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Edwin Budding Moves to Dursley

This entry from the 1845 Repertory of Patent Inventions suggests that Budding was living in Dursley when registering a patent with George Lister in 1840. Budding's business activities from the last years of his life were centred around Uley and Dursley. Budding died in 1846.

  • A GENERAL INDEX  TO THE  REPERTORY OF  PATENT INVENTIONS, AND OTHER Discoveries and Improvements  IN ARTS, MANUFACTURES, AND AGRICULTURE, FROM 1815 TO 1845, INCLUSIVE.

    LONDON:     PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETOR,

    BY ALEXANDER MACINTOSH, GREAT NEW-STREET; AND SOLD BY SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., STATIONERS' HALL COURT ; J. WEALE, HIGII HOLBORN; AND G. HEBERT, CHEAPSIDE   M.DCCC.XLVI.

    BUDDING, Edwin, of Thrupp, in the parish of Stroud, in the county of Gloucester, machinist ; for a new combination and application of machinery for the purpose of cropping or shearing the vegetable surface of lawns, grass-plats, and pleasure-grounds, constituting a machine which may be used with advantage, instead of a scythe for that purpose. August 31, 1830.

    BUDDING, Edwin, of Dursley, engineer; Clyburn, Richard, of Uley, engineer; and Henry George Francis, Earl of Ducie, of Woodchester Park, in the county of Gloucester; for certain improvements in machinery for cutting vegetable and other substances. October 15, 1840.

    BUDDING, Edwin, of Dursley, Gloucester, machinist; and Lister, George, of the same place, card manufacturer; for certain improvements in the means of covering the cylinders of carding and scribbling-engines with wire cards, and in condensing the rovings delivered from such engines, and also an apparatus for sharpening or grinding the points of the cards, which latter apparatus may also be employed for grinding other articles. June 15, 1843.

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