Specification of Thomas Wicksteed : sewage.

  • Wicksteed, Thomas.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Specification of Thomas Wicksteed : sewage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wicksteed's Impts. in Separating Sewage and other Matters from Water, §c. Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “Improvements in Separating Sewage and other Matters from Water or Fluid mixed therewith,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Wicksteed, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, 5 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 per¬ formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. 10 NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Wicksteed, 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 by the following statement thereof, that is to say: — This Invention has for its object improvements in separating sewage and 15 other matters from water or fluid mixed therewith. For these purposes the waters or fluids are raised into suitable cisterns or reservoirs, situated at suitable heights above the filtering apparatus, and the means resorted to for raising the fluids are endless bands or chains of buckets, which deliver the fluid into the reservoirs or cisterns. From the bottom of each of the cisterns or reservoirs 20 a pipe or pipes descend, according as one or more filtering apparatus may be applied to each cistern or reservoir. In each supply pipe is a cock to shut off the supply. The filtering apparatus used is arranged suitably for being moved under and from the supply pipe, and for being moved on a railway below, by which when a filter becomes full it may be readily removed and another 25 apparatus brought into position to be filled. It is preferred to have the cisterns or reservoirs at different elevations, and to supply the fluid first to a filtering apparatus from the lowest cistern or reservoir, then, as more pressure or greater column is required, the supply is changed from the lower to the higher cistern or reservoir. The filtering apparatus used consists of a series 30 of planks or surfaces of wood, in both sides of which numerous grooves are cut; and it is preferred that these surfaces should be of a square form, with a hole through the middle, in and through which a bush of metal is fixed, which aids in fixing a cover of gauze or perforated metal and a surface of woven fabric on either side of each of the planks, the outer edges of the gauze 35 or perforated metal and the woven fabric being fixed to the outer edges of the planks. Several of these planks or grooved surfaces are placed one on the other, and are securely held together between a top and bottom plate or frame of metal, in the upper one of which is an air tube and cock for the passage away of air. Between each pair of planks or grooved surfaces is a frame.