Specification of Pierre Nicolas Goux : treating and utilizing excreta.

  • Goux, Pierre Nicolas.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Specification of Pierre Nicolas Goux : treating and utilizing excreta. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Goux’s Improvements in Treating and Utilizing Excretar coal, wood, and peat ashes, carbonized earth, rich aluminous carbonized clay, carbonized or dried alumina, wet clay, soot, peat carbonized or in its natural condition, lime, phosphate of lime, coprolite, apatite, or phosphorite, sulphate of lime, verifiable earth, silicate of soda, felspar, magnesia, nitrates of soda, potash, and magnesia, ammoniacal salts, 5 chloride of sodium, gas tar either in its natural state or carbonized, sulphuric and phosphoric acid, protoxide and peroxide of iron. In order to collect and absorb the fecal matters I previously dispose the absorbents herein-before described in receptacles made of wood, metal, or other suitable materials, reserving to myself the right to 10 vary the forms and size to suit the position or the requirements of the operation. I have shewn in Figures 1 and 2 the description of metal mould which I employ for ramming the absorbent materials into the casks or receptacles, and which I consider most suitable for the ready and 15 inexpensive transport of the manufactured manure. Figures 3 and 4 shew the description of receptacle which I prefer to employ; it will be observed that the interior is lined with pulverulent matters a, which are pressed in so as to form a lining, which prevents the immediate contact of the fecal matters with the sides or bottom of 20 the receptable b. The absorbent materials are placed in the receptacle by hand or by means of a metal mould or mandrel c, provided with a slightly conical lid or cover d which facilitates the introduction of the different substances employed for the absorption of the liquid or gaseous bodies, and which are thus rammed in with facility so as to 25 assume the external form of the mandrel. These moulds or mandrels may obviously be made of any suitable material, and be of corresponding form to the receptable required to be lined. It will be observed that my receptacles are provided with handles e, by which to lay hold of them in order to place them on carts to convey them where required. 30 The various absorbents herein-before mentioned may also be applied to ordinary portable utensils or receptacles, in order to obviate the inconvenience_which attends the present mode of emptying, returning thus if required to the habitual conditions of working, whilst at the same time the fecal matters are utilized by being converted into a 35 valuable manure. I have shewn in Figures 5 and 6 the mould or mandrill and metallic receptacle which may be advantageously employed when the materials