IMPROVEMENTS IN WOOL COMBING MACHINES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Isaac Bailey, of the Firm of Bailey and Smith,
of Keighley, in the County of York, Machine Wool Combers, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WOOL COMBING MACHINES."
Sealed the 17th February 1871, and dated the 22nd September 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Isaac Bailey at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd September 1870.
I, ISAAC BAILEY, of the Firm of Bailey and Smith, of Keighley, in
the County of York, Machine Wool Combers, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WOOL COMBING
MACHINES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the drawing-off rollers or the fluted rollers
employed for drawing the wool from the combs in that class of machinery
wherein circular combs are used, and the improvements consist in the
application and employment for this purpose of conical rollers whereby.

page_text: additional strength of the said rollers is obtained without increasing the
diameter at the ends which are in near contact with the pins or teeth of
the circular comb.
The leathers or drawing belts are curved on the edge suitable to the
conical form of these rollers so that they will travel evenly or in the
same direction as straight belts do on parallel rollers.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Isaac Bailey in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 22nd March 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ISAAC :
BAILEY, of the Firm of Bailey and Smith, of Keighley, in the County of
York, Machine Wool Combers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Isaac Bailey, Her special licence that
I, the said Isaac Bailey, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Isaac Bailey, my exccutors, 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 WOOL COMBING
MACHINERY," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Isaac
Bailey, 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 Isaac Bailey, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: Firstly. The application and employment of conical rollers for the
drawing-off belts of such machinery.
Secondly. The construction, application, and use of belts having their
edges curved or longer on one side than the other, in manner shewn and
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Isaac Bailey, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the within-named Isaac Bailey, in
the presence of
WM. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
Halifax & Bradford.
ISAAC BAILEY. (L.S.)