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

  • Lloyd, John Hughes.
Date:
1871
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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 Seieage Matters. front compartment being always sufficiently open for tlie reception of the urine. When pressure is taken off tlie seat the weight or spring brings forward the yalye and the feeding cylinder delivers a quantity of ashes to the pockets behind the yalye, from the larger of which the ashes are thrown on the fseces, and from the smaller delivered through the open- 5 ing of the small valve to the urine compartment; and as the feeding cylinder turns an archimedean screw (when used) is turned to push the surplus ashes from the front compartment to the back one. When the closet is next used aud the valve turned back the rake or hoe pushes the covered faeces out of the compartment to a pipe or receptacle, and IQ when the valve is brought forward the rake or hoe is lifted up to prevent any backward action by means of a cam fixed to the side of the pan. When required a series of rakes may be used to push the covered faeces any distance desired. Another mode of removing the faeces from one part of the house to 15 another, or from the front to the back, is by having an air-tight tube in connection with the closet passing through the space between the joists which support the flooring. An endless band of india-rubber, leather, or other suitable material travels through the tube and conveys the faeces and deodorants to any placed required. To prevent dust 20 rising I cause the valve to work close to the sides of the pan and to shut up accurately in front. In another arrangement of self-feeding closets I employ a weight or spring in front for opening the valve, and a handle jointed to a rod connected by a cord to the valve for closing it, and the rod of the 25 handle being sometimes jointed, so that when the valve is closed the handle is bent over the hole in the seat to prevent the valve being open when not in use. Or I connect the cover of the seat to a lever attached to the valve, so that when the cover is removed the valve will be lowered, and when the cover is put on the valve 30 will be closed by the assistance of a weight or spring. The supply boxes or reservoirs for containing the deodorizing ashes or materials may be made of any required size and shape, and provided, when required, with screws for assisting the descent or passage of the ashes to the delivering cylinder. Or one large box is hoisted to the upper part 35 of the house and its contents let down by pipes to the different closets. In another form of closet I dispense with the expensive mechanism employed for distributing the deodorant on the fieces by the weight of