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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    2 Vertices Improvement in Deodorizing Sewage Waters, when Lime is used. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said George Julius Vertue in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th May 1857. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, George Julius Vertue, of Northam, in the Town and County of the Town of 5 Southampton, Merchant’s Clerk, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said 10 George Julius Vertue, Her special licence that I, the said George Julius Vertue, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Julius Vertue, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree w ith, and no others, from time to time and at all times there¬ after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, 15 exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ An Improvement in Deodorizing Sewage Waters and Sewage Matter ween Lime is used upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Julius Vertue, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or 20 their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. 25 NOV/ KNOW YE, that I, the said George Julius Vertue, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:— As lime is my principal agent used for the purpose, it is essential that a kiln 30 should be erected at a convenient spot contiguous to the sewer pumping station, drain, or wells, through which the sewage matter passes ; 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 35 liquid form; the lime solution is then led through pipes (regulated by cocks or valves) into the sewers, and thus, mixing by its own gravitation with the se wage matter, purifies it, and renders it quite inoffensive and non-injurious to the neighborhood of the outfall or outlet of the sewers.