A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR COMBING HORSEHAIR, WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Johann Rudolph Meyer, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Commercial Traveller, for an Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR COMBING HORSEHAIR, WHICH IS
ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Johann Rudolph Meyer at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th June 1880.
JOHANN RUDOLPH MEYER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Commercial
Traveller. "A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR COMBING
HORSEHAIR, WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES."
This Invention relates to improved apparatus for combing or picking horse hair,
the apparatus being also applicable to other similar useful purposes.
In apparatus of this nature as at present constructed there is used a drum
provided with rows of teeth which loosen the bolster material from its twisted
condition. As at present used however the hair or other material winds itself
among the teeth upon the drum, and there is no automatic means of freeing the
same.
.
It is the object of this Invention to remedy this defect and to obtain a better
working of the material with an unobstructed and noiseless motion.
The Invention consists in combining with a centrally mounted toothed drum of
the nature above referred to a series of perforated plates, excentrically mounted in
relation to the drum, the teeth of the drum projecting through the perforations of
the plates, there being one plate to each row of teeth, and the plates being con-
nected by rods to discs or a roller which are or is excentrically mounted upon the
shaft of the toothed drum.
By this means the hair is gradually loosened from the teeth from the time it is
taken from the feeding rollers by the full length of the teeth, the plates then lying
on the surface of the drum, until as it is gradually combed or straightened it reaches
the other side of the drum, where the plates project just beyond the points of the
teeth, when the combed material falls off.
The hair or other material when thus gradually loosened retains its greatest
length, and is delivered in its most elastic and valuable condition.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Johann Rudolph Meyer in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th
December 1880.
JOHANN RUDOLPH MEYER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Commercial
Traveller. "A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR COMBING
HORSEHAIR, WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES."
This Invention relates to improved apparatus for combing or picking horse-hair,
the apparatus being also applicable to other similar useful purposes.
In apparatus of this nature as hitherto constructed a drum is used provided with
rows of teeth which loosen the bolster material from its twisted condition. As at
present used however the hair or other material winds itself among the teeth upon
the drum, and there is no automatic means of freeing it therefrom.
It is the object of this Invention to remedy this defect and to obtain a better
working of the material with an unobstructed and noiseless motion.
The Invention is illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in elevation
in Fig. 1, and in plan view in Fig. 2; and it consists in combining with a centrally
mounted toothed drum 1 of the nature above referred to a scries of plates 2,
excentrically mounted in relation to the drum; the teeth 3 of the drum projecting
through the perforations of the plates, there being one plate to each row of teeth,
and the plates being connected by rods 4 to discs 5 which are excentrically mounted
upon the shaft 6 of the toothed drum.
By this means the hair is gradually loosened from the teeth from the time it is
taken from the feeding rollers 7 by the full length of the teeth, the plates 2 then
lying upon the surface of the druin, as shewn at the top of Figure 1, until, as it is
gradually combed or straightened it reaches the other side of the drum, where the
plates project just beyond the points of the teeth, as shewn at the bottom of
Figure 1, when the combed material falls off.
The hair or other material when thus gradually loosened retains its full length,
and is delivered in its most elastic and valuable condition.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together with
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, I would remark in conclusion that what I claim as the Invention
secured to me by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is,―
Combining with the centrally mounted toothed drum of apparatus for combing
or picking horse hair and other similar material a series of excentrically mounted
perforated plates, which act and are provided as and for the purpose substantially
as hereinbefore described, and in the manner illustrated on the accompanying
Sheet of explanatory Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Johann Rudolph Meyer, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty.
Witness,
JOHN KENDRICH.
JOHANN RUDOLPH MEYER. (L.S.)