Specification of William Robert Lake : deodorizing and utilizing sewage.

  • Lake, William Robert.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Specification of William Robert Lake : deodorizing and utilizing sewage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Deodorizing and Utilizing Sewage, ( This Invention received Provisional Protection only.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Robert Lake at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 23rd April 1874.—A communication from abroad by Leopold Hesse, of Collins Street West, Melbourne, Victoria, Merchant. 6 I, William Robert Lake, of the Pirm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ An Improved Method of and Apparatus for the Deodorization and Utilization of Sewage,” a communication, to be as follows:— 10 The improved method of deodorizing and utilizing sewage, which forms the chief part of this Invention, consists, first, in distilling it, and secondly, in providing some suitable ingredient for retaining the valuable portion of the vapours given off from the boiler or retort. I first agitate the material to be treated so as to make it all of the 15 same consistency, and then supply it to the retorts or boilers in sufficient quantity and subject it to the action of heat until it boils. The vapors ■ which are then given off I conduct through vessels containing some suitable ingredient (say sulphate of iron) which will intercept and retain