Disclaimer and memorandum of alteration of Pierre Niclolas Goux : treating and utilizing excreta.

  • Goux, Pierre Nicolas.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Disclaimer and memorandum of alteration of Pierre Niclolas Goux : treating and utilizing excreta. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GouxTs Improvements in Treating and Utilizing Excreta.. ticularly describing the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, to be duly filed in the Great Seal Patent Office: And whereas since the filing of the Specification of my said Patent as aforesaid I have been advised and have ascertained that the claims made by me to the use of the absorbents referred to otherwise 5 than as linings and to the several modifications and arrangements of apparatus and the modes of applying the same, save and except when combined with the use of the absorbent linings described in the said Specification, are claims that are too extensive, and open to objection on the ground of want of novelty or of utility as regards their general 10 application: And whereas I have also discovered certain clerical errors in the said Specification which I am desirous of amending; I am there¬ fore desirous of disclaiming the first, third, and fourth claims of the said Specification, and certain parts thereof referring to the said claims, and otherwise altering the said Specification to render the same consistent 15 with the claims as altered, and for the reasons aforesaid I am desirous of amending the various parts of the said Specification ; I therefore, for the reasons aforesaid, strike out from the printed copy of the said Specification, printed by the Queen’s Printers, and published at the Great Seal Patent Office (which copy is herein-after referred to as the 20 said printed copy), of the words “ the said,” which occur in the thirty- seventh line of the third page of the said printed copy. I also strike out the whole of the lines 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 of the fifth page of the said printed copy of the said Specification, and I insert in place thereof the following words, “ Pigures 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 25 and 24 represent arrangements or modifications to which I make no claim.” I also, for the reasons aforesaid, strike out from page 5 of the said printed Specification the whole of the passage commencing at line 28 with the words “fIs a pipe,” and ending at line 35 with the word “ compartment.” I also strike out the whole of the passage com- 30 mencing in line 32, page 6, of the said printed copy at the words “ as herein-before,” and ending in line 37 with the words “ said Invention.” I also, for the reasons aforesaid, alter the word “ residiums ” in line 19, page 7 of the said printed copy into “residuums;” and I alter the word “ carbonite,” occurring in line 35, page 7, of the said printed copy, into 35 “ carbonate.” I also strike out the whole of the passage commencing in line 28 of the same page 7 with the words “ I thus reserve,” and ending in line 31 with the word “utilized.” I also, for the reasons aforesaid, strike out the whole of the paragraphs commencing with the words