Specification of George Julius Vertue : deodorizing sewage waters, &c.

  • Virtue, George Julius.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Specification of George Julius Vertue : deodorizing sewage waters, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Deodorizing Sewage Waters, &c. LETTERS PATENT to George Julius Vertue, of Northam, in the Town and County of the Town of Southampton, Merchant’s Clerk, for the Invention of “An Improvement in Deodorizing Sewage Waters and Sewage Matter when Lime is used.” Sealed the 8th May 1857, and dated the 1st December 1856. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Julius Vertue at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 1st December 1856. I, George Julius Vertue, of Northam, in the Town and County of the 5 Town of Southampton, Merchant’s Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for “An Improvement in Deodorising Sewage Waters and Sewage Matter when Lime is used,” to be as follows:— As lime is my principal agent used for the purpose, it is essential that a kiln should be erected at a convenient spot contiguous to the sewer pumping 10 station, drain, or wells, through which the sewage matter passes *9 the lime to be used hot from the kiln, and placed in a tank or vessel in which works an agitator driven by steam power or otherwise. A stream of hot or cold water is led into the tank in sufficient quantities as to bring the lime into a perfectly liquid form; the lime solution is then led through pipes (regulated by cocks 15 or valves) into the sewers, and thus, mixing by its own gravitation with the sewage matter, purifies it, and renders it quite inoffensive and non-injurious to the neighbourhood ot the outfall or outlet of the scwreis.