Specification of Robert Stevenson Symington : apparatus for dealing with sewage, &c.

  • Symington, Robert Stevenson.
Date:
1873
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Credit: Specification of Robert Stevenson Symington : apparatus for dealing with sewage, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1873, 13ift March. N° 912. Apparatus for Dealing with Sewage, &c. (This Invention received Provisional Protection only.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Robert Stevenson Symington at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 13th March 1873. I, Robert Stevenson Symington, of Glasgow, in the County of 5 Lanark, North Britain, Telegraph Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improvements in Apparatus for Dealing with Sewage and other Refuse or Waste so as to Lessen the Pollution of Rivers,” to be as follows, that is to say:— This Invention relates to improvements in apparatus for the better 10 carrying out and extending of the system described or referred to in the Specification of Letters Patent granted to William Strang, and dated 28 August 1868, (No. 2667). In one modification of the apparatus made with the present improve¬ ments a neat and sightly cast-iron structure is used, being of a rec- 16 tangular form in plan, and also having a rectangular contour in elevation, but with an arched space beneath the middle part of it. This cast-iron structure is provided with two inlets at the top, one for the connection