Specification of Joseph Whitley : treating sewer gas.

  • Whitley, Joseph.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Specification of Joseph Whitley : treating sewer gas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Whitley's Improved Mode of Treating Sewer Gas. was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office on or before the Sixteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Whitley, do hereby declare 5 the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, and the Sheet of Drawings therein referred to (that is to say):— The object of this Invention is to exhaust and purify the deleterious 10 gases of common sewers by the application of heat in the following manner:—I erect a shaft in proximity to a trunk sewer, and connect the sewer to it by a suitable conduit. At a proper height from the ground line I place (within the shaft or outside of it, as may be most convenient in each case) a series of Bunsen’s burners or other mode of 15 caloric force to heat the entire area of the shaft, and to destrov the fever germs contained in the gases of the sewer. By these means the gases in the sewers are caused to flow to the centre of heat, and in their passage through the flames become purified prior to their discharge into the atmosphere. Por this purpose I provide a main for the supply of 20 carburetted hydrogen gas, from which main I convey such gas to a series of compounding chambers, which supply the jets or burners over the area of the shaft or chimney, “ blue ” flame being thus created. All other apertures, whether for lighting, inspection, testing apparatus, or other purpose, are hermetically sealed and covered with glass, mica, or 25 other transparent substance. Such being the nature of my said Invention I proceed to describe the manner of carrying it into practical effect as illustrated in the accom¬ panying Drawings whereof,— Pig. 1 is a sectional elevation of the general arrangement of a shaft, 30 and the terminus of a sewer and the burners; Pig. 2 is a plan of the above, without pipes; Pig. 3 is a sectional elevation to an enlarged scale and Pig. 4, a sectional plan. Pig. 5 and Pig. 6 represent sectional elevation and plan of a modified burner arrangement. 35 In Pigs. 1 to 4 A is a shaft; B, the terminus of a common sewer; C, an entrance door to the sewer; D, the main gas pipe supplying E, the