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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    Goax's Improvements in Treating and Utilizing Excreta. distance above the soil for the use to which it is to he applied. On the cask i is disposed a perforated metallic vessel or tray k, slightly conical in form, containing a sufficient quantity of absorbent material, and intended to receive the urine direct and prevent the air from coming in contact with that collected in the cask below. The vessel 1c 5 is provided, as shewn in the Drawings, with a certain number of lips l which prevent the urine from coming in contact with the outside surface of the cask, and conduct it into the absorbents. Wood or metal partitions m are shewn to enable several persons to use the urinal at the same time. qO The form and arrangement of the urinals may be varied according * to the place where and the particular use to which they are to be applied. By the use of this system the urine may be collected without the emission of smell, and its transport effected at less expence than in collecting it on the absorbents. The urine added to my manures 15 serves to enrich them, and to render soluble the fossil phosphates which may have been used as absorbents. I reserve to myself, however, the right to employ also as urinals my receptacles lined with absorbents by providing them with lips to conduct the urine therein. Figure 20 represents an arrangement which may be employed in 20 order to obviate the necessity for removing the receptacles which are placed beneath the seat of the closet by the staircase in houses of several stories. This consists in providing these receptacles with a lateral opening, as in Figures 21 and 22, or an opening at the bottom, as in Figure 23, communicating with a vertical pipe n of large diameter, 25 and of the same height as the building, such pipe conducting the matters into a receptacle o placed underneath, or, what is better still, direct into the cart or waggon intended to convey away the manure produced. By means of this arrangement the mine which escapes by the pipe n may be collected in a special receptacle which may be 30 provided for this purpose in order to obviate the necessity for the frequent renewal of the absorbents in the receptacles disposed on the different floors. Figures 21 and 22 shew a receptacle in which the lateral opening p is closed by means of a species of slide q, by raising which the 35 matters are caused to fall into the pipe n and into a receptacle o placed underneath. Figure 23 shows a modification of the preceding arrangement, in