Improvements in Street Gullies.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 1st Mar., 1895-Accepted, 4th May, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Street Gullies.
We, ALFRED Fox, of Collingwood Street, Tobacconist, and PEARSON
JACQUES JACKSON, of Grainger Street, Advertising Agent, both in the City
and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, do hereby declare the nature of said
invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to the insertion, in the cavity of the gully of a removable
receptacle, underneath the grate, standing upon a grated gallery in the cavity.
The street grate is provided with an inverted funnel shaped outlet so as to deliver
into said receptacle the surface drainage from the street and, by projecting
downward into it, to form a "water-trap" preventing the return of any offensive
gases from the sewer.
In this receptacle the solid matter accumulates at the bottom, the liquid matter
flowing out at a point above the level of the inverted funnel shaped mouth of the
grate, and thence to the sewer. When required the receptacle is lifted out by the
scavengers, suitable handles being provided upon it, and the solid matter emptied
direct into the cart instead of being scooped out and laid upon the street to be
thence shovelled into the cart, as is the present system, involving a great amount of
extra labour, and the offensive solid or semi-liquid matter lying exposed to the
atmosphere for several hours.
Improvements in Street Gullies.
We ALFRED Fox Tobacconist 26 Collingwood Street Newcastle-on-Tyne and
PEARSON JACQUES JACKSON Advertising Agent 17 Grainger Street Newcastle-
on-Tyne 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 :-
Our invention relates to placing in the interior of a street or other gully box a
movable receptacle or pail which pail is placed underneath the trumpet or funnel
shaped surface grate of the gully box and which pail stands on a grated gallery at
the bottom of such box. This bottom gallery or grating may be cast so as to form
part of the box or it may be made loose and rest on supports or in any other way
while it can be so constructed at the bottom as to make a simple sewer trap in
addition to the trap mentioned further on herein. The surface grate is trumpet or
funnel shaped from the road surface into the receptacle or pail thus conveying the
surface drainage into the said receptacle or pail and which from its construction
and shape when so placed forms an additional trap so that in conjunction with the
trap first named the sewer is twice trapped making gas escape impossible. The

page_text: receptacle or pail retains the solid matter till it is required to be emptied which can
be done by lifting the surface grate and taking out the pail already provided with
handles for that purpose and the contents can be emptied direct into a cart instead
of being scooped out and laid in the street for subsequent removal as is now the
case which latter involves extra cost and labour and from which the offensive
matter sometimes lies exposed for a long time to the danger of health and sanitation.
For explanation we show illustrations described as follows
C shows plan of top of gully A or B.
A shows section through gully resting on brick and concreted foundation
with ordinary drain pipe connected to same.
B shows section similar to A but instead of an ordinary drain pipe at bottom is a
curved pipe forming a second trap as shown.
M M shows line of street level.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
1st. A single or double trapped street gully box which while preventing escape
of gas from the sewer allows the liquid but not the solid matter from the street
surface to enter the sewer thus carrying away the water without allowing the
entrance to the sewer or drain to become choked.
2nd. A gully box and pail providing a more quick cleanly and expeditious
method of removing the solid matter from the gully box than any at present in use
while it further obviates the necessity of refuse (collected by our system in the
receptacle or pail) having to be scooped out and laid on the street subsequently to
be lifted into the cart by some other means which is an expensive and dirty system
while by our method the pail is lifted from the box and the contents emptied
directly into the cart at one operation and the pail easily replaced thus saving this
extra cost and making our system inexpensive and one that prevents the fouling of
the street in the process of emptying the gully box.
Dated this 27th day of February 1895.
ALFRED FOX.
P. J. JACKSON.