Specification of James Beckett and John James Cam : treating sewage.

  • Beckett, James.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Specification of James Beckett and John James Cam : treating sewage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Treating Sewage, (This Invention received Provisional Protection only.) . PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Beckett and John James Cam at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 10th August 1871. We, James Beckett and John James Cam, both of Worcester, in the 5 County of Worcester, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improvements in Treating Sewage,55 to be as follows, (that is to say):— The object of this Invention in the first instance is to remove the solid matter so far as commercially practical, and afterwards to evaporate the aqueos matter or such portions thereof as may be deemed desirable in an economical manner. It is proposed to accomplish this end by causing the sewage in the first instance to fall into a tank, which is subdivided by vertical transverse diaphrams, so arranged that the sewage descending and ascending over each alternate diaphram and passing 15 through filtering beds of lime, gravel, or other suitable materials, by which arrangement the most of the solid parts of the matter contained in solution are trapped, after which the water is conveyed into a large tank or reservoir to allow any remaining solid matter to be deposited in the bottom thereof, after which the watery matter is conveyed through