US297229A

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Publication number: US297229A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1884-04-22
Anticipated expiration: 1901-04-22

Description

(No Model.)

E. Z. GOLLINGS 8v C. 1?'. PIKE.

DISINFEGTI-NG SEWERS.

No.- 297,229. Patented Apr..22, 1884.

`UNETED STATES PATENT EDWARD z. coLLrNcs, E cAMDEN, NEw JERSEY, AND CHARLES E. PIKE, 0E PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

DISINFECTING SEWERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,229, dated April 2,2, 1884.

Application filed March 12, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.' being inserted in the generator and set iire to Beitknowu that we, EDWARD Z. COLLINGS, or heated, to produce fumes of sulphur; or of Camden, in the county of Camden and State any other suitable combination of ingredients l of New Jersey, and CHARLES F. PIKE, residmay be employed, and treated in any desired 55 ing at Philadelphia, in the county ofPhiladeL. manner to evolve any of the well-known disphia and State of Pennsylvania, citizens of the infectant gases or fumes, as we do not confine United States, have invented certain new and our invention to the particular kind of disinuseful Improvements in Disinfecting Sewers, fectant-gas used, nor to the way in which it is of which the following is a specification, refevolved. 6o ro erence being had therein to the accompanying E The operation is as follows: The gas, being drawing, which is a diagram illustrating our generated in the device G, is conined therein invention. by the closing of the valve g. Such gas Our improvements have relation to disiutherefore accumulates under pressure in the fecting sewers, and have for their object the generator. The pump D is then started. It 65 accomplishment of such result and the deexhausts the air within the sewer and creates struction of all fungus; and the invention cona draft in the dire'ct-ion of opening B, as indisists of the novel combination and arrangecated by the arrows. Simultaneously with or ment of parts comprisinga complete disinfectsubsequently to the formation of such artifiing apparatus, as hereinafter spcciiically decial draft, the cock or valve g isopened, per- 7o 2o scribed and claimed. mitting the gas in the generatorto expand and Referring to the accompanying drawing, A propel itself into the opening C, and thence represents a sewer, and B and C two inlets or into the sewer. Such gas, entering the path man-holes thereof. The opening B may be of the artificial draft, is thereby gradually connear the outlet of the sewer, while the openveyed through the sewer A to `the end B, the 7 5 ing C is at the extreme opposite end, or at the generator meanwhile still continuing to feed beginning of any of the ramications of the gas to the opening C. Vhen the gas reaches sewer. At the opening B is placed a pump, the pump and escapes therefrom, it is stopped, fan, ejector, or other suitable suction apparaand, if desired, the valve g is closed. The tus. D, which communicates bya pipe, b2, with sewer is then eithertilled with gas, according 8o 3o a chimney or conduit, E, or a furnace, F. to the volume forced tliereinto by the gen- When to the latter, the pipe b2 is continued erator G, or such gas has traveled the length of into the same, as shown in dotted lines x. the sewer from o'peningGto aperture B. In its The opening B is sealed bya cap or cover, B', passage ithas attacked and destroyedallfungus which is provided with a pipe, b, having, if growth adhering to the exposedinner wallsof S5 desired, a funnel-shaped end, b. Said pipe b the sewer, and thoroughly disinfected and deis connected to pump D, as shown. On either odorized the latter, thereby rendering it inside of the man-hole or opening whereat the noxious. By stopping the operation of pump, suction is created is vplaced a removable diathe gas is confined in the sewer, thereby dephragm, a. The opening C is -provided with riving the full effect of its use. It is gradually 9o 4o a cap, G', havingapipe, c, which leads to a disused up or carried off by the water passing infectant-gas generator, G. The pipe o is prof through the sewer. The water,thereby becomvided with a valve, g'. ,Said generator may ing impregnated with chlorine or the disinbe of any suitable or -ordinary construction, fectant gasused, also becomes a disinfectant and the gas may be evolved therein by introfor the sewer, so that while the gas acts upon 95 ducing thereinto a mixture of chloride of lime the upper part ofthe sewer such water proand vinegar, which chemically act upon each duces a corresponding effect upon the lower other to evolve chlorine gas; or black oxide portion thereof 5 hence the sewer is doubly of manganese, common salt, and sulphuric disinfected. acid may be placed within the generator, and We have shown and described the generaroo 5o heat (shown at y) applied thereto for p roduction of the gases at the sewer inlet-openings; ing the chlorine; or sulphur may be used, it but it is evident that the gas may be produced at one or a central location, compressed into l reservoirs, and conveyed to the inlets, either by transporting the reservoirs thereto or conducting the gas through pipes.

The air exhausted from the sewer may be forced to a furnace, F, or other purifier before being allowed to escape into the atmosphere; or it may be conveyed through chimney E to some altitude.

We are aware that the products of combustion have been forced into a sewer, and to that We make no claim; but

That We claim isl. The combination, with a sewer having man-holes, of a disinfccting apparatus consisting of a generator having a pipe extending into one man-hole, and a. pulnp or exhaust placed at the other man-hole, substantially as described.

ED\VARD Z". GOLLlNG-S. CHARLES F. PIKE.

YVitnesses:

t3. J. Van Srrwonnn, Crus. F. VAN HORN.