IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph William Harding, Consulting Engineer and Patent
Agent of Leeds in the County of York for an invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES.”—A communication from abroad by Samuel Pegler of Roubaix
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph William Harding at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th April 1882.
JOSEPH WILLIAM HARDING, Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent of Leeds in
the County of York "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR COMBING
WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES " (A Communication from abroad by
Samuel Pegler of Roubaix in the Department Nord in the Republic of France)
This invention has reference to an invention communicated to John Charles
Walker of Shipley near Leeds in the County of York by Alphonse Pollet,
Achille Pollet, and Samuel Pegler, and for which Letters Patent were granted to
him dated 13th June 1879 No 2346.
The object of the above invention patented as aforesaid was the heating of the
pins of segment combs and flat or inclined nacture combs such as are used in the
machines known as the square motion or "Holden's" combing machines.
The specification of the above patent has reference to forming a groove or
recess in the body of the steam box used for heating the pins, and in this groove
the pins are caused to travel in such a manner that they are protected from the
external air, moving as they do in the heated air contained in the groove or recess.
It is found that in constructing the boxes of cast metal as hitherto, great difficulties
and inconveniences are experienced and defects in the castings are frequent, such
as air holes and other irregularities peculiar to cast metal
According to this present invention and in order to surmount the difficulties and
defects aforesaid the inventor applies boxes made of drawn or laminated metal,
and by preference of such metals as are good conductors of heat. The thickness of
such metal may be varied according to the shape or configuration of the groove or
recess formed in the body of the steam box.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Joseph William Harding in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th October 1882.
JOSEPH WILLIAM HARDING, Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent, of Leeds in
the County of York "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR COMBING
WOOL, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," (A communicaton from abroad by
Samuel Pegler of Roubaix in the department Nord in the Republic of France)
This invention has reference to an Invention communicated to John Charles
Walker of Shipley near Leeds in the County of York, by Alphonse Pollet, Achille
Pollet, and Samuel Pegler, and for which Letters Patent were granted to him
dated 13th June 1879 No 2346.
The object of the above Invention patented as aforesaid was the heeting of the
pins of segment combs, and flat or inclined nacture combs, such as are used in the
machines known as the square motion--or Holdens combing machines.
The specification of the above patent has reference to forming a groove or recess
in the body of the steam box used for heating the pins, and in this groove the pins
are caused to travel in such a manner, that they are protected from the external
It is
air, moving as they do in the heated air contained in the groove or recess.
found that in constructing the boxes of cast metal as hitherto, great difficulties and
inconveniences are experienced, and defects in the castings are frequent, such as
air holes and other irregularities peculiar to cast metal. According to this present
invention and in order to surmount the difficulties and defects aforesaid the
inventor applies boxes made of drawn or laminated metal, and by preference of
such metals as are good conductors of heat. The thickness of such metal may be
varied according to the shape or configuration of the groove or recess formed in
the body of the steam box.
And in order that my Invention may be more completely understood reference
is given to the accompanying drawings and to the letters and marks thereon
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

page_text: that I do not limit myself to the precise details of construction and arrangement
above described, but may vary the same; what I do claim is:-
The constructien of the steam box or chest a, and the flange e (forming a part
of the same) of drawn or laminated metal substantially as and for the purposes
5 herein set-forth.
In Witness, whereof, I, the said Joseph William Harding have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this twenty sixth day of October in the year of Our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty two.