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. system of burners ; F is a circular pipe around the base of the shaft, and serving as a reservoir, whence the burners may he amply supplied. The gas enters through D into the tubular gas reservoir F, from which it passes through the pipes h, b, into the mixing chambers E1; a, a, are air holes to allow air to enter the mixing chambers E1, and to mix with the 5 gas. The flame produced is of an intense heat, and ample to destroy the fever germs generated in the sewer. Fig. 5 and Fig. 6 relate to an arrangement similar to that already described, but modified to work with gas of inferior quality to the ordinary coal gas. The gas to be used may be produced in gas retorts 10 or gas chambers, and may be conducted directly to the shaft pipes without undergoing the process of purification, etc. In Fig. 5 and Fig. 6 A is the shaft; B, the sewer; D, the gas supply pipe; G is a deflector for the flame, and is to be made of material that will resist high temperatures ; H is a protector for the bottom part of the 15 shaft, where the flame will be most intense, and is to be made of same material as deflector G; I, I, are air holes to allow a constant current of air to pass through the annular space between the shaft and the pro¬ tector H; N, N, are the supports for the deflector G; K is the nozzle of the gas pipe encased in metal, and made of a heat-resisting material; 20 L, L, are air holes to allow a certain quantity of air to mix with the gas before being discharged as a flame; M is a hole in the shaft to facilitate the lighting of the gas when the apparatus is to be put in operation. The action of this arrangement resembles that of the arrangement shewn in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4. 9- Having thus described the nature of my Invention for an “ Improved Moae of and Arrangements for Eemoving from Sewers and Dealing with Deleterious Gases,” and having explained the manner of carrying it into practical effect, I would have it understood that I am aware vaiious plans have been proposed for exhausting sewers and dealing 30 with the foul gases, but so far as I know none of the arrangements heretofore proposed have been such as would effectually destroy the fever germs floating in the sewer gas, and which it is the object of my Invention to remove, and which I effect by causing the said gas to pass t irough an intense heat, as herein-above described ; what I consider to 35 be novel and original and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is,—