Compressing Solid and Liquid Disinfectants, and in Utilizing the same when Compressed.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1887
Complete Left, 9th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 8th June, 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Compressing Solid and Liquid Disinfectants, and in Utilizing the
same when Compressed.
I, ELIZABETH HARRIOTT HUTCHINSON, 30 Wolsey Road Mildmay Park London N.
Gentlewoman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to compress disinfectants, such as powders, or
chemicals, or liquids, used for disinfectants, the said chemicals may be ground, refined,
dried, or in a moist or dry state compressed or consolidated by Hydraulic or other
pressure, with or without moulds to any desired shape or form such as Rolls, Blocks,
Tablets, Cylinders, Soap, Balls, Pyramids, Helices, or any other desired shape; which
may be solid, fluted, corrugated, or perforated, which may or may not be made porous
during compression or after compression by drilling or any other means making holes
or perforations therein.
Or otherwise by inserting during compression in the compressed chemical such as
wires, gauze wire, wood perforated, plain or cylindrical, which may or may not be
withdrawn from the compressed material, or any other suitable means inay be employed,
which gives a large amount of surface to the entering water. The water may enter
the said Blocks, Rolls, Cylinders, or other compressed forms through the centre, in
the form of spray, or flow round or over the said Blocks, Rolls, or Cylinders. These
Blocks, Rolls, Balls, Pyramids, Plates, Helics, or Cylinders can be fitted to Baths,
Cistern overflow, Closet-pans, Urinals, Street Gully Traps, Sewers, drains, ships, all
and every place requiring disinfectants, which can be inserted in connection with the
pipes leading to or therefrom, or any convenient or desirable place, in such a manner
that the quantity of water, and strength of the disinfectant can be readily adjusted,
and the compressed material easily replaced. Which can be held in cages or frames,

page_text: or any other device with or without bearings, so that the compressed material may or
may not revolve therein.
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When I fit these compressed rolls, or other forms to drains, or street sewers, I fix
in any convenient part of the trap or grating, the compressed chemicals, rolls, blocks,
or cylinders, in such a manner that the rain or other water flows freely over, round,
or through the said Rolls, or Blocks, or Cylinders, in conjunction with the disinfectant
chemicals, and the well known compounds used in the manufacture of soap, I form
tablets or bars compressed together to form a soap. In the case of liquid disinfectants,
I compress or force under pressure, the liquids into containers, or syphons, fitted with
spray producers or other appliances.

page_text: I ELIZABETH HARRIOTT HUTCHINSON, of 40, Queen Margaret's Grove, Mildmay
Park, Middlesex, Gentlewoman do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner, the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
It is well known that particles of material in powder or granulated form will adhere
to one another when great pressure is exerted and for the purpose of my invention
I take any disinfectant in powder form compounded with chemical or other body, or
with a liquid of a glutinous, or binding character and after filling a mould of the
required shape with the disinfectant or compound I compress the same by hydraulic
or similar pressure and make thereby a block whether the block be round, flat, pyramidal,
or any other shape.
In some cases I make the blocks so compressed, hollow or with side openings, so that
when such blocks are put to the use intended, water admitted will become impregnated
with the disinfectant and so as the disinfected water flows into a bath, into a closet
pan, into an urinal, into a street gully, a sewer, a drain, or a watercourse, the sewage
or impure liquids or gases will become disinfected or deodorized.
Now the object of this invention is to solidify disinfectant compounds under pressure
to manufacture blocks or other shaped articles solid or hollow and to apply them to
various uses so that water passing over or through them may partake of the properties
of the disinfectants of the block so that drains, street gratings, closet pans, sewer
outlets, or other article or place be deodorized or purified as well as sewage or other
gas arising therein or therefrom may be treated.
The invention is applicable to the branch pipes of water carts used for watering
streets or roadways or a block of my compressed disinfectant or deodorizing compound
may be inserted with effervescing powders or with gas in a syphon or gasogen so that
the disinfectant liquor may by the internal pressure of gas be forced out of the nozzle
as a spray.
The annexed drawings show several applications of my compressed disinfectant,
deodorizer or purifying composition.
At Figure 1 I show a compressed block A of cylindrical form with a central
spindle B within the same so that it may be supported by brackets or hangers (as at
Figure 2 to the under part of a gulley or drain grating so that the water flowing
through the grating or top plate D may come in contact with the disinfectant and as
it falls into the well or catch-pit E, the whole of the water contained in such catch-
pit becomes deodorized and then passes away through the aperture F to the drain or
sewer,

page_text: At Figure 3 I show the application of one of my solidified disinfectant blocks A to
an urinal pan directly under the water supply pipe G but it may be in a branch of a
pipe in a similar manner to that represented at Figure 4 where it is shown fitted to a
chamber or branch H and connected to a spreader I such as is used by a street water
cart or Hydrostatic Van.
Figures 5 and 6 represent part section and elevation of a syphon bottle or gasogene
into which an aerated liquid disinfectant or deodorizer is forced under pressure so
that when charged with the gas or an effervescing powder the disinfectant liquid
contained in said vessel, can by pressure on the lever handle K opening the valve N
be forced up the tube L, out at the nozzle M in spray form, the dew or mist like
spray being produced from or by a finely perforated screen at the nozzle M as indicated
at Figure 6.
By this means the disinfectant can be directed to any given spot or in any
direction.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1.. Solidifying or consolidating powder disinfectants or disinfecting compounds
into block form solid or hollow and their application for disinfecting purposes as
described.
2. The employment of a syphon bottle or gasogene for containing an aerated dis-
infectant or deodorizer liquid as set forth, said syphon bottle or gasogene having a
valve N and spreader M as shown.
3. In a syphon or gasogene, the combination of handle K, valve N, tube L and
spreader or diffuser M substantially as and for the purpose described.
The st day or April 1000:
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said
Elizabeth Harriott Hutchinson.