Specification of Thomas Walker and Thomas Ferdinand Walker : utilizing sewage.

  • Walker, Thomas, 1859-1912.
Date:
1865
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Thomas Walker and Thomas Ferdinand Walker : utilizing sewage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t A.D. 1864, 22nci September. N° 2329. Utilizing Sewage. LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Walker and Thomas Ferdinand Walker, both of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Engineers, for the Invention of “ Improvements in Means or Apparatus for the Utilization of Sewage Matters, Part of which Improvements is applicable to Raising and Forcing other Fluids.” Sealed the 17th March 1865, and dated the 22nd September 1864. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Walker and Thomas Ferdinand Walker at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 22nd September 1864. We, Thomas Walker and Thomas Ferdinand Walker, both of Bir- 5 mingham, in the County of Warwick, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improvements in Means or Apparatus for the Utilization of Sewage Matters, Part of which Improvements is applicable to Raising and Forcing other Fluids,” to be as follows :— The improvements apply particularly to when the sewage matters are 10 collected in reservoirs in order that the more fluid portions thereof may be separated from the more solid by subsidence, and the object of the first part of the Invention is, first, to separate the heavier solid matters and the loose fibrous matters by causing the sewage matters, in passing into the subsiding