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Lists of Patents for Inventions, &c. granted in the year 1807.

[Chiefly from the Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture.]

OSEPH MOSELEY ELLIOT, of the parish of St. James, Clerkenwell, in the county of Middlesex, watchmaker; for a new or improved method of making and constructing repeaters, or repeating watches, and time-pieces. Dated October 30, 1806.

Robert Vazie, of the parish of St. Mary Rotherhithe, in the county of Surrey, civil engineer; for improvements in the measures, and in the machinery to be used in making bricks and earthen-ware, and also for improvements in the carriages for removing the said articles. Dated November 6, 1806.

James Royston, of Halifax, in the county of York, card-maker; for an improvement on the system of cardmaking, by a method of cutting teeth for carding wool and tow. Dated November 6, 1806.

John Wm. Lloyd, late of Brookstreet, Grosvenor-square, in the county of Middlesex, but now of Bishop Wearmouth, in the county of Durham, esq; for anti-friction rollers or wheels, to assist all sorts of ear

riage-wheels. Dated November 20, 1806.

James Henckell, of the city of London, merchant; for certain improvements on a machine for dressing coffee or barley, or any other corn, grain, pulse, seed, and berries. Communicated to him by a certain foreigner residing abroad. Dated November 20, 1806.

William Nicholson, of Soho-square, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman; for various improvements in the application of steam to useful purposes, and in the apparatus required to the same. Date Novem ber 22, 1806.

James Frederick Matthey, of Suffolk-street, Charing-cross, in the city of Westminster, lieutenant in De Meuron's regiment; for various improvements upon fire-arms and guns of all descriptions. Dated Decenber 4, 1806.

Samuel Williamson, of Knutsford, in the county of Chester, weaver; for an improvement in weaving cot ton, silk, woollen, worsted, and LIGhair, and each of them, and every two or more of them, by looms. Dated December 4, 1806.

William Hyde Wollaston, of the parish of St. Mary-la-bonne, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman: for an instrument whereby any per

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son may draw in perspective, or may copy or reduce any print or drawing. Dated December 4, 1806.

William Speer, of the city of Dub lin, esq; now residing in the city of Westminster; for a new art, method, or process of purifying, refining, and otherwise improving fish oils and other oils, and converting and apply ing to use the unrefined parts thereof. Dated December 13, 1806.

Thomas Scott, of Clerkenwellclose, in the county of Middlesex, musical instrument-maker; for an improved musical instrument called a flageolette English flute, or an instrument on the flageolette principle, so constructed as a single instrument, that two parts of a musical composition can be played thereon at the same time by one person, Dated December 13, 1806.

Ambrose Bowden Johns, of Plymouth, in the county of Devon, bookseller; for certain compositions, and a mode of manufacturing the same, for covering and facing houses, and various other useful purposes. Dated December 22, 1806.

William Bell, of the town of Derby, engineer; for an improvement upon, and an addition to smoothingirons, planeing-irons, and various edge tools, applicable to many useful purposes. Dated December 22,

1806.

Anthony George Eckhardt, of Berwick-street, Golden-square, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, fellow of the royal society, and member of the society of Haerlem in Holland; for certain improvements in the mode of covering or inclosing books, whereby their contents will be secured from the observations of any person but the owner, and will also be secured from injury. Dated December 22, 1806.

Anthony George Eckhardt, of Berwick-street, Golden-square, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, and member of the royal society of London, and of the society of Haerlem in Holland, and Joseph Lyon, of Millbank-street, Westminster, in the said county of Middlesex, cooper; for a new method of manufacturing pipes for the conveyance of water under ground, different to the present pipes. Dated December 22, 1806.

Charles Schmalcalder, of Little Newport-street, in the parish of St. Aun, Soho, in the county of Middlesex, mathematical and philosophical instrument-maker; for a delineator, copier, or proportion-ometer, for the use of taking, tracing, and cutting out profiles, as also copying and tracing reversely on copper, brass, hard wood, card-paper, paper, assesskin, ivory, and glass, to different proportions, directly from nature, landscapes, prospects, or any other objects, standing, or previously placed perpendicularly: as also pictures, drawings, prints, plans, caricatures, and public characters, Dated December 22, 1806.

Walter Henry Wyatt, of HattonGarden, London, gent. for the means of facilitating the chemical action between copper and several saline substances, so as to produce important improvements in the art of separating gold and silver from copper, plated or united with either of those metals, and in the manufacturing of sulphate of copper, and in the making of many kinds of colours for painting. Communicated by a foreiguer.Dated January 15, 1807.

Chester Gould, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, gentleman; for a machine to ascertain the weight of any thing to the amount of ten 313

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tons and upwards, to be made use of instead of the common steelyard, or beans and weight. Dated January 24, 1807.

William Hance, of Tooley-street, in the parish of St. Olave, Southwark, in the county of Surry, hatter; for a method of rendering waterproof, beaver and other hats. Dated January 29, 1807.

Benjamin Southcombe, of Bricklane, in the parish of St. Luke, in the county of Middlesex, tin-plate-worker; for a method of making flexible or malleable metallic plates into convex or concave forms or hollow shapes. Dated January 29, 1807. Richard Friend, of the Broadway, St. Thomas, in the borough of Southwark, and county of Surrey, gun-carriage-maker; for improvements in the making and working gun and carronade carriages. Dated January 29, 1807.

Simon Orgill, of the town and county of the town of Nottingham, frame smith; for certain stops for working bolt-wheels, affixed to the machine attached to the common warp-lace-frame, to give notion to the said machine, and also to a rotatory spindle, projections, and levers to be affixed to the said frame itself, to give motion to the said frame for the purpose of manufacturing by a more simple, certain, and expeditious method, lace or net-work, of various figures and qualities, with silk, cotton, worsted, or other materials, produced from animal, vegetable, or mineral substances. Dated February 3, 1807.

Richard Lorentz, of Great Portland-street, in the county of Middlesex, esq; for certain machines or instruments, one of which will produce instantaneous light, and the other instantaneous fire; communicated by

foreigners residing abroad. Dated February 5, 1807.

James Essex, of the town of Northampton, woolstapler and grocer; for a method of making or manufac turing dyed, bottled, or felted wool, into mats, rugs, carpets, &c. of various colours, figures, patterns, and sizes, for carriages, halls, parlours, hearths, and sundry other purposes. Dated February 5, 1807.

James Spershott, of Shelton, in the county of Stafford, clay-merchant; for an improvement in the manufacture of earthenware. Dated February 7, 1807.

John Day, of Camberwell-green, in the parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, stone-mason; for an engine for the purpose of loading and unloading vessels, and also for raising large anchors and other immense weights to any height required. Dated February 12, 1807.

Charles earl Stanhope, for improvements respecting the form, construction, and manner of building and fitting out ships and vessels for the purpose of navigation, and especially for counteracting or diminishing the danger of that most mischievous invention for destroying ships and vessels, known by the name or appellation of submarine bombs, carcasses, or explosious. Dated February 16, 1807.

James Winter, of Stoke under Hamdon, in the county of Somerset, glove manufacturer; for a machine for sewing and pointing leather gloves with neatness and strength, much superior to that which is effected by manual labour. Dated Feb. 20, 1807.

Andrew Kauffman, of the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, in the county of Middlesex, musical-instrumentmaker; for improvements in the construction

construction of the flageolette or English flute. Dated February 20, 1807.

Archibald Thomson, of the parish of St. John, in the city of Westminster, and county of Middlesex, engineer; for improvements (by the application of known principles) upon certain parts of mill-spinning for spinning of wool or cotton. Dated February 20, 1807.

Isaac Sauford, of the city of Gloucester, civil engineer, and Stephen Price, of Stroud, in the county of Gloucester, civil engineer; for an improvement or method to raise a nap or pile on woollen, cotton, and all other cloth which may require a nap or pile, as a substitute for teasels or cards. Dated Feb. 20, 1807.

Frederic Albert Winsor, of Pallmall, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman; for an improved oven, stove, furnace, or apparatus for the extracting of inflammable air or gas, and oil-tar, acetous and ammonial liquors, from different kinds of fuel, for reducing such fuel into coke and charcoal and for completely purifying such inflammable air or gas of its odour during a state of combustion. Dated February 20, 1807.

John Falconer Atlee, of Wandsworth, in the county of Surry, distiller; for an improved apparatus to be used in fermenting of liquors. Dated March 7, 1807.

John Maberley, of Bedford-row, in the county of Middlesex, geut. for a method of making and constructing tents, poles, and other machinery, so as to expel and carry off noxious and contaminated air by a readier and more effectual ventilation than can be accomplished by the tents in common use. Dated March 7, 1807. Elizabeth Bell, of Blackheath, in the county of Kent, spinster; for

certain improvements in an artificial method of sweeping chimnies, and an improvement in the preparing and manufacturing pieces used for the constructing the chimnies invented by her, so as to render the said pieces capable of being better joined together, and more advantageously used for the conveying smoke, water, and other fluids or bodies, in a divided and pulverulent state, in any required direction; and also certain methods, machinery, and apparatus, useful or necessary for manufacturing such pieces, and applicable for the purpose of forming various other articles of pottery. Dated March 7,

1807.

John Houlditch, of Long Acre, in the county of Middlesex, coachmaker; for certain improvements in the construction of four-wheeled carriages of different descriptions. Dated March 7, 1807.

Henry Charles Christian Newman, clerk, rector of St. Jolm's, Capisterre, in the island of St. Christopher; for a machine applicable to mills in general, and to various other purposes, but more particularly adapted to the cattle mills employed for expressing the juice of the sugar-cane, by greatly augmenting their power and execution, with fewer cattle, and by increasing the number of the revolutions of the spindle and rollers in the proportion of ten to one of the present mills, or even more if required, by means of a ring, made either of wood or cast iron, round the mill, and by an entirely new construction of the axis in peritrochio, the lever, and a lantern wheel or pinion, the trundles or teeth of which turn a cog wheel on the spindle of the mill; which axis in peritrochio, lever, and lantern wheel or pinion, are also constructed so as to revolve 314 together

together with two distinct motions; that is to say, a rotary round their own axis, and a progressive circumvolutionary on the ring, constantly acting upon and compelling the cog wheel and spindle with their separate and united forces. Dated March 7, 1807.

John Day, of Camberwell-green, in the parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, stone-mason; for a method of applying friction boxes, either with or without a perpetual screw, spindle, and cog-wheel, to extend and facilitate the power of engines, cranes, capstans, and other machines used for loading and unloading ships or vessels, and for raising anchors and other great weights or bodies, and also to the steerage-wheels of ships or vessels. Dated March 20, 1807.

Thomas Johuson, mechanic, in Glasgow; for a machine for weaving yarn. Dated March 23, 1807.

Archibald Thomson, of the parish of St. John, in the city of Westminster, and county of Middlesex, engineer; for certain improvements (by the application of known principles) upon certain parts of mill-spinning for spinning wool or cotton. April 2, 1807.

James Peache, of Cuper's bridge, Lambeth, in the county of Surry, Barge-builder; for a floating hollow buoy, on a new construction, for supporting mooring chains, cables, ropes, &c. Dated April 8, 1807.

Wiliam Chapman, of the town and county of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, civil engineer; for a method or methods of reducing the wear, and prolonging the duration of ropes used in drawing coals or other minerals from pits or shafts of mines. Dated April 8, 1807.

Samuel Williams, of Finsburysquare, in the city of London, merchant; for new and improved ma

chines and machinery for spinning wool, cotton, bemp, and other filamentuous substances. Communicated to him by a foreigner residing abroad, April 8, 1807.

Richard Francis Hawkins, of the parish of St. Ann, Limehouse, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman; for certain improvements to all kinds of gun and carronade carriages, so as to facilitate the working or using, securing, and housing thereof, particularly adapted to ships. Dated April 8, 1807.

William Southwell, of the city of Dublin, musical instrument-maker; for certain improvements upon a piano-forte, which is so constructed as to prevent the possibility of its being so frequently out of tune, as pianofortes now generally are, which he denominates "A cabinet piano-forte." Dated April 8, 1807.

William Chapman, of the town and county of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, civil engineer; for a method or methods of putting coals on board of ships, lighters, and other vessels, so as to prevent a great portion of the breakage of the coals which takes place in the usual method of shipping them by spouts. Dated April 11, 1807.

Thomas Patty, of St. Thomas's Watering, Kent-road in the parish of St. Giles's Camberwell, in the county of Surry, manufacturer; for a method of dying, spiuning, weaving, and manufacturing of East-India sun-hemp into carpets and carpet rug-matts, which will be more durable and less expensive than any now in use. Dated April 11, 1807.

Alexander John Forsyth, clerk, of Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, in Scotland; for a method of discharging or giving fire to artillery and all other fire-arms, chambers, cavities, and

places,

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