Specification of Josiah George Jennings : treating sewage and irrigating land.

  • Jennings, Josiah George.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Specification of Josiah George Jennings : treating sewage and irrigating land. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Jennings' Impts. in Treating Sewage and Irrigating Land. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Josiah George Jennings in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd June 1869. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Josiah George Jennings, of Palace Wharf, Lambeth* in the County of Surrey, 6 Sanitary Engineer, send greeting, WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria* by Her Letters Patent, hearing date the Twenty-second day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and 10 successors, give and grant unto me, the said Josiah George Jennings, Her special licence, that I, the said Josiah George Jennings, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Josiah George Jennings, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and 15 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 Apparatus for Treating! Sewage anu for Irrigating Land with Sewage and o^her Waters/’ upon the condition 20 (amongst others) that I, the said Josiah George Jennings, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent 25 Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Josiah George Jennings, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and 30 by the following statement thereof, that is to say:— This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for treating sewage and for irrigating land with sewage and other waters. In order to separate from sewage stones and other masses of solid matter which it brings down with it I employ a hollow rotating screen 35 of conical or other form, into the interior of which the sewage is directed. The sewage in entering the screen is made to, act on a water wheel or on