IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OF COLLECTING, AERIFYING AND DISPOSING OF EXCRETA AND OTHER DOMESTIC REFUSE AND IN CHAMBERS AND APPARATUS THEREFOR
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I CONWAY SCOTT of Belfast in the County of Antrim in Ireland Civil
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MEANS OF COLLECTING, AERIFYING AND DISPOSING OF EXCRETA AND OTHER
DOMESTIC REFUSE AND IN CHAMBERS AND APPARATUS THEREFOR to be as
follows:
The object of my Invention is to provide a convenient place and means for
depositing and collecting the excreta and other refuse of dwelling and other
houses in order that the injurious and offensive stenches and gases emanating from
such matter and the receptacles therefor may be rapidly carried away into the
higher atmosphere and that the matter itself may be frequently removed and the
receptacles for it emptied and cleansed and also to prevent sewer or other gases
generated by the decomposition of such matter from entering the dwelling or
other houses.
For these purposes I construct a tower or shaft detached from the dwelling or
other house or main building but having access therefrom therefrom at each floor or
lobby or other level by means of a gangway, bridge or other passage which may
be covered over and enclosed at each side but so that a current or currents of air
will pass across and thoroughly ventilate it and it is obvious that each tower or
shaft may be appropriated to a single house or building or may be made of sufficient
size to accommodate a group or row of houses or buildings.
At the base of the tower or shaft I construct a pit or chamber for the reception.
and collection of the matter and make the walls and floor thereof substantially
impervious but I provide ports or doors through which ashes and culinary or other
refuse may be thrown into it and the collected matter may be periodically removed
and the pit or chamber cleansed.
I floor the tower or shaft at each stage with substantially impervious flooring
and I provide each apartment or closet so formed with a seat and pan to the lower
orifice of which is attached a metal or other perpendicular tube reaching down
into the pit or chamber and furnished with branch tubes or other conduits through
the adjoining wall into the outer air in order to ventilate the perpendicular tube.
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page_text: I also connect the receptacle pit or chamber with the sewer or sewers in order
that any liquid part of the deposited matter may escape therefrom and that the
sewer gases may escape through the receptacle pit or chamber.
And in communication with the receptacle pit or chamber and sewers I construct
a ventilating chimney or flue in the wall of the tower or shaft and by means
thereof convey and discharge the stenches and gases to and at a height at which
they will be inoffensive and innocuous, and if necessary I 'increase the draught by
an air pump at the top of the chimney or flue.
I CONWAY SCOTT of Belfast in the County of Antrim in Ireland Civil
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MEANS OF COLLECTING AERIFYING AND DISPOSING OF EXECRETA AND OTHER
DOMESTIC REFUSE AND IN CHAMBERS AND APPARATUS THEREFOR 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 my Invention is to provide a convenient place and means for
depositing and collecting the excreta and other refuse of dwelling and other
houses factories, mills stores and public buildings and conveniences in order that
the injurious and offensive stenches and gases emanating from such matter and the
receptacles therefor may be rapidly carried away into the higher atmosphere and
that the matter itself may be frequently removed and the receptacles for it emptied
and cleansed and also to prevent sewer or other gases generated by the decomposi-
tion of such matter from entering the dwelling or other houses.
For these purposes I construct a tower or shaft detached from the dwelling or
other house or main building but having access therefrom at each or any floor or
lobby or other level by means of a gangway bridge or other passage which may be
covered over and enclosed at each side but so that a current or currents of air will
pass across and thoroughly ventilate it and it is obvious that each tower or shaft
may be appropriated to.a single house or building or may be made of sufficient
size to accommodate a group or row of houses or buildings.
At the base of the tower or shaft I construct a pit or chamber for the reception
and collection of the matter and make the walls and floor thereof substantially
impervious but I provide ports or doors through which ashes and culinary or other
refuse may be thrown into it and the collected matter may be periodically removed
and the pit or chamber. cleansed.
• Shoots may be employed for conveying the refuse matter from upper floors or
levels into the pit or chamber, if desired or required.
I floor the tower or shaft at each stage or level of access with substantially.but
not necessarily impervious flooring and..I provide, each apartment or closet.so

page_text: formed with a seat and pan. or a number of seats and pans and with a urinal or
urinals to the lower, orifice of each or of a combination of several of which. is
attached a metal or other perpendicular tube reaching down into the pit or chamber
.and furnished with branch tubes or other conduits through the adjoining wall into
the outer air in order to ventilate the perpendicular tube.
I may however employ tubs or buckets placed under the perpendicular tubes for
the collection and removal of the refuse matter.
I also connect the receptacle pit or chamber and the chimney or flue hereinafter
mentioned with the sewer or sewers in order that any waste water or slops and
liquid part of the deposited matter may escape from the receptacle pit or chamber
and that the sewer gases may be carried from the sewers through the chimney
or flue.
:
And in communication with the receptacle pit or chamber and sewers I construct
a ventilating chimney or flue in the wall of the tower or shaft and by means
thereof convey and discharge the stenches and gases collected or generated in the
receptacle pit chamber and sewers to and at a height at which they will be
inoffensive and innocuous.
And if necessary I increase the draught by an air pump or revolving louvers at
the top of the chimney or flue.
And in order that my said Invention may be more fully understood I shall now
proceed to refer to the Drawings upon the Sheet hereunto annexed by way of
illustration the same letters of reference being used throughout all the Figures. to
indicate the same or corresponding parts of my Invention.
Fig. I is a ground plan of a house and tower or shaft with a connecting gangway
or passage and showing the pit or chamber for the reception and collection of
refuse matter with the vertical pipes and ventilators, the ports or doors for throwing
matter into and discharging same from the pit or chamber, the ventilating chimney
and flue, the overflow into the sewer and the pipe from the sewer into the
ventilating shaft.
Fig. II is a plan of the first floor or level of access between the house and the
apartment in the tower or shaft with a portion thereof occupied by a closet seat
or pan.
Fig. III is a plan of the second floor or other higher level of access and showing
the same parts as are laid down on Fig. II.
Fig. IV is a sectional elevation of the house and tower or shaft on the line A B
upon Fig. I showing the ventilating chimney or flue, the refuse pit or chamber, the
perpendicular pipes and the apartments or closets above with the seats and pans
therein and the ventilating and overflow connections with the chimney or flue and
sewer.
Fig. V is a sectional elevation on the line C D showing the adjoining wall of the
house, the covered passages to the tower or shaft and the port or door through
which refuse matter is introduced into the pit or chamber and
Fig. VI is the back of the tower or shaft with the port or door to be used for
discharging the refuse matter and the ventilators opening from the perpendicular
tubes.
a, a is the house or other main building; o, b are the gangways bridges or
passages; c, c are the towers or shafts detached from the house or main building
and containing the apartments or closets; d is the receptacle pit or chamber;
e, e, are the seats and pans; f, f, are the perpendicular tubes attached to the
pans, e, e; g, g, are the branch tubes employed to ventilate the perpendicular
tubes; h is the port or door through which refuse matter is introduced into the
receptacle pit or chamber and k is the port or door through which it is removed;
is the overflow from the pit or chamber into the sewer; m is the pipe from the
sewer, and n is the chimney or flue whereby the stenches and gases collected or
generated in the receptacle pits or chambers and sewers are conveyed and discharged
into the higher atmosphere.

page_text: aving now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
ention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
tim is
The treatment of excreta and other domestic refuse substantially in the
manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
Drawings hereunto annexed.
The use of receptacles and apartments for excreta and other domestic refuse
detached from buildings which are inhabited or occupied for ordinary
purposes and arranged with ventilating Blues or pipes and connections
constructed and employed substantially in the manner and for the purposes
hereinbefore particularly described and shown upon the Drawings hereunto
annexed and
The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the compound
apparatus above mentioned constructed and employed substantially in the
manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated by the
Drawings hereunto annexed.