Improvements in Feed Boxes of Combing Machines.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd June, 1886.
Complete Left, 2nd Mar., 1887
Complete Accepted, 5th Apr. 1887
Improvements in Feed Boxes of Combing Machines.
I, JOHN HENRY WHITEHEAD, partner in the firm of Taylor, Wordsworth and
Company, of Water Lane, Leeds in the County of York, Machine Makers do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
The chief object of my invention is to prevent staining the wool by rust as it
passes through the feed boxes, at the same time to so construct such feed boxes that
a greater amount of wool than heretofore may pass through at the same time, pro-
ducing thereby a saving by increasing the amount of work operated upon by the
combing machine than when cast iron boxes are used.
Hitherto the feed boxes of wool combing machines have been made of cast or sheet
iron, the result being that there is a liability of such iron to rust and consequently
staining of the material as it passes through the boxes.
Now according to my improvements make the feed boxes of wool combing
machines, of cast brass (by preference polished), by so doing 1 can form the body
much thinner than when cast iron is used, consequently allowing a wider passage for
the wool, without increasing the external width of the box, at the same time reducing
the weight of the box considerably, also staining of the wool. by rust, is prevented.
Dated this 2nd day of June 1886.
J. W. HARDING,
Agent.

page_text: I, JOHN HENRY WHITEHEAD, partner in the firm of Taylor Wordsworth and
Company of Water Lane, Leeds in the County of York Machine Makers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:—
The chief object of my invention is to prevent staining the wool by rust as it passes
through the feed boxes, at the same time to so construct such feed boxes, that a greater
amount of wool than heretofore may pass through at the same time, producing
thereby a saving by increasing the amount of work operated upon by the combing
machine than when cast iron boxes are used.
Hitherto the feed boxes of wool combing machines have been made of cast or
sheet iron, the result being that there is a liability of such iron to rust and conse-
quently staining of the material as it passes through the boxes.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 represents a side elevation. Figure 2 a plan looking at the top of a fued
box constructed in accordance with my invention for wool combing machines.
The box is formed of two vertical sides A A and bottom B, having a lid C hinged
at D, such lid being of sufficient thickness to press upon the wool as it passes through
the box.
The box is hinged at E on the framework of the machine and is operated in the
usual manner.
According to my invention I make these feed boxes of polished cast brass, and by
so doing I can form the body much thinner than when cast iron is used consequently
allowing a wider passage for the wool without increasing the external width of the
box, at the same time reducing the weight of the box considerably, also staining of
the wool by rust is prevented.
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:
The employment of cast brass in the manufacture of feed boxes of combing
machines, substantially as and for purposes herein set forth.
Dated this 2nd day of March 1887.