Specification of Benjamin Young and Peter Brown : collecting and disposing of sewage.

  • Young, Benjamin.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Specification of Benjamin Young and Peter Brown : collecting and disposing of sewage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Young $ Browns Method of Collecting and Disposing of the Sewage of Towns. days will be perfectly tasteless, and as brilliant and clear as the best spring water; this liquid may, therefore, without the slightest inconvenience, be allowed to run direct into the Thames or other river. When the deposit of solid matters in the tanks or reservoirs has attained a certain thickness or 5 depth, the solid matters must be deodorized, and the tanks cleaned out from time to time, for which purpose a sufficient number of tanks must be con¬ structed. For the purpose of deodorizing these solid matters, we prefer to use peat charcoal, but we do not intend to confine ourselves to this or any other deodorizer, and we would merely observe that as it is proposed to use 10 the solid matters as manure, it is advisable not to make use of any chemical ingredient as a deodorizer, which will injuriously affect the fertilizing principle of the manure. It will be undertood that by thus collecting the sewage in sewers or drains that are not affected by the tide, there will always be a regular flow of the liquid towards the tanks, as the pumps and lifting engines 15 are to be kept constantly at work, there will consequently be little risk of the main or other drains becoming choked or clogged by any deposit of solid matters therein. The artificial draught caused by the ventilating fans or high chimnies will always create a current of air in one direction in the land drains as well as in the main drain or sewer, and consequently no smell will emanate 20 from the traps or gulley holes, either of private houses or public streets or ways, as is now the case at certain seasons and times of the tides. Having now described our Invention of “ An Improved Method of Collecting and Disposing of the Sewage of Towns or Cities,” and having explained the manner of carrying the same into effect, we would observe that inasmuch as 25 the construction and arrangement of the necessary apparatus for carrying out and effecting the object of our Invention must necessarily depend upon local circumstances, which must be judged of by the engineer employed in erecting or constructing the works, we have not considered it requisite to give any Drawings thereof as the principle upon which our improved method of 30 collecting and disposing of the sewage of towns or cities is based, is sufficiently explained in the above description of our Invention. In conclusion, we claim collecting the sewage of towns or cities in close tanks or reservoirs, in which it is allowed to remain at rest for a sufficient length of time to enable all the 4 solid matters contained therein to settle, and be deposited at the bottom of the 35 said tanks or reservoirs, from which the clear supernatant liquid is afterwards drawn or allowed to run off, in order to admit of the said tanks and reservoirs being again filled from time to time at regular or stated intervals, so as to obtain an accumulation of solid matter in the said tanks or reservoirs. We claim particularly the use of close or covered tanks or reservoirs fo>*