Specification of John Cunnington : apparatus for discharging sewage, &c.

  • Cunnington, John
Date:
1872
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Credit: Specification of John Cunnington : apparatus for discharging sewage, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Apparatus for Discharging Sewage, &c. (This Invention received Provisional Protection only.) 4 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Cunnington at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 13th December 1871. I, John Cunnington, of Oakley Square, St. Pancras, in the County 5 of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for <c Improvements in Apparatus for Ensuring the Proper Discharge of Sewage Matters from Dwelling Houses and other Buildings, and for Preventing the Return of Sewer Gases, and the Entrance of Vermin into the same,” to he as follows :— 10 The said Invention relates to providing dwelling houses and other buildings with apparatus which will insure the complete discharge therefrom of all sewage matters and the cleansing of the discharge pipes or drains, and which will also afford effectual protection against the return of gases or effluvia, or the entrance of rats and other vermin 15 from the drains. In practising my said Invention I place in connection with the main drain or sewer a pipe with a single or double syphon, in such a position
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