IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE PRODUCTION OF MANURE AND. FUEL FROM SEWAGE OR EXCREMENTAL OR FECAL MATTER AND IN APPARATIS FOR SUCH PURPOSE
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Maxwell. Anketell, of Ealing, in the County of
Middlesex, and Alexandria, in Egypt, Merchant, and Oliver
Frederick Anketell, of Ladbroke Square, Notting Hill, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE PRODUCTION OF MANURE AND. FUEL FROM SEWAGE OR
EXCREMENTAL OR FECAL MATTER AND IN APPARATIS FOR SUCH PURPOSE "
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Maxwell Anketell and
Oliver Frederick Anketell at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 26th January 1870.
WC, MAXWELL ANKETELL, of Ealing, in the County of Middlesex,
and Alexandria, in Egypt, Merchant, and OLIVER FREDERICK ANKETELL,
of Ladbroke Square, Notting Hill, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PRODUCTION OF MANURE AND FUEL FROM SEWAGE OB
EXCREMENTAL OR FECAL MATTER, AND IN APPARATUS FOR SUCH PURPOSE," to be
as follows:-
The object of our Invention is the manufacture of manure and fuel
from sewage or excremental or fecal matter.

page_text: According to our Invention we proceed as follows:-We first separate
the solid from the liquid portions of the sewage or excremental or fecal
matter by filtration or other ordinary process; we then dry it by
passing it through heated chambers or otherwise, whereby we evaporate
it and deodorize it, and we then form the dried mass into cakes, blocks, 5
or pieces by means of pressure.
In performing our Invention we recommend the following mode of
drying and treating the material:-After separating the solid from the
liquid portions we pass the former through revolving or vibrating tubes,
cylinders, or chambers carried through furnaces or drying rooms, the 1
ends of such tubes or chambers being preferably without the furnace or
drying room. The tubes or chambers are arranged in a series so that
the material under treatment may pass from one such tube to the next
succeeding, and so on, the tubes or chambers being inclined or provided
with feed apparatus or otherwise arranged so that the material may
pass readily from one tube or chamber to the next, and so on until it
is finally delivered in a sufficiently dried, evaporated, and deodorized
condition to a compressing apparatus, which cuts, stamps, moulds, rams,
or presses the material into the shapes required (cakes, blocks, or other
portable forms). The material can be crushed and pulverized, and it
can also be dissolved in liquid or reduced to a liquid condition.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Maxwell Anketell and Oliver Frederick Anketell
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th July 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, MAXWELL 2
ANKETELL, of Ealing, in the County of Middlesex, and Alexandria,
in Egypt, Merchant, and OLIVER FREDERICK ANKETELL, of Ladbroke
Square, Notting Hill, in tho County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send
Questing

page_text: liquid portions of the sewage or fecal or excremental matter we pass
the former, that is to say, the liquid portions, through revolving or
vibrating tubes, cylinders, chambers, or vessels carried through furnaces
or drying rooms, the ends of such tubes, vessels, or chambers or of
the series of tubes, chambers, or vessels being outside the furnace or
drying room so that the material may be readily fed into the same and
discharged therefrom. The tubes or chambers, which are supported in
a framework, are arranged in a series close together so that the material
under treatment may pass from one such tube to the next succeeding,
and so on, the tubes or chambers being inclined or provided with a feed
screw or other ordinary feed apparatus so that the fecal or excremental
material may pass readily from one tube or chamber to the next, and so
on until it is finally delivered in a sufficiently dried, evaporated, and
deodorized condition to an ordinary compressing apparatus, which cuts,
stamps, moulds, rams, or presses the material into the shapes required
(cakes, blocks, or other portable forms). The material can be crushed
and pulverised, and it can also be dissolved in liquid or reduced to a
liquid condition. The vessels or chambers may be of trough shape.
The revolving motion is imparted to the tubes by ordinary gearing
driven by a steam engine or other prime motor, or a vibrating motion a
may be imparted by cams on a shaft driven by a steam engine or other
We wish it to be understood that we do not restrict ourselves to the
means or apparatus above described for drying the material in carrying
out the Invention.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same may be performed, wo declare that wo claim,―
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First. Treating sewage or excremental or fecal matter for the pro-
duction of manure and fuel by first separating the liquid from the solid
portions thereof, then drying and ovaporating the solid residuum, and 30
next subjecting it to pressure, substantially as described.
Second. The arrangement and combination of apparatus herein-before
described in which a series of revolving or vibrating tubes, cylinders,
chambers, or vessels are placed in furnaces or drying chambers and are

page_text: inclined or provided with feed apparatus, substantially in the manner
and for the purpose described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Oliver Frederick Anketell, for
myself and on behalf of the said Maxwell. Anketell, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of July, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy.
Witness,
0 E. DE PASS,
68, Fleet Street,
London.
O. F. ANKETELL. (L.S.)