Improvements in Cesspools and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification. 23th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 9th Mar., 1895
Improvements in Cesspools and the like.
I, THOMAS KENNEDY of 14, Percy Villas, Norfolk Road, Gravesend in the
County of Kent, Carpenter do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in cesspools and the like and has for
object to provide suitable means for drawing off all liquid and leaving only the
solids, and this without entailing the labor of pumping and carting off now
necessary.
By this invention labor is economised in the matter of forming cesspools as it
will not be necessary to dig the same so deep as at present, a similar economy being.
effected in the matter of emptying cesspools as by reason of the cesspool not being
so deep the solid matters are more easily reached.
In accordance with this invention I have in connection with a cesspool an iron
pipe or tube leading into the earth to a suitable depth and preferably perforated
around its two ends so as to act as a sieve. The perforations at upper end should
be smaller than those at the lower end to allow of a ready escape, a bend connects
this tube to the cesspool at a suitable desired height above the level to which the
solid matters may be expected to reach in the cesspool. Or instead of arranging
the iron pipe
or tube outside the cesspool such pipe or tube may be driven inside
the cesspool and through the bottom of same, the top open end of the tube being
at a suitable height to permit of the drawing off of the liquid matter resting upon
the solids. When two cesspools are close together the one pipe or tube may serve
for both by being driven between them and having a bend or tee connection
to each.
Further by using an india rubber or other suitable piping connected to the
iron pipe or tube aforesaid, and dropped within the cesspool a syphon may be formed
so as to empty the liquid matter from any other cesspool thus doing away with the
labor of pumping off and carting away. Said india-rubber or other piping to be
bonnetted or perforated at the end to act as a check or any solid matter passing
direct into the pipe or tube.
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Dated this 26th day of April 1894.
1, THOMAS KENNEDY of 14, Percy Villas, Norfolk Road Gravesend in the
County of Kent, Carpenter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
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My invention relates to improvements in cesspools and the like and has for its
object to provide suitable nieans for drawing off all liquid and leaving only the

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solids without entailing the labour of pumping and carting off as at present
necessary.
By means of this invention labour is economised both in the construction and the
emptying of cesspools, it not being necessary to dig them so deep as at present
whereby the solid matters are more easily reached.
According to my invention there is in connection with the cesspool an iron pipe or
tube penetrating into the earth to a suitable depth and perforated at its top and
bottom ends for the passage of the liquid from the cesspool into the earth a bend or
short tube connects the upper end of the said pipe with the cesspool at a suitable
height above the level to which the solid matter may be expected to reach, the top
of the perforated pipe being fixed within a chamber formed in the ground in close
proximity to the cesspool.
Or instead of arranging the said pipe outside the cesspool it may be driven
through the earth at the bottom of the same the top end being at a suitable height
to permit of the drawing off of the liquid resting upon the solid matter.
When two cesspools are close together one pipe or tube may serve for both
being driven into the ground between them and having a bend or tee in connection
therewith.
Also by the use of an india-rubber or other suitable piping connected to the said
pipe or tube and dropped within the cesspool a syphon may be so formed as to
empty the liquid matter from any other cesspool thus dispensing with the labour
of pumping off and carting away, the said piping being bonnetted or perforated
at the end to act as a check to any solid matter passing direct into the pipe
or tube.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a section of my improved cesspool with
the drawing-off pipe outside of the same, Fig. 2. is a similar view with the said pipe
passing through the cesspool, and Fig. 3. is a section showing two cesspools in
connection with one draw-off pipe.
In Fig. 1a represents a cesspool and b is the draw-off pipe. The lower end of this
pipe is pointed to facilitate its insertion into the ground and the upper end is fixed
within a chamber or recess c formed in the ground in the surface thereof in close
proximity to the cesspool a.
The chamber c is connected with the cesspool by a short bend or tube d at a
suitable height above the level to which the solid matters may be expected to
reach. The top of the pipe is provided with a perforated cover and the lower
end of the pipe is likewise formed with perforations 62, which latter are larger
than those at to permit of the easy escape of the liquid. As the liquid rises to
the level of the tube dit passes through the latter into the chamber c and thence
through the perforated cover down the pipe b from which it escapes by the
perforations into the earth.
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In Fig. 2. the pipe b is shown inside the cesspool being forced through the ground
at the bottom of the said cesspool thereby dispensing with the separate chamber c
and tube d.
In Fig. 3 two cesspools a a' are shown in connection with one draw-off pipe beach
being respectively connected with the chamber c by short bends or tubes dd. An
india-rubber or other suitable piping e (shown in the dotted lines in Fig. 3) may be
connected to the pipe b and dropped into the cesspool so as to form a syphon, thus
emptying the liquid matter from any other cesspool and dispensing with the labour
of pumping off and carting away.
This piping is bonnetted or perforated at the end to act as a check to any solid
matter passing direct into the pipe or tube.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1 In the construction of resonants the combination therewith of the perforated

page_text: pipe the chamber or recess c and the tube or bend d substantially as herein
described and shown and for the purpose specified.
2. In the construction of cesspools the modifications as shown in and described
with reference to Figs. 2. & 3. of the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 28th day of January 1895.
J. B. FLEURET,
5, Hatton Garden, London, Agent for the Applicant.