Specification of William White Fereday : treating excreta for conversion into manure.

  • Fereday, William White.
Date:
1873
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Credit: Specification of William White Fereday : treating excreta for conversion into manure. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    10 15 20 25 30 35 Provisional Specification. A.D. 1872.—N° 3882. 5 Fere day's Impts. in Treating Excreta for Conversion into Manure. The excreta when dried to a powder is taken from the drying chamber through the door provided for the purpose into the emptying chamber, where it may or may not be “ bagged up,” let down into the waggon on the underground railway, and conveyed to the receiving rooms erected at another part of the works. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said William White Pereday in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st June 1873. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, William White Pereday, of No. 5, Palmouth Hoad, Dover Hoad, in the County of Surrey, Civil Engineer, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty- sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William White Pereday, Her special license that I, the said William White Pereday, my executors, ad¬ ministrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William White Pereday, my 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 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 Treating Human Excreta, and in Apparatus for Working the Excreta and Converting the same into a Dry and Highly Concentrated . * Manure,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William White Pereday, my executors or administrators, by an instru¬ ment 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 Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William White Pereday, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner