Specification of Robert Angus Smith and Alexander McDougall : deodorizing and disinfecting sewage matters, and separating manure therefrom.

  • Smith, Robert Angus.
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Robert Angus Smith and Alexander McDougall : deodorizing and disinfecting sewage matters, and separating manure therefrom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Smith ^ DougalVs Impts. in Deodorizing ^ Disinfecting Sewage Matters, ^c. plioric acid and ammonia contained in the substances operated upon. We propose the use of our preparation in all stables, cowhouses, piggeries, privies, urinals, ash pits, and other places where organic matter becomes offensive; by its use the offensive smells will be removed, and the manure preserved and greatly increased in value. We also propose the use of our preparation in 5 gasworks and other places where it will act in removing sulphuretted hydrogen, ammonia, and other offensive gases. In the application of our Invention to the sewage of a town, if the object be merely the removal of the offensive smell, it will be sufficient to introduce the preparation into the sewers through the grids or other openings to the surface, but if it be also desired to 10 preserve the manure, it will be necessary to provide reservoirs or receptacles (to be used alternately), in which the sewage may be allowed to stand while the matters which have been precipitated by the action of the disinfectant shall have time to subside, when the clear water standing above the deposit may be allowed to run off. It is desirable to have two or more reservoirs, 15 that one or more may be receiving the sewage or other matter, while the precipitated manure is being removed from the other. In some cases it may be found convenient to have the reservoirs of such area as to secure a very gentle current, and so permit the deposition to take place without the necessity of stopping the inlet to allow of subsidence. 20 Having thus particularly described and set forth our improvements in treating, deodorizing, and disinfecting sewage and other offensive matter, which said improvements are also applicable to deodorizing and disinfecting in general, we desire it to be distinctly understood that we claim the novel and peculiar treatment above named, and the operation, employment, or use 25 of the agents or substances so applied in the above-named process or processes, for the purpose of removing offensive or injurious effluvia. In witness whereof, we, the said Robert Angus Smith and Alexander M^Dougall, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Seventeenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and 80 fifty-four. ROBT ANGUS SMITH. (l.s.) A. MCDOUGALL. (l.s.) LONDON: Printed by Geokge Edwaed Eyee and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queeffs most Excellent Majesty. 1854.