THE

REPERTORY

OF

PATENT INVENTIONS,

AND OTHER

Discoveries 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. XIV.
July-December, 1849.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETOR,

BY ALEXANDER MACINTOSH, GREAT NEW-STREET;
AND SOLD BY SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., STATIONERS'
HALL COURT; J. WEALE, HIGH HOLBORN; AND

G, HEBERT, CHEAPSIDE.

ENLARGED SERIES.

PLATE I. Cullen's Patent for Improvements in Apparatus for Steering Ships and other Vessels.-Green and Newman's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of a part or parts of Railway Wheels.-Ricardo's Patent for Improvements in Electric Telegraphs, and in Apparatus connected therewith. PLATE II. Burns' Patent for an Improved Roller-gin used in Separating the Seed from Cotton.- Metcalf's Patent for Improvements in the Construction of Chairs, Sofas, and other articles of furniture for sitting or reclining on.Greenstreet's Patent for Improvements in Hydraulic Engines. Roose and Richardson's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of Tubing.

PLATE III. Bakewell's Patent for Improvements in Making Communications from one place to another by means of Electricity. Loam's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of Fuzees.

PLATE IV. Clinton's Patent for Improvements in Flutes.Smith's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of Railway Wheels.-Tutton's Patent for Certain improvements in the Construction and Arrangement of certain parts of Buildings.

PLATE V. Adams' Patent for Improvements in Mills for Grinding.

PLATE VII. Barberis's Patent for Improvements in the Construction of Swifts, and in the Arrangement of Apparatus for Winding Silk and other fibrous substances.

PLATE VIII. Steward's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of Moulds and Cores for Casting Iron and other substances.-Hill's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of Iron, and in the Machinery for producing the same.-Hobler's Patent for Improvements in the Construction of Cylinders or Barrels of Capstans and Windlasses. PLATE IX. Cartwright's Patent for an Improved Brace for the use of Carpenters and others.-Wilkins' and Stacey's Patent for a Certain improvement or Improvements applicable to Heating and Boiling of Liquids of any kind or description.-Parish's Patent for Improvements in Safety and other Lamps, and in Gas-burners.-Wright's Patent for Certain improvements in Preparing various Fibrous Substances for Spinning, and in Machinery and Apparatus connected therewith.

PLATE X. Pearce's Patent for Improvements in Apparatus for Obtaining Light by Electric Agency.-Webster's Patent for Certain improvements in Apparatus for Manufacturing Gas. PLATE XI. Smith's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of Flour, applicable to the making of Bread, Biscuits, and Pastry.-Whitworth's Patent for Improvements in Preventing Accidents on Railways.-Day's Patent for Improvements in Machinery for Weighing.-David's Patent for Improvements in Bleaching Cotton.

PLATE XII. Remond's Patent for Improvements in Machinery for Folding Envelops, and in the Manufacture of Envelops. PLATE XIII. Wilson's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid and Alum.-Woollett's Patent for Improvements in Gun-carriages.-Pickering's Patent for Improvements in Evaporating Brine and certain other fluids. Gordon's Patent for Certain improvements in the Ventilation of Mines. PLATE XIV. Jacob's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of Earthenware Tubes or Pipes.-Defries' and Pettitt's Patent for Improvements in applying Gas to heat Apparatus containing fluids, and in Heating and Ventilating Buildings; also Improvements in Gas-fittings, and in Apparatus for controlling the passage of Gas.Brook's Patent for Improvements in Lamps.-Green and Newman's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of Railway Wheels.

PLATE XV. Knox's Patent for Improvements in Railwaycarriages.-Dunington's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of Looped Fabrics, and in the making of Gloves and Hatbands. Simpson and Forster's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture or Treating Solvents of India-rubber and other gums or substances. PLATE XVI. Kennedy's Patent for Certain improvements in the methods of Packing Cops of Cotton and other fibrous materials, and in the Apparatus connected therewith.Poole's Patent for Improvements in the Manufacture of Heels for Boots and Shoes, of Swivels, of Bag-fastenings, of Revolving Furniture, and of the Connexions of Pipes for Gas and other fluids.-Cocksey and Nightingale's Patent for Certain Machinery to facilitate the washing and cleansing of Cotton and other fabrics, &c.

PLATE XVII. Manton's Patent for Improvements in Firearms. Parry's Patent for Improvements in Shoeing Horses, and in Horse-shoes.-Parkes' Patent for Improvements in the Deposition and Manufacture of certain Metals, &c.