Cameron Septic Tank Company, Complainants, Vs. Village of Saratoga Springs and the Sewer, Water and Street Commission of Saratoga Springs, Defendants: Pleadings and Proofs ...

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1905 - Saratoga Springs (N.Y.) - 909 pages
 

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Page 894 - any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, not known or used by others in this country before his invention or discovery thereof...
Page 898 - any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, not known or used by others in this country, and not patented or described in any printed publication in this or any foreign country...
Page 216 - The process of liquefying the solid matter contained in sewage, which consists In secluding a pool of sewage having a nondisturbing inflow and outflow from light, air, and agitation until a thick scum Is formed on the surface thereof and a mass of micro-organisms has been developed of a character and quantity sufficient to liquefy the solid matter of the flowing sewage...
Page 106 - Even kitchen refuse, onion peelings, &c., which at first floated on the surface, descended after a time to the bottom of the vessel to await decomposition. Everything capable of being dissolved acted in a similar way, and even paper wholly disappeared.
Page 101 - The contents of sewage are chiefly of organic origin, and in consequence of this, an active process of decomposition takes place in sewage, through which the organic matters are gradually dissolved into mineral matters, or, in short, are mineralized, and thus become fit to serve as food for plants.
Page 450 - ... outflow, from light, air, and agitation until a mass of micro-organisms has been developed of a character and quantity sufficient to liquefy the solid matter of the flowing sewage, the Inflow serving to sustain the microorganisms, and then subjecting said pool under exclusion of light and air and under a non-disturbing inflow and outflow to the liquefying action of the so-cultivated micro-organisms until the solid organic matter contained In the flowing sewage is dissolved.
Page 898 - ... not known or used by others in this country, and not patented or described in any printed publication in this or any foreign country, before his invention or discovery thereof, and not in public use or on sale for more than two years prior to his application, unless the same is proved to have been abandoned, may upon payment of the fees required by law, and other due proceedings had, obtain a patent therefor.
Page 687 - Without these life processes, whether they be of an animal or of vegetable nature, no destruction of the objectionable matters can take place. As the very essence of sewage purification is the ultimate destruction, or resolution into other combinations, of the undesirable matters, it is evident that an antiseptic process is the very reverse of the object to be aimed at.
Page 200 - SEWAGE DISPOSAL WORKS : A Guide to the Construction of Works for the Prevention of the Pollution by Sewage of Rivers and Estuaries. BY W. SANTO CRIMP, M.lNST.CE. FGS, Late Assistant-Engineer, London County Council "Probably the MOST COMPLETE AND REST TREATISE on the subject which has appeared in our language.
Page 80 - Modern experiments show that, when this subject is better understood and thoroughly worked out, in all probability the true way of purifying sewage, where suitable land is unavailable, will be first to separate the sludge, and then to turn into the neutral effluent a charge of the proper...

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