Specification of Mark French Anderson : treating sewage for manure.

  • Anderson, M. F. (Mark French)
Date:
1870
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Credit: Specification of Mark French Anderson : treating sewage for manure. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Anderson's Improvements in Treating Sewage for Manure. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Mark Erench Anderson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th June 1870. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRSEENT SHALL COME, I, Mark 5 Erench Anderson, Licentiate Loyal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, Member of the Loyal College of Surgeons, England, of No. 15, Priory Low, Coventry, in the County of Warwick, send greeting, WHEEEAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of December, in the 10 year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc¬ cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Mark Erench Anderson, Her special licence that I, the said Mark Erench Anderson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Mark 15 Erench Anderson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an In- 20 vention for “ Improvements in Treating Sewage and in the Manufacture of Manure therefrom,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Mark Erench Anderson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the 25 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. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Mark Erench Anderson, do hereby 30 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 :— I make use of sulphate or sesqui-sulphate of alumina in conjunction with lime or carbonate of lime (chalk) for deodorizing and purifying 35 sewage or other waters containing organic or other impurities. As commercial sulphate of alumina is too expensive to be used for purifying sewage I will describe the method by which I make it in a
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