Specification of Robert George Cecil Fane : treating sewage, &c.

  • Fane, Robert George Cecil.
Date:
1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Robert George Cecil Fane : treating sewage, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    • V Fane's Improvements in Treating Sewage, <fyc. the bottom of the well, pausing as before a few minutes in the ascent to let it drain, and would then raise it to the surface, put down instantly the third vessel to the bottom, and the moment that was done, place the vessel just raised in compartment B of the well to remain and drain itself till their next time of coming; they would then close the well and retire as before. These 5 processes would of course continue as long as the system remained in use. And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,— First, the method of constructing intercepting wells beneath sewers and drains, of placing in such wells perforated vessels intended to receive the sewage, 10 of erecting a stop bridge across the sewer on the lower side of each well, of providing a passage through such stop bridge, and of further providing suitable openings capable of being sealed or closed, through which the said perforated vessels may be removed when full, and replaced when empty, all in the manner and for the purposes herein-before described. 15 Secondly, the employment of apparatuses for the above purposes, essentially as herein-before described and illustrated in the Drawing hereunto annexed. In witness whereof, I, the said Robert George Cecil Fane, have here¬ unto set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of December, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight. 20 R. G. C. FANE, (l.s.) LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 3 859.