IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLECTING AND TREATING HUMAN EXCREMENT, BOTH SOLID AND LIQUID, AND IN THE TREATMENT OF OTHER ANIMAL ŪRINE ALSO IN
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Bridge Baron Standen, of No. 9, Langdon
Terrace, Blackheath, in the County of Kent, for the Invention of
**IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLECTING AND TREATING HUMAN EXCREMENT, BOTH
SOLID AND LIQUID, AND IN THE TREATMENT OF OTHER ANIMAL ŪRINE, ALSO IN
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Sealed the 7th March 1873, and dated the 11th September 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Bridge Baron Standen
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 11th September 1872.
I, BRIDGE BARON STANDEN, of No. 9, Langdon Terrace, Blackheath,
in the County of Kent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLECTING AND TREATING HUMAN EXCREMENT, BOTH
SOLID AND LIQUID, AND IN THE TREATMENT OF OTHER ANIMAL URINE, ALSO IN THE
MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN," to be as follows:
In carrying out my improvements I form the privies or closets or
such like places with the seat thereof supported on centres or axes at the
sides of it, so that in use the front edge of the seat may have a tendency

page_text: to be slightly depressed, and the back of it raised. Beneath and sur-
rounding the under side of the opening in the seat are applied four plates,
two of which the front and back ones are stationary and inclined back-
wards, whilst the two side ones are suspended on axes from the upper
part; and these axes are by cranks or such like means operated upon by
the seat, so that when not in use the lower edges of these side plates
incline towards and rest against each other, and they then with the other
plates close the lower part of the chamber from view; but by the
depression of the front part of the seat in use these side plates open for
a free passage, and then the ejectments drop into a receptacle placed in
position to receive them below.
The relative position of the moveable and stationary plates may be
varied. The receptacles are moveable so that when one is filled another
may take its place: The matters collected from such like places are
then placed in a cistern or tank through a separater formed of sieve or
reticulate work to act as a screen to separate paper and other foreign
matters of bulk, and the matters collected in the cistern or tank are then
acted upon by sulphuric acid until by the use of ordinary tests they are
found to be in a neutral state. The product obtained is in a liquid form
passed into a chamber heated, and I employ steam in pipes for the
purpose so as to evaporate the water therefrom, and thereby separate it
from the more solid parts. The water vaporized is then condensed, and
in some cases filtered by being passed through charcoal.
The more solid portion is combined with ashes prepared by being
ground and mixed with sulphuric or other acid for manure.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Bridge Baron Standen in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 10th March 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BRIDGE
BARON STANDEN, of No. 9, Langdon Terrace, Blackheath, in the County
of Kent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the

page_text: thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Bridge Baron Standen, Her special
license that I, the said Bridge Baron Standen, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Bridge Baron Standen,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein 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 COLLECTING AND TREATING HUMAN EXCREMENT, BOTH SOLID
AND LIQUID, AND IN THE TREATMENT OF OTHER ANIMAL URINE, ALSO IN THE MEANS
OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Bridge Baron Standen, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly 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 immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Bridge Baron Standen, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :—
The Invention relates, first, to means or apparatus for collecting
human excrement, solid and liquid; and secondly, the Invention relates
to the treatment of such excrement and other animal urine.
In carrying out the first part of my improvements I form the privies
or closets or such like places with the seat thereof supported on centres
or axes at the sides of it so that in use the front edge of the seat may
have a tendency to be slightly depressed and the back of it raised.
Beneath and surrounding the under side of the opening in the seat are
applied four plates, two of which the front and back ones are stationary
and inclined backwards, whilst the two side ones are suspended on axes
from the upper part; and these axes are by cranks or such like means
operated upon by the seat, so that when not in use the lower edges of
these side plates incline towards and rest against each other, and they.
then with the other plates close the lower part of the chamber from
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page_text: view, but by the depression of the front part of the seat in use these side
plates open for a free passage, and then the ejectments drop into a
receptacle placed in position to receive them below.
plates open for a free passage, and then the ejectments drop into a
receptacle placed in position to receive them below.
But that the Invention may be fully understood, I will proceed to
describe means pursued by me in carrying the same into effect.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shews a plan view; Figure 2 an under side view; Figure 3 a
sectional front view; and Figure 4 a transverse section of a privy or
closet arranged according to the first head of the Invention with the
parts of it in the position they would assume when not used by a person
sitting on the seat. Figure 5 shews a plan view; Figure 6 an under side
view; Figure 7 a sectional front view; and Figure 8 a cross section,
shewing the position the parts assume when in use by a person sitting
on the seat.
a is the seat, and 6 the ordinary hole therein. This seat is formed to
rock on centres or axes c, c, and there are weights applied to the back
part thereof with a tendency to keep that part depressed and the front
edge thereof raised, or the like effect may be obtained by spring pressure.
d, e, f, and g, are the four plates applied to the under side of the seat.
The plates d and e are fixed stationary to the seat, and the plates f
and g are affixed to rods forming axes f¹ and g', suspended so as to turn
freely in necks applied to the under side of the seat to enable these plates
f and g to turn freely between the plates d and e. The rods or axes f¹
and g¹ are bent at one of their ends into a crank form as at ƒ³, g³, and
the ends f, g, thereof pass into eyes applied to the stationary parts.
surrounding the seat.
When the front part of the seat a is raised by not being sat upon the
tendency is to cause the lower ends f*, g', of the plates fand g to bear
against each other at their lower edges as represented by Figures 1, 2, 3,
and 4. On the contrary when the front edge of the seat a is depressed
in use by being sat upon the action of the cranks f, g, is to cause the
plates and g to separate and allow of the free passage of the ejectments
to a receptacle which may be wheeled or otherwise placed in the position
of the dotted lines h.
The relative position of the moveable and stationary plates may be