Specification of Job Cole and William Abbott : treating and utilizing sewage, &c.

  • Cole, Job.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Specification of Job Cole and William Abbott : treating and utilizing sewage, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Specification. A.D. 1871.—N° 2975. 3 Cole 8f Abbott's Improvements in Treating and Utilizing Sewage, fyc. \ ‘ ——————————————————————————————————H river if desired. A stream of air is also drawn through the covered channel to carry off the injurious gases, and such stream of air where it leaves the channel may be conducted through charcoal to purify it from such gases, or it may be passed through a fire or otherwise disposed of. 5 The liquid sewage as it is passing through the channel may if desired be heated to facilitate the driving off of the carbonic acid gas therefrom. In some cases the solid and liquid excreta from closets in place of being carried off by a stream of water as sewage may be collected in tanks and he from time to time dried therein by the application of heat to the bottom 10 of the tank. Any smells arising from such closets are conducted off to a chimney of sufficient height to cause the requisite draught, and may he deodorized on their passage as before described. Sifted ashes or other dry material may from time to time be thrown into the closet. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 15 filed by the said Job Cole and William Abbott in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th May 1872. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, Job Cole, Promenade Garden, Sutton Coldfield, in the County of Warwickshire, and William Abbott, Brass Pounder, Birchfield, in the County of 20 Staffordshire, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Pourth day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, 25 give and grant unto us, the said Job Cole and William Abbott, Her special license that we, the said Job Cole and William Abbott, our exe¬ cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Job Cole and William Abbott, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and 30 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 te Improvements in Treating and Utilizing Sewage and other Refuse Matter, and in Apparatus to be used for this Purpose,” upon the 35 condition, (amongst others) that we, the said Job Cole and William