Refuse Matter and Utilizing the Whole as a Manure.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 14th June, 1887
Complete Left, 7th Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted, 13th Apr., 1888
and other Refuse Matter and Utilizing the Whole as a Manure.
We, DAVID MCGREGOR of 21 North Tay Street, Dundee, in the County of Forfar,
North Britain, Shuttle Maker, and JOHN MCARTHUR Junior of 7 North Tay Street,
Dundee aforesaid, Advertising Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN ABSORBING MOISTURE FROM AND DEODORISING FOCAL AND
OTHER REFUSE MATTER AND UTILIZING THE WHOLE AS A MANURE to be as follows
:-
This Invention, which relates to improvements in absorbing moisture from and
deodorising focal and other refuse matter and utilizing the whole as a manure, consists
in employing in dry closets, ashpits and other receptacles or places where focal or
other refuse matter is deposited or collected of pulverised slag, sometimes known as
clinker or dander which is produced from several kinds of furnaces such as blast
furnaces, foundry cupolas, iron and steel furnaces, boilers and retorts for distilling
coal or shale. This slag, clinker or dander is obtained from furnaces such as the
aforesaid in solid lumps of various sizes and for the purposes of this Invention it is
ground or pulverised by any suitable grinding or pulverising machinery.
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J. H. JOHNSON, DAY & JOHNSON,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Petitioners' Agents.

page_text: and other Refuse Matter and Utilizing the Whole as a Manure.
We, DAVID MCGREGOR of 21 North Tay Street, Dundee in the County of Forfar,
North Britain, Shuttle Maker, and JOHN MCARTHUR Junior of 7 North Lindsay
Street, Dundee aforesaid, Advertising Agent 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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Our Invention, which relates to improvements in absorbing moisture from and
deodorising focal and other refuse matter such as the urine of man and other animals
and animal or vegetable refuse generally and in utilizing the whole as a manure,
consists in employing pulverised slag (sometimes known as clinker
or dander")
in dry closets, ashpits and other receptacles or places where foccal matter, urine or other
refuse is deposited or collected. Such pulverised slag, sometimes as aforesaid known
as clinker ог "dander" is produced from several kinds of furnaces such as blast
furnaces foundry cupolas, iron and steel furnaces, the furnaces or fire-places of steam-
boilers and retorts for distilling coal or shale. This slag, "clinker
"dander
or
obtained from furnaces such as the aforesaid in irregular lumps of various sizes and
for the purposes of this Invention it is ground or pulverised by any suitable grinding
or pulverising machinery.
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The pulverised slag may be employed in such receptacles as aforesaid in any suitable
quantity which necessarily varies with the quantity of moisture to be absorbed and the
degree of deodorisation to be effected.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what wo
claim is
The absorbing of moisture from and the deodorisation of focal matter, urine, and
other refuse by means of pulverised slag, applied in closets, ashpits and other
receptacles or places whereby the whole is rendered fit for use as a manure, sub-
stantially as herein before described.
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