IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF APPARATUS AND MATERIAL FOR EFFECTING THE DEODORIZING OF NOXIOUS GASES ARISING FROM SEWERS AND DRAINS, AND FOR THE MORE DRRRRWAY VOLATION OF SHOE SOMODO AWD DRAYNG the Count of,
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Brooke, the younger, of Huddersfield, in
the County of York, Manufacturer of Sanitory Tubes and other Fire-
clay Goods, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND
ARRANGEMENT OF APPARATUS AND MATERIAL FOR EFFECTING THE DEODORIZING
OF NOXIOUS GASES ARISING FROM SEWERS AND DRAINS, AND FOR THE MORE
DRRRRWAY VOLATION OF SHOE SOMODO AWD DRAYNG
the Count
of York, Manufacturer or Sanitory
Fire-
clay Goods, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND
ARRANGEMENT OF APPARATUS AND MATERIAL FOR EFFECTING THE DEODORIZING
OF NOXIOUS GASES ARISING FROM SEWERS AND DRAINS, AND FOR THE MORE
VATION OF A STAND DRATING
Scaled the 11th September 1866, and dated the 2nd April 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Brooke at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd
April 1866.
I, EDWARD BROOKE, the younger, of Huddersfield, in the County of York,
Manufacturer of Sanitory Tubes and other Fire-clay Goods, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
AND ARRANGEMENT OF APPARATUS AND MATERIAL FOR EFFECTING THE DEODORIZING
OF NOXIOUS GASES ARISING FROM SEWERS AND DRAINS, AND FOR THE MORE EFFECTUAL
VENTILATION OF SUCH SEWERS AND DRAINS, to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to further improvements (in the construction and
arrangement of apparatus and material for effecting the deodorizing of noxious
gases arising from sewers and drains, and for the more effectual ventilation

page_text: of such sewers and drains) upon a previous Invention for which Letters
Patent were granted to me in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-five, dated September Twenty-fifth, and numbered 2451.
The practice heretofore has been to "trap" or prevent the escape of noxious
effluvia or gases at the "gullies or stench traps," which gullies serve to
convey the surface water from the streets to the drains or sewers.
"
My Invention consists, firstly, of a method of constructing and arranging
gullies and deodorizing medium in such manner as to deodorize and discharge
gases, which I effect as follows:-I construct a gully or cesspitt of earthen-
ware or iron, which by a branch or bend and pipes communicates with the
sewer or drain. Upon and communicating with the said branch or bend is a
box or chamber, the bottom of which is perforated, and communicates by an
opening with the upper part of the gully or cesspitt. To the interior of said
box or chamber is introduced a tray or screen of galvanized wire or iron
containing charcoal (or other deodorant); the noxious gases arising from the
sewer or drain pass through the perforated bottom of the chamber or box
and through the charcoal, and thence escape through an aperture in the end
of the box or chamber to the ordinary surface grating. The gases are pre-
vented from arriving at the surface grating otherwise than by way of the
chamber and box by means of a trap constructed in the ordinary
manner. Access to the tray or screen of charcoal for the purpose in-
specting or replenishing the charcoal from time to time is obtained by raising
a lid or cover placed at the surface level of the ground, or the tray may be
removed through the aperture connecting the charcoal chamber or box with
the gulley.
The bend or branch pipe above mentioned may be divided
by a midfeather placed longitudinally therein, the upper passage serving as
an "air passage" for the escape of gas after deodorization, a screen or tray
of charcoal being inserted in the air passage for that purpose, the other or
lower passage serving to convey water to the drain or sewer as usual, or a
tray or screen containing charcoal may be placed in the interior of the gulley
or cesspitt, which tray or screen is supported above the branch or bend. In
the centre of the said tray or screen I introduce a funnel-mouthed pipe, which
is supported in a vertical position by the tray or screen above mentioned, the
lower end of the said pipe extends to near the bottom of the gulley, forming a
trap. To the surface grating is attached a hopper, which conveys water
into the funnel mouth of the vertical [pipe above mentioned, and by means
of the branch or bend and pipes to the sewer or drain. The gases arising
from the sewage matter pass through the charcoal, are deodorized, and escape
by the surface grating. :

page_text: The second part of my Invention relates to the deodorizing of gases in
their passage from a sewer or drain by way of the rain pipes; this I effect
by removing one of the pipes connecting the rain pipe with the sewer; tho
pipe so removed I replace with a similar pipe, but provided with a branch
and socket (the said branch and socket being in or near the vertical position).
In the said socket rests a tray or screen containing charcoal; at the foot of the
said rain pipe I place a syphon bend or trap communicating with the pipes
leading to the sewer or drain. As the noxious gases ascend the pipes from
the sewer or drain they are prevented from ascending the rain pipe before
passing through the charcoal by the water (trap) lodging in the syphon bend.
The ordinary outlet being cut off the gases ascend the vertical or upright
branch, and pass through the charcoal in the tray or screen placed in the
socket of the said upright branch (which socket is provided with a lid or
cover), from whence they are conveyed by a pipe connecting the socket with
the upper part of the syphon bend, and escape by the rain pipe. Pipes of an
ornamental design may be fixed to buildings specially for the purpose of
ventilating sewers and drains by carrying off the gases after being deodorized
as above described. Access to the apparatus for the purpose of replenishing
the charcoal from time to time is readily obtained by raising a lid or cover
placed level with the footpath or road.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Brooke in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th September 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
BROOKE, the younger, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Manufacturer
of Sanitary Tubes and other Fire-clay Goods, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of April, in the year of our Lord Que
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her, reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Edward Brooke, the younger, Her special licence that I, the said Edward
Brooke, the younger, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Edward Brooke, the younger, my executors, 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

page_text: 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 THE CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF
APPARATUS AND MATERIAL FOR EFFECTING THE DEODORIZING OF NOXIOUS GASES
ARISING FROM SEWERS AND DRAINS, AND FOR THE MORE EFFECTUAL VENTILATION OF
BUCH SEWERS AND DRAINS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Edward Brooke, the younger, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly 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 I, the said Edward Brooke, the younger, do hereby
declare the nature of my 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 relates to further improvements, in the construction and
arrangement of apparatus and material for effecting the deodorizing of noxious
gases arising from sewers and drains, and for the more effectual ventilation
of such sewers and drains, upon a previous Invention for which Letters Patent
were granted to me A.D. 1865, dated September Twenty-fifth, and numbered
2451. The practice heretofore has been to "trap or prevent the escape
of noxious effluvia or gases at the "gullies or stench traps," which gullies
serve to convey the surface water from the streets to the drains or sewers.
"
My Invention consists, firstly, of a method of constructing and arranging
gullies and deodorizing medium in such manner as to deodorizo and discharge
gases, which I effect as follows:-I construct a gully or cesspit of earthen-
ware or iron, which by a branch or bend and pipes communicates with the
sewer or drain. Upon and communicating with the said branch or bend is a
box or chamber, the bottom of which is perforated, and communicates by an
opening with the upper part of the gully or cesspit. To the interior of said
box or chamber is introduced a tray or screen of galvanized wire or iron con-
taining charcoal (or other deodorant); the noxious gases arising from the
sewer or drain pass through the perforated bottom of the chamber or box and
through the charcoal, and thence escape through an aperture in the end of
the box or chamber to the ordinary surface grating. The gases are pre-
vented from arriving at the surface grating otherwise than by way of the
chamber and box by means of a "trap" constructed in the ordinary manner.
Access to the tray or screen of charcoal for the purpose of inspecting or

page_text: replenishing the charcoal from time to time is obtained by raising a lid or
cover placed at the surface level of the ground, or the tray may be removed
through the aperture connecting the charcoal chamber or box with the gully.
The bend or branch pipe above mentioned may be divided by a midfeather
placed longitudinally therein, the upper passage serving as an air passage for
the escape of gas after deodorization, a screen or tray of charcoal being
inserted in the air passage for that purpose, the other or lower passage serving
to convey water to the drain or sewer as usual; or a tray or screen containing
charcoal may be placed in the interior of the gulley or cesspit, which tray or
screen is supported above the branch or bend. In the centre of the said
tray or screen I introduce a funnel-mouthed pipe, which is supported in a
vertical position by the tray or screen above mentioned, the lower end of the
said pipe extends to near the bottom of the gully forming a trap. To the
surface grating is attached a hopper, which conveys water into the funnel
mouth of the vertical pipe above mentioned, and by means of the branch
or bend and pipes to the sewer or drain. The gases arising from the sewage
matter pass through the charcoal, are deodorized, and escape by the surface
grating.
The second part of my Invention relates to the deodorizing of gases in their
passage from a sewer or drain by way of the rain pipes, this I effect by
removing one of the pipes connecting the rain pipe with the sewer; the pipo
so removed I replace with a similar pipe, but provided with a branch and
socket (the said branch and socket being in or near the vertical position).
In the said socket rests a tray or screen containing charcoal; at the foot of
the said rain pipe I place a syphon bend or trap communicating with the
pipes leading to the sewer or drain. As the noxious gases ascend the pipes
from the sewer or drain they are prevented from ascending the rain pipe
before passing through the charcoal by the water (trap) lodging in the syphon
bend. The ordinary outlet being cut off the gases ascend the vertical or
upright branch, and pass through the charcoal in the tray or screen placed in
the socket of the said upright branch (which socket is provided with a lid or
cover), from whence they are conveyed by a pipe connecting the socket with
the upper part of the syphon bend and escape by the rain pipe. Pipes of
an ornamental design may be fixed to buildings specially for the purpose
of ventilating sewers and drains by carrying off the gases after being deodorized
as above described. Access to the apparatus for the purpose of replenishing
the charcoal from time to time is readily obtained by raising a lid or cover
placed level with the footpath or road.
Such being the nature of this my said Invention, I will now proceed to

page_text: describe the same in detail, and in order that the same may be clearly
understood I have hereunto annexed à Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof,
and have marked the same with figures and letters of reference, the same
letter referring to the same part in various views or Figures, in which Fig. 1
is a vertical section of a gully with my improvements attached; Fig. 2 is a
sectional plan through the line A, B, on Fig. 1; Figs. 3, 4, and 5 shew
other forms of gulleys with deodorant attached; Fig. 6 is a sectional plan
through the line C, D, on Fig. 4; Fig. 7 is a sectional plan of a gully with
air passage or separate passage for the gases; Fig. 8 is a vertical section
shewing construction and arrangement of apparatus and material for effecting
deodorization and discharge of gases by means of the ordinary rain pipes; at
Fig. 9 is shewn application of apparatus to existing gullies and rain pipes; at
Fig. 10 is shewn application of the apparatus in connection with water-
closet drain pipe. At A is shewn a gully communicating with the sewer by
means of the bend B and pipes 6; on the said bend is a box or chamber C,
the bottom of which is perforated or provided with an opening D for the
passage of gases from the sewer. To the interior of the box or chamber C is
introduced a tray or screen E containing charcoal (or other deodorant), the
noxious gases pass through the opening D and charcoal contained in the
screen E (course shewn by arrows), and through the aperture F to the
surface grating G. At G¹ is shewn a partition or midfeather immersed in
the water contained in the gully, thus forming an ordinary "trap," and pre-
venting the noxious gases arriving at the surface grating otherwise than by way
above described. Access to the tray or screen E for the purpose of inspecting
or replenishing the charcoal from time to time is obtained by raising the lid
or cover H placed at the surface level of the ground, or the tray or screen
may be removed for that purpose through the aperture F. The bend or
branch B may be divided by a midfeather 6' (see Fig. 7), the upper passage b
serving for the escape of gases after deodorization by passing through the
charcoal in the tray or screen E as above described, the lower passage b
serving to convey the surface water to the sewer or drain; or a tray or
screen E containing charcoal may be placed in the interior of the gully A
(see Fig. 5), and a funnel-mouthed pipe I, supported vertically therein by
means of the tray or screen E, the lower part of such pipe being immersed
in the water contained in the gully, thus forming a "trap;" to the surface
grating is attached a hopper G, which serves to convey surface water into
the funnel mouth of the pipe I, and by means of the bend B and pipes 6 to
the sewer or drain. The gases pass through the tray or screen E, and are
deodorized, afterwards escaping by the surface grating. In discharging

page_text: deodorized gases by way of existing rain pipes I remove one of the ordinary
pipes connecting the rain pipe with the sewer, and replace such pipe with a
similar one, but provided with a branch and socket J (see Fig. 8), the said
branch and socket being in or near the vertical position, the socket serving
for the reception of a tray or screen E containing charcoal. At the foot of
the rain pipe H is a syphon bend or trap G¹ communicating with the pipes b,
leading to the sewer or drain. As the noxious gases ascend the pipes b they
are prevented ascending the rain pipe H' before passing through the charcoal
in the screen E by the water (trap G¹) lodging in the syphon bend. The
ordinary outlet being cut off the gases ascend the branch and socket J and
through the charcoal contained in the tray or screen E, from thence by the
pipe L to the upper part of the syphon bend, and escape by the rain pipe H'.
At K is shewn a lid or cover serving to protect the charcoal in the tray or
screen E from wet, and to prevent the escape of deodorized gases otherwise
than by way of the rain pipe.
Pipes may be fixed in connection with the apparatus above described to
buildings (or placed in the flues of chimneys) specially for the purpose of
ventilating sewers by carrying off the gases after deodorization as above
described.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of this my said
Invention, together with the manner in which the same is to be or may be
performed or carried into practical effect, I would remark in conclusion that
I do not claim the form of the various gullies shewn in the Drawings; but
what I do claim as my Invention is the general construction, combination, and
arrangement of the apparatus and material for the purposes above mentioned,
and as herein fully described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings,
or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Brooke, the younger, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Witness,
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Patent Agent,
EDWARD BROOKE, Jun. (L.S.)
Halifax & Blackburn.