IMPROVEMENTS IN FILTERING SEWAGE AND IN THE MEANS FOR EFFECTING THE SAME.
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Willett, of South Street, Worthing, in the
County of Sussex, Picturo Dealer, Robert James Harris, of High
Street, Worthing, aforesaid, Engineer, and James Lund, of Fife
Villa, Hertford Road, Worthing, aforesaid, Surveyor, for the In-
vention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FILTERING SEWAGE AND IN THE MEANS
FOR EFFECTING THE SAME.
"
Scaled the 25th September 1874, and dated the 22nd July 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Willett, Robert
James Harris, and James Lund at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 22nd July 1874.
We, GEORGE WILLETT, of South Street, Worthing, in the County of
3 Sussex, Picture Dealer, ROBERT JAMES HARRIS, of High Street,
-Worthing, aforesaid; Engineer, and JAMES-LUND, of Fife-Villa, Hertford
Road, Worthing, aforesaid, Surveyor, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FILTERING SEWAGE AND IN THE MEANS
-FOR-EFFECTING-THE-SAME," to be as follows:-
This Invention for filtering sewage, house slops, and such like,
consists of a series of tanks, made in brickwork or other material, filled
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page_text: with coal ashes of various sizes. It is so constructed that the sewage
will flow through the several compartments and pass off sufficiently purc
and clear to allow of the ordinary street channels being used, and by
filling the last compartment with charcoal it may be rendered fit for any
ordinary purpose. It is proposed to deal with the sewage of towns where
water-closets are in use, or in connection with ash closets, to purify the
house slops. It is equally well adopted for a single house, farm yard,
village, or town; and sewage or slops thus filtered may be used for
watering gardens, streets, or roads.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by tho said George Willett, Robert James Harris, and James
Lund in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd January 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, GEORGE
WILLETT, of South Street, Worthing, in the County of Sussex, Picture
Dealer, ROBERT JAMES HARRIS, of High Street, Worthing, aforesaid,
Engineer, and JAMES LUND, of Fife Villa, Hertford Row, Worthing,
aforesaid, Surveyor, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said George Willett, Robert James
Harris, and James Lund, Her special licence that we, the said George
Willett, Robert James IIarris, and James Lund, our executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said George Willett,
Robert James Harris, and James Lund, our exccutors, administrators,
and 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN FILTERING SEWAGE AND
IN THE MEANS FOR EFFECTING THE SAME," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said George Willett, Robert James Harris, and
James Lund, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par, 8

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ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
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 George Willett, Robert James
Harris, and James Lund, do hereby declare the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
_particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This Invention for filtering sewage, house slops, and such like,
,consists of a series of tanks, made in brickwork or other material, filled
with coal ashes or coke of various sizes. It is so constructed that the
sewage will flow through the several compartments and 'pass off
sufficiently pure and clear to allow of the ordinary street channels
being used, and by filling the last compartment with charcoal it may
be rendered fit for any ordinary purpose. It is proposed to deal with
sewage of towns where waterclosets are in use, or in connection with
ash closets, to purify the house slops. It is equally well adapted for a
single house, farm yard, village, or town; and sewage or slops thus
filtered may be used for watering gardens, streets, or roads, or it may be
used by water companies for filtering river water.
the
These filtering tanks built of brickwork in cement and filled with
cinders or coke, or part cinders and part coke, and a small quantity of
old iron, finished on top with perforated bricks or gravel to prevent the
cinders floating, and provided with means to aerate the water as it flows
over the division walls.
And in ondon that num oid Invention man ha'mMANS

page_text: GEO. WILLETT.
(L.B.)
ROBERT JAMES HARRIS. (L.S.) 1
JAMES LUND.
(L.S.)