IMPROVEMENTS IN "NOBLES " COMBING MACHINES
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I FREDERICK TOWNS POLLARD 52 Bruce Street, New Wortley Leeds in the
County of York Machine Joiner do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN "NOBLES " COMBING MACHINES to be as follows:-
Having Three or Four or more feeding places in one Machine instead of Two
feeding places as in the present machines.
Fig 1 shows plan of present Machine with two feeding places.
Fig 2 shows plan of my invention with four feeding places.

page_text: I FREDERICK TOWNS POLLARD 52 Bruce St New Wortley Leeds in the
County of York Machine Joiner do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN NOBLES COMBING MACHINES and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
My invention consists in having Three or Four or more feeding places in one
machine instead of Two feeding places as at present the working parts of the
machine remaining much the same as heretofore.
The object is to economise space and material and to obtain a greater quantity
of combed fibre from the machine.
To accomplish this I employ Three or Four or more inner circles which are each
provided with brush motions drawing off rollers incline etc. The large outer comb
circle is increased in size to suit the number of feeding places, in the case of four
feeding places it is about one third larger the size of the inner circles are made
to suit.
Fig 1 plate 1 is a plan of the machine as at present showing large outer circle
and two smaller inner circles 72 conductors A A two inclines underneath B B
incline fixing C and knife support D.
Fig 2 plate 1 shows plan of my invention with outer circle and four inner circles
96 conductors A A a ring incline underneath or four inclines joined together
'incline fixing and knife support in one C. Feeding and retaining brush motions D
or the single brush motion may be used E.
Fig 1 plate 2 is elevation my invention showing brush motions A which are at
about right angles to the driving shaft pillars in the case of four feeding places the
present brush motions being in their ordinary places in a line with the pillars.
Fig 2 plate 2 shows plan of driving arrangement in the case of 3 or 5 or more
feeding places an upright shaft A in the centre carrying a large bevel wheel
or friction plate B which actuates 3 or 5 or more smaller bevel wheels or friction
plates D secured to shafts which drive the brush motions.
Three feeding places may also be worked as in fig 1 plate 2 by leaving out one
of the circles brush motions &c.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1st Feeding at three or more places in one machine substantially as described.
2nd Brush motions in which the faces of the excentric and strap intersect as it
were the large circle and the excentric and strap pins form as it were a tangent to
that part of the circle substantially as described.
3rd A ring incline or three or more inclines joined together substantially as
described.
4th The novel mode of driving three or more brush motions by means of upright
shaft and toothed or frictional gearing substantially as described.
Dated this third day of November 1884.
FRED T, POLLARD,