Specification of John Hughes Lloyd : utilizing and deodorizing sewage matters.

  • Lloyd, John Hughes.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Specification of John Hughes Lloyd : utilizing and deodorizing sewage matters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lloyd's Improvements in Utilizing and Deodorizing Sewage Matters. certain parts in tlieir course, and thereby reduce them to a harmless and inoffensive state, hut my present improvements enable this object to he attained with greater economy and efficiency than heretofore. I employ the waste or refuse of fire-places before described either alone or mixed with other disinfectants as herein-after described, and by 5 preference I adopt the system of having for each commode, closet, or petty two copartments of improved forms for the excretions, one for the faeces and the other for the urine, and these compartments are formed either of two separate vessels or of one vessel having a partition with many new arrangements in connection with it. 10 I construct a simple and efficient closet or commode by placing in a case or box three rectangular pans or vessels, two clasped together for receiving the excretions, and the third for containing the ashes or other deodorizing matters. Pig. 1, Sheet 1, of the accompanying Sheets of Drawings is a trans- 15 verse section, and Pig. 2 a plan of this arrangement, a, representing the box or case; b} the pan for the faeces; cf the pan for the urine; and d, the pan for the ashes or other matters. Above the two pans b, c, for the excretions there is a seat e, the circular opening f of which is so placed that the faeces can fall into the back compartment, and the urine into 20 the front one, and above all there is a cover g for covering the seat and ash pan d} when the closet is not in use. In most cases I partially fill both compartments with the deodorizing ashes or other matters, and only make small additions as required, but by preference after each entrance of faeces into the back compartment they are covered with ashes or 25 other matters from the ash pan by means of a ladle or other instrument, and when required the seat is either raised or removed, and the pans taken up or taken out by a door in the front side or back for emptying their contents. < Another variety of this closet has the box for the deodorant or 30 deodorants behind and above the closet having a small slit in the lower and front part of the box, from which the deodorant can be taken and used with a ladle. In both these forms the seat is hinged to the back or side of the closet so that it may be raised and the powder used without being spilled upon it. In all moveable commodes of this 35 description the receptacles are placed in a wooden or other case, and the best distance or height of the scat above the receptacles I find to