METHOD OF SEPARATING SOLID AND LIQUID FECAL MATTERS AND APPLIANCES FOR THAT PURPOSE
Year: 1884

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I, HARRY WILMOT LEE of No 2 The Sanctuary Westminster in the County of
Middlesex, Solicitor do hereby declare the nature of my invention for METHOD
OF SEPARATING SOLID AND LIQUID FECAL MATTERS AND APPLIANCES FOR THAT
PURPOSE to be as follows:-
"
This invention relates to a method of separating solid and liquid fecal matters,
so that the former can at once be made available as manure, and the latter can be
disposed of without offence by drainage, preferably for irrigation, certain filtering
materials and appliances being employed as I will now describe. A coarse pulp is
made by boiling and pulping straw, grass or other suitable vegetable fibre, and this
pulp is impregnated with oil of Eucalyptus, permanganate of potash, carbolic acid
or other suitable antiseptic. It is then pressed into sheets which are used to line
pans made of perforated metal. The pans thus lined are employed as receptacles
of fecal matters, being placed on trays or within vessels from which there is
drainage of the liquid that filters through the lining and perforations and passes
away without offence. When a pan is full of the solid or nearly solid matter left
within it, its contents along with the lining are emptied out to be used as manure,
and a fresh lining, is applied to it for subsequent use. In cases where, the liquid
that oozes from the pan cannot be conveniently led directly to a drain or irrigating
channel, it may be retained in a vessel in which the perforated pan is enclosed and
removed along with the filled pan to be disposed of as may be desired.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant,
28, Southampton Buildings,
London, W.C.

page_text: I, HARRY WILMOT LEE, of No 2 The Sanctuary, Westminster in the County of
Middlesex, Solicitor, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for " METHOD
OF SEPARATING SOLID AND LIQUID FECAL MATTERS AND APPLIANCES FOR THAT
PURPOSE and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to a method of separating solid and liquid fecal matters,
so that the former can at once be made available as manure, and the latter can be
disposed of without offence, by drainage, preferably for irrigation, certain filtering
materials and appliances being employed as I will now describe. A coarse pulp is
made by boiling and pulping straw, grass or other suitable vegetable fibre, and this
pulp is impregnated with oil of Eucalyptus, permagnate of potash, carbolic acid or
other suitable antiseptic. It is then pressed into sheets which are used to line pans
made of perforated metal. The pans thus lined are employed as receptacles of fecal
matters being placed on trays or within vessels from which there is drainage of the
liquid that filters through the lining and perforations and passes away without
offence. When a pan is full of the solid or nearly solid matter left within it, its-
contents along with the lining are emptied out to be used as manure, and a fresh
lining is applied to it for subsequent use. In cases where the liquid that oozes
from the pan cannot be conveniently led directly to a drain or irrigating channel, it
may be retained in a vessel in which the perforated pan is enclosed and removed
along with the filled pan to be disposed of as may be desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1, The herein described method of separating solid and liquid fecal matters by
filtration through perforations of a pan lined with sheets of vegetable pulp
impregnated with disinfectant.
2, For separation of solid and liquid fecal matters, the use of perforated pans
in combination with linings of vegetable pulp impregnated with disinfectant, and
with trays or vessels to receive the filtered liquid,
Dated this 20th day or Apru 1685.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant,
28, Southampton Buildings,
London, W.C.