IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING WOOL AND OTHER TEXTILE AND FILAMENTOUS SUB- STANCES INTO CARDING, COMBING, AND OTHER MACHINES FOR TREATING SUCH SUBSTANCES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street, in
the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR FEEDING WOOL AND OTHER TEXTILE AND FILAMENTOUS SUB-
STANCES INTO CARDING, COMBING, AND OTHER MACHINES FOR TREATING SUCH
SUBSTANCES." A communication from abroad by A. Demoulin, of
Pepinster, Belgium, and Jean Sebastien Bolette, of Goffontaine Cornesse,
Belgium.
Sealed the 6th December 1864, and dated the 7th June 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 7th June 1864.
J, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London,
Agent Patent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING WOOL AND OTHER TEXTILE AND FILAMEN-
TOUS SUBSTANCES INTO CARDING, COMBING, AND OTHER MACHINES & TREATING
SUCH SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in feeding mechanically, as hereafter described,
wool and other textile and filamentous substances to carding, combing, and
other machines for treating the same.
The apparatus is composed of a case or hopper open at bottom, and into
which the wool or other material is placed. Below the case or hopper is an
endless travelling table furnished with teeth, spikes, or hooks, which take hold

page_text: of and draw the wool continuously out of the bottom of the case.
Above one
end of this travelling table is a rake composed of a series of teeth or hooks.
This rake receives a to-and-fro movement over the travelling table, and is
guided by grooves or notches on each side of the case. It is placed between
two boards or plates in order that the teeth or hooks may enter between
them and project therefrom as required; they project from the boards when
the rake moves inwards to the case in order to remove the layer of wool
which is presented continuously, and lay hold of that near the hooks. When
the rake returns, that is to say, when it moves outwards from the exterior of
the case, it carries with it all the wool which became hooked or taken up, and
holds it until it arrives near the end of its course, when the wool falls on an
ordinary belt, which advances in proportion as the wool becomes distributed
thereon. The rake while receiving a to-and-fro movement is caused to rise
and fall at the same time by means of a bent or double guide, which compels
the teeth of the rake to follow the same direction as the guide (see the dotted
red lines in the accompanying Drawing).
B is the case or hopper for receiving the wool or other material; C is the
endless travelling table, with teeth, spikes, or hooks. A roller may be sub-
stituted if desired. D is a rake, with a to-aud-fro movement from E to F.
In moving from F it takes into the teeth of the travelling table and the wool
thereon, and before returning from E it unhooks or releases the wool, which
falls on the belt A below. The rake is composed of two boards or plates 4, 5,
between which is a plate 6 with teeth or hooks. When it arrives at E the
teeth entirely enter between the boards 4, 5, in order that they may not hold
the wool when it arrives at F; the teeth project because the guide 1, 2, 3,
has compelled them to follow its direction.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 7th December 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight bundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto

page_text: me, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Richard Archibald 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 APPARATUS FOR FEEDING
WOOL AND OTHER TEXTILE AND FILAMENTOUS SUBSTANCES INTO CARDING, COMBING,
AND OTHER MACHINES FOR TREATING SUCH SUBSTANCES," communicated to me
from abroad by A. Demoulin, of Pepinster, Belgium, and Jean Sebastien
Bolette, of Goffontaine Cornesse, Belgium,) upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald 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 Drawing hereunto
annexed, that is to say: -
This Invention consists in feeding mechanically, as hereafter described,
wool and other textile and filamentous substances to carding, combing, and
other machines for treating the same.
The apparatus is composed of a case or hopper open at bottom, and into
which the wool or other material is placed. Below the case or hopper is an
endless travelling table furnished with teeth, spikes, or hooks, which take
hold of and draw the wool continuously out of the bottom of the case. Above
one end of this travelling table is a rake composed of a series of teeth or
hooks. This rake receives a to-and-fro movement over the travelling table,
and is guided by grooves or notches on each side of the case.
It is placed
between two boards or plates in order that the teeth or books may enter
between them and project therefrom as required. They project from the
boards when the rake moves inwards to the case in order to remove the layer
of wool which is presented continuously, and lay hold of that near the hooks.
When the rake returns, that is to say, when it moves outwards from the

page_text: exterior of the case, it carries with it all the wool which became hooked or
taken up, and holds it until it arrives near the end of its course, when the
wool falls on an ordinary belt, which advances in proportion as the wool
becomes distributed thereon. The rake while receiving a to-and-fro move-
ment is caused to rise and fall at the same time by means of a bent or double
guide, which compels the teeth of the rake to follow the same direction as
the guide (see the dotted curved lines in the accompanying Drawing).
B is the case or hopper for receiving the wool or other material; C is the
endless travelling table, with teeth, spikes, or hooks. A roller may be sub-
stituted if desired. D is a rake, with a to-and-fro movement from E to F.
In moving from F it takes into the teeth of the travelling table and the wool
thereon, and before returning from E it unhooks or releases the wool, which
falls on the belt A below. The rake is composed of two boards or plates 4, 5,
between which is a plate 6 with teeth or hooks. When it arrives at E, the
teeth entirely enter between the boards 4, 5, in order that they may not hold
the wool when it arrives at F; the teeth project because the guide 1, 2, 3, has
compelled them to follow its direction. G is a curved plate or board for
guiding the wool which falls from the rake on to an endless travelling apron
A to be fed into the carding, combing, or other machine for treating the
same.
In some cases I fit a comb H below the endless travelling table C for the
purpose of releasing or unhooking the wool carried by the teeth of the table.
This comb may be employed instead of or in addition to the rake D.
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 arranging
apparatus for feeding wool and other textile and filamentous substances into
carding, combing, and other machines for treating such substances sub-
stantially as herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of December One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.S.)