IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, of the Firm of Robert-
son, Brooman, and Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London,
Patent Agents, for the Invention of -" IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES."-A communication from abroad by
Amee Dont of Donbaix Franco
Sealed the 3rd November 1866, and dated the 5th May 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th May 1866.
I, CLINTON EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and
Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to that description of combing machinery in which
brushes have hitherto been employed to force the wool to the tangential point
of two rings or circles which perform the combing. This mode of working
interferes with the movements of the machines as well as of the combs ;
besides, the brushes in leaving the combs lift a portion of the fibre which often
quits the surface of the rings without being combed. The keeping of the brushes
in repair is also costly, as they require to be renewed daily or even oftener.
Now the object of this Invention is to dispense with these brushes. The
Invention consists in applying inside the combs between the rows of pins

page_text: several discs, which being arranged so as to act at the tangential point of
the two rings cause the slivers in the latter to penetrate and hold them the
time necessary for their perfect combing.
Figure 1 of the annexed Drawings is a plan, Figure 2 an elevation, and
Figure 3 a side view, partly in section, of so much of a combing machine as is
necessary to show this Invention.
A is a ring covered with pins, and B a smaller ring also provided with pins
and working in the ring A. I apply inside the combs and between the row
of pins of each of the rings several discs C. These discs arranged so as to
work at the tangential point of the two rings are for the object (in substi-
tution for the ordinary brushes) of causing the slivers to penetrate the rings
and holding them the necessary time for their perfect combing by means of
guides D. E is a pillar supporting the pieces F, which carry the discs C.
The movement of the discs may be given by gearing, by the rings themselves,
or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 5th November 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J., CLINTON
EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and Company, of
166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said Clinton
Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the sail Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors, administrators,
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, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER
FIBRES," (communicated to me from abroad by Amedée Prouvost, of Roubaix,
France,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Clinton
Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an instrument

page_text: in writing under my, or their, or one of 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.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the.
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to that description of combing machinery known as.
"Noble's," in which brushes commonly called dabbing brushes have hitherto
been employed to force the wool to the tangential point of two rings or circles
which perform the combing. This mode of working interferes with the
movements of the machines as well as of the combs; besides, the brushes in
leaving the combs lift a portion of fibre which often quits the surface of the
rings without being combed. The keeping in repair of the brushes is also
costly, as they require to be renewed daily or even oftener. Now the object
of this Invention is to dispense with these brushes. The Invention consists in
applying inside the combs between the rows of pins several discs, which being
arranged so as to act at the tangential point of the two rings cause the slivers
in the latter to penetrate and hold them the time necessary for their perfect
combing.
Figure 1 of the annexed Drawings is a plan with the pillar in section, and
the pieces which carry the discs removed; Figure 2 an elevation, and
Figure 3 a side view, partly in section, of so much of a combing machine as
is necessary to show this Invention; Figure 4 also shows a portion of the
machine in plan.
A is a ring covered with pins in rows, and B a smaller ring also provided
with pins in rows, and working in the ring A. I apply inside the combs and
between the rows of pins of each of the rings several discs C. These discs are
arranged so as to work at the tangential point of the two rings and between
the rows of pins, and are for the object (in substitution for the ordinary brushes)
of causing the slivers to penetrate the rings and holding them the necessary time
for their perfect combing. D, D, are guides; E is an intermediate disc in front
of the discs C, and placed between those discs which work between the pins of
the outer ring A and those discs which work between the pins of the inner ring B.
Instead of this intermediate disc E any equivalent appliance may be employed
for the purpose of keeping the wool at the tangential point of the two rings or

page_text: combs A and B; F is a pillar supporting the pieces G, which carry the discs.
The movement of the discs may be given by gearing, by the rings themselves,
or otherwise. It is preferred to employ flat pins instead of pins of the
ordinary round form, so that the passage of the discs C between the rows of
pins is not interfered with.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the particular
arrangement in combing machinery of the description herein-before mentioned
of the discs C fitted so as to act between the rows of pins and at the tangential
point of the two rings or combs, as and for the purpose herein-before described
and represented in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Third day of November, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-six.
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C. E. BROOMAN. (L.B.)