Specification of James McIntyre : purifying sewage waters.

  • McIntyre, James
Date:
1875
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Credit: Specification of James McIntyre : purifying sewage waters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mc Intyre's Improvements in Apparatus for Purifying Sewage Waters. year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said James MHntyre, Her special licence that I, the said James McIntyre, my executors, 5 administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James MHntyre, 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 10 Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improvements in Apparatus for Purifying Sewage Waters,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James MHntyro, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe 15 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 imme¬ diately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James MHntyre, do hereby declare 20 the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement in writing, reference being had to the accom¬ panying Drawings, that is to say:— My said Invention has for its object the purifying of sewage waters 25 by separating from them suspended matters or other impurities, the improved apparatus to be employed for carrying out my Invention being very simple, easily worked, and not liable to require frequent repairs. The essential features of my Invention are certain arrangements, herein-after described, for obtaining the deposition of suspended matters 30 whilst the sewage waters flow continuously through the apparatus, and without requiring the expence of pumping machinery or any greater outfall or declivity than that of any existing sewers. And in order that my said Invention and the manner of performing the same may be properly understood, I hereunto append a Sheet of 35 explanatory Diagrams, to be herein-after referred to, and representing one modification of my improved arrangements. In these Diagrams