IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR COMBING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1866

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Studley and Edwin Jackson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the
12th December 1866.
We, JAMES STUDLEY and EDWIN JACKSON, of Shipley, near Leeds, in the
County of York, Mechanics, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR COMBING WOOL OR OTHER
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to means of working or operating the transfer comb
and the dabbing of the carrying comb employed in such machinery. Heretofore
the frames or arms carrying the transfer comb have been mounted at their
bottom ends on a crank supported in stationary bearings of the main framing,
and a rod is jointed to the said arms intermediately connecting them to the
main framing, thereby forming a moveable fulcrum on which the said arms
oscillate, motion being communicated thereto by a side shaft and gear wheels
from the "nip shaft" or shaft which works the nipping jaws. The dapping
brush referred to is also worked by a crank shaft, which receives motion from
the said side shaft.
In practical operation it is found there is a considerable amount of wear
and tear in the bearings, joints, and gearings of these parts; besides the
motion thus obtained is not the most desirable one, as the tufts of wool after
having been deposited on the teeth of the carrying comb are sometimes partly
removed again in the withdrawal of the teeth of the transfer comb; also we
find that the first cost of construction of this apparatus is unnecessarily large.

page_text: Now our improvements consist in mounting or jointing the said bottom ends
of the frame of the transfer comb upon levers hinged (intermediately thereof)
to the main framing, and these levers are operated by cams or tappets fixed on
the "nip shaft;" also a rod is connected at one end to the said frame, and at
the other to one arm of the said lever which is hinged to the main framing,
and the other arm of this lever is connected by another rod to the "nip
frame," or the frame carrying the nipping jaws, so that as the said nip
frame moves in one direction it moves the frame of the transfer comb in the
other direction. The dabbing brush we work or operate by means of a lever
or combination of two or more levers hinged to the main framing and a
tappet or cam fixed on the nip shaft, or by crank, stud plate or eccentric fixed
on another shaft and driven by gear from the said nip shaft.
By these
improvements we dispense with the side shaft, and all the gearing and bearings
thereof, and we substitute simple parts or connections instead, whereby we
effect a great saving in first cost of apparatus, also in repairs of the wear and
tear thereof afterwards, besides obtaining a more suitable motion of the
transfer comb, as we are enabled to set or adjust the tappets or cams
on the shaft to operate at any suitable time, and also we can regulate the
amount of motion by means of slots in the levers, and set studs for jointing
the rods thereto, and thus obtain a more desirable motion of the transfer
comb.