IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF CLEARING THE STREETS OF A TOWN FROM MUD, Snow, FILXH, SWEEPINGS, OR OTHER IMPURITY
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward. Hodson Bayley, of 42, Newington
Causeway, in the Borough of Southwark, in the County of Surrey,
Wheelwright and Contractor, for the Invention of “IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE METHOD OF CLEARING THE STREETS OF A TOWN FROM MUD, Snow,
FILXH, SWEEPINGS, OR OTHER IMPURITY.”
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Sealed the 21st August 1875, and dated the 24th June 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Hodson Bayley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 24th June 1875.
I, EDWARD HODSON BAYLEY, of 42, Newington Causeway, in the
5 Borough of. Southwark, in the County of Surrey, Wheelwright and
Contractor, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
“IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF CLEARING THE STREETS OF A TOWN FROM
Mud, Snow, FILTH, SWEEPINGS, OR OTHER IMPURITY," to be as follows :-
This Invention relates to a plan or method of cleaning the streets of a
O town from mud or any other débris or impurities that may accumulate
in the roads or ways thereof.

page_text: The present method of accomplishing this purpose is to sweep the
said mud or impurities to the sides or gutters of the roadway, and
therefrom to transfer it by means of scoops to carts that are taken
periodically or otherwise to the districts that require cleansing. The
carts deliver this mud, or rather mud and water, to the shoot or place of
its destination.
The method which forms the subject of this Invention has been
devised in order to save the time occupied in scooping up the mud by
one or two scoopfuls at a time, and to avoid the cartage of the mud in
such a liquid form as is the case at present.
This Invention consists in providing tanks beneath the surface of the
roadway in places suitable for them, and in sweeping the said mud
through suitable apertures or gratings into these tanks. The tanks are
not fixtures in the ground, but they are moveable, and are made of
wrought iron, or other convenient material, so as to give great strength
with lightness, and they are stowed in a suitable pit or other receptacle
wholly beneath the surface of the road, which may be built of masonry
or in any other suitable manner.
The sweeping with the tanks may take place at any time of the day,
at night by preference; a travelling crane of suitable dimensions and
design, together with a trolly or other vehicle, is taken to the various
tanks in succession, and elevates them on to the trolly, whence they are
conveyed to their destination, and the contents of the said tanks are
delivered as may be convenient to or into the place or receptacle
appointed. Each pit or receptacle may take one or more tanks, and
the grating that is provided above the pit fits into a fixed frame, so as to
be easily removable prior to the operation of elevating the tanks.
The tanks may be removed on to separate trollys, so as to be taken to
their various places of destination, and so as to prevent one trolly being
overloaded; in fact each trolly may have one or more tanks.
Besides the saving of time above mentioned the superabundant water
may be drawn off from the tanks by drainage, or by means of syphons
or other suitable appliance, and if a drain runs beneath the tank it may
be run into the said drain, If the tanks remain for some hours after
being filled this advantage will be better secured, and the weight taken
to the place of destination will be minimised.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Hodson Bayley in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 24th December 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
HODSON BAYLEY, of 42, Newington Causeway, in the Borough of
Southwark, in the County of Surrey, Wheelwright and Contractor, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Edward Hodson Bayley, Her special
licence that I, the said Edward Hodson Bayley, my executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Hodson
Bayley, 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 Ohannel Islands, and Isle of Man, an In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF CLEARING THE STREETS OF A TOWN
FROM MUD, SHOW, FILTH, SWEEPINGS, OR OTHER IMPURITY," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Edward Hodson Bayley, 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 Hodson Bayley, 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, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to a plan or method of clearing the streets of a
town from mud or any other debris or impurities that may accumulate

page_text: The present method of accomplishing this purpose is to sweep the said
mud or impurities to the sides or gutters of the roadway, and therefrom
to transfer it by means of scoops to carts that are taken periodically or
otherwise to the districts that require cleansing. The carts deliver this
mud, or rather mud and water, to the "shoot" or place of its destination.
The method which forms the subject of this Invention has been
devised in order to save the time occupied in scooping up the mud by
one or two scoopfuls at a time, and to avoid the cartage of the mud in
such a liquid form as is the case at present.
This Invention consists in providing tanks beneath the surface of the 1
roadway or footway in places suitable for them, and in sweeping the said
mud through suitable apertures or gratings into these tanks. The tanks
aro not fixtures in the ground, but they are moveable, and are made of
wrought iron or other convenient material, so as to give strength with
lightness, and they are stowed in a suitable pit or other receptacle :
wholly beneath the surface of the road, which may be built of masonary
or in any other suitable manner.
The sweeping into the tanks may take place at any time of the day,
at night by preference; a travelling crane of suitable dimensions and
design, together with a trolly or other vehicle, is taken to the various
tanks in succession, and elevates them on to the trolly, whence they are
conveyed to their destination, and the contents of the said tanks are
delivered as may be convenient to or into the place or receptacle
appointed. Each pit or receptacle may take one or more tanks, and
the grating that is provided above the pit fits into a fixed frame, so as
to be easily removable prior to the operation of elevating the tanks.
The tanks may be removed on to separate trollys, so as to be taken to
their various places of destination, and so as to prevent one trolly being
overloaded; in fact each trolly may have one or more tanks.
Besides the saving of time above mentioned the superabundant water
may be drawn off from the tanks by drainage, or by means of syphons or
other suitable appliance, and if a drain runs beneath the tank it may be
run into the said drain. If the tanks remain for some hours after being
filled this advantage will be better secured, and the weight taken to the
place of destination minimised.
In the case of snow being swent into the tanks it man ho miend.

page_text: with salt, and the liquid produced by melting will be drained off, as above
described.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention, I
declare that what I claim and desire to be secured by the herein-before
in part recited Letters Patent is, the method of cleansing the streets of a
town from mud, snow, filth, sweepings, or other impurities, substantially
as herein-before described, or any mère modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Hodson Bayley, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of
December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.