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 Excreta. the operation with agents capable of absorbing the liquids and metallic 'Salts and of fixing the fertilizing gases. I shall herein-after give a list of the different materials or substances which I utilize for the purpose of fixing the fertilizing gases, which •substances are selected as being of themselves useful for vegetation 5 whilst serving at the same time for the reception, preservation, dis¬ infection, and solidification of the excreta. J3y means of my process the nuisance resulting from the emptying of cesspools is avoided and an extremely powerful and valuable manure is obtained which may be used with as much facility as any of those 10 hitherto employed. I may observe also that according to my system the emptying of the receptacle and the production of manure are effected by the same operation without filtering or separating the matters, the whole of which are subsequently utilized, no portion being rejected. 15 And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood I shall now proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose shall refer to the several Figures on the annexed Sheets of Drawings, the same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in all the corresponding Figures. 20 Figure 1 is an elevation, and Figure 2 a vertical section of the mould used when ramming the absorbent materials into casks or other receptacles. Figure 3 is an elevation, and Figure 4 a vertical section of the casks which I employ, and which may be of any required form and dimensions 25 for collecting the excreta. Figure 5 is a vertical section of a mould of different dimensions. Figure 6 is a vertical section of a metallic receptacle, which may be of any desired size and of a cylindrical or other convenient form. Figure 7 is a vertical section of a mould used when ramming the 30 absorbents into the receptacle shewn in Figures 8 and 9. Figure 8 is a vertical section, and Figure 9 a plan shewing the arrangement of the absorbents in a flat-sided receptacle. Figure 10 is a vertical section of an oval mould used when disposing the absorbents in the receptacle shewn in Figures 11 and 12. 35