Specification of Jasper Wheeler Rogers : collecting excrement and facilitating drainage.

  • Rogers, Jasper W.
Date:
1860
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Jasper Wheeler Rogers : collecting excrement and facilitating drainage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 A.D. 18G0.—N 908. Provisional Specification. Rogers Improved Mode of Collecting Excrement and F%cilitating Drainage, distances apart with air-tight valves of any convenient or suitable consti^ction, so that the main sewer pipe may be capable of being divided into air-tight sections or compartments of convenient size simply by closing two of the air¬ tight valves; air-tight stand pipes, or other analogous contrivances are adapted to each section of the main sewer pipe for the purpose of communicating with 5 | the interior of the sewer pipe by means of a portable air-pump, whereby the air from the sewer pipe may be exhausted. It will be understood that all the excrement and soil from the closets of the houses will pass down the branch or house pipes into the main pipe in the sewer and will be conducted by this pipe to the large vacuum chamber at the 10 end, and where the soil will be deodorized by being mixed with peat charcoal. The liquid portion of the sewage will pass upwards throughout filtering beds made of peat charcoal and other substances, and when deprived of its gases the liquid portion may be allowed to run off. The solid matters may from time to time as they accumulate be removed from the large chambers and 15 conveyed away. It will be understood that by creating a vacuum in the large chamber at the end of the main sewer pipe, or in the pipe itself, all the soil and water will be drawn from the house or branch pipes towards the out-fall. Should, however a serious obstruction be found to exist in any of the branch pipes, it 20 may be speedily removed by closing the ends of that section or compartment of the main pipe with which the obstructed house pipe communicates, and also closing all the unobstructed house pipes connected with that section of the main tube leaving the air valve of the obstructed pipe open. Then upon exhausting the air from the main tube, the atmospheric pressure will act upon 26 the obstruction in the branch pipe from behind and will force it forward out of the main tube. It will of course be evident that instead of exhausting the main tube or any of its sections or compartments by means of an exhausting apparatus or air-pump, adapted directly thereto, the sections of the main tube may be made to communicate with a vacuum chamber placed at any con- 30 venient spot and by exhausting this latter first, and then suddenly opening a communication between it and the main tube or one of its sections or com¬ partments, the latter with the branch pipe connected therewith will be exhausted suddenly, and any obstructions therein will be quickly removed. LONDON: Printed by Geoege Edwaed Eyke and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1860.