IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR COMBING FILAMENTOUS MATERIALS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Augustin Morel, of Roubaix, in the Department of
the Nord, in the Empire of France, Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR COMBING FILAMENTOUS MATERIALS."
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Augustin Morel at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and Declaration,
on the 23rd March 1864, pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent Law
Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AUGUSTIN
MOREL, of Roubaix, in the Department of the Nord, in the Empire of France,
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR COMBING FILAMENTOUS MATERIALS," and have petitioned Her
Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns; Her
Royal Letters Patent for, the same, and have made, solemn declaration that
I verily believe myself to be the true and first Inventor thereof.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Augustin Morel, do hereby declare
that the following Complete Specification under my hand and seal fully
describes and ascertains the nature of my said Invention, and the, manner in
which the same is to be performed, reference being had to the Sheet of
Drawing hereunto annexed, and forming part of this Specification, and to the

page_text: figures and letters of reference placed thereon, similar letters denoting similar
parts in each of the figures respectively.
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My Invention consists in a novel arrangement of parts constituting improve-
ments in the combing machine, for which I obtained Letters Patent dated the
28d day of October 1861, and numbered 2650, but which may also be
found applicable to apparatus used in other combing machines.
These improvements consist, firstly, in a novel arrangement of feeder, the
whole of which slides in arched supports or bearings describing a concave
line, so that the feeder which is in connection with the nipper indicated in the
Specification of my aforesaid Letters Patent, No. 2650, describes a curved
line, the effect being that when the feeder retires it permits the teeth of the
comb to act on the material by catching the fibres, and causing them to
plunge to the bottom or base of the teeth in such wise that the further the
feeder recedes from the nipper the greater the tendency of the fibres to
precipitate themselves to the bottom of the combs. .
Secondly, of arched supports forming concave slides, which offer not only
the advantage of causing the fibres to plunge to the bottom of the teeth of the
comb, but also of permitting the machine to work faster, because the vis
inertise of the feeding carriage is deadened or lessened each time that it
arrives at one end or the other of the extremities, inasmuch as to arrive there
it must have climbed, and consequently have a tendency to redescend with
greater facility, the result being that the machine works with greater ease.
Thirdly, in furnishing the lower part of the feeder with a comb which
presents the material to be combed to the nipper.
Fourthly, of a bar furnished with a band of leather or other flexible
material, and which moves up and down at the proper time to rub the band
of supple material against the teeth of the clearing comb placed at the upper
part of the feeder in order to prevent extraneous matters adhering to the
teeth.
Fifthly, in the application to the nipper of a caoutchouc band, so placed as
to retain the fibres without interfering with the action of the metallic parts.
This improved arrangement will be more readily understood on reference to
the accompanying. Sheet of Drawing; Figure 1 being a side view of the
machine in sectional elevation; Figure 2, end view in sectional elevation;
Figure 3, plan; and Figure 4, side view of the feeding cylinders and their
gearing.
A, A, A, framing of the machine; M, circular steam chest, on which
travels the circular comb L; P, P', lower part of nipper; O; upper part of
nipper; E, arched part of this latter; L', band of caoutchouc fixed to this

page_text: part; D', pair of cylinders mounted on the feeder and serving to introduce the
material; Q, feeding head which advances to and retires from the nipper, and
carries at one of its extremities the grating by which passes the material to be
combed; R, grating; T, plate furnished with teeth, serving to hold the
material while also combing it in passing through the grating R; S, nacteur
comb or clearer forming part of the plate T; U¹, supports with slides serving
to guide the plate T; V, eccentric giving the up-and-down motion to the
plate T by means of the upright with arched slide T"; S¹, friction roller
travelling in the arched slide T"; K, shaft placed under the feeding head Q,
and receiving an oscillating motion from the lever bearing the friction roller S¹.
This shaft also. carries at each end a lever T¹¹; T, connecting rods fixed by
their lower parts to the levers T, and by their upper parts to the guides
G¹, G, guides fixed to the plate T and travelling in the slides of the
supports U; E', shaft placed on the grating R, and receiving an oscillating
motion from the lever carrying the friction roller H', this shaft also carries at
each end a lever H"; J, comb placed at the lower part of the feeder, and
which advances the material to the nipper; this comb is attached to the
extremities of the levers H"; S", slide in which travels the friction roller H',
and which may be inclined at will to give motion to the comb J; C, shaft
placed under the feeding head Q, and receiving an oscillating motion from the
lever carrying the friction roller J₁; this shaft carries at each extremity a
lever F; W¹, connecting rods giving motion to the clearer T¹; C¹, cross
piece carrying the supple band T¹; N, slide in which travels the friction
roller J, and which is inclined at will to give motion to the clearer T¹;
G, friction roller governed by the eccentric V; F, connecting rod giving
motion to the balance beam B; H, connecting rod receiving its motion from
the balance beam B, and communicating it to the feeding head by means of
the support Z; W, arched supports carrying the grooves in which the feeding
head travels; X, table or bed carrying the supports W; D", ratchet wheel
fixed on the lower feeding cylinder D¹ (K³, connecting rod giving a rotary
motion to the ratchet D"); R, spring box provided with a catch acting on the
ratchet D"; this spring box receives a motion communicated by the lever S"
mounted on the shaft E¹.
Having now described the nature of my said improvements, and the means
by which I carry them into practical effect, I would have it understood that
I do not confine myself to the precise details herein given and illustrated on the
annexed Sheet of Drawing, but reserve the right of modifying them within
the limit of their distinctive character, and I claim the exclusive use of the
said improvements when applied to the machine for combing filamentous

page_text: materials patented by me under the No. 2650, A.D. 1861, or to any other
combing machine to which they or one or several of them may be found
applicable.
In witness whereof, I, the said Augustin Morel, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
AIN. MOREL. (L.S.)