AN IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF APPARATUS AND MATERIALS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR EFFECTING THE DEODORIZING OF THE NOXIOUS GASES ARISING FROM SEWERS AND DRAINS, AND POR THE MORE EFFECTUAL VENTILATION AND INSPECTION OF SUCH SEWERS AND DRAINS."
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Brooke, the younger, of Huddersfield, in
the County of York, Manufacturer of Sanitary Tubes and other Fire-
clay Goods, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF
APPARATUS AND MATERIALS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR EFFECTING THE DEODORIZING
OF THE NOXIOUS GASES ARISING FROM SEWERS AND DRAINS, AND POR THE
MORE EFFECTUAL VENTILATION AND INSPECTION OF SUCH SEWERS AND DRAINS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Brooke at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 25th
September 1865.
I, EDWARD BROOKE, the younger, of Huddersfield, in the County of York,
Manufacturer of Sanitary Tubes and other Fire-clay Goods, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention for "AN IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF APPARATUS
AND MATERIALS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR EFFECTING THE DEODORIZING OF THE NOXIOUS
GASES ARISING PROM SEWERS AND DRAINS, AND FOR THE MORE EFFECTUAL VEN-
TILATION AND INSPECTION OF SUCH SEWERS AND DRAINS," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is the construction, arrangement, and appli-
cation of apparatus and material so as to deodorize the noxious gases arising
from sewers and drains, and to facilitate inspection and flushing or cleansing
of such sewers and drains, which I effect as follows:-I provide a tube or
pipe of earthenware (or other material), one end being of form and dimen-
sions to fit into the socket of ordinary sewer or drain pipes, the other end of

page_text: the first-mentioned tube or pipe is enlarged, and provided with a socket and
shoulder, in and on which rests a tray or screen of galvanized iron (or other
material), which tray or screen is covered with charcoal (or other deodorizing
matter); the portion of the said socket or shoulder above the tray or screen
and charcoal is perforated with a number of openings, through which the uir
and gases pass after being deodorized by passing through the charcoal, and
thence escape by a grate placed for that purpose level with the road or
ground. The charcoal is protected from dirt and wet passing through the
openings in the grate above mentioned by a cover resting on the top of the
socket or shoulder above mentioned.
The arrangement above described gives great facilities for inspecting and
cleansing sewers and drains, as the grate being opened, the cover, charcoal,
and tray being lifted out, a perfectly clear and open communication with the
sewer or drain is established, either for the purpose of inspection, or for the
introduction of water for flushing and cleansing the same, or for the purpose
of renewing the charcoal or other deodorizing medium.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Brooke in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th
March 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
BROOKE, the younger, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Manufacturer
of Sanitary Tubes and other Fire-clay Goods, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Edward Brooke, Her special licence that I, the said
Edward Brooke, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Edward Brooke, 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
"AN IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF APPARATUS AND MATERIALS TO BE EMPLOYED
FOR EFFECTING THE DEODORIZING OF THE NOXIOUS GASES ARISING FROM SEWERS AND
DRAINS, AND FOR THE MORE EFFECTUAL VENTILATION AND INSPECTION OF SUCH

page_text: SEWERS AND DRAINS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Edward Brooke, my executors or administrators, 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 Edward Brooke, do hereby 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:-
The object of this Invention is the construction, arrangement, and appli-
cation of apparatus of material so as to deodorize the noxious gases arising
from sewers and drains, and to facilitate inspection and flushing or cleansing
of such sewers and drains, which I effect as follows:-I provide a tube or
pipe of earthenware (or other material), one end being of form and dimen-
tions to fit into the socket of ordinary sewer or drain pipes, the other end of
the first-mentioned tube or pipe is enlarged, and provided with a socket and
shoulder, in and on which rests a tray or screen of galvanized iron (or other
material), which tray or screen is covered with charcoal (or other deodorizing
medium); the portion of the said socket or shoulder above the tray or screen
and charcoal is perforated with a number of openings, through which the air
and gases pass after being deodorized by passing through the charcoal, and
thence escape by a grate placed for that purpose level with the road or
ground. The charcoal is protected from dirt and wet passing through the
openings in the grate above mentioned by a cover resting on the top of the
socket or shoulder above mentioned.
The arrangement above described gives great facilities for inspecting and
cleansing sewers and drains, as the grate being opened, the cover, charcoal,
and tray being lifted out, a perfectly clear and open communication with
the interior of the sewer or drain is established, either for the purpose of
inspection, or for the introduction of water for flushing and cleansing the
same, or for the purpose of renewing the charcoal or other deodorizing
medium.
Such being the nature and object of my said Invention of an improved
arrangement of apparatus and materials to be employed for effecting the
deodorizing of the noxious gases arising from sewers and drains, and for the
more effectual ventilation and of inspection of such sewers and drains,. I will
now proceed to describe the same more fully, and in order that the same may

page_text: be distinctly understood, I have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings
illustrative thereof, and have marked the same with letters of reference, the
same letter, referring to the same part in the various views or, figures, in
which Fig. 1 is a vertical section, shewing sewer or drain constructed of
earthenware pipes, and ventilator applied; Fig. 2 is a cross vertical section;
shewing a brick sewer or drain and ventilator; Fig. 3, an elevation of per-
forated pipe for carrying tray or screen and charcoal; Fig. 4 is a section
through line a, b, on Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a plan of the tray or screen for the
charcoal.
At A is a pipe or tube of earthenware, the lower end of which is of form
and dimentions to fit into the socket of ordinary sewer or drain pipes B, the
upper end of pipe A is enlarged, and provided with a socket a¹, and
shoulder b', on which rests a tray or screen C of galvanized iron; the tray
or screen C is covered or filled with charcoal; the upper part of the socket a¹
is perforated with a number of openings E, through which openings the air
and gases from the sewer or drain passes after being deodorized by passing
through the charcoal, and thence escape by the grate F. The charcoal is
protected from dirt and wet passing through the openings in the grate F by
the cover G, which rests on the socket'a'.
It will be evident the construction and arrangement of apparatus and
materials for purposes herein-before mentioned and above described and
illustrated possesses the advantages of simplicity of construction and economy
of first cost, that such arrangement can readily be applied to existing sewers
or drains without building or constructing tanks or other similar contrivances
heretofore employed in ventilating and deodorizing gases arising from sewage
matter and the inspection of sewers and drains.
The operations of deodorizing noxious gases, inspecting and flushing the
sewers or drains will readily be understood on reference to the Drawings.
Noxious gases arising from sewage matter ascend the pipe or pipes B and A,
pass through the charcoal in the tray or screen C, deodorized, and escape by
the openings E (as shewn by arrows) and the grate F. On inspecting or
flushing the drain or sewer the grate F is raised, the cover G (by the
handle g) is lifted off, and the tray or screen of charcoal removed, thus
opening a perfectly clear and open view to the interior of the sewer or drain
on inspection, and also for the introduction of hose and water for the purpose
of flushing or cleansing the said sewers or drains.
Having thus fully described and ascertained. the nature and particulars
of my said Invention for "An Improved Arrangement of Apparatus and
Materials to be Employed for Effecting the Deodorizing of the Noxious

page_text: Gases arising from Sewers and Drains, and for the more Effectual Ventilation
and Inspection of such Sewers and Drains," together with the manner in
which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical effect,
I would have it distinctly understood that I do not claim the use of charcoal
as a deodoreant, as such is old and well understood; but what I do claim as
my Invention is, the construction and arrangement of materials and apparatus
for effecting the deodorizing of the noxious gases arising from sewers and
drains, and for the more effectual ventilation and inspection of such sewers
and drains, as shewn in the Drawings, and herein-above particularly
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Brooke, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
EDWARD BROOKE, JUN. (L.S.)
Witness,
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Patent Agent,
Halifax & Blackburn.