IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPERTAINING TO APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING AND REMOVING NIGHT SOIL, TOWN REFUSE, AND OTHER DIRT
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I WALTER MAKIN, at the Office for Patents, 6 Lord Street Liverpool, in the
County of Lancaster, Contractor's Foroman do hereby declare the nature of my
said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPERTAINING TO APPARATUS FOR
COLLECTING AND REMOVING NIGHT SOIL, TOWN REFUSE, AND OTHER DIRT, to be as
follows:-
The method almost universally followed at the present time in removing night
soil and the like is to spade it through the door of the ash pit into the passage or
path in front, wheel it in wheel barrows out onto the road, and then spade it into
carts. This involves a considerable amount of unnecessary labour, and fouls both
the passage and the foot walk of the street.
Now my invention consists in forming series of small tanks upon wheels which
are wheeled up to the ashpit door and the stuff shovelled direct into them, a spring
hood being usually fixed to guide the stuff into the tank and prevent any dirt
falling into the passage. The tanks as they are filled are wheeled out into the
road, and a lorry is brought along fitted with an incline up which the tanks are
pulled by horse power, the tanks being so shaped and sized that a given number,
preferably eight, nicely fill the floor of the lorry. They are thus removed without
any more than one spading and without any fouling of the passage or road way.

page_text: Figure 3 plan of same.
Figures 4 and 5 plans of incline, used to lead the tanks into the lorries.
Figures 6. and. 7 elevation and plan of apparatus complete but with hoods
romoved.
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In these A is a door made narrower than an ash-pit hole, so that it can be laid
back on to the ash pit door sill or against it, and act as a bridge to prevent the
material falling into the passage way., B is the hood, it can be either a spring 3
hood as set forth in the provisional specification, or as I prefer it a wedgo or lean-
to-roof shaped hood of sheet metal open in front, but bound with angle iron to
strengthen it.. Being light, one hood will do for all the tanks of a set used to clean
an ash pit, as it can be lifted off one and placed on the other. Vertical pins on
one (the hood or tank) fitting into eyes or notches in the other, or it can be 3
permanently or temporarily pegged or pinned on by pegs or pins as shown in
Figures 1 and 2 at CC. D is the incline made preferably of angle iron bars and
cross stays; the upper end has two hooks or pins to hook on to the rail of the lorry
as shown, the lower end has a hinged plate E with sharpish edge lying on the
ground and having guides F F to guide the wheels to the sides or angle irons of 4
the incline. G is the ordinary float or lorry made with bent axle, and underhung
so as to have the floor as low as possiblo, so that the tanks may not have to bo
drawn up higher than is necessary.
The mode of action is as follows:
The tanks are carried by the lorry and left near the ashpit to be emptied. One 4
is placed in position, the door let down onto the ashpit sill, the hood placed in
position, and the tank filled by spading. The door is then closed, the tank run off
and another placed in its place, the hood being transferred from the ono to the
other. When all are filled the lorry returns, the tanks are run on by attaching a

page_text: horse by a rope or chain to hook G, and running the tank by horse power (or
man power if desirable) up the incline which is fixed for the occasion as shown in
Figures 6 and 7. When the lorry is full with 4 or more tanks, as the case may
be, it is drawn off to the discharging. place. It will be seen by my process and
apparatus no soiling of the entry nor handling of the night soil is required from
the spading out of the ashpit to the tipping on the bank. Also that the horse and
lorry are simply employed to distribute and collect the tanks and can do this for
many middens in one night instead of having to stand at each, while the night
soil is slowly filled in.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :
1st. The manufacture and use of apparatus, substantially as described, for
collecting and removing night soil, town refuse or other dirt, by which means the
night soil can be removed without being turned over more than once, the entry is
saved from pollution and the use of barrows avoided.
2nd. The tanks with their appurtenances for removing night soil or other refuse,
substantially as described and shown in the drawings.
3rd. The hereindescribed inclines having hinged bottom plates and guides for
the tank wheels, so as to guide the tanks up into the lorries, substantially in the
manner described.
WP. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and
323, High Holborn, London,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.