Specification of Maxwell Anketell and Oliver Frederick Anketell : manufacturing manure and fuel from sewage, &c.

  • Anketell, Maxwell.
Date:
1870
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    Provisional JirfO. F. AnJcetelVs Imp Is. in Manufacturiny Manure and Fuel, SfC. According to our Invention we proceed as follows :—We first separate the solid from the liquid portions of the sewage or excremental or fecal matter by filtration or other ordinary process; we then dry it by passing it through heated chambers or otherwise, whereby we evaporate it and deodorize it, and we then form the dried mass into cakes, blocks, 5 or pieces by means of pressure, In performing our Invention we recommend the following mode of drying and treating the material:—After separating the solid from the liquid portions we pass the former through revolving or vibrating tubes, cylinders, or chambers carried through furnaces or drying rooms, the 10 ends of such tubes or chambers being preferably without the furnace or drying room. The tubes or chambers are arranged in a series so that the material under treatment may pass from one such tube to the next succeeding, and so on, the tubes or chambers being inclined or provided with feed apparatus or otherwise arranged so that the material may 15 pass readily from one tube or chamber to the next, and so on until it is finally delivered in a sufficiently dried, evaporated, and deodorized' condition to a compressing apparatus, which cuts, stamps, moulds, rams, or presses the material into the shapes required (cakes, blocks, or other portable forms). The material can be crushed and pulverized, and it 20 can also be dissolved in liquid or reduced to a liquid condition. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Maxwell Anketell and Oliver Prederick Anketell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th July 1870. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, Maxwell 25 Anketell, of Ealing, in the County of Middlesex, and Alexandria, in Egypt, Merchant, and Oliver Erederick Anketell, of Ladbroke Square, Notting Hill, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 30 Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the