IMPROVEMENTS IN GULLIES OR STENCH TRAPS, AND IN MUD BOXES CONNECTED THEREWITH." GULLIES OR STENCH TRAPS, AND IND BOXES CONTED THEREWI
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Beech, of Salford, in the County of
Lancaster, Estate Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
GULLIES OR STENCH TRAPS, AND IN MUD BOXES CONNECTED THEREWITH."
GULLIES OR STENCH TRAPS, AND IN MUD BOXES CONNECTED THEREWITH."
Sealed the 28th May 1869, and dated the 4th December 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Beech at tho
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th December 1868.
I, FREDERICK BEECH, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Estate
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN GULLIES OR STENCH TRAPS, AND IN MUD BOXES CONNECTED THEREWITH,"
to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in an arrangement of gully or stench trap
whereby I am enabled to clean the same without breaking up the street
if so applied, and by which the mud and other solid matter is to a great
extent prevented from passing into the trap. To accomplish these
objects I use a trap with a mud box, as now in use, but I carry up the
former to the level of the grid, and in order to expose a reduced.surface
of the cover to traffic I incline the side of the said trap. The cover

page_text: I form in one piece with the grid, and hinge it at one end, and I propose
to place it on the inward side from the sewer of the partition which
constitutes the trap, whereby the said trap remains in operation when
the cover is removed. In the mud box I adapt a second partition also
forming a trap, and between it and the stench trap I place a grid which
arrests the larger particles of solid matter. The bottom of the mud box
I propose to incline backwards from the trap, whereby the solid matter
is caused to settle in that direction.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick Beech in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 4th June 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
BEECH, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Estate Agent, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth December, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-second year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Frederick Becch, Her special license that I, the said Frederick Beech,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Frederick Beech, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, excrcise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN GULLIES OR STENCH TRAPS, AND MUD BOXES CONNECTED THERE-
WITH," upon the condition, amongst others, that I, the said Frederick
Becch, by an instrument in writing under my hand and scal, 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 Frederick Becch, do hereby

page_text: declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement and accompanying Drawings (that is
to say)-
My Invention consists in an arrangement of gully or stench trap and
mud box whereby I am enabled to clean the same without breaking up
the street if it be so applied, and by which the mud and other solid
matter is to a great extent provented from passing into the trap.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 represents my Invention in
vertical section; Fig. 2 in plan view, and Fig. 3 is a cross section
of the grid and a portion of the mud box. The mud box is at a,
with which is cast a second vessel b, and in this is the midfeather c,
which constitutes the ordinary trap, but within which I place a grid d.
Upon a continuation of the midfeather is cast a lug e, to which is
hinged a dead plate f, which is formed in the same piece with the usual
grid g, and the said plate rests at its inward and upon a midfeather h
extending across the box a, thereby forming a trap which is provided
with a grid i. The upper part of the box a is formed with a pro-
jecting part k, against which (if the apparatus be applied to a strect)
the paving stones are set, and they are thus prevented from pressing
against the end of the grid g and sides of the plate f, and these parts
may therefore be readily turned upward on their centre . The bottom
of the mud box a is inclined backwards, as shewn in the Drawing at
Fig. 1. The drainage from the street or other place passes as usual
through the grid g into the mud box a, carrying with it solid matters
which according to the ordinary construction of such apparatus would
be free to pass onward into the trap, but according to my Invention the
larger pieces are arrested by the grid i and also by the grid d, which
may however be omitted, the first grid i being the principal safeguard;
eventually the subsiding matter settles down backward by reason of the
inclined bottom of the box a. The discharge pipe which is connected with
the sewer is shewn at m.. It will be seen that by this arrangement a
large amount of solid matter is prevented from passing into the trap b,
When it is
and the danger of its becoming choked is diminished.
desired to clean the apparatus the grid g and plate fare turned upon
their centre 1, and the mud box a is then exposed together with the
vessel of the trap, and the grid & having been removed a hand may be
passed into the trap and the sediment removed. It will be observed

page_text: that the dead plate f, which forms a cover for the trap, is placed on the
inward side (from the sewer) of the midfeather c, and the trap therefore
remains in operation when the said cover is removed. It will also be
seen that as the cover for the trap is not beneath the pavement, but is
placed together with the grid g on the road level, that the cleaning of
the apparatus may be effected without breaking up the road.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire
it to be understood that I claim as secured to me under the above in part
recited Letters Patent, and for the purposes above set forth,-
Firstly. Placing the cover for the trap at or about the road level.
Secondly. The use of a grid in the mud box, as illustrated at i.
Thirdly. Placing the cover of the trap on the inward side of the mid-
feather or partition.
Fourthly. Inclining the bottom of the mud box downward from the
trap.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Beech, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Third day of Junc, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
F. BEECH. (L.S.)