IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRUSHES USED IN MACHINES EMPLOYED FOR PREPARING AND COMBING WOOL, COTTON, SILK, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Clifton, Ironmonger, and Benjamin Green->
wood, Brush Manufacturer, both of Southfield Square, in the Township
of Manningham, Parish of Bradford, and County of York, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRUSHES USED IN
MACHINES EMPLOYED FOR PREPARING AND COMBING WOOL, COTTON, SILK, AND
OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 22nd April 1864, and dated the 26th October 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Clifton and.
Benjamin Greenwood at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,.
with their Petition, on the 26th October 1863.
We, EDWARD CLIFTON, Ironmonger, and BENJAMIN GREENWOOD, Brush
Manufacturer, both of Southfield Square, in the Township of Manningham,
Parish of Bradford, and County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRUSHES USED IN
MACHINES EMPLOYED FOR PREPARING AND COMBING WOOL, COTTON, SILK, AND OTHER
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a particular kind of brush, termed a "dabbing"
brush, extensively used in machinery employed for preparing and combing
wool and other fibrous substances.
Hitherto brushes of this kind have been made of bristles or other similar
substances, the objection to which is that the bristles split by coming into
contact with the metal teeth of the combs in the act of pushing the wool
between same, and soon become unfit to perform their proper office. Now the

page_text: object and intention of this Invention is to remedy these defects, which we
propose to accomplish by substituting tempered steel wire in lieu of bristles or
other analagous substances in the manufacture of "dabbing" brushes, by which
they are more durable and effective than the present kinds of brushes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Clifton and Benjamin Greenwood in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 26th April 1864.
.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, EDWARD
CLIFTON, Ironmonger, and BENJAMIN GREENWOOD, Brush Manufacturer, both
of Southfield Square, in the Township of Manningham, Parish of Bradford,
and County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Edward Clifton and Benjamin Greenwood, Her special licence
that we, the said Edward Clifton and Benjamin Greenwood, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Edward Clifton and
Benjamin Greenwood, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRUSHES USED IN MACHINES EMPLOYED FOR
PREPARING AND COMBING WOOL, COTTON, SILK, AND OTHER FIBROUS, SUBSTANCES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Edward Clifton and
Benjamin Greenwood, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 we, the said Edward Clifton and Benjamin Green-
wood, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement, that is to say:-

page_text: This Invention relates to a particular kind of brush, termed a "dabbing"
brush, extensively used in machinery employed for preparing and combing
wool and other fibrous substances.
Hitherto brushes of this kind have been made of bristles or other similar
substances, the objection to which is that the bristles split by coming into
contact with the metal teeth of the combs in the act of pushing the wool
between same, and soon become unfit to perform their proper office. Now the
object and intention of this Invention is to remedy these defects, which we
propose to accomplish by substituting tempered steel wire in lieu of bistles or
other analagous substances in the manufacture of "dabbing" brushes, by
which they are more durable and effective than the present kind of brushes.
And in order to explain our said Invention as completely as possible, we
now proceed to describe the manner in which the same may be performed and
carried into practial effect, as follows:-
According to the kind of brush required, we form a suitable stock; we then
take a quantity of steel wire, and cut it to the required lengths, or, if more
suitable, steel pins already cut; we fix or form the same into layers, and bind
them at one end in such a manner that when finished they are not unlike a comb;
we then bend the layers of wire to the form required, and proceed to add layer
to layer until they form a metalic brush of the required shape and size. The
metalic brush thus formed we proceed to affix to the stock in the most suitable
manner for working, and according to the kind of machine for which the same
may have been made; and where we find it an advantage we form the steel
wires with flat, bevel, or dubb points, or any orther kind of point most suitable
according to the purpose to which the brush is to be applied.
And in order to facilitate the manufacture of the aforesaid metalic brushes,
instead of using separate pieces of steel wire, as above described, we cut a
piece of tempered steel plate in the form of a comb, and connect several such
plates together, and form them into a brush similar in its outward appearance
to that made of wire as lastly described.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of our said
Invention for "Improvements in the Manufacture of Brushes used in Machines
employed for Preparing and Combing Wool, Cotton, Silk, and other Fibrous
Substances," together with the best means we are acquainted with for carrying
the same into practical effect, we would remark, in conclusion, that we do not
intend to limit or confine ourselves to the use of wire of any particular shape,
nor the mode of fixing or putting the same together; neither do we confine
ourselves to any particular form or shape of brush; neither to the manner of
working the same, as we may vary that according to the description of machine

page_text: to which the same is to be applied; but what we claim as our Invention, and
desire to secure by Letters Patent is, the use of tempered steel wire or other
analagous substances in the manufacture of brushes used in in machines
employed for preparing and combing wool, cotton, silk, and other fibrous
substances..
In witness whereof, we, the said Edward Clifton and Benjamin Green-
wood, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-third day
of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand. eight hundred and
sixty-four.
EDWARD CLIFTON. (L.S.)
BENJN. GREENWOOD. (L.s.)
EDWARD CLIFTON. (L.S.)
BENJN. GREENWOOD. (L.s.)