Improvements in Treating and Drying Excreta and Manufacturing the same into Manure.
Year: 1885

page_text: Improvements in Treating and Drying Excreta and
Manufacturing the same into Manure.
I, WILLIAM GRIMSHAW of Hurst Brook, Ashton-under-Lyne, in the County of
Lancaster, Hat Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING AND DRYING EXCRETA AND MANUFACTURING THE
SAME INTO MANURE," to be as follows
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This invention refers to the treatment of excreta received in pails or other
receptacles upon what is known as the pail-system and consists in mixing the
same with dried excreta sufficiently to mould into suitable blocks as hereinafter
described These blocks are stacked in a kiln and the fire being ignited the fumes
and products of combustion pass through the blocks along with sulphurous-acid
gis-thence such fumes pass into a furnace heated to incandescence and in
emerging therefrom pass through a shower of water before entering the chimney
The noxious fumes are thus neutralised and rendered inodorous and harmless.
The blocks so produced and dried are then ground into powder to be used as
manure and a suitable proportion of this powder is used for mixing with the fresh
excreta so as to render the same of a sufficient consistency to mould into blocks as
aforesaid.
JOHN G WILSON,
Agent for the Applicant

page_text: Manufacturing the same into Manure.
I WILLIAM GRIMSHAW of Hurst Brook Ashton under Lyne in the County of
Lancaster Hat Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my 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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This invention refers to the treatment of excreta received in pails or other
receptacles upon what is known as the pail system and consists in mixing the
same say in a pug-mill with dried excreta to which I prefer to add cotton or
woollen shoddy or other similar material As the mixture is delivered from the
pug-mill it is received upon trays which are then lifted by a suitable travelling
crane and carried forward into a kiln where such trays are arranged alongside each
other and in layers one above another so as to permit the products of combustion
from the furnace along with sulphurous acid gas, to pass between the trays and so
to dry the mixture into cakes or blocks
If I desire to neutralise and render inodorous the fumes arising from this process
I pass the same through a shower of water and thence into a furnace heated to
incandes.ence before entering the chimney
The cakes or blocks so produced and dried are then ground into powder in a
disintegrating mill to be used as manure and a suitable proportion of this powder
18 employed for mixing with the fresh excreta so as to render the same of a sufficient
consistency to mould into cakes or blocks as aforesaid
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim 18
1st The improvements in treating and drying excreta and manufacturing the
same into manure substantially as herein before described
2nd The improved method of mixing excreta as received upon the pail-system
with dried excreta and of drying the same substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described.
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JOHN G WILSON,
Agent for the Applicant