Specification of Sir James Murray : deodorizing sewage matters, manufacture and distribution of manures, &c.

  • Murray, James, Sir, 1788-1871.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Specification of Sir James Murray : deodorizing sewage matters, manufacture and distribution of manures, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sir J. Murray s Improved Method of Deodorizing Sewage Matters^ ^c, SPECIFICATIOH in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Sir James Murray in the Great Seal Patent Office on the' 14th July 1857. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Sir 5 James Mueray, Knight, and Doctor of Medicine, of Dublin, in the County of Dublin, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her reign, 10 did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Sir James Murray, Her special license that I, the said Sir James Murray, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the the said Sir James Murray, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree withj and no others, from time to time and at 15 all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully * might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the LFnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Abating the Smells and Increasing the Fertilising Useeulness op Liquid Ma NUSES, Sewage, Gas, or other Liquors, and for Means op Raising or Pro- 20 pelling such Mixtures and other Solids or Fluids to Convenient Heights or Distances,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Sir James Murray, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should par¬ ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in wdiat manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in 25 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 Sir James Murray, 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 in and by the SO following statement, that is to say:— My Invention, for “ Abating the Smells, and Increasing the Fertilising Use¬ fulness of Liquid Manures, Sewage, Gas, or other Liquors, and for Means of Raising or Propelling such Mixtures and other Solids or Fluids to Convenient Heights or Distances,” consists in the means herein-after described, partly 35 chemical, and partly mechanical, of disinfecting and deodorising solid and fluid matters or substances ; also of converting them into useful manures for agricultural purposes ; and, lastly, of impelling solid and fluid matters and raising them to such heights or transmitting them to such points or places as