Specification of Joseph Whitley : treating sewer gas.

  • Whitley, Joseph.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Specification of Joseph Whitley : treating sewer gas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Whitley's Improved Mode of Treating Sewer Gas. series of Bunsen’s burners or other mode of caloric force to heat the entire area of the shaft. By these means the gases in the sewers are caused to flow to the centre of heat, and in their passage through the flames become purified prior to their discharge into the atmosphere. Bor this purpose I provide a main for the supply of carburetted hydrogen 5 gas, from which main I convey such gas to a series of compounding chambers, which supply the jets or burners over the area of the shaft or chimney, “ blue ” flame being thus created. All other apertures, whether for lighting, inspection, testing apparatus, or other purpose are hermetically sealed, and covered with glass, mica, or other transparent 10 substance. SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Joseph Whitley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th November 1875. 15 TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Joseph Whitley, of Eoundhay, near Leeds, in the County of York, Engineer, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Eifth day of May, in the year of 20 our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty- eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc¬ cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Whitley, Her special license that I, the said Joseph Whitley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph 25 Whitley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an 30 Invention for t£ Improved Mode of and Arrangements for Removing from Sewers and Dealing with Deleterious Gases,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Whitley, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascer- 35 tain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same '/ • .