Specification of Daniel Wilks : collecting and treating sewage, &c.

  • Wilks, Daniel.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Specification of Daniel Wilks : collecting and treating sewage, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wilks' Improvements in Collecting and Treating Seioage. Bufc in order that I may be practically understood as to the nature of my Invention, and the manner of carrying the same into effect, I will further elaborate the description by aid of the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to which I will now refer. Description oe Drawings. 5 Kg. 1 represents a top view of a common domestic sink marked A, surrounded at the back and end by the house wall marked B, so that the sink, as here shown, stands as it wTere in a corner. The sink is simply shown surrounded at the free front and end by wood framing, the end of which projects into the wall, the floor of the sink being laid 10 with brick quarries set in cement, which will he found economical and enduring; C is the ordinary cast-iron drain, which may he either fitted underneath with an ordinary stink trap or simply with a flow way, here¬ after to he referred to; D is a reservoir conveniently placed on the outside of the wall B. This reservoir can he constructed of any suitable 15 material, hut I have found galvanized iron to be economic and durable. I prefer a portion of the top or cover to he so constructed that a small part of it can he readily opened in order that chamber or other slops may he easily emptied in and the cover again closed ; hut this arrange¬ ment I have not shown, as it may be omitted or variously constructed 20 by easily removing a part of the permanent cover, which is exhibited at a, a. The open portion is fitted with a flange, as at b, b, b, b, set down, say, about two inches, more or less, from the top edge of the reservoir, and in this condition the reservoir may be readily cleaned out when occasion requires, to facilitate which I purpose fitting a loose plug 25 in the bottom, so that the mud or sediment may he removed ; but when in use I (by preference) lay a galvanized wire frame on this open part, the said frame resting on the flanges before mentioned, marked b; and on this wire frame I purpose laying a coarse cocoa-nut or other thin matting, over which may he strewed a layer of my deodorizing compound 30 (hereafter to be more particularly referred to), which will absorb all effluvia or exhalations arising from the contents of the reservoir, in close proximity to which reservoir I place two filters, not that the number is arbitrary, as one may be used, but perhaps not so effectively as two or more, according to space or convenience that situation may offer. These 35 filteis Rre marked E and B, and are constructed with internal perforated bottoms, woich bottoms are represented in dotted lines marked c, d3 and