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. 6 CT

To Thomas Vaux, of Woodford, in the county of Essex, land surveyor, for his invention of improvements in tilling and fertilising land.-Sealed 14th October 6 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, Chancerylane, 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.

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

Edmonton.

CHARLES HENRY ADAMS.

Latitude 51o 37 32 N.

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No. LXIX.

Recent Patents.

TO JOHN HEATHCOAT, of Tiverton, in the county of Devon, lace-manufacturer, for his invention of a method or methods of weaving or manufacturing divers kinds of goods and wares, and for machines or machinery applicable thereto.-[Sealed 23d December, 1835.]

This invention consists of new and improved mechanism and arrangements of machinery, whereby different articles, such as tapes, ribbons, edgings, and other narrow fabrics, may be manufactured with increased dispatch, and in less room or space than by the machinery in common use for such purposes.

The chief point in which this improved method of weaving narrow fabrics differs from those commonly adopted, is, that the operation of weaving is performed in a transverse direction, that is, at right angles to the back and front of the machine, the tapes or other