US Patent: 5,555X
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Filter for Purifying Water
Mode of Purifying Water by Means of a Machine Denominated the Patent Filterer
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Patentee:
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| George Busby White (exact or similar names) - New York, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Jul. 07, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
"For a new and useful Mode of Purifying Water by means of a machine denominated the “ Patent Filterer;" George Busby White, New York, July 7.
The specification of this patent has the merit of brevity, it being in the following words. This improvement consists of a cistern constructed of any suitable material, and of any size or shape required; it is lined with waterproof cement, or any other proper substance. The cistern is filled with small stones, having a partition, or division, across it, permitting the water to pass under it from one end of the cistern to the other. The water is introduced at the top of one end, and passing through the bed of small stones, and o: the partition, then rises up to its level in the second department, until it overflows into the reservoir.
There is no drawing accompanying the specification, and, consequently, one of the absolute requirements of the patent law has been disregarded. The law says, and shall accompany the whole with drawings and written references, wherever the nature of the case admits of drawings. That the nature of the case would admit of a drawing in the present instance, any one may perceive; and the model which the patentee has himself sent on, testifies to the fact. Some of our readers who are acquainted with the progress of inventions, may tell us that there is no novelty in the plan of Mr. White; that it has been proposed to filter the water for the supply of whole cities, by a similar, but more perfectly arranged mode of operating; and may remind us, that patents have been already obtained for filtering apparatus, in which sand, gravel, and other substances have been employed to purify the water, which has been made to percolate these materials, per latus, per ascensum, and per decensum.(by side, by ascent, and by descent.) All this is true, but, of course, Mr. White was uninformed upon the subject. It is one which has been much agitated of late in England, in consequence of the disgusting and increasing filth of the water of the Thames, from which the city of London derives a large portion of its supply for domestic use, and we have, in the present number, inserted an account of a very simple and ingenious plan which has been carried into actual operation in England, by a namesake of the present patentee; it will also be seen that the same gentleman has employed a bed of sand and gravel for filtering in the large way. Were we to publish all that we possess in the foreign journals, and other works, relative to this process, we should fill a volume with the matter, and render it manifest that something more recondite than the plan before us must be brought forward before a claim to novelty can be sustained."
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 7, Oct. 1829 pgs. 248-249
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