Specification of John Hart : separating, distributing, and utilizing sewage.

  • Hart, John.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Specification of John Hart : separating, distributing, and utilizing sewage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HarVs Im/provements in Separating, Distributing, and Utilizing Sewage. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and 5 grant unto me, the said John Hart, Her special licence that I, the said John Hart, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Hart, 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 10 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 Invention for “ Improvements in the Means of and Apparatus FOR Separating, Distributing, and Utilizing Sewage,’’ upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Hart, my executors or adminis- 15 trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Ofiice within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters. 20 Patent. NOW KNOW TE, that I, the said John Hart, do hereby declare the natm?e of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:— 25 My Invention relates to certain improvements in the means of separating the liquid and solid portions of sewage, and of dis¬ tributing and utilizing the same ; also in the apparatus whereby such objects' are effected. The system is chiefly applicable for use in the neighbourhood of cities or large towns surrounded by land under 30 cultivation to which the sewage can be usefully applied, but it may be used in other localities, from which the solid matter may be collected and conveyed to a distance, while the liquid is allowed to flow in an inoffensive state into the nearest river or the ocean. The apparatus is to be constructed at such an elevation and in such a situation as to 35 ensure the distribution of sewage by the power of gravity, and to avoid deleterious results to health ; for these reasons the sewage matter is to flow by gravitation or be forced from the town or city by means of pumps to the separating apparatus, which consists of a series of con-