Specification of James Alexander Manning : treatment of sewerage and other polluted liquids.

  • Manning, James Alexander.
Date:
1858
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of James Alexander Manning : treatment of sewerage and other polluted liquids. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1858, lUh January. N° 61. treatment of Sewerage and other Polluted Liquids. {This Invention did not 'proceed to the Great Seal.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Alexander Manning at the . Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 14th January 1858^ i, James Alexander Manning, of the Inner Temple, in the County of ^ Middlesex, Esquire, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improvements in the Treatment of Sewerage and other Polluted Liquids,” to be as follows, that is to say:— This Invention relates to the application and use of the refuse still liquors obtained in the manufacture of chlorine for the preparation of bleaching powder, consisting of the chlorides of manganese and iron, and resulting from the action of muriatic acid upon manganese ores in and for the deodirization and clarification of sewerage and other polluted liquids. This new application and use is available either in itself alone, or in combination with other refuse substances. By means of this Invention, not only is the sewerage matter clarified and the solid matter therein left available for the purposes of manure, but the sewerage is in addition rendered unobjectionable and innocuous in its application to the purposes of irrigation. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1S58.