AN IMPROVED PRIVY
Year: 1884

page_text: GEORGE BURNELL Mount Hill Court Kingswood Bristol Sanitary Inspector
do bereby declare the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVED PRIVY to be as
follows:-
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The receptacle of the excreta is inclined backward at a sufficent angle to conceal
the excreta as it falls immediately under the shaft as shown upon the plan annexed,
up this shaft, all foul effluvia is carried by a constant current of air that pass down
the pan, and then return up the shaft delivering into the external atmosphere above
the house top every vestige of the foul effluvia produced by the excreta, this being
the object and result of my improved privy.
The excreta pass from the pan by means of its own weight over a half circle
bridge into a common sewer, if there is one, if not into a cespool or tank and from
thence to the land by which it will be completely deodorised and form an invaluable
fertilizer to every kind of plant. The whole arrangements are constantly self
acting and cleansing, it never being necessary to remove anything from the privy.
Having described the nature and results of my Invention together with the
mode by which the object is attained be it. understood I lay no claim to any part
when considered separately, but to the general combination of thy invention as
described and shewn.
The features of the novelty and usefulness of my Invention are
First. A perfectly inodorous atmosphere in the privy.
Second. The lessening in a great degree the amount of sewage made.
Third. The securing without labour of an invaluable fertilizer to every kind of
plant, the essence of the productive quality being retained and concentrated in a
narrow compass and in a solid useable form.

page_text: GEO BURNELL Mount Hill Court Kingswood Bristol Sanitary Inspector, do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVED PRIVY and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:―
The receptacle of the excreta is inclined backward at a sufficent angle to conceal 5
the excreta as it falla immediately under the shaft as shown upon the plan annexed,
Up this shaft all foul effluvia is carried by a constant current of air that pass down
the pan, and then return up the shaft delivering into the external atmosphere above
the housetop every vestige of the foul effluvia produced by the excreta, this being
the object and result of my Improved privy. The excreta pass from the pan by
means of its own weight over a half circle bridge into a common sewer if there is
one, if not into a cespool or tank and from thence to the land by which it will be
completely deodorised and form an invaluable fertilizer to every kind of plant.
The whole arrangements are constantly self acting and cleansing. It never being
necessary to remove anything from the Improved privy.
Having thus described the nature and results of my Invention together with the
mode by which the object is attained namely
First, a perfectly inodorous atmosphere in the privy. room.
Second, the lessening in a great degree the amount of sewage made.
Third the securing without labour an invaluable fertilizer to every kind of plant,
the essence of the productive quality being retaind and concentrated in a narrow
compass, and in a solid useable form.
Be it understood I lay no claim to any part when considered sepparately, but to
the general combination of my Invention as described and shown.
Dated this 80th day of December 1884.
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