New Patents

SEALED IN ENGLAND.

1840.

To John Whitehouse, the younger, of Birchall-street, Birmingham, brass-founder, for improvements in the construction of spring hinges and door springs.-Sealed 3rd September-6 months for inrolment.

Mark Freeman, of Sutton Common, Surrey, gentleman, for improvements in weighing machines.-Sealed 3rd September-6 months for inrolment.

William Daubney Holmes, of Cannon-row, Westminster, civil engineer, for certain improvements in naval architecture, and apparatus connected therewith, affording increased security from foundering and shipwreck.-Sealed 3rd September-6 months for inrolment.

Thomas Horne, of Birmingham, brass-founder, for improvements in the manufacture of hinges.-Sealed 3rd September-6 months for inrolment.

James Bingham, of Sheffield, manufacturer, for certain improved compositions, which are made to resemble ivory, bone, mother-of-pearl, and other substances applicable to the manufacture of handles of knives, forks, and razors, piano-forte keys, snuff boxes, and various other articles.— Sealed 3rd September-6 months for inrolment.

William Freeman, of Mill-bank-street, Middlesex, stone merchant, for improvements in paving or covering roads, and other ways or surfaces,-being a communication.Sealed 7th September-6 months for inrolment.

Thomas Motley, of Bath Villa, Bristol, engineer, for improvements in apparatus and means of burning concrete fatty matters.-Sealed 7th September-6 months for inrolment.

William Coltman, of Leicester, frame-smith, and Joseph Vale, of the same place, frame-smith, for improvements in machinery employed in frame-work, knitting, or stocking fabrics. Sealed 7th September-6 months for inrolment.

Samuel Parker, of Piccadilly, manufacturer, for improvements in apparatus for preserving and purifying oils, and in apparatus for burning oils, tallow, and gas.-Sealed 10th September-6 months for inrolment.

Paul Hammic, of Clements-lane, London, solicitor, for improvements in the construction of governors or regulators applicable to steam-engines, and to other engines used for obtaining motive power,-being a communication.— Sealed 10th September-6 months for inrolment.

Charles Delbruck, of Oxford-street, gentleman, for improvements in apparatus for applying combustible gas to the purposes of heat,-being a communication.-Sealed 10th September-6 months for inrolment.

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Edward John Dent, of the Strand, chronometer maker, for certain improvements in clocks, and other time-keepers. -Sealed 10th September-6 months for inrolment.

Henry Houldsworth, of Manchester, cotton spinner, for improvements in carriages used for the conveyance of passengers on railways, and an improved seat, applicable to such carriages and other purposes.-Sealed 10th September-6 months for inrolment.

Hugh Lee Pattinson, of Bensham-grove, Durham, manufacturing chemist, for improvements in the manufacture of white lead.-Sealed 10th September-6 months for inrolment.

George Alexander Gilbert, of Southampton-buildings, Middlesex, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for obtaining and applying motive power.Sealed 10th September-6 months for inrolment.

: Robert Goodacre, of Ullesthorpe, Leicester, for an apparatus for raising heavy loads in carts, or other receptacles containing the said loads, when it is required that the unloading should take place at any considerable elevation above the ground.-Sealed 10th September-6 months for inrolment.

James Pilbrow, of Tottenham-court-road, engineer, for certain improvements in steam-engines.-Sealed 10th September-6 months for inrolment.

William Bedford, of Hinckley, Leicestershire, framework knitter, for certain improvements in machinery employed in manufacturing hosiery goods, or what is commonly called frame-work knitting.-Sealed 17th September-6 months for inrolment.

Henry Fourdrinier, and Edward Newman Fourdrinier, both of Hanley, Stafford, paper makers, for certain improvements in steam-engines for actuating machinery, and in apparatus for propelling ships and other vessels on water.-Sealed 17th September-6 months for inrolment.

Moses Poole, of Lincoln's-inn, gentleman, for improvements in preparing materials to facilitate the teaching of writing,-being a communication.-Sealed 17th September-6 months for inrolment.

Walter Richardson, of Regent-street, gentleman, and George Mott Braithwaite, of Manor-street, Chelsea, gentleman, for improvements in turning metals,-being a communication.-Sealed 17th September-6 months for

inrolment.

Samuel Draper, of Nottingham, lace manufacturer, for improvements in the manufacture of ornamented twist, lace, and looped fabrics. Sealed 21st September -6 months for inrolment.

William Mill, of Blackfriars-road, engineer, for certain improvements in propellers, and in steam-engines, and in the method of ascertaining and measuring steam power; parts of which improvements are applicable to other useful purposes.-Sealed 21st September-6 months for inrol

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Charles Handford, of High Holborn, tea-dealer, for an improved edible vegetable preparation, called “ Eupooi,' and the mode of manufacturing the same.-Sealed 21st September-6 months for inrolment.

Thomas Pain, junior, of 57, Upper Seymour-street, Euston-square, student-at-law, for a plan, by means of which carriages may be propelled by atmospheric pressure only, without the assistance of any other power,-being an improvement upon the atmospheric railway now in use.— Sealed 22nd September-6 months for inrolment.

John Maughan, of Connaught-terrace, Edgeware-road, gentleman, for certain improvements in the construction of wheeled carriages.-Sealed 24th September-6 months for inrolment.

George Goodman, of Henley, in Arden, and of Birmingham, needle manufacturer, for certain improvements in the manufacture of mourning and other dress pins.-Sealed 24th September-6 months for inrolment.

John Gibson, and Thomas Muir, both of Glasgow, silk manufacturers, for improvements in cleaning silk and other fibrous substances.-Sealed 24th September-6 months for inrolment.

William Hirst, of Leeds, clothier, for improvements in the manufacture of woollen cloth, and cloth made from wool and other materials.-Sealed 24th September-6 months for inrolment.

Pierre Erard, of Great Marlborough-street, Middlesex, for improvements in piano-fortes.-Sealed 24th September -6 months for inrolment.

Henry Pinkus, of Panton-square, Coventry-street, Middlesex, Esq., for improvements in the methods of applying motive power to the impelling of machinery applicable, amongst other things, to impelling carriages on railways, on common roads or ways, and through fields, and vessels afloat; and in the method of constructing the roads or ways on which carriages may be impelled or propelled.- Sealed 24th September-6 months for inrolment.

John Johnston, of Glasgow, gentleman, for a new method (by means of machinery) of ascertaining the velocity of, or the space passed through by ships, vessels, carriages, and other means of locomotion, part of which is also applicable to measurement of time. Sealed 24th September - 6 months for inrolment.

Thomas Robinson Williams, of Cheapside, gentleman, for improvements in the manufacture of woollen fabrics, or fabrics of which wools, furs, or hairs, are the principal components, as well as for the machinery used therein.Sealed 24th September-6 months for inrolment.

Alexander Dean and Evan Evans, of Birmingham, millwrights, for certain improvements in mills for reducing grains and other substances to a pulverised state, and in the apparatus for dressing or bolting pulverised substances.Sealed 24th September-6 months for inrolment.