Specification of Frederick Dixon : disinfecting and deodorising sewer gas.

  • Dixon, Frederick.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Specification of Frederick Dixon : disinfecting and deodorising sewer gas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. J874, 9th July. N° 2409. Disinfecting and Deodorising Sewer Gas. LETTERS PATENT to Erederick Dixon, of Cliftonville, Brighton, in the County of Sussex, Surgeon, for the Invention of “ An Improved Method of and Apparatus for Disinfecting and Deodorising the Injurious Gases arising from Sewers and Drains.’’ Sealed the 5th January 1875, and dated the 9th July 1874 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Erederick Dixon at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th July 1874 I, Erederick Dixon, of Cliftonville, Brighton, in the County of Sussex, 5 Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature and object of my said Invention for “ An Improved Method of and Apparatus for Disinfecting and Deodorising the Injurious Gases arising from Sewers and Drains,” to be as follows :— f , The object of this Invention is to effectually disinfect and deodorise the gases given off at the ventilating shafts or other openings of sewers 10 and drains by causing such gases to pass through flannel, cloth, sponge, or other porous material saturated with a disinfectant or deodoriser; and