and manufactured state; by means of which the quality will be considerably improved.-Sealed 9th December6 months for inrolment. Charles Winterton Baylis, of Birmingham, accountinghouse clerk, for an improved metallic pen, to be called "The Patent Flexion Pen," and an improved pen-holder. -Sealed 16th December-6 months for inrolment. George Wildes, of the city of London, merchant, for improvements in the manufacture of white lead,-being a communication. Sealed 16th December-6 months for inrolment. James Davis, of Shoreditch, engineer, for an improved mode of applying heat to certain steam boilers.-Sealed 16th December-6 months for inrolment. John Steward, of Wolverhampton, Esq., for an improvement in the construction of piano-fortes, harpsichords, and other similar stringed musical instruments.-Sealed 16th December-6 months for inrolment. James Molyneux, of Preston, for an improved mode of dressing flax and tow.-Sealed 16th December-6 months for inrolment. Charles Botten, of Farringdon-street, gas engineer, for a certain improvement in gas meters.-Sealed 16th December-6 months for inrolment. Hugh Graham, of Bridport-place, Hoxton, artisan, for a new mode of preparing designs, and dyeing the materials to be used in the weaving and manufacture of Kidderminster carpets, and for producing patterns thereon, in a manner not before used or applied in the process of weaving and manufacturing such carpets.-Sealed 16th December 6 months for inrolment. Joseph Beattie, of Portland-place, Wandsworth-road, Lambeth, engineer, for certain improvements in locomotive engines, and in carriages, chairs, and wheels, for use upon railways; and certain machinery for use in the construction of parts of such inventions.-Sealed 16th December6 months for inrolment. Andrew Pruss D'Olszowski, of Ashley-crescent, gent., for a new and improved level for ascertaining the horizon, and the several degrees of inclination,-being a communication.-Sealed 16th December-6 months for inrolment. William Tudor Mabley, of Wellington-street North, mechanical draftsman, for certain improvements in producing surfaces, to be used for printing, embossing, or impressing.-Sealed 17th December-6 months for inrol ment. Abraham Alexander Lindo, of Finsbury-circus, gent., for improvements to be applied to railways and carriages thereon, to prevent accidents, and to lessen the injurious effects of accidents to passengers, goods, and railway trains. -Sealed 18th December-6 months for inrolment. Elias Robison Handcock, of Birmingham, Esq., for certain improvements in mechanism applicable to turn tables, for changing the position of carriages upon rail-roads, which improvements are also applicable to castors for furniture and other purpoeses.-Sealed 18th December-6 months for inrolment. Richard Coles, of Southampton, slater, for improvements in making or manufacturing tanks and other vessels of slate, stone, marble, and other materials, and in fitting and fastening such materials together.-Sealed 23rd December-6 months for inrolment. Benjamin Baillie, of Henry-street, Middlesex, for improvements in locks, and the fixings and fastenings thereto belonging.-Sealed 23rd December-6 months for inrol ment. John Brumwell Gregson, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, soda water manufacturer, for improvements in pigments, and in the preparation of the sulphates of iron and magnesia.— Sealed 23rd December-6 months for inrolment. Frederick Payne Mackelcan, of Birmingham, and James Murdoch, of Hackney-road, civil engineers, for certain improvements of or belonging to tables, a portion of which is applicable to other articles of furniture,-being partly a communication.-Sealed 23rd December-6 months for inrolment. George Thornton, of Brighton, civil engineer, for certain improvements applicable to railways, locomotive engines, and carriages.-Sealed 23rd December-6 months for inrolment. John Dickinson, of Bedford-row, Holborn, Esq., for certain improvements in the manufacture of paper.-Sealed 23rd December-6 months for inrolment. David Walther, of Angel-court, Throgmorton-street, merchant, for certain improvements in the methods of purifying vegetable and animal oils, fats, and tallows, in order to render those substances more suitable to soap-making, or for burning in lamps, or for other useful purposes; part of which improvements are also applicable to the purifying of the mineral oil or spirit, commonly called " Petroleum or Naptha, or Coal Oil, or Spirit of Coal Tar,"-—being a communication.-Sealed 23rd December-6 months for inrolment. John Jones, of Leeds, brush-manufacturer, for certain improvements in carding engines, for carding wool or other fibrous substances,-being a communication.-Sealed 23rd December-6 months for inrolment. Joseph Barker, of Regent-street, artist, for improvements in gas meters.-Sealed 23rd December-6 months for inrolment. THE London JOURNAL AND REPERTORY OF Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures. CONJOINED SERIES. No. CIX. Recent Patents. To WILLIAM GOSSAGE, of Stoke Prior, in the county of Worcester, manufacturing chemist, for certain improvements in manufacturing iron.-[Sealed 18th June, 1838.] THE method of converting pig or crude iron into malleable iron, by first melting the pig or crude iron in a furnace, called a "finery," and separating a considerable portion of the earthy impurities contained in such iron, and afterwards submitting the iron to the process called "puddling," and subsequently to the operation called "shingling," is well known. It is also known to manufacturers of malleable iron, that during the operation called shingling, as conducted in the above-mentioned method of converting pig or crude iron into malleable iron, a large quantity of black scoria, which is technically called "hammer slag," is separated from the VOL. XVII. 2 E |