Specification of William White : deodorizing sewage matters.

  • White, William.
Date:
1855
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of William White : deodorizing sewage matters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Whites Improvements in Deodorizing the Contents of Cesspools, Privies, <^c. from the substantive parts of night soil, with burned clay and sulphate of the protoxide of iron. I am aware that some of these substances have been before used for like purposes, but my Invention consists in the employment of these matters in combination. . SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed 5 by the said William White in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th February 1855. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, William White, of York Villa, Kensington Park, Bayswater, Consulting Chemist, send greeting. 10 WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent bearing date the Eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William White, Her special licence that I, the said William White, my 15 executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William White, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the 20 Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “Ax IiiiPiiOVEMEXT ix Deodorizino the Contexts or Cesspools, Privies, and also like Matters in other Places,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William White, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner 25 the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great • Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William AVhite, do hereby declare the nature’of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 30 to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement : thereof (that is to say) :— My Invention consists of applying a combination of the ingredients herein¬ after described for the purpose of deodorizing the contents of cesspools, privies, drains, and manure tanks, and pits and other places for the collection and. 35