Agricultural Patents for the year 1863. 
573 
steam-engines. (A communication in part from America.') Appli- 
cation dated 2nd June ; patent sealed, 27th November, 1863. 
75G. George Arthur Biddcll, of Ipswich, Suffolk, mechanical engineer, 
Improvements in locomotives, usually called " traction engines," to be 
used on common roads. Application dated 21st March ; provisional 
protection, 17th April ; notice, 19th May ; patent sealed, 18th Sept- 
ember, 1863. 
1482. Eobert Blackburn, of Exeter, engineer, Improvements in traction 
engines. Application dated 13th June ; provisional protection, 17th 
July ; notice, 20th October ; patent sealed, 12th December, 1863. 
357. David Law and John Downie, of Glasgow, engineers, &c, Improve- 
ments in traction engines or common road locomotives. Application 
dated 9th February ; provisional protection, 20th February ; notice, 
9th June ; patent sealed, 4 th August, 1863. 
1538. Augustin Morel, of Roubaix, France, manufacturer, Improvements in 
traction engines. Application dated 19th June ; provisional protec- 
tion, 3rd July ; notice, 27th October ; patent scaled, 12th December, 
1863. 
*2480. Fraser Selby, of Snrbiton, Surrey, engineer, Improvements in traction 
engines and valves for ditto. Application dated 9th September, 
1862 ; notice, 20th January ; patent sealed, 6th March, 1863. 
*3252. James Braddock, of Drovlesden, Lancashire, engineer, Certain improve- 
ments in machinery or apparatus for effecting the separation of 
impurities from the water employed in steam-boilers, and also for 
effecting the circulation of the said water. Application dated 4th 
December, 1862 ; notice, 3rd March ; patent sealed, 2nd June, 
1863. 
2808. J. H. Johnson, of 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Middlesex, Improvements 
in the prevention or removal of incrustation in or from steam- 
generators. (A communication to him from France.) Application 
dated 17 th October, 1862 ; patent sealed, 9th April, 1863. 
*2028. Alexander Leslie, of Turiff, Aberdeenshire, N. B., farmer, Improvements 
in apparatus for applying steam or other motive power to cultivate the 
soil and to actuate wheeled carriages. Application dated 15th July ; 
provisional protection, 25th July; notice, 18th November, 1862 ; 
patent sealed, 13th January, 1863. 
S96. George Spencer, of No. 2, Lausanne Villas, Queen's-road, Peckham, 
Surrey, civil engineer, Improvements in preventing incrustation in 
steam-engine boilers. Application dated 6th April ; patent sealed, 
2nd October, 1863. 
100. C. H. Townsend and Jas. Young, of Bristol, engineers) Improvements 
in composition for preventing incrustation and corrosion in steam- 
ooilcrs and condensers. Application dated 13th January ; provisional 
protection, 23rd January ; notice, 26th May ; patent sealed, 10th 
July, 1863. 
*2583. James Wilson, of North Brixton, In the county of Surrey, warehouse- 
man, for an invention of An improved composition Jar preventing 
and removing incrustation in boilers. Application dated 20th 
September, 1862 ; patent sealed 17th March, 1863. 
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