IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR THE EFFECTUAL AND PROFITABLE DISPOSAL OF SEWAGE WITHOUT POLLUTION OF RIVERS AND WATERCOURSES, AND WITHOUT ANY ALTERATION OF THE USUAL WATERCLOSET AND DRAINAGE SYSTEM
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Franz Wilhelm Eduard Reinhold
Goedicke at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th June
1876.
FRANZ WILHELM EDUARD REINHOLD GOEDICKE, Medical Officer of Health, 6,
Freemason's Terrace, Romford Road, Stratford, in the County of Essex.
66 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR THE EFFECTUAL AND PROFITABLE
DISPOSAL OF SEWAGE WITHOUT POLLUTION OF RIVERS AND WATERCOURSES, AND
WITHOUT ANY ALTERATION OF THE USUAL WATERCLOSET AND DRAINAGE
SYSTEM."
My Invention has for its object distribution of the sewage, either for fertilization
and irrigation of land, or for the manufacture of manures and chemicals.
My Invention consists in improvements of conveyance of the by-water carriage
way collected sewage by the operation of its own water, without or after disin-
fection, from one or several outfalls to localities for the use of farmers, market
gardeners, nurserymen, and others by means of one or several pumps varying in
construction according to circumstances, to force the sewage through pipes, covered
channels, or sewers into cisterns or tanks fixed in the different localities for final
utilization. Each cistern is parted off in one or more compartments by perforated
partitions, or two or more tanks are connected by strainers or sieves varying in
construction to the sewage to be dealt with, thus separating the solids from the
liquids; the solids to be carted away, the liquids to go directly on to the land by
perforated pipes or otherwise, or distributed by water carts; or on suitable outfalls
or localities the sewage might be cleared at once by a strainer or otherwise from the
solids (to be carted away), and the liquids to be distributed by pipes to the land or
chemical works; or, where required, the solids and liquids might conjointly by the
same modus operandi be at once distributed in an unseparated condition for the
utilization of land.
One method by which I carry out my said Invention consists as follows:-The
outfall sewage is pumped by steam, horse, or other power to such a height as the
receiving tanks or cisterns require into one or more reservoirs, in which is or are
fitted a revolving shaft or shafts with one or more wings (similar to an egg beater)
worked by the same or similar power as the pumps after the reservoir is filled

page_text: with sewage.
On a level with the bottom of each reservoir is one or several
openings for the distribution of pipes and so forth, each of the openings being
covered twofold, firstly, with a grating just wide enough to admit such sewage
only as will not block up the pipes in its passage to the cisterns and tanks; and,
secondly, with a shutter movable at will from the outside of the reservoir. In case
of continual supply or at large outfalls two or more reservoirs would be necessary,
so that during the time one empties itself the other would be filling and ready to
be stirred and mixed up for distribution. The remaining solids that are too large
to pass the grating should be mechanically crushed for the next distribution.
The sewage is conveyed by the pipes before mentioned to the cisterns or tanks
at the places of utilization, the said inflowing sewage being when desired controlled
or stopped by shutter or ball cock, and also the first compartment or tank must
retain the sewage so-long as to admit of the settlement of the solids before the
perforated partitions, valves, or taps become active. The sewage would in most
cases find its way by its own weight, but in certain localities force pumps may be
required.