IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES FOR SPINNING
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Tomlinson Bousfield, of Sussex Place,
Loughborough Road, Brixton, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention
of IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES FOR
SPINNING." A communication from Jean Joseph Jules Picrrard.
led the 24th July 1855, and dated the 9th March 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Tomlinson Bous-
field at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 9th March 1855.
I, GEORGE TOMLINSON BOUSFIELD, of Sussex Place, Loughborough Road,
Brixton, in the County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES FOR
SPINNING" to be as follows:-
On the Nineteenth day of November, One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-two, a Patent was granted to Jean Joseph Jules Pierrard for "Improve-
ments in Preparing Wool and other Fibrous Substances for Combing;" in the
Specification of which Patent is described a process consisting of subjecting
the fibre preparatory to combing the same to the action of a machine working
with a series of combs or rows of points, each of which combs or rows of
points is by the action of the machine caused to progress faster and faster as
it recedes from the point at which it first enters the wool.
Now, the present Invention consists of subjecting wool and other fibres
after they have received their last combing to the action of the machine above

page_text: described, or other analagous machine working with combs or rows of points
travelling progressively faster and faster from the point at which they enter
the fibre.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Tomlinson Bousfield in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 27th August 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
TOMLINSON BOUSFIELD, of Sussex Place, Loughborough Road, Brixton, in the
County of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said George Tomlinson Bousfield, Her special licence that I, the
said George Tomlinson Bousfield, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said George Tomlinson Bousfield, my executors,
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 ex-
pressed, 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 PREPARING WOOL AND OTHER
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES FOR SPINNING," (a communication from Jean Joseph Jules
Pierrard,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George
Tomlinson Bousfield, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
scal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 George Tomlinson Bousfield, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof (that is to say):-
On the Nineteenth day of November, One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-two, a Patent was granted to Jean Joseph Jules Pierrard, for "Improve-
ments in Preparing Wool and other Fibrous Substances for Combing;" in the
Specification of which Patent is described a process consisting of subjecting
the fibre preparatory to combing the same to the action of a machine working

page_text: with a series of combs or rows of points, each of which combs or rows of
points is by the action of the machine caused to progress faster and faster as
it recedes from the point at which it first enters the wool.
Now, the present Invention consists of subjecting wool and other fibres
after they have received their last combing to the action of the machine above
described, or other analagous machine working with combs or rows of points
travelling progressively faster and faster from the point at which they enter
the fibre.
And in order that the said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a vertical and longitudinal section of a machine adapted for
treating fibres according to my Invention, and which machine it will be seen
is very similar to the machine described in the Specification of Jean Joseph
Jules Pierrard's Patent, dated the Nineteenth day of November, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-two; but, as now arranged, the machine is adapted to
receive slivers of wool and other fibres in place of being fed by an endless
apron, as is the case with the machine therein described.
A, A, is the main framing of the machine; B is the main axis, on which
are keyed the pinions represented by a red line. These pinions gear into
and drive the toothed wheel D, which runs loose on the fixed axis E, and also
the toothed wheel F, fixed on the axis of the under feed roller G. His a
circular plate, which is bolted to the toothed wheel D. In this circular plate
are curved slots h, h, into or through which the ends of the combs I pass, and
the ends of the combs I are formed to the same curve as the slots h to prevent
the combs from turning on their axes. J, J, is a curved course or opening by
which the combs I are guided; it is the space or interval between the piece
K attached to the main framing, and the piece Lattached to the fixed axis E.
The stems of the combs pass through the course or opening J and into or
through the plate H; the parts of the stems which work in the course J are
cylindrical. M is a roller, which turns freely on its axis, which is carried in
bearings attached to the piece K. The sliver of wool or other fibre enters the
machine between the lower feed roller G and the upper feed roller, which is
driven thereby by surface contact; the sliver then passes under the roller M,
which presents it in a favourable position to be taken by the teeth of the combs.
The gearing of the machine must be so arranged that the speed of the teeth
at the point at which they come in contact with the fibre shall be the same, or
slightly superior to the surface speed of the feed roller G. When the sliver

page_text: is in the teeth, these teeth, by travelling progressively faster and faster as they
recede from the point at which they take the sliver, attenuate the same, and
straighten the fibres of which it is constituted. On arriving at the end of the
upper part of the course J, the combs I descend out of the sliver, which then
passes between the roller N and the upper roller, which is driven thereby by
surface contact. The roller N is geared with the wheel D in such a manner
that its surface speed is the same or slightly superior to the speed of the combs
at the point at which they descend out of the sliver. O is a brush to stop
any fibres taken up by the upper roller. From these rollers the sliver passes
to the funnels P and the rollers Q, the lower one of which is geared, so as to
run at the same surface speed of the roller N. The sliver is then wound and
distributed on the roller R in the ordinary manner. I would remark, that I
have only thought it necessary to show a longitudinal section of this machine,
as the parts on the side not shewn are precisely similar to those indicated in
the Drawing, and the machine may be made of any convenient width.
Figure 2 shows the manner in which two of these machines may be com-
bined together when considered desirable. A detailed description will not be
necessary. I would only remark that the gearing must be such that the speed
of the second series of teeth on entering the sliver must be equal to the speed
at which the sliver is delivered by the first series of teeth, and the second series
of teeth may advantageously be made finer than the first series of teeth.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to
the exact details described; but what I claim is, the subjecting slivers of wool
and other fibres after they have received their last combing to the action of
combs or rows of points travelling progressively faster and faster as they recede
from the point at which they enter the fibre.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Tomlinson Bousfield, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness;
W. S. HARRISON,
New Court, St. Swithin's Lane,
London.
GEO. T. BOUSFIELD. (L.S)