Specification of William Strang : separating sewage.

  • Strang, William.
Date:
1869
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of William Strang : separating sewage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provision al Spccmcaiion. A.D. 1868.—N° 2 :67. 3 Strang's Improvements in Separating Sewage. sewage may be thereby conveyed into the upper atmosphere and so be prevented from entering the house. The vessel is, of course, com¬ pletely closed with the exception of the communications herein-before referred to. 5 The improved arrangements and apparatus are applicable not only for dealing with sewage from waterclosets and kitchens, but also for dealing with any mixture of water and impurities ordinarily discharged into the main sewers. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 10 filed by the said William Strang in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th February 1869. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, William Strang, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, send greeting. 15 WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty- second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Strang, Her special licence that 20 I, the said William Strang, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Strang, my executors, adminis¬ trators, 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, and vend, 25 within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improvements in Arrange¬ ments and Apparatus for Dealing with Sewage,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Strang, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one ol 30 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.