Specification of Henry Young Darracott Scott : treating sewage water.

  • Scott, H. Y. D.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Specification of Henry Young Darracott Scott : treating sewage water. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Scott’s Improvements in Treating Sewage Water. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Henry Young Darracott Scott in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th September 1872. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Henry 5 Young Darracott Scott, of Ealing, in the County of Middlesex, Major-General, C.B., send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the 10 thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors give and grant unto me, the said Henry Young Darracott Scott, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Young Darracott Scott, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Young Darracott Scott, my executors, administrators, and assigns, 15 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 Invention for “Improvements in the Treatment of Sewage Water,” upon 20 the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Young Darracott Scott, my executors or administrators, 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 25 Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Young Darracott Scott, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained 30 in and by the following statement (that is to say): — The chief object of this Invention is the extraction of ammonia from sewage, in which term I include all such waste and polluted waters of towns and factories as require purification before being cast into rivers and streams used for domestic purposes.