Improvements in the Means or Method of and Apparatus for Removing Wool and other Hair from Skins.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Dec., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 12th Oct., 1899-Accepted, 16th Dec., 1899
Improvements in the Means or Method of and Apparatus for
Removing Wool and other Hair from Skins.
We, SETH LEWIS JOINSON, of 10, Billingsley Terrace, Bradford, in the County
of York, Commercial Traveller, ELLEN JOHNSON, also of 10, Billingsley Terrace,
aforesaid, Gentlewoman, JOSEPH BROOKSBANK, of 87, Woodroyd Road, Bradford,
aforesaid, Top Maker, and ALFRED HORSWILL GIBBINGS, of 31, Pemberton Drive,
Bradford, aforesaid, Electrical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the means or method of and apparatus
for removing wool and other hair from skins and its primary object is to avoid
damaging the hair.
For this purpose we use an electrically heated wire or band held in a suitable
holder provided with a handle. The holder may consist of a more or less trian-
gular piece of ganister or other suitable incombustible bad conductor. A platinum
or other suitable refractory wire is fixed along what may be termed the base of
the triangular piece and be jointed to terminals on each side preferably a little
distance from the base. The current is supplied to the terminals by flexible wires
passing through the handle which is secured to the apex of the triangular piece.
A guard of sheet metal or other material may be fixed a little distance from the
heated wire. In use the apparatus is passed over the skin with the said guard
resting thereon and the heated wire burns off the hair without damaging either
it or the skin.
Instead of an electrically heated wire we may employ a wire sheath or guard
heated by a series of oxyhydrogen jets.
Dated thin 15th n
1000
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.
Improvements in the Means or Method of and Apparatus for
Removing Wool and other Hair from Skins.
We, SETH LEWIS JOHNSON, of 10, Billingsley Terrace, Bradford, in the County
of York, Commercial Traveller, ELLEN JOHNSON, also of 10, Billingsley Terrace.
aforesaid, Gentlewoman, JOSEPH BROOKSBANK, of 87, Woodroyd Road, Bradford,
aforesaid, Top Maker, and ALFRED HORSWILL GIBBINGS, of 31, Pemberton Drive,
Bradford, aforesaid, Electrical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in the means or method of and apparatus
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page_text: for removing wool and other hair from skins and its primary object is to avoid
damaging the hair.
For this purpose we use an electrically heated wire, metal band or filament held
in a suitable holder provided with a handle.
To fully describe our invention reference is made to the accompanying sheet
of drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of refer-
ence indicate corresponding parts in each of the views.
Figure 1, represents a plan view of our improved apparatus.
Figure 2, is a sectional view of the handle portion of same.
Figure 3, is a side view of Figure 1.
Figure 4, is a section on the broken line a, b Figure 1.
Figure 5, is an end view of Figure 1.
The handle 1, formed of wood or other bad conductor of electricity contains two
conductors 2 and 3 insulated from each other by the strip 4 of insulating material.
Metal branches 5 and 6 are rigidly connected to the conductors 2 and 3 by the
screws 7 and a piece of ganister 8 or other refractory bad conductor of electricity
is secured by the screws 9 to the ends of these branches. A platinum wire 10,
preferably of flattened section, or a suitable equivalent is passed round the front
of the ganister and the ends 11 and 12 are secured to the ends of the branch
conductors 5 and 6 by the screws 13 and clamping pieces 14 and 15.
The apparatus is fed, by means of flexible wires connected by plugs or the like
fixed in the holes 16 and 17 formed in the conductors 2 and 3, with sufficient
current to make the wire 10 white hot and in this state the apparatus is passed
over the skins and severs the hair at the roots.
The wire 10 is brought round the ends of the ganister and connected to the
branches 5 and 6 some distance away from the front edge consequently the whole
of the wire along the front edge from 18 to 19 Figure 1 is sufficiently heated.
The wires 20 are employed to bind the wire 10 to the ganister.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:
The method or process herein described of removing wool and other hair from
skins.
D1 1 11 11.
1000
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.