Specification of Charles Edward Austin : treating sewage.

  • Austin, Charles Edward
Date:
1867
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Charles Edward Austin : treating sewage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Specification. Austin's Apparatus for Separating Solid and Liquid Sewage. act on the sewage. The filter is constructed with a suitable frame, and is arranged to be lifted out of the chamber which ordinarily is kept covered by a suitable cover. The filter when full of the more solid matters is removed, and a fresh filter introduced into the chamber. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed 5 by the said Charles Edward Austin in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 9th January 1867. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Charles Edward Austin, of 7, Broadway Sanctuary, Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, C.E., send greeting. 10 WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles Edward Austin, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Edward 15 Austin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Edward Austin, 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 20 and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improvements in Apparatus applicable to Sewers and Drains for Separating the Fluid and Solid Parts of Sewage,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Edward Austin, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 25 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. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Edward Austin, 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:— My Invention consists in the employment of apparatus and portable filtering boxes or tanks, constructed and applied as hereafter explained, for 35 the following objects —