Specification of Joseph Marino : inodorous closet for the separation of excrement to be used as manure.

  • Marino, Joseph.
Date:
1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Joseph Marino : inodorous closet for the separation of excrement to be used as manure. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1859, 29 th January. N° 267. Inodorous Closet for the Separation of Excrement to be used as Manure. 0 *» . —' * “ * “ / LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Marino, of the City of Stockholm, in the Kingdom of Sweden, Mechanician, for the Invention of “ An Inodorous Closet or Commode.” Sealed the 16th April 1859, and dated the 29th January 1859. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Marino at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 29th January 1859. I, Joseph Marino, of the City of Stockholm, in the Kingdom of Sweden, 5 Mechanician, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ An Inodorous Closet or Commode,” to be as follows :— This Invention relates to a novel arrangement of inodorous closet, by the use of which the liquid and solid excrement from the human body may be separated and retained for service as a manure, instead of being discharged 10 into the common sewer and lost. The closet, although susceptible of many modifications, may be described as consisting of a box fitted with a lid that shuts down upon an open ^seat. Under this seat is placed a pan or other detached vessel for receiving the solid excrement, and a little in advance of this is an open funnel for receiving the 1^ urine and conducting it away to another vessel. The funnel may be detached from the tube which leads to the urine pan, or