Specification of Ferrar Fenton & Samuel Hollins : treating sewage, &c.

  • Fenton, Ferrar.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Specification of Ferrar Fenton & Samuel Hollins : treating sewage, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Speciticatiou. Fenton ^ FLollins^ Improvements in Treating Sewage, ^c. shale, or barren shale of the coal measures^ or alum clay, or alum shale, either in a raw state or roasted with any or all of the above. Tliese ingredients may be mixed together in equal proportions to form the deodorizing composition which may be used either above or below or mixed with the feculent or putrescent matter when in a solid or 5 semi-fluid state, or it may be used to form a filter bed for sewage or other feculent or putrescent matter in a fluid state, or the ingredients may be mixed together in such other proportions as the sewage or other feculent matter may require according to local circumstances and to the variations in the composition of the said matter. Under most lO circumstances the whole of these constituents need not be used at once, but any of them may be omitted as may be required by the state or condition of the sewage or other matter under operation. The resulting substance forms a valuable manure either for direct application to the land by itself or it may be used as a substitute for coprolite as a base for the manufacture of artificial manure. SPECIFICATIOIN in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Perrar Penton and Samuel Hollins in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th March 1871. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, Perrar 20 Penton, of Dewsbury, in the County of York, and Samuel Hollins, of Bolton, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-fourth 25 year of Her reign did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said Perrar Penton and Samuel Hollins, Her special license that we, the said Perrar Penton and Samuel Hollins, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Perrar Penton and Samuel Hollins, our executors, administrators, and 30 assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improvements in the Deodorization and 35 Utilization of Sewa&e or other pEcuLirNT or Putrescent Matter, whether in