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GRAY'S ANNUAL DIRECTORY.
MUNICIPAL WARDS,
(mentioned. This ward includes also the Prince's
street gardens, St John's chapel, and Cuningham's
feu at Coates, upon which WaBcer street, Manor
place, and part of Coates crescent, William street,
and Melville street are built.
SCOTTISH PATENTS,
Granted and Expired, from 1st April, 1836 to
31st March, 1837, inclusive : and observe — every
information relating to Patents may be obtained
on application to Thomas Weir, Esq. W.S. Edin-
burgh, agent for the Patent office, London.
GRANTED.
Certain improvements in the production of
chloride of lime, and certain other chemical sub-
stances — Patent granted to William Maugham,
alchymist, April 25, ] 836.
A certain improvement or improvements to
facilitate and expedite the bleaching of cotton,
linens, and other vegetable fibres — Patent granted
to Thomas Bridson, bleacher, April 25, 1 836.
Certain impssvements in piano fortes — Patent
granted to Joseph Lidelj professor of music, April
28, 1836.
Certain improvements in engines for exerting
•power for driving machinery, and fox raising and
lowering heavy bodies — Patent granted to Andrew
Smith, engineer, April 28, 1836.
A certain method or methods of tentering,
stretching, or keeping out cloth to its width, made
either of cotton, silk, wool, or of any other fibrous
substances, by machinery ^Patent granted to John
Smith Biirns, cotton spinner, and John Smith,
dyer, April, 28, I 836.
Improvements upon Patents already obtained
by him for continuations of apparatus for gaining
pnvirer — Patent granted to Robert Copland, Esq.
May 6, 1836.
Certain improvements in printing of calico and
, other fabrics — Patent granted to William Preston,
operative calico printer. May 10, 1836.
For improvements in sawing wood and other
materials — Patent granted to Henry Sharpe,
merchant, May 10, 1835.
Certain improvements in machinery or appa-
ratus for embroidering or ornamenting bobbin net,
or lace, or cloths, stuif, or other fabrics made from
silk, cotton, wool, flax, or hemp — Patent granted
to .James Cropper, lace maker, and Thomas Brown
Milnes, bleacher. May 10, 1836.
Improvements in the appjiratus and means for
producing ice, and in cooling fluids — Patent granted
to Jacob Perkins, engineer, Maj^ 13, 1836.
An improvement or improvements in the process
■of making or manufacturing ceruse or white lead —
Patent granted to William Gossnge, alchymist,
and Edward White Benson, alchymist. May 20,
1836.
Certain improvements in the loading and un-
loading of ships, brigs, schooners, and other vessels
at docks and quays, and in streams and rivers, and
for the more facile trail sit and stowing of merchan-
dise taken from ships, brigs, schooners, and other
vessels at docks and quays, with a view to abridge
human labour and economize expenses — Patent
granted to Henry Atlcock, civil engineer, May 24,
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SCOTTISH PATENTS.
An improvement or improvements in preparing
certain farinaceous foods — Patent granted to John
Whiting, doctor of medicine. May 24, 1836.
Improvements in producing plain and ornamentiil
weavings — Patent granted to Samuel Draper, lace
maker. May 24, 1836.
An improved method of making tiles for draining
soles, house tiles, and flat roofing tiles Patent
granted to George, Marquis of Tweeddale, lilay
25, 1836.
Certain improvements in passing boats and other
bodies from one level to another — Patent granted
to Thomas Grahame, gentleman. May 26, 1835.
Certain improvements in engines used for carding
cotton, wool, and other fibrous substances — Patent
granted to Jeremiah Horsfall and James Kenyon,
cotton spinners, June 13, 1836.
An improved propeller for steam and other .
vessels — Patent granted to Francis Pettit Smith,
farmer, June 15, 1836.
An improvement in the purification of inflnm-
mable gases, and an apparatus by which the
improvement is applied, such apparatus being also
applicable to other useful purposes — Patent granted
to George Holworthy Palmer, June J 6, 1836.
Certain improvements in producing or making
the substance commonly called or known by the
name of carbonate of baryta or carbonate of barytes
— Patent granted to John Woohich, professor of
chemistry, June 23, 1 836.
Certain improvements in machinery or apparatus
for introducing water or other fluids into steam
boilers, or evaporating vessels ; also for obtaining
mechanical power by the aid of steam, and for
communicating motion to vessels floating in water
— Patent granted to William Taylor, engineer, and
Henry Davies, engineer, June 27, 1836.
For an invention of certain machinery for effecting
the operation called knitting, and producing a
fabric similar to that of knitted stockings — Patent
granted to John Wilde, merchant, and Joseph
Whitvvorth, engineer, June 29, 1836.
An improvement in steam engines — Patent
granted to David Fisher, mechanic, July 7, 1836.
Improvements in machinery for preparing certain
threads or yarns, and for weaving certain fabrics
— Patent granted to Hamer Stansfield, merchant,
July 8, 1836.
Improvements in spinning and doubling organ-
zive silk — Patent granted to Thomas Rock Shute,
July 8, 1836.
Certain improvements in the manufactiu'e of
plate glass — Patent granted to Robert Walter
Swinburne, July 12, 1836.
Certain improvements in steam engines — Patent
granted to Edward Jelowicki, July 1 6, 1 836.
Certain improvements in chemical retorts, stills,
and other apparatus, and in the machinery con-
nected therewith, and by the use or emploj'meut
whereof various processes can be speedily, con-
veniently, and economically performed — Patent
granted to Benjamin Simmons, engineer, July 1 8,
1836.
Of an improvement in the art of manufacturing
iron and steel — Patent granted to John Isaac
Hawllins, engineer, July 1 8, 1 836.
Certain improvenients in machinery or appa-