REPERTORY

OF

PATENT INVENTIONS,

AND OTHER

Discoberies and Emprovements

IN

ARTS, MANUFACTURES,

AND

AGRICULTURE;

BEING A CONTINUATION, ON AN ENLARGED PLAN,

OF THE

Repertory of Arts and Manufactures :

A WORK ORIGINALLY UNDERTAKEN IN THE YEAR 1794, AND STILL CARRIED ON WITH
A VIEW TO COLLECT, RECORD, AND BRING INTO PUBLIC NOTICE, the
USEFUL INVENTIONS OF ALL NATIONS.

ENLARGED SERIES.-VOL. I.
January-June, 1843.

LONDON:

Published FOR THE PROPRIETOR,

BY ALEX. MACINTOSH, 20, GREAT NEW STREET;
AND SOLD BY SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., STATIONERS'
HALL COURT; J. WEALE, HIGH HOLBORN; AND
G. HEBERT, CHEAPSIDE.

PLATE I. Hedley and Rodham's Patent for an Apparatus for Purifying Smoke, Gases, &c.-Read, Putland, and Wood's Patent for Improvements in the construction of Bridles, Reins, &c.-Slaughter's Patent for Improvements in the Construction of Iron Wheels for Railway or other Carriages-Daniell's Patent for Improvements in Making and Preparing Food for Cattle.

PLATE II. Harlow's Patent for Improvements in Paving Roads, &c., and Machinery for Cutting Materials for such Purposes-Rubery's Patent for Umbrella and Parasol Furniture-Bevan's Patent for a Mode of Expelling Air from Cases used for Preserving Food-Boydell's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of Keel Plates for Vessels, Iron Gates, Gate Posts, Fencings, and Gratings.

PLATE III. Clarke's Patent for Supplying and Regulating Air to Furnaces of Locomotive Engines-Boccius's Patent for Improvements in Gas, and on the Methods in Use, or Burners for the Combustion of Gas-Merten's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of Plaited FabricsSoulas' Patent for Improvements in Apparatus for Regulating the Flow of Fluids.

PLATE IV. Geeves' Patent for Improvements in Machinery for Cutting Cork.

PLATE V. Losh's Patent for Improvements in the Construction of Wheels, &c.-Nickel's Patent for Improvements in Propelling Carriages-Birkby's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of Wire Cards-Palmer's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of Candles. PLATE VI. Lamb's Patent for Improvements in Engines to be Worked by Steam, Air, Gas, or Vapours, which Improvements are applicable to Pumps for Raising or Forcing Water, Air, or other Fluids-Lambert's Patent for Improvements in the Action of Cabinet Pianofortes-Partridge's Patent for Improvements in Machinery for Splitting Wood for Matches, &c.-Nickel's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of Plaited Fabrics.

PLATE VII. Bell's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of Copper-Holdsworth's Patent for Improvements in Constructing Certain Parts of Ships and other Vessels to Arrest Progress of Fire and Regulate TemperatureCrutchett's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of Gas, and Apparatus to Consume Gas.

PLATE VIII. Warren's Patent for a Machine for making