THE REPERTORY OF PATENT INVENTIONS AND OTHER DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS 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 THE USEFUL INVENTIONS OF ALL NATIONS. VOLUME I. LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETORS, BY T. AND G. UNDERWOOD, 32, FLEET-STREET. 1825. CONTENTS THE FIRST VOLUME. Specifications of Patents. ........ Page Mr Fatton's, for an astronomical instrument or watch, by which the time of the day, the progress of the celestial bodies, as well as carriages, &c. may be correctly ascertained .... Mr. Pontifex's, for modes of adjusting or equalizing the pres- sure of fluids in pipes; and also of measuring the same......... Mr. Yett's, for an apparatus to be applied to a windlass Mr. Dickinson's, for an improvement in addition to the shoe- ing or stoping and treatment of horses' feet... ...... Mr. Dickinson's, for an improvement in the manufacture and Mr. Rotch's, for an improved fid for the upper masts of ships Mr. Gordon's, for improvements in wheeled carriages..... Mr. Masterman's, for an apparatus for bottling wine, beer, Mr. Spencer's, for improvements in the construction of fur- naces or forges for the preparation of iron or steel.......................... 137 Mr. Perkins's, for improvements in the mode of heating, boiling, or evaporating, by steam, of fluids in pans, &c. Mr. Jeffrey's, for an improved flue or chimney, for furnaces Mr. Hopper's, for improvements in silk hats 217 Mr. Gosset's, for improvements in looms or machinery for |