Specification of James Alexander Manning : intercepting and treating sewage.

  • Manning, James Alexander.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Specification of James Alexander Manning : intercepting and treating sewage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1858, 26^/fc June, N 1444. Intercepting and Treating Sewage. {This Invention received Provisional Protection, hut notice to proceed with the application for Letters Patent was not given within the time prescribed by the Act,) PEOVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Alexander Manning at tbe Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26th June 1858. I, James Alexander Manning, of the Inner Temple, in the County of 5 Middlesex, Esquire, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ An Improved Mode op Intercepting and Treating the Sewage op London and Towns and Cities similarly situated,” to be as follows:— This Invention relates to a system or mode of intercepting at the mouths of the several sewers of London the sewage which is at present discharged into 10 the Thames, whereby the pollution of the same will be entirely avoided. It is obvious that this system is equally applicable to the interception and treatment of the sewage of other cities and towns in a position similar to that of the metropolis. In carrying out my Invention I propose to connect (by a closed tubular 15 drain or pipe) the mouth of each sewer emptying itself into the Thames to a building erected at low-water mark, and containing two tanks of sufficient capacity to receive the flow from such sewer for one or more hours. In cases where two or more small sewers can be conveniently combined, they may all be made to discharge into one set of tanks. The several tubular connecting 20 drains or pipes and the depositing tanks with which they are connected are entirely shut off from all communication with the river. In the lower levels