Specification of John Flewitt Milnes : utilizing sewage.

  • Milnes, John Flewitt.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Specification of John Flewitt Milnes : utilizing sewage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Utilizing Sewage. (This Invention received Provisional Protection only.) 4 PKOVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Plewitt Milnes at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 31st October 1873. I, John Plewitt Milnes, of Park Valley, in the County of Notting- 5 ham, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improve¬ ments in Apparatus for Utilising Sewage,” to be as follows :— In convenient places in the sewer I cause a series of pits to be sunk in and below the bottom of the sewer of from eight to ten yards deep, more or less, according to the amount of sewage passing through the sewer; 10 the diameter of the said pits will vary, say in a sewer of five feet diameter, the mouth or top of the pit will be about three feet, which being quite open the solid parts of the sewage will quickly fall to the bottom, the pit being constantly full there will be a continual deposit of matter going on so that in a short time the pits will be full of manure 15 of considerable value; the deposit in the pits may be assisted by employing a grating or gratings on the edge of the pits on the fall side; these gratings the nearer they are to the outfall of the sewer I prefer should be made a finer guage, thereby ensuring the water passing being