Specification of Frederic Delbreil : removing sewage, &c.

  • Frederic Delbreil.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Specification of Frederic Delbreil : removing sewage, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 A.D. 1809.—N° 500. Provisional Specification. DelbreiVs Improvements in Apparatus for Removing Sewage, SfC. the spot at which they are to he loaded. with sewage or other similar matter, and transporting such matter to appointed depots. These waggons should he so constructed as to suit the special service for which they are intended ; an enclosed waggon having a body built in the form, for example, of a barrel would be well adapted for carrying sewage matter 5 in a liquid state. When the said locomotive is at rest I propose to utilize its motive power either for pumping or otherwise forcing the sewage or other matter when in a liquid state through tubes into the receptacle intended for its reception; or for loading the waggon by means, for example, of a crane when the refuse or excremental matter to be 10 carried away is of a hard or at least of a somewhat consistent nature. The aforesaid power would likewise serve to draw away the deleterious gas, which would otherwise collect in the barrels and escape into the surrounding atmosphere, and convey it through tubes into the fire-box of the locomotive where it would be consumed. When the locomotive 15 cannot approach sufficiently near the spot whence the sewage or other matter is to be removed, so as to admit of an immediate loading of the waggons, the refuse matter may be conveyed to the waggons in small receptacles prepared for the purpose, and each receptacle with its burthen may then be hoisted into the waggons by means of the crane aforesaid. 20 When, moreover, the locomotive is at some distance from the cesspool to be emptied I propose to use a small travelling steam engine or loco¬ mobile for the sole purpose of working a small air pump, for instance, to force the foul air into the fire-box. When no locomotive or locomobile is employed X convey the deleterious gases by means of a small air pump 25 worked by hand into an enclosed receptacle furnished with suitable ingredients for destroying the said gases. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1869.