A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF PURIFYING THE NOXIOUS VAPOURS OR GASES GIVEN OPF FROM NIGHT-SOIL OR OTHER SIMILAR SUBSTANCES DURING THE HEATING, DRYING, OR EVAPORATING OF SUCH SUBSTANCES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Henry Morrell, of Leyland, in the County
of Lancaster, Gentleman, and Joseph Williamson, of Willcross Gisburn,
in the County of York, Gentleman, for the Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED METHOD OF PURIFYING THE NOXIOUS VAPOURS OR GASES GIVEN OPF
FROM NIGHT-SOIL OR OTHER SIMILAR SUBSTANCES DURING THE HEATING,
DRYING, OR EVAPORATING OF SUCH SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 29th August 1863, and dated the 4th March 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Henry Morrell
and Joseph Williamson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 4th March 1863.
We, THOMAS HENRY MORRELL, of Leyland, in the County of Lancaster,
Gentleman, and JOSEPH WILLIAMSON, of Willcross Gisburn, in the County of
York, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF PURIFYING THE NOXIOUS VAPOURS OR GASES
GIVEN OFF FROM NIGHT-SOIL OR OTHER SIMILAR SUBSTANCES DURING THE HEATING,
DRYING, OR EVAPORATING OF SUCH SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-.
Our Invention consists of drawing or forcing, or of drawing and forcing the

page_text: noxious vapours or gases given off from such substances during their heating,
drying, or evaporation, or of otherwise conducting or passing such vapours or
gases into or through chloride of lime (or any similar purifying chemicals or
purifying agents) strewed upon a series of perforated plates or bars placed in
the draft or otherwise in conjunction or connection with the oven or appa-
ratus that may be used or employed for the purposes of heating, drying, or
evaporating of the night-soil or other similar substance, with the intention or
for the purpose of changing, retaining, or purifying the obnoxiousness or
nuisance of the noxious vapours or gases that would otherwise during such
heating, drying, or evaporation be given off and disseminated or diffused in the
atmosphere; and by these means or this process night-soil or other such
similar substances may be readily prepared for use as a manure for agricul-
tural purposes, without occasioning any nuisance or producing any deleterious
effects in the neighbourhood where such process is carried on.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Henry Morrell and Joseph Williamson in the Great
'Seal Patent Office on the 4th September 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
HENRY MORRELL, of Leyland, in the County of Lancaster, Gentleman, and
JOSEPH WILLIAMSON, of Willcross Gisburn, in the County of York, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Thomas Henry Morrell and Joseph Williamson, Her special license that
we, the said Thomas Henry Morrell and Joseph Williamson, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Thomas Henry
Morrell and Joseph Williamson, our executors, administrators, or 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF PURIFYING THE NOXIOUS VAPOURS OR GASES
GIVEN OFF FROM NIGHT-SOIL OR OTHER SIMILAR SUBSTANCES DURING THE HEATING,

page_text: DRYING, OR EVAPORATING OF SUCH SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Thomas Henry Morrell and Joseph Williamson,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our,
or one of our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 we, the said Thomas Henry Morrell and Joseph
Williamson, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement in writing.
Our Invention consists of drawing or forcing, or of drawing and forcing the
noxious vapours or gases given off from night-soil or other similar substances
during their heating, drying, or evaporation, or of otherwise conducting or
passing such vapours or gases into or through chloride of lime (or any similar
purifying chemicals or purifying agents) strewed upon a series of perforated
plates or bars placed in the draught or otherwise in conjunction or connection
with the oven or apparatus that may be used or employed for the purpose of
heating, drying, or evaporating the night-soil or other similar substance, with
the intention or for the purpose of changing, retaining, or purifying the
obnoxiousness or nuisance of the various vapours or gases that would other-
wise during such heating, drying, or evaporation be given off and disseminated
or diffused in the atmosphere; and by these means or this process night-soil
or other such similar substances may be readily prepared for use as a manure
for agricultural purposes, without occasioning any nuisance or producing any
deleterious effects in the neighbourhood where such process is carried on.
Having now described the nature and object of our said Invention for "A
New or Improved Method of Purifying Noxious Vapours or Gases given off
from Night-soil or other similar Substances during the Heating, Drying, or
Evaporating of such Substances," together with the manner in which the same
is to be or may be performed or carried into practical effect, we would remark
in conclusion that we claim as our Invention, drawing or forcing (or drawing
and forcing) the noxious vapours or gases given off from such substances during
their heating, drying; or evaporation, or otherwise conducting or passing such
vapours or' gases into or through chloride of lime (or any similar purifying
chemicals or purifying agents) strewed upon a series of perforated plates or
bars placed in the draft or otherwise in conjunction or connection with the

page_text: oven or other apparatus employed for heating, drying, or evaporating the
night-soil or other substance, in the manner and for the purposes above
particularly set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Henry Morrell and Joseph
Williamson, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this First day of 5
September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-three.
THOMAS HENRY MORRELL. (L.S.)
JOSEPH WILLIAMSON.
(L.S.)