Specification of James Brough Pow : treating sewage.

  • Pow, James Brough.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Specification of James Brough Pow : treating sewage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tow's Improved Arrangements for Treating Sewage. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said James Brough Pow in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th April 1872. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, James Brough Pow, of Worcester, send greeting. 5 WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said James Brough Pow, Her special 10 licence that I, the said James Brough Pow, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James Brough Pow, 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 lawfully might make, use, exercise, 15 and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improved Arrange¬ ments for Filtering and Purifying, also for Collecting for Utilisation the Solid Matter in Suspension in Sewage, especially applicable for Obtaining Pure Potable Waters,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, 20 the said James Brough Pow, 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 25 calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOV/ KNOW YE, that I, the said James Brough Pow, 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 30 following statement:— My Invention consists, firstly, of improved modes of treating sewage matter so as to collect and utilize the valuable products contained there¬ in, and of purifying the effluent water so that it may be discharged into rivers without polluting them. I carry out this part of my Invention 35 by subjecting the sewage matter to a triple treatment, videlicet, that of