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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    2 A.D. 1858.—N 1444. Provisional Specification. Mannings Improved Mode of Intercepting and Treating Sewage, tlie tanks will be of such an increased depth as to insure the constant flow of the sewage, whilst the connecting tubular drains or pipes will be so supported above the surface of the river strand as to prevent any possibility of the tilting of the mud against its sides. The tubular connecting pipes are made with forked branches, one leading 5 to each of the depositing tanks, and each of these branches are furnished with a sluice or other stop valve, so that on one tank being filled the flow of sewage will be directed to the second tank. During the time occupied by the filling of the second tank the operations of precipitating all the animal and vegetable organic matters held in suspension in the sewage contained in 10 the first tank, as well as the deodorisation both of the solid and liquid portions of the sewage and the clarification of the water, together with the discharge of such clarified water into the Thames, are accomplished, such operations being carried on continuously from each tank in rotation, so that at no time is the regular and constant flow of the sewage impeded or interrupted. ^ 15 The operations of precipitating, deodorising, and clarifying the sewage may be effected in the manner described by me in the Specification of my Patent for the treatment of sewage, bearing date on or about the Seventh of August, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, or by any other similar method. LONDON : Printed by Geoege Edwakd Eyee and William Spottiswoodb, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1858. j