IMPROVE- MENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN COMBING WOOL AND OTHER liotro
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Isaac Holden,. M.P, of Oakworth House, near
Keighley, in the County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN COMBING WOOL AND OTHER
liotro 5
PROVISIONAL. SPECIFICATION left by the said Isaac Iolden at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st October 1808.
I, ISAAC HOLDEN, M.P., of Oakworth House, near Keighley, in the
County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN COMBING WOOL AND OTHER
FIBRES," to be as follows:-
My improvements have reference to means or apparatus for combing.
wool and other fibres, in which are employed in connection with the
carrying or holding combs other combs (which I call "nacteur combs ").
whose teeth point in the opposite direction to and during part of their

page_text: motion overlap the carrying combs, and they relate to the use therewith
of a guard plate formed with a projecting ledge, in order that it may
whilst bearing against the carrying combs give support or protection
to the points of the "nactcur" combs during the drawing off of the fibre
through the teeth of both combs. The plate extends in a direction
from the point of tangence of the carrying comb and the drawing-off
rollers to the part of the carrying comb at which the long fibres begin
to be drawn through the two combs by the drawing rollers, and also to
some distance in the opposite direction, and part of it is also formed
to act in cutting off or arresting the drawing off from the carrying
combs of the longer fibres or top. This plate is also cut away in part
to admit of the lower of the drawing-off rollers coming close up to
the main circle of teeth.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Isaac Holden in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 21st April 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ISAAC
HOLDEN, M.P., of Oakworth House, near Keighley, in the County of
York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Isaac Holden, Her special licence
that I, the said Isaac Holden, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Isaac Holden, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 MEANS OR
APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Isaac Holden, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of

page_text: 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Isaac Holden, 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, that is to say :-
My improvements have reference to means or apparatus for combing
wool and other fibres, in which are employed in connection with the
carrying or holding combs other combs (which I call "nacteur combs")
whose teeth point in the opposite direction to and during part of their
motion overlap the 'carrying combs, and they relate to the usc therewith
of a guard plate formed with a projecting ledge, in order that it may
whilst bearing against the carrying combs give support or protection to
the points of the "nacteur" combs during the drawing off of the fibre
through the teeth of both combs. The plate extends in a direction from
the point of tangence of the carrying comb and the drawing-off rollers
to the part of the carrying comb at which the long fibres begin to be
drawn through the two combs by the drawing rollers, and also to some
distance in the opposite direction, and part of. it is also formed to act in
cutting off or arresting the drawing off from the carrying combs of the
longer fibres or top. This plate is also cut away in part to admit of the
lower of the drawing-off rollers coming close up to the main circle
of teeth.
But that the Invention may be fully understood I will by the aid of
the accompanying Drawing proceed to describe means pursued by me in
carrying the same into effect.

page_text: teeth of the combs B at the time of drawing off of fibre through the
tecth of both of the combs B and C by the drawing rollers D. Tho
projection is that which affords protection to the points of the teeth of
the nacteur combs C. The part c of the guard plate A is that which
acts in cutting off or arresting the drawing off of the longer fibre or
top. The part d of the guard plate A is cut away or recessed to admit
of the lower of the drawing-off rollers D coming closer up to the main
circle of teeth.
Having thus described my improvements and means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that what I
claim is, the adaptation or application of a guard plate acting in manner
and for the purpose substantially as explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Isaac Holden, have hereunto set.
my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine..
ISAAC HOLDEN. (L.S.)