IMPROVEMENTS IN DRAWING WOOL
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Denton, of Addingham, Yorkshire, Machine
Wool Comber, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN DRAWING WOOL
Sealed the 26th October 1855, and dated the 23rd August 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Denton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 23rd
August 1855.
I, WILLIAM DENTON, of Addingham, Yorkshire, Machine Wool Comber, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN DRAWING
WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES OFF THE COMBS OF COMBING MACHINES
to be as follows:-
Heretofore in drawing wool and other fibrous substances from the combs of
combing machines, it has been for the most part usual to employ rollers set at
an angle to such combs in such a manner that the rollers seize first the
longest wool which projects furthest from the comb, and afterwards take the
shorter wool which projects a less distance from the comb; thus is the long
wool taken hold of at a distance from the comb, and is liable to be broken in
the drawing off. Now, my Invention consists in placing the drawing rollers
parallel or nearly parallel to the comb, and in tapering the ends of the rollers
in such a manner that the wool enters between them at their tapered ends,
and the longer and shorter wool are both taken hold of alike close up to the
comb, and all drawn off together.

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
22nd February 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
DENTON, of Addingham, Yorkshire, Machine Wool Comber, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth 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
DRAWING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES OFF THE COMBS OF COMBING
MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Williamı
Denton, my executors or administrators, 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 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:-
Heretofore in drawing wool and other fibrous substances from the combs of
combing machines, it has been for the most part usual to employ rollers set at
an angle to such combs in such a manner that the rollers seize first the
longest wool which projects furthest from the comb, and afterwards take the
shorter wool which projects a less distance from the comb; thus is the long
wool taken hold of at a distance from the comb, and is liable to be broken in
the drawing off. Now, my Invention consists in placing the drawing rollers
parallel or nearly parallel to the comb, and in tapering the ends of the rollers
in such a manner that the wool enters between them at their tapered ends,

page_text: and the longer and shorter wool are both taken hold of alike close up to the
comb, and all drawn off together.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a plan, Figure 2 a side view, and Figure 3 a transverse
section, of the drawing-off rollers of a combing machine, and the parts con-
nected therewith, arranged according to my Invention. A, A, is a portion of
the travelling comb; B, B, are the drawing-off rollers; C, C, are the axes
of the drawing rollers, which are supported in bearings at D, D, D, D, such
bearings being carried by framing, as when ordinary drawing-off rollers are
used; E is a plate on which the wool or other fibre in the comb rests as it
comes up to the drawing-off rollers; F is a curved metal guide, carried by an
arm attached to the framing; this guide F depresses the fibre in the comb A.
as it is brought up, and it ensures its all passing between the pointed ends of
the drawing-off rollers B. G is an endless apron, which passes over the
lower drawing-off roller, and is of the same description as that ordinarily used
with drawing-off rollers. As the comb A travels in the direction shewn by the
arrows, and carries the fibre between the rollers, all the fibres, whether they
be long or short, are taken hold of close up to the comb, and are drawn off in
a sliver therefrom.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Denton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
R. W. MARSLAND, Sol,
Bradford,
WILLIAM DENTON. (L.S.)