Specification of James Alexander Manning : treating sewage, &c.

  • Manning, James Alexander.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Specification of James Alexander Manning : treating sewage, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Manning's Improvements in the Treatment of Sewage, unto me, the said James Alexander Manning, Her special license that I, the said James Alexander Manning, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James Alexander Manning, my executors, administrators, or assigns; should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein 5 expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improvements in the Treatment, Application, AND Use op Sewerage Matters and general Wastes op Towns and Factories,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Alexander 10 Manning, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should par¬ ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner 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 imme¬ diately after the date of the said Letters Patent. 15 NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Alexander Manning, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say:— My said Invention relates to certain “ improvements in the treatment of 20 sewerage matters and the general refuse or waste matter of towns, whether of animal or vegetable origin, together with refuse, coal ashes, and cinders when mixed therewith.” Under these improvements, there is one general and effective system of treatment for the wet or sludgy deposits of sewerage matters, and another system of treatment for the dry refuse or waste of towns, 25 including the sewerage deposits, after having gone through the desiccative process detailed in my former Patents. This system is applicable to all towns, and a thoroughly concentrated manure may be thereby secured for the per¬ manent benefit of agriculture. By these improvements great economy is obtained over the modes of 30 treating sewerage matters described in the Specifications of Letters Patent granted to me, and bearing date the Seventh day of August, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, the Fifth day of July, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and the First day of February, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight; whilst from the greater efficacy of the manure, and 35 its diminished bulk, a corresponding advantage ensues to agriculturists in its application to the soil, as well as great economy in its transit. In the present Invention I use alum sludge, or its chemical equivalents, as ascertained by analysis, that is to say, amongst other matters, its principal