IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Matthew Mirfield, of Holme Lane, near Bradford,
in the County of York, Worsted Top Maker, and John Scott, of
Holmo Lane, aforesaid, Manager, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Matthew Mirfield and
John Scott at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 24th December 1873.
We, MATTHEW MIRFIELD, of Holme Lane, near Bradford, in the
County of York, Worsted Top Maker, and JOHN SCOTT, of Holme Lane,
aforesaid, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES," to
be as follows :-
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In conjunction with machines for combing wool or other fibres
whercon an intercepting instrument or instruments, or a rotating disc, or
a diverging circle is employed for removing the noil from the fibre
protruding beyond the inner or outer pins of the comb, we employ an

page_text: endless card sheet or belt of teeth so arranged as to subject the pro-
truding fibre to a further combing and cleaning before being drawn off.
The fibro abstracted by the endless sheet of cards or teeth (from the
protruding fibre) will be stripped from such cards or teeth aforesaid, and
may be dealt with as disconnected fibre, or formed into a sliver and re-fed
direct to the main comb.
In lieu of the process of and apparatus employed for carrying the fibre
when "balled" for combing, we employ cans constructed and having
attachments, whereby they may be readily attached to or removed from
the combing machine.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Matthew Mirfield and John Scott in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 24th June 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, MATTHEW
MIRFIELD, of Holme Lane, near Bradford, in the County of York, 1
Worsted Top Maker, and JOHN SCOTT, of Holme Lane, aforesaid,
Manager, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty- ?
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Matthew Mirfield and John Scott, Her
special licence that we, the said Matthew Mirfield and John Scott, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Matthew Mirfield and John Scott, our executors, administrators, and 1
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 MACHINERY FOR COMBING
WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we,
the said Matthew Mirfield and John Scott, our exccutors or admini-
strators, by an instrument in writing under our, 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, å

page_text: 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 Matthew Mirfield and John Scott,
› 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 and accompanying Sheet of Drawings
(that is to say):-
In conjunction with machine for combing wool or other fibres
) whereon an intercepting instrument or instruments, or a rotating disc, or
a diverging circle is employed for removing the noil from the fibre
protruding beyond the inner or outer pins of the comb, we employ an
endless card or comb slicet or belt of teeth, so arranged as to subject the
protruding fibre to a further combing and cleansing before being drawn
5 off. The fibre abstracted by the endless sheet of card or comb teeth from
the protruding fibre will be stripped from such card or comb teeth
aforesaid, and may be dealt with as disconnected fibre, or formed into a
sliver and re-fed direct to the main comb.
In lieu of the process of and apparatus employed for carrying the fibre
when "balled" for combing, we employ cans constructed and having
attachments, whereby they may be readily attached to or removed from
the combing machine.
Such being the nature and object of this our said Invention we will
now proceed to describe the same in detail, and that the same may be
moro fully understood, we have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings
marked with figures and letters of reference, the same letters referring
to the same part in the several views or Figures.
At A is shewn section of part of the circle, and A' is the segment of
an improved Noble comb with ordinary holding knife; B is an endless
card or comb belt to clean the ends of the fibro protruding from the
circle A¹; O is a "fancy" for raising the fibre out of card belt; D is a
doffer for taking the fibre from the card belt B; E is a stripper for
stripping the fibre from the doffer; F and F are rollers for drawing the
fibre from doffer; G is a small porcupine; H and H' are rollers to draw
the fibre from the said porcupine; J is an endless belt around which the
fibre wraps. It is broken off and removed at intervals, and put along