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PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS, &c. TAKEN OUT IN 1818. Edward Cowper, for improvements in printing presses, or machines used for printing. John Collier, for improvements on a machine for the purpose of crop ping or shearing woollen cloths of every description. John Lewis, William Lewis, and William Davies, for improvements on shearing machines for shearing or cropping woollen and other cloths. Philip Taylor, for a method of applying heat in certain processes to which the same method hath not hitherto been applied. William Moult, for improvements in steam-engines. John Holworthy Palmer, for a mode of purifying certain description of gases. John Theodore Koster, for a method of building or constructing wheeled carriages, and also for making wheels for carriages. James Fraser, for a cooking machine, for the more simple and effectual decomposition of salt water. Charles Brightly, and Bryan Don kin, for a machine or printing press, for printing from types, plates, or blocks. Marc Isambard Brunel, for a method or methods for forming tunnels or drifts under ground. Hugh Ronalds, for improvements in the art of making leather. Joseph Corty, for improvements on, and additions to, stills, or the apparatus used for distilling; and also in the process of distilling and refining. Benjamin Wilson, for a machine for breaking, swingling, and preparing flax or hemp. Richard Banks, for further improvements on wheel carriages. Thomas Calderbank, for improvements in the working of pumps and other machinery. John Scott, for improvements in steam-boats. James Ikin, for furnace bars. George F. Hagner, for white lead and verdigrees. Rudolph Ackerman, for improvements in four-wheeled carriages. William Horner, for a crane. George Prior, for a detached escapement for chronometers. John Penwarne, for an improved cock for liquor casks. Benjamin Taylor, for a loom. Matthew C. Wyatt, for a safeguard for fire-arms. Jerimy Chubb, for improved locks. Daniel Wilson, for improvements in boiling sugar. Edmund Naish, for winding cot ton. Grant Preston, for a desk glass. Nathaniel Smith, for a winnowing machine. Mary Sedgwick, for preparing the rhines of starch. J. Munro, for improvements in steam-engines. John Simpson, for spring hooks for coach harness. Thomas Allingham, for a lamp. John Jones, for dressing woollen cloth. Alexander Haliburton, for certain improvements in steam-engines and boilers. Joshua Routledge, for an improvement or improvements upon the rotative steam-engine. John Sutherland, for various improvements in the construction of an apparatus for the purifying of liquids. Thomas Heppenstall, for an improvement upon the engine or machine for cutting or reducing into what is called chaff, different articles, as dry fodder for horses and cattle. George Wyke and William Sampson, for improvements on pumps, which improvements are applicable to machinery of various descriptions. John Read and William Howell, for a new system of working and getting the main or thick mine of coal. Richard Penn, for a mode of manufacturing ornamental wooden furniture, by the application of machinery. John Ashton, for certain improvements in or on instruments and apparatus for ascertaining the strength of spiritous liquors, and also the specific gravity of fluids and metals. Sir Thomas Cochrane, knight, com monly called Lord Cochrane, for the working or making of a manufacture, being lamps for streets, which effectuate and regulate the combustion of a certain purified essential oil or spirit obtained from different ligneous, carbonaceous, or bituminous substances, usually called spirit of tar or oil of tar. John James Alexander McCarthy, for a method or methods of applying granite or other materials in the making, constructing, or forming pave ments, pitching and covering for streets, roads, ways, and places. William Annesley, for certain improvements in the constructing ships, boats, and other vessels. William Hopkinson, for a machine or apparatus to prevent the wheels of waggons, carts, coaches, and all other carriages, from coming off by accident, and which he intends to denominate or call a Wheel Detainer. George Whitham, for certain machinery for grinding, glazing, and dressing small cotton and woollen spindles for spinning on jenny, bills, and mule, and other kind of machine for fine work. William Booth, for a method or process of making by a certain machine or machines, wooden clogs for pattens, wooden clogs or soles for shoes. William Church, gentleman, for certain improvements in the steamengine. Gilbert Lang and Robert Smith, for a mode of producing the Sevis new deep and pale reds by topical mordaunts, and a pale blue discharge on said reds. Robert Clayton, for a method of depositing or inserting certain metals or a mixture of metals in wood, ivory, bone, horn, paper, and pottery-ware. William Cranshay and David Mxshet for their improvement for the making and manufacturing of bar or other iron from certain refuse, slags, or cinders, in the smelting of copper ores, in the manufacturing of copper. Augustus Applegarth, for certain improvements in the art of casting stereotype, or other plates for printing. Edward Lillie Bridgman, for certain improvements in making coffins, and in machines for conveying coffins for interment, and appendages to the same in the church and burialgrounds. George Tyer, for a chain-pump. Joshua Rowe, for certain improvement or improvements, or process or processes applicable to the printing of cotton, and other cloths, and to other purposes. Sir Thomas Cochrane, knight, commonly called Lord Cochrane, and Alexander Galloway, for the working or making a manufacture, being a machine or machines for removing the inconvenience of smoke or gases generated in stoves. Thomas Jones and Charles Plimley, for an improvement to blast engines and steam-engines William Bush, for an improvement in the method of drying and preparing of malt, wheat, and other grain. Wolf Benjamin, for a composition varying in colour, with a peculiar method of applying, for the purpose of rendering canvas, linen, and cloth, durable, pliable, free from cracking, and water-proof. Thomas Tod, for certain improve ments in rolling of iron, and making wire, nails, brads, and screws. William Church, for certain im provements in or upon the machinery for making nails and spikes of various forms and dimensions, and also wires and screws of iron, copper, brass, or any other suitable metal. Henry Constantine Jennings, for an improvement in the mariner's compass. Robert Eccles, for certain improvements in the masts, sails, and rigging of ships or sailing vessels. Thomas Brown Milnes, for certain improvements on machinery for the finishing of cotton, Angola, and lamb's-wool stockings. Maurice St Leger, for an improved method of making lime. Thomas Hills and Uriah Haddock, for an improvement in the manufac ture of sulphuric acid. Thomas Motley, patent letter manufacturer, one of the people called Quakers, for certain improvements on ladders. John Dyson, for certain apparatus for the culture and tillage of land. Charles Greenway, for an improvement in the operation of opening raw cotton, or cotton wool, previous to the carding and spinning the same, and by which improvements such operation will be facilitated. George Michael, for improvements in the method of opening and shutting windows or sashes; and also in the application of machinery to the opening and shutting window-shutters, and in other cases where the aforesaid improvements may be applied. Henry Taylor, for improvements on machines or apparatus for catching and destroying rats and other vermin. Thomas Homfray, for a new kind of bobbin or bobbins, used in spinning and other manufactories. William Lester, for a method of increasing and projecting light produced by lamps or other means. George Atkinson, for a combination of materials to produce an article resembling bombazeen. William Eaton, for improvements in cert in parts of the machinery em ployed in the roving and spinning of cotton and wool. Robert Winch, and Richard Holden, for machinery to communicate motion and power to various other machinery which requires reciprocating or alternating motion. John Neilson, for an improvement in the tanning and tawing of hides and skins, and in the dying or colouring of leather and other articles. Albert Roux, for an improvement or improvements applicable to locks of different descriptions. John Baird, for various improvements in the manufacturing and making of cast-iron boilers, used for the purpose of evaporating the juice of the sugar-cane, or syrup derived from thence, by means of annealing them in a furnace or kiln of a peculiar construction. William Bailey, for certain improvements in sashes, sky-lights, and frames, generally used for the purpose of receiving, holding, and containing, glass for the admission of light, and the exclusion of rain and snow; and also for making roofs or coverings for houses and various other buildings. James Milton, for a new species of loom-work. John Richter, for certain improve. ments in the apparatus or utensils used for distillation, evaporation, and condensation; and that the same are new in this country. Richard Ormrod, for an improvement in the manufacturing of copper, or other metal-cylinders or rollers for calico-printing. Urbanus Sartores, for an improvement in the method of producing ignition in fire-arms, by the condensation of atmospheric air. Henry Creighton, for a new method of regulating the admission of steam into pipes or other vessels used for the heating of buildings or other places. Samuel Clegg, for an improved gazometer, or gasholder. Richard Blakemore, and John James, for a new kind of plate, which they denominate Armorphous Metal Plates. Joseph Manton, for certain primers for fire-arms; and also certain improvements in the construction of certain of the parts of fire-arms. John Malam, for certain improvements on steam-engines. James Hollingrake, for a method of making or manufacturing copper or other metal rollers for calice-printing. |