning and doubling cotton, flax and similar fibrous material. Oct. 24.

Arthur Smith, of St. Helen's, Lancaster, manufacturing chemist, for certain improvements in the manufacture of soda ash. October 28.

Thomas Moss, of Gainsford-street, Barnsburyroad, Middlesex, engraver, for improvements in printing and preparing bankers' notes, checks, and other papers, for the prevention of fraud. Oct. 29.

John Samuel Templeton, of Sussex-place, Kensington, Middlesex, artist, for improvements in propelling carriages on railways. October 29. Robert Cark, ships-painter, and Alexander Pirnie, ships-smith, both of Newburgh, Fife, for certain improvements in steering vessels. October 29.

John Ayre, of the borough and parish of Tynemouth, Northumberland, salmaker, for an improved fabric for sailcloth. October 30.

Thomas Howard, of the King and Queen Iron Works, Rotherhithe, Surrey, iron manufacturer, for improvements in rolling iron bars for suspension bridges and other purposes. November 5.

James Hardcastle, of Firwood, Bolton-le-Moors, Esq., for certain improvements in the method of scouring, bleaching, preparing, dyeing and finishing piece goods, or woven fabrics. November 6.

Edward Wilkins, 26, Surrey-place, Old Kentroad, St. George's Southwark, Surrey, tanner anp currier, for an improvement or improvements in the manufacture of leather.

John Davies, of Manchester, for certain improvements in the method of dyeing or staining woven, or piece goods, or fabrics, and in the machinery or apparatus to be used for such or similar operations. (Being a communication from abroad.) November 10.

Robert Griffiths, of Havre, France, George Hinton Bovill, of Millwall, Middlesex, and George Hennett, of Bristol, engineer, for improvements in the construction of parts of apparatus used for propelling carriages and vessels by the atmosphere, and improvements in propelling carriages and vessels by atmospheric pressure. November 11.

Angier March Perkins, formerly of Harper-street, but now of Francis-street, Regent-square, Saint Pancras, Middlesex, civil engineer, extension for five years from the 2nd of November 1846, of a patent granted to him by King William the Fourth, bear ing date the 2nd of November 1832, for his invention of certain improvements in the apparatus or method or methods of heating the air in buildings, heating and evaporating fluids, and heating metals. November 11.

William Longmaid, of Plymouth, Devon, gent., for certain improvements in the manufacture of chloride, in treating sulphurous ores and other minerals, and in obtaining various products therefrom. November 12.

Alfred Watney, of Wandsworth, Surrey, gentleman, for improvements in the manufacture of horseshoes, and applying shoes to horses and other animals. November 12.

John Lord, of Friday Bridge, Birmingham, merchant, for improvements in supplying steam boilers with water. (Being a communication from abroad.) November 17.

Richard Prosser, of Birmingham, civil engineer, for improvements in the manufacture of metal tubes, and in the machinery or apparatus for producing the same, and in apparatus for fastening tubes in their intended places in steam boilers and other vessels. November 18.

Robert James Hendrie, Jun., of Blossom-street, Middlesex, dyer, for an improvement in the preparation of silk. November 18.

Moses Poole, of Serle-street, Middlesex, gentleman, for certain improvements to hinder the oxydation of iron in all its various states of cast metal, steel, malleable iron, and also to render malleable iron more hard and durable. (Being a communication from abroad.) November 19.

Thomas Bell, of the Don Alkali Works, South Shields, for improvements in certain processes in the manufacture of alkali, which improvements are applicable to the purposes of condensation. November 19.

Charles Hancock, of Grosvenor-place, Middlesex, artist, for certa'n improvements in cork and other stoppers, and a new composition or substance which may be used as a substitute for, and in preference to cork, and a method or methods of manufacturing the said new composition or substance into bungs, stoppers and other useful articles. November 20.

Charles Smith, 13, Newcastle-street, Strand, for new and improved methods in the construction and application of a variety of cooking culinary and domestic articles and utensils, some of which are applicable to cleaning, and a variety of similar useful purposes. November 20.

INTENDING PATENTEES may be supplied gratis with Instructions, by application (post-paid) to Messrs. Robertson and Co. 166, Fleet-street, by whom is kept the only COMPLETE REGISTRY OF PATENTS.