Specification of John Lloyd : utilizing and deodorizing sewage matters, &c.
- Lloyd, John
- Date:
- 1857
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Specification of John Lloyd : utilizing and deodorizing sewage matters, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Lloyd's Improvements in Utilizing and Deodorizing Sewage Matters, Qc. circumstances. Now as the front compartment of the closet in fact is a distinct and separate vessel, so it is sometimes useful to make it so in reality, as shewn in Figures 5 and 6, and sometimes joining the rims of the vessels by a flap of sheet lead. Over this compartment it is also generally useful to place a wire guard or kind of rack, one of which is shewn separately at 5 Figures 7 and 8, and which prevents all paper, &c. used falling into it, and made to go out of sight behind the valve each time it opens. Another important use of this valve, not yet mentioned, is to prevent all liquids thrown or passed into the closet getting to the back compartment, which would destroy the effect of the whole arrangement. The seat h it will 10 be seen turns upon a hinge at h?, and is constantly acted upon with a tendency to bear it upwards by springs h2. Upon being sat on, the seat h will be depressed, and act by the link n upon one end of the lever o, which turns upon a centre of motion o\ and at its other end is, by the con¬ necting link o\ connected to the lever o3, which by the driver o4 acts upon the 15 teeth of the ratchet wheel g to cause a partial rotation thereof, and thence to the cylinder a, at each of such times. The weight b] acts as a counterbalance to the valve b, for which purpose it is suspended from the arm 52 affixed to the axis gl, upon which are also fixed other arms supporting the valve. It now only remains to describe a plan for carrying out these principles on 20 a combined and comprehensive scale, and this is easier and shorter done by means of the two Drawings, Figures 9, 10, and 11, and Figure 12. Figures 9, 10, and 11, show three views of means by which three principal closets, one on each story of a large house, may discharge the solid evacuations into one common receptacle below, where they are deodorized and solidified by 25 either of the methods before described. Pipes or tubes about an inch or two in diameter, admit of the overflow from front compartments of the closets when there is a separation in the closet, as shewn by Figures 1, 2, 5, & 6, or from sinks in connection therewith, the fall to take place from each closet without touching or soiling their sides. A self or hand acting closet SO l, l\ or Z2, being placed at the top of each channel t, u, v, sending down the deodorizing powder with the evacuation, or otherwise conveying the powder below, or ashes, &c. are added daily through the holes by manual labor. In these cases particularly, the front compartment is to be remove¬ able, and charged, either- by hand or otherwise, with the deodorizer, and 35 also having an overflow pipe m, (Figures 1, 2, 5, & 6,) discharging to the solidifying sinks 2 in the back yard, the overflow from the latter, if any, finding its way to the sewers by the chambers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, con¬ secutively, in a perfectly harmless state, z1 are openings of communication](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30756741_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
