IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Denton, of Addingham, in the County of
York, Machine Wool Comber, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES."
Sealed the 27th June 1854, and dated the 18th April 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Denton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 18th
April 1854.
I, WILLIAM DENTON, of Addingham, in the County of York, Machine Wool
Comber, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES" to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to that class of machinery where wool or other fibre
is fed on to travelling or receiving combs, to be afterwards drawn off' by
drawing-off' rollers or apparatus, as is now well understood; and in the arrange-
inent of apparatus employed for this purpose, the wool or other fibre as it is
gathered and drawn off the travelling comb is caused to come in contact with
a fixed blade or stop, placed near the ends of the drawing-off rollers which
are nearest to the travelling comb, to prevent the wool or other fibre spreading
beyond the ends of the drawing-off rollers. And my improvement consists in
forming the edge of such fixed blade or stop with a serrated or notched edge,
so that the wool or fibre whilst being drawn off' acts against such surface, and
I have found that by employing a blade so formed a larger quantity of top or
long fibre is drawn out, and consequently less noil is made.
Lis

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Denton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th October 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
DENTON, of Addingham, in the County of York; Machine Wool Comber, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Denton, Her special licence that I, the said William Denton,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Denton, 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
COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said William Denton, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
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 William Denton, 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):-
This Invention relates to that class of machinery where wool or other fibre
is fed on to travelling or receiving combs, to be afterwards drawn off_by_
drawing-off rollers or apparatus, as is now well understood; and in the
arrangements of apparatus employed for this purpose, the wool or other fibre
as it is gathered and drawn off the travelling comb, comes in contact with a
fixed blade or stop, placed near the ends of the drawing-off rollers which are
nearest to the travelling comb, to prevent the wool or other fibre spreading
beyond the ends of the drawing-off rollers. And my improvement consists in
forming the edge of such fixed blade or stop with a serrated or notched edge,
so that the wool or other fibre whilst being drawn off acts against such surface,

page_text: and I have found that by employing a blade so formed a larger quantity of top
or long fibre is drawn out, and consequently less noil is made.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to describe
the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a plan of part of a circular (or it may be other) travelling
or receiving combo, on to which the wool or other fibre is fed by any suitable
feeding apparatus; b, b, are drawing-off' rollers, which are of the ordinary
construction; and c is a fixed blade or stop, placed near the ends of the
drawing-off' rollers, to prevent the wool or fibre spreading beyond the ends of
the drawing-off rollers as it is drawn from the travelling comb a; the blade c
is fixed to the framing of the machine, so as to pass down between the
travelling comb a and the ends of the drawing-off rollers, and the edge of the
blade c (against which the wool or other fibre acts as it is moved towards it)
is notched or serrated, as shewn in the detached view, Figure 3; and by reason
of the blade c being notched or serrated in place of plain, as heretofore, more
of the long fibre will be drawn out of the teeth of the travelling comb, and
consequently less noil will be made.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, what I claim is, the application of a fixed blade or stop c,
having a serrated or notched surface, when used in combination with drawing-
off apparatus, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Denton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
JOSEPH ROBERTSHAW,
Addingham, near Otley.
WILLIAM DENTON. (L.S.)