New Patents

SEALED IN ENGLAND,

1837.

To Thomas Simmons Mackintosh, of Coleman-street, in the city of London, engineer, and William Angus Robertson, of Islington, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, for their invention of certain improvements in steam-engines.-Sealed 28th September-6 months for inrolment.

To Francis Hoard, of Demarara, but now of Liverpool, Esq., for his invention of improvements in making sugar.-Sealed 30th September-6 months for inrolment.

To Jonathan Dickson, of Charlotte-street, Blackfriars-road, engineer, for his invention of certain improvements in steam-engines and in generating steam. -Sealed 30th September-6 months for inrolment.

To Thomas Clark, doctor of medicine, professor of chemistry, in Mareschal College, Aberdeen, for his invention of an improved apparatus to be used in manufacturing sulphuric acid.—Sealed 30th September6 months for inrolment.

To Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, engineer, for his invention of certain improvements in machinery, tools, or apparatus for turning, boring, planing, and cutting metals and other -materials.-Sealed 5th October-6 months for inrol

ment.

To Ovid Topham, of Whitecross-street, in the parish of St. Luke's, in the county of Middlesex, engineer and millwright, for his invention of certain improvements in the construction of sluice cocks for water-works, and

which improved construction of cocks is also applicable to steam, gas, and other purposes.-Sealed 5th October -6 months for inrolment.

To John Loach, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, brass-founder, for his invention of improvements in roller blind furniture, and in the mode of manufacturing the same, part of which improvements are applicable also to other purposes.-Sealed 5th October-6 months for inrolment.

To John Thomas Betts, of Smithfield-bars, in the city of London, rectifier, for improvements in the process of preparing spirituous liquors in the making of brandy, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad.-Sealed 5th October-6 months for inrolment.

To Antonin Pieux de Rigel, of Vienna, but now residing at Beaufort-buildings, Strand, in the county of Middlesex, engineer, for his invention of improvements in steam engines.-Sealed 14th October-6 months for inrolment.

To Thomas Vaux, of Woodford, in the county of Essex, land surveyor, for his invention of improvements in tilling and fertilising land.-Sealed 14th October6 months for inrolment.

To Henry Quentin Tenneson, late of Paris, in the kingdom of France, but now of Leicester-square, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, for an improved construction of the portable vessels used for containing portable gas, and of the apparatus or machinery used for compressing such gas therein, and of apparatus or mechanism for regulating the issue or supply of gas, either from a portable vessel or from a fixed pipe communicating with an ordinary gasometer, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad.-Sealed 19th October-6 months for inrolment.

To Edward François Joseph Duclos, late of Samson, in the kingdom of Belgium, but now of Church, in the county of Lancaster, gentleman, for his invention of improvements in manufacturing iron.-Sealed 20th October-6 months for inrolment.

To Henry Robinson Palmer, of Great George-street, Westminster, civil-engineer, for his inventions of improvements in giving motion to barges and other vessels on canals.-Sealed 20th October-6 months for inrolment.

To John Frederick Grosjean, of Soho-square, in the county of Middlesex, musical instrument maker, for his invention of certain improvements on harps, which improvements are applicable to other musical stringed instruments.-Sealed 20th October-6 months for in

rolment.

To Miles Berry, of the Office for Patents, Chancery. lane, in the county of Middlesex, civil-engineer, mechanical draftsman and patent agent, for certain improvements in the preparation of palm oil, whereby it is rendered applicable to the woollen manufactures, lubricating of machinery, and other useful purposes, to which it has not hitherto been applied, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad.-Sealed 26th October-6 months for inrolment.

To Miles Berry, of the Office for Patents, Chancerylane, in the county of Middlesex, civil-engineer, mechanical draftsman and patent agent, for certain improvements in machinery, for heckling or combing and preparing and sewing hemp, flax, tow, and such other vegetable fibrous substances, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad.-Sealed 26th October -6 months for inrolment.

CELESTIAL PHENOMENA, FOR NOVEMBER, 1837.

*The thermometer on the morning of the 15th, remarkably low.

Edmonton.

CHARLES HENRY ADAMS.

Latitude 510 37 32 N.

Longitude

3. 51 West of Greenwich.