Specification of William Morgan-Brown : treating sewage.

  • Morgan-Brown, William.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Specification of William Morgan-Brown : treating sewage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1875, 13th April. N° 1335. Treating Sewage. (This Invention received Provisional Protection only.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Morgan-Brown at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 13th April 1875.—A communication from abroad by Gustavus Palmer Harding and John Robert Johnson, of 13, Rue Gaillon, 5 Paris, Engineers. I, William Morgan-Brown, of the Firm of Brandon and Morgan- Brown, Engineers and Patent Agents, of 38, Southampton Buildings, London, and 13, Rue Gaillon, Paris, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improvements in the Treatment of Sewage with a View of Extracting the Fertilising Products therein Contained and in the Apparatus employed for that Purpose,” to be as follows :— The object of this Invention is to separate the solid matter contained m the sewerage from the liquid. Por this purpose I cause the said sewerage to flow in the shape of a wide and relatively very shallow 15 current over a level surface, slightly inclined in one direction. I prefer that the sewerage should issue from a reservoir in a stream with a fall of about fifty centimetres from the said reservoir to the upper extremity of the inclined plane, and with such a speed as can be regulated according to the requirements or the nature of the material to be treated 20 by means of sluices, cocks, or other appropriate appliances,