Specification of William Knox Stuart : treating and utilizing sewage.

  • Stuart, William Knox.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Specification of William Knox Stuart : treating and utilizing sewage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Stuart's Improvements in Treating and Utilizing Sewage tlie top of tliat pipe. The solid matter separated in this way may he conveyed by waggons and by rail to farms to be used as manure. The liquid flows from the depositing tanks 3 by the pipes 16 onwards, to filters or absorbing beds of various materials to be dealt with accoiding to known chemical processes for absorbing and removing gaseous and 5 other matters from the water which is finally delivered or discharged in a pure or nearly pure condition. In Diagram Figure 2 a tank or reservoir 23 is shown as constructed below the end of the sewer 1; this is for receiving separately the portion of mine, which with modern city arrangements can be easily kept 10 separate from the general sewage, namely, that from public urinals or from the urinals of large works. This urine may be conveniently conveyed to the establishment by means of a pipe 24 carried along the top of the sewer 1 and leading into the tank 23. Having thus particularly described my said Invention, and the 15 manner in which the same is to be performed, I have to state that I do not restrict myself to the precise details herein described ; but that what I believe to be novel and original and claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the dealing with and utilising sewage by means of improved arrange- 20 ments and apparatus, substantially such as are herein-before described. In witness whereof, I, the said William Knox Stuart, have here¬ unto set my hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty- eight. W. K. STUAKT. (l.s.) Witness, Edmund Hunt, Patent Agent, Glasgow. 25 30 LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1868.