are also applicable to other manufacturing processes.— Sealed August 26, 1846.-(Six months.)

THOMAS WROUGHTON, of Eltham-place, Kennington, Surrey, Gentleman, for Certain improvements in apparatus and instruments for ventilation and respiration.-Sealed August 26, 1846.—(Six months.)

RICHARD CLARKE BURLEIGH, of the City of Bath, Gentleman, for Certain improvements in artificial light.— Sealed August 28, 1846.—(Six months.)

ARTHUR HOWE HOLDSWORTH, of Brook-hill, Dartmouth, Esq., for Improvements in buoys, and giving buoyancy to boats.-Sealed August 29, 1846.—(Six months.)

JAMES BOYDELL, of Oak Farm Works, near Dudley, Iron-master, for Improvements in applying apparatus to carriages to facilitate the draft.—Sealed August 29, 1846. —(Six months.)

WILLIAM AIR FOSTER, Leather Merchant and Bootmaker, of Glasgow, for An improved mode of making belts for driving machinery, traces, reins, and other articles of leather, felt, or parchment, and for an improved apparatus or machinery for the same.-Sealed August 29, 1846.— (Six months.)

ALEXANDRE DEBAIN, Manufacturer, of Paris, for Certain improvements applicable to keyed musical instruments.-Sealed August 29, 1846.—(Six months.)

JAMES ROOSE, of Darleston, in the County of Stafford, Tube Manufacturer, for Improvements in the manufacture of welded iron tubes.-Sealed August 29, 1846.-(Six months.)

HENRY HENSON, of Hampstead, Middlesex, Gentleman, for Certain improvements in railways and railway carriages, having for their object the better accommodation and security of the public.-Sealed August 31, 1846.— (Six months.)

FREDERICK HENRY WEST, of the City-road, Middlesex,

Gentleman, for Certain improvements in securing corks in bottles, jars, and other vessels, to contain liquids and other matters, and also improvements in such bottles and other vessels.-Sealed August 31, 1846.—(Six months.)

JAMES WARREN, of Montague-terrace, Mile-end Road, Gentleman, for Improvements in the manufacture of cast screws. Sealed 31, 1846.—(Six months.)

JAMES COLES, of Harley-street, Cavendish-square, Middlesex, for Improvements in apparatus, for the prevention and treatment of distortions of the spine and chest; also for the treatment of diseases of the spine and other disorders where a recumbent position of the patient is required.-Sealed September 3, 1846.—(Six months.)

PETER ARMAND LECOMTE DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of 15, New Broad-street, in the City of London, for Certain improvements in the machines for the manufacture of bricks and other plastic products-Sealed September 3, 1846.-(Six months.)-Communication.

NICHOLAS HARVEY, of Hayle Foundry, in the Parish of St. Erth, in the County of Cornwall, for Certain improvements in filtering of water for steam engines and boilers. -Sealed September 3, 1846.-(Six months.)

George Senior, of Bradford, in the County of York, Gentleman, for Certain improvements in washing, cleansing, scouring, and bleaching silk, cotton, wool, and fibrous substances generally; also in dyeing, combing, carding, spinning, felting, milling, or otherwise treating or preparing fibrous substances generally.-Sealed September 3, 1846.—(Six months.)

CHARLES YLERY, of Rue, St. Lazare, Paris, Engineer, for Improvements in ascertaining and regulating the speeds and times of railway trains.-Sealed September 10, 1846.-(Six months.)

MOSES POOLE, of the Patent Office, London, Gentleman, for Improvements in treating vegetable fibres to

render them applicable to the manufacture of paper.Sealed September 10, 1846.—(Six months.)—(Communication.)

CHARLES RICHARDSON, of Dalston, Middlesex, Gentleman, for Certain improvements in making and refining sugar, and in the machinery and apparatus employed therein.-Sealed September 10, 1846.-(Six months.)

David Davies, of Wigmore-street, Cavendish-square, Coachmaker, for Certain improvements in steps for carriages, and other purposes.-Sealed September 17, 1846. —(Six months.)—(Communication.)

WILLIAM EDWARD NEWTON, of Chancery-lane, Civil Engineer, for Improvements in preserving fruit and vegetables-Sealed September 17, 1846.—(Six months.) -(Communication.)

FREDERICK BROWN, of Luton, in the County of Bedford, Ironmonger, for Improvements in ovens for kitchen ranges. -Sealed September 17, 1846.—(Six months.)

HENRY FRANKLIN, of Marston Mortaine, in the County of Bedford, Brickmaker, for Improvements in the manufacture of bricks, tiles, and other like articles.-Sealed September 17, 1846.—(Six months.)

WILLIAM BOWMAN, of Great Alie-street, Middlesex, Sugar Refiner, for Improvements in reburning animal charcoal.-Sealed September 17, 1846.—(Six months.)

RICHARD FORD STURGES, of Birmingham, Britannia Ware Manufacturer, for Improvements in filtering apparatus, and in apparatus for making tea-pots and other vessels of metal.-Sealed September 17, 1846. — (Six months.)

HENRY WRIGG, of Upper Holloway, Middlesex, Civil Engineer, for Certain improved means or methods of diminishing draught and friction in carriages and other conveyances. Sealed September 17, 1846.—(Six months.)

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WILLIAM PALMER, of Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, Manu

facturer, for Improvements in the manufacture of lamps. and candlesticks, and in gas, and other pillars and pipes. -Sealed September 17, 1846.-(Six months.)

HENRY DEACON, of Eccleston, Lancashire, Engineer, for Improvements in the manufacture of flattening kilns. -Sealed September 24, 1846.—(Six months.)

CHARLES FOX, of London Works, near Birmingham, Engineer, for Improved machinery for shearing, cutting, and punching metals.-Sealed September 24, 1846.(Six months.)

EDMUND NEROT, of Lombard-street, Gentleman, for Improvements in the manufacture of paper.-Sealed September 24, 1846.—(Six months.)

PIERRE ARMAND LECOMTE DE FONTAINEMOREAU, of 15, New Broad-street, City; for An improvement or improvements in the mode of manufacturing corks.— Sealed September 24, 1846.-(Six months.)—(Communication.)

JAMES LAMB, of Canal-road, Kingsland-road, Middlesex, for Improvements in the manufacture of clogs.-Sealed September 24, 1846.-(Six months.)

ALFRED VINCENT NEWTON, of Chancery-lane, Mechanical Draughtsman, for Improvements in the method of heating, hardening, and tempering various articles made of steel, or of iron and steel combined.—Sealed September 24, 1846.-(Six months.)-(Communication.)

CHARLES CHINNOCK, of Seymour-place, Little Chelsea, Middlesex, for Improvements in folding and securing letters, envelopes, and covers.-Sealed September 24, 1846. -(Six months.)

Thomas Bartlett Simpson, of Islington, Middlesex, for Certain Improvements in propelling, and in machinery connected therewith.-Sealed September 25, 1846.(Six months.)

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PATENT INVENTIONS.

No. 5. VOL. VIII. ENLARGED SERIES.-NOVEMBER, 1846.

Specification of the Patent granted to WILLIAM NICHOLSON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, and GEORGE WADSWORTH, of Sutton Glass Works, in the said County, for Certain Improvements in the Manufacture of Glass and other Vitreous Products. -Sealed March 5, 1846.

WITH AN ENGRAVING.

To all to whom these presents shall come, &c., &c.— The nature of our invention consists

First, in certain improvements in the construction of a furnace, in which the cuvettes or cisterns are placed for fluxing and refining glass or other vitreous products.

Secondly, in certain improvements in the construction and arrangements of implements used in the process of casting plate glass or other vitreous products.

Thirdly, in certain improvements in the mode of reducing the temperature of annealing kilns, constructed in the ordinary manner, and in a new construction and arrangement of annealing kilns.

Fourthly, in certain improvements in the machinery for grinding glass or other vitreous products.

Fifthly, in certain improvements in the machinery for polishing glass and other vitreous products.

Sixthly, in a new mechanical arrangement by which No. 5.-VOL. VIII.

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