of the Year 1799.

concentrated fluid vital air, of great ufe in the cure of putrid difeafes,

lane, Bermondfey, tanner; for manufacturing an article into leather, commonly called Spanish, or Morocco Leather. Dated January 4.

John Kent, of Southampton, architect and builder; for a method of applying power to the working of mills and other machinery, where power is required. Jan. 5.

James Edgell, of Frome Selwood, Somerfetfhire, gentleman; for the ufe and application of metal, of a peculiar quality, and great ftrength, in the place of common iron, in all cafes where common iron hath hitherto been employed. Jan. 16.

Wilfon Fitzgerald, late of the Temple, London; efq. for a fignal trumpet, for increafing the powers of found by fea and land. Jan. 23. Cater Rand, of Lewes, efq. for an improved naval and military telefcope. Jan. 26.

Thomas Cooke, of Red-Lionfquare, London, clerk; for an apparatus, which he calls carbo frugaift; being an effectual mode of applying fire to boilers, ovens, and other caldronic impliments. January ng.

Jofeph Barton, of Old-ftreet, London, chymift; for a medicine

he calls rated preventive fluid, as pertentive from putrid. infection; &c.; alfo, ærated liquid balm, for preferving and beautifying the fkin. Jan. 29.

Hezekiah Beers Pierpoint, of New York, in North America, merchant, at prefent refiding in Surrey-street, in the Strand; for a new fort of oil, produced or extracted from certain vegetable fubftances, not heretofore ufed in this kingdom for that purpose. Feb. 5.

Jofeph Watts, of Yeovil, Somerfet, tanner and glove-manufacturer; for tanning foreign and English kid, goat, fheep, and lamb fkins, (or other fkins ufually tanned into gloves and mittens) into leather fit for gloves and mittens, without lime and bran, in a fhorter space of time, and with lefs expenfe and labour, than have yet been used. February 5.

Humphrey Jeffereys, of Neweaftle-upon-Tyne, engineer; for an improvement applicable to bringing or conveying coals from the interior parts of coal-mines, or other mines; alfo for an improve ment upon machinery for railing coals, ores, or other minerals, in

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the pit or fhaft; alfo for an improvement in the manner of delivering coals, ores, or other minerals, at the mouth of the pit or fhaftFebruary 12.

Jofeph Dale, of St. Mary-la-bonne, mufic-feller; for improvements on the tambourine. February 19.

'Samuel Sandy Hickling, of Birmingham, gentleman; for improving and beautifying certain vellels and utenfils ufed for chymical, culi nary, and various other purposes. February 28.

John Luccock, of Morley, near Leeds, York, wool-ftapler; for a machine, upon hydroftatic principles, to produce a very confiderable mechanical power, applicable to all the purposes of a team-engine, but without the use of fire, fteam, or water-wheel. February 28.

Jofeph Tidmarfh, of the parish of St. Luke, Chelfea, glazier and painter; for an article which may be used alone, as a fubftitute for paint, or mixed with paints in general for the purpose of enlarging their quantity, and reducing their price. February 28.

George Medhurst, of Battlebridge, in the parish of St. James, Clerkenwell, engineer; for a condenfing wind-engine, capable of being applied to all purposes in which either fteam, wind, water, or horfes, are used. February 28.

David Hardie, of the parish of St. James, Weftminfter, gentleman; for an improvement in and upon cranes for raifing and lowering goods into and out of warehoufes, which will confiderably leffen the labour ufually required to work them.

March 8.

trifugal barrel-engine or central force, for raifing water, &c. from great depths, applicable to all manufactories or fyftems of machinery requiring the action of circular mo tion, fuch as, an effectual power in mill-work, water-works, and clockwork. March 8.

Robert Delap, of Banville, near Bambridge, Ireland, bleacher; for economical boilers, for fundry useful purpofes. April 6.

William Brodum, of the pari of Christ Church, Surry, doctor of phyfic; for a medicine denominated Botanical Syrup, for the cure of fcorbutic and various other complaints; alfo for a medicine denominated Nervous Cordial, for the cure of confumptive and many other complaints. April 10.

Samuel Rehe, of the parish of St. Bride, London, mechanift; for an engine or apparatus for giving motion to water, or other fluids, either for the purpose of conveying fuch fluids from place to place, in any direction, or for mechanical purpofes; which apparatus is allo capable of being made the inftrument for tranfmitting the force of water, or any other of the fluids hitherto ufed as first movers in mills and other machines. April 11.

George Davis, of Windfor. in the county of Berks, locksmith; for a double chamber lock, with cylin ders, to which pins are affixed, in different directions, inftead of wards. April 11.

Mark Ifambard Brunel, of the parifh of St. Mary, Newington, Surry, gentleman; for a writing and drawing machine, by which two or more writings or drawings, refembling each other, may be made by the fame perfon, at the fame time. April 11,

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Henry Wildey, of New Compton-ftreet, in the parish of St. Giles in-the-Fields, finith, for an improved method of applying fprings to the poles or fhafts of twowheeled carriages, which he calls an Antimobile, or deftroyer of the difagreeable fenfation produced by the motion of the horfes. April 16. Henry Wood, of Sloane-fquare, in the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, ftatuary; for an inftrument or machine to be called a Time Setter, whereby the poffeffor thereof is enabled to publish to every one, viewing the fame, feveral various purposes intended to be performed by him, at any given future period of time, or within certain given intervals, with great eafe and celerity, and without being fubject to error. April 20.

Robert Simpfon, of the parish of St. John, Clerkenwell, furgeon's inftrument-maker; for an iuftrument for extracting teeth in a perpendicular direction. April 23.

James Knowles, of the parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, leather-dreffer; for a method of dreffing or preparing fkins, for the purpose of converting them into leather, whereby much trouble, labour, and expenfe is faved. April 27.

William Gillifpie, of Anderston, near Glasgow, calico-printer; for a method of printing, colouring, or ftaining, linens, calicos, or other cloths. April 30.

Charles Tennant, of Darnly, near Glasgow, bleacher; for a method of preparing the oxygenated muriates of calcareous earths, frontites, barytes, and magnefia; and for applying fuch oxygenated muriates of the above earths to the purpofe of bleaching, or removing colours from vegetable or animal substances. April 30.

John Daniel Belfour, of Elfineur, in the kingdom of Denmark; for improvements in his method of ma nufacturing cordage of all kinds, and for which he obtained former letters patent, dated respectively on or about the 16th day of March, 1793, and the 3d day of May, 1798, by means of which improvements the work is accelerated and fimpli fied. April 30.

Stephen Wilkins, of the parish of St. Peter, Worcester; for a new invented compofition of a gum to be ufed in calico-printing. May 25.

Henry Brown, of Derby, chymift; for a new-invented method of making and preparing extract of zinc, which he has frequently used and applied to various medicinal purposes. May 28.

John Wilkinson, of Castle-head, Lancaster, iron-mafter; for an improvement in boilers, applicable to falt-pans, or any other purpose, where a faving of fuel is an object. May 28.

Thomas Chapman, of Bermond fey, fkinner and feal-wool manufac turer; for a new invented method of taking off the wool or fur from feal or other fkins, in a more perfect ftate than has hitherto been done, for the purpofe of manufacturing the fame into hats, or any other article of clothing. June 6.

William King, of the parish of St. Luke, Old-freet, in the county of Middlefex, tin-plate-worker; for new-invented joints, on improved principles, and for applying the fame to tea-pots, coffee-pots, coffee biggins, tea-urns, coffee-urns, tea caddies, and every other article that hath a lid or door to it, either in fmall or loose work. June 17.

Francis Brewin, of Bermondfey, tanner; for a new-invented method of tanning bides and skins. June 18.

John

John Hayes, of Wokingham, in the county of Wilts, gentleman; for new invented machines or inftruments for the cultivation or tillage of all kinds of land. June 18.

John Wilkinson, of Castle-head, Lancaster, iron-mafter; for a newinvented method of making cerufe or white-lead. June 18.

Amos Whittemore, of Bannerftreet, Middlefex, cotton and wool card-maker, and Clement Sharp, of the fame place, merchant; for a new method of making cards, for carding cotton, wool, filk, and other things. June 26.

Stephen Hooper, of Margate, in the Ife of Thanet, in the county of Kent; for a machine for the purpofe of cleaning rivers, creeks, harbours, bars of harbours, and fandbanks, or other fhoals at fea, by the power of the tide or current.

June 26.

Jofeph Boyce, of the parish of St. Mary-la-bonne, in the county of Middlefex, gentleman; for a machine for cutting wheat, and all other corn. July 4.

John Eaton, of Nottngham, framework-knitter; for a new piece of machinery, to be added and affixed to a flocking-frame, for manufacturing, by a more fimple, fpeedy, and neat method, elaftic crofs ftitch, plated hofe - pieces, gloves, mitts, &c, July 4.

William Chapman, of Newcafileupon-Tyne, gentleman, and Edward Walton Chapman, of the fame place, gentleman; for a method or methods of making cords, ropes, and cordage, both tarred and untarred, from the fpinning of the yarn to the nifhing of the rope or cordage. July 16.

Matthew Murray, of Leeds, York, engineer; for improvements in the

fteam-engine, for the purpose of faving fuel, leffening the expenfe of erecting fteam-engines, and producing a more steady motion therein than by any means at prefent practifed. July 16.

John Afhforth, of Oldfield, near Manchester, dyer; for a machine or apparatus for a speedy and elegant method of ftiffening, drying, and finishing dyed muflins. July 16,

Paul Newham, of Melkihan, Wilts, clothier; for a method of figuring and ornamenting, by means of preffure, emboffment, or otherwife, cloths or ftuffs of woollen, linen, cotton, velvet, filk, or fatin, or any mixture of those materials, July 16,

Willon Fitzgerald, of the MiddleTemple, London, efquire; for a method of making or producing tallow or fat. July 16.

Samuel Gratrix, of Manchester, calico-printer and dyer; for a method of dying and ftaining colours upon cotton-cloth, linen-cloth, and cotton and linen cloth mixed, much fuperior to any method heretofore in ufe. July 17.

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Thomas Bins, of St, Mary-labonne, in the county of Middlefex for a movement producing a retrograde motion, capable of being applied to mangles and calandars. July 20.

James Mitchel, of the hamlet of Poplar and Blackwall, Middlefex, rope-maker; for a method of ma-, nufacturing cables, hawfers, or fhroud-laid ropes, and other cordage, on a fcientific principle. July 22.

James Lambie, of Paifley, in North Britain, machine-maker; for a mode of applying additional pow er to various kinds of machinery, by which the force of a man is greatly increafed. July 23.

John

John Grimshaw, of Bishop Wearmouth, Durham, rope-maker; for improvements in the method or manufacturing ropes and cordage. August 2.

William Hunt and Wastel Cliffe, of the Brades, Stafford, fteel manufacturers; for a method of grinding corn, malt, and other grain, with steel or iron hardened plates. Auguft 8.

George Dodfon, of Blackfriersroad, Surry, cabinet-maker, and John Skidmore, of High-Holborn, Middlefex, iron-founder; for a method of making and cafting, with caft-iron, brafs, or mixed metal naves or ftocks for all forts of wheels, to be used for all forts of carriages. Auguft 8.

Edward Woods, of Parr, Lancafter, gentleman; for machinery for the purpofe of flitting, fashioning, pointing, finking down, bottoming, and founding of ivory, bone, horn, tortoifefhell, and boxcombs; and for cutting all kinds of fuftian. Auguft 13.

Jofeph Huddart, of Iflington, efq. for a method of registering or forming the ftrands in the machinery for manufacturing cordage. August 20.

William Murdock, of Redruth, Cornwell, engineer; for the method of conftructing fleam-engines. Auguft 29.

John Bishop, Newhaven, in the ftate of Connecticut, in North Ame rica, at prefent refiding in the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, in the county of Middlefex; for a method of creating a power useful in moving machinery, and reducing labour, by means of fire, water, and fteam, with or without condenfation. September 23.

John Crooks, of Edinburgh, chy

mift; for a method of making foap, and bleaching, by, means and ufe of volatile, mineral, and vegetable alkalies, either by joining them with each other, or ufing the volatile, alkali by itfelf; and of killing vermin. September 23.

William Bolts, of Aldgate-ftreet, London, gentleman; for a mode of improving the form, quality, and ufe of candles, and other lights made of tallow, wax, fpermaceti, or any other inflammable substance. September 26.

Anthony George Eckhardt, of Queen's Buildings, Knightsbridge, gentleman, F. R.S.; for a method of conftructing and moving the back and bottom of fire-grates, combined with cheeks, on a new construction, which is particularly adapted for kitchen-ranges, and can be applied to other grates; by which a great faving of coals will be obtained. October 3.

Jofeph Smith, of the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, in the county of Middlefex, gentleman; for im provements in the internal bracings of piano-fortes, fo as to admit the introduction of a drum, tambour, or tambourine, with fticks or beaters thereunto belonging. October 3.

John Hotchkis, efq. lieutenant in the royal navy; for a mechanical power, for the purpose of lifting weights, moving fhips, weighing anchors, &c. October 3.

James Bell, of Chancery-lane, in the county of Middlefex, tailor; for a pocket faftening, to prevent the lofs of property, November 4.

Thomas Foden, of the city of Coventry, woollen-manufacturer for a cryftalline fize or mixture, to be used in fizing and dreffing coté ton, worfted, and linen Noyarn. vember 4.

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