IMPROVED MEANS OR METHOD OF TREATING AND CLARIFYING IMPURE OR WASTE WATER FROM FULLING MILLS, SCOURING MILLS, OR SCOURING PROCESSES. DYEHOUSES. SEWAGE, OR OTHER IMPORE WATERS.
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Rupert Goodall, of Armley, in the Borough of
Leeds, in the County of York, Machinery Agent, for the Invention
of "IMPROVED MEANS OR METHOD OF TREATING AND CLARIFYING IMPURE
OR WASTE WATER FROM FULLING MILLS, SCOURING MILLS, OR SCOURING
PROCESSES. DYEHOUSES. SEWAGE, OR OTHER IMPORE WATERS. "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Rupert Goodall at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd August 1873.
I, RUPERT GOODALL, of Armley, in the Borough of Leeds, in the
County of York, Machinery Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVED MEANS OR METHOD OF TREATING AND
CLARIFYING IMPURE OR WASTE WATER FROM FULLING MILLS, SCOURING MILLS, OR.
SCOURING PROCESSES, DYEHOUSES, SEWAGE, OR OTHER IMPURE WATERS," to be as
follows:-
In the treating for the purpose of clarifying imnure waters sunness a
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page_text: vessel or tank contains one thousand gallons, to this I add two bushels
of fine ashes and about twenty-three pounds weight of slacked lime, the
whole is then to be stirred or agitated until the water is "cracked," then
add sesqui-persulphate of iron in solution, one pint, the source from
whence the latter is obtained is (the mother liquor of coperas beds), and
seven pints of saturated solution of sulphate of magnetia or Epsom salts,
and the whole must be again stirred or agitated, whereon the solid
matters, and impurities, and discolourations are separated and pre-
cipitated.
The ashes perform a scouring operation in connection with the
ingredients above described, and do not require to be renewed at each
operation, nor do the chemicals above described required to be added at
the succeeding operation on the water next to be clarified in the same
quantities, a much smaller quantity will suffice, because when the
clarified water is run off the ashes and precipitate containing a large per
centage of the ingredients first employed.
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The ashes and slacked lime may be introduced to the tank or vessel
either in the form of powder or mortar.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by tho said Rupert Goodall in the Great Seal Patent Office :
on the 23rd February 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RUPERT
GOODALL, of Armley, in the Borough of Leeds, in the County of York,
Machinery Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Rupert Goodall, Her special licence, that
I, the said Rupert Goodall, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Rupert Goodall, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from

page_text: 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 "IMPROVED MEANS OR METHOD OF TREATING
AND CLARIFYING IMPURE OR WASTE WATER FROM FULLING MILLS, SCOURING MILLS,
OR SCOURING PROCESSES, DYEHOUSES, SEWAGE, OR OTHER IMPURE WATERS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Rupert Goodall, 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
hid Tattoo Datant
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 "IMPROVED MEANS OR METHOD OF TREATING
AND CLARIFYING IMPURE OR WASTE WATER FROM FULLING MILLS, SCOURING MILLS,
OR SCOURING PROCESSES, DYEHOUSES, SEWAGE, OR OTHER IMPURE WATERS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Rupert Goodall, 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 Rupert Goodall, 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 (that is to say) :-
In the treating for the purpose of clarifying impure waters suppose a
vessel or tank contains one thousand gallons, to this I add two bushels
of fine ashes and about twenty-three pounds weight of slacked lime, the
whole is then to be stirred or agitated until the water is "cracked," then
add sequi-persulphate of iron in solution one pint (the source from
whence this is obtained is the mother liquor of copperas beds), and seven
pints of saturated solution of sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salts, and
the whole must be again stirred or agitated whereon the solid matters
and impurities and discolourations are separated and precipitated.
The ashes perform a scouring operation in connection with the
ingredients above described, and do not require to be renewed at each
operation; nor do the chemicals above described require to be added at
the succeeding operation on the water next to be clarified in the same
quantities, a much smaller quantity will suffice, because when the
clarified water has run off the ashes and precipate contain a large per
centage of the ingredients first employed.
The ashes and slacked lime may be introduced to the tank or vessel

page_text: and well understood means, and is when so made known by the name of
nitrate of iron liquor.
In witness whereof, I, the said Rupert Goodall, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
Witness,
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Tasker & Brierley,
RUPERT GOODALL. (L.S.)
Patent Agents,
Halifax, Bradford, & Blackburn.