CERTAIN IM- PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR COMBING WOOL, COTTON, SILK, FLAX, AND OTHER SUITABLE FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1852

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Jesse Ross at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 5th
October 1852.
(Void by reason of notice to proceed not having been given within the
time prescribed by the Act.)
I, JESSE Ross, of Keighley, in the County of York, Gentleman
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR COMBING WOOL, COTTON,
SILK, FLAX, AND OTHER SUITABLE FIBROUS MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
The nature of this Invention, and the principle of construction which
form the bases thereof, consists in certain new mechanical combinations
and arrangements of parts, hereafter mentioned and described, consti-
tuting a machine or machinery and other apparatus for combing wool,
cotton, silk, flax, and other suitable fibrous materials.
Firstly. Sheet No 1. This part of my Invention relates, in the first
place, to improvements in the mode of filling vertical combs at two or
more angles, and working them or combing the wool at other angles,
whereby a material saving of labor is effected in not having to change
the combs from one machine to the other previous to the combing
process being-finished they are first filled and then combed.

page_text: Secondly. Sheet N° 2. In filling and combing with combs and card
or fine teeth rollers or cylinders vertically at each angle, the cards
bringing up fresh surfaces to the combs. Combs on axes may be ap-
plied in the same way. These two views are ground views looking
down on the machine.
Thirdly. Sheet No 3, are three views of the same machine; it con-
sists in arranging and filling rotary combs, and partly combing at the
same time by cards on rollers divided in, rows or fine teeth working
with grooved rollers, and in the mode of applying card or fine teeth
rollers or cylinders to combs, or to comb with rotary or oval combs, the
card or fine teeth rollers or cylinders always presenting fresh surfaces
as they revolve and apply themselves to the comb and combing out
the material.
Fourthly. Sheet No 4. In applying the same combinations to oval
combs or combs passing in an oval course, with two long sides, and
round, or nearly so, at the ends.
Fifthly. Sheet N° 5, two views. In applying the same combina-
tions, but larger for longer staple, see Figure 7, for filling oval combs
passing in an oval course, with two long sides, and round, or nearly, at
the ends; and in applying rotary combs on axes to comb out the ma-
terial, and in applying apparatus for cleaning or removing the material
from the combs, see Figure 8, 8; and the mode of combing generally
being new, I would observe that the material is intended, when applied
to each or any of the above machines, to have had a preparatory
process by sheeting, or formed into slivers, as patented by me, 13
March 1851, or carded. And I recommend two or three or more of
the slivers so prepared to be run through a hollow tube with a jet
of steam let into the box as it passes into the balling head, as at
Figure 9. Figure 10, 10, presses for pressing down the wool in the
chambers of the combs.
Sixthly. Sheet No 6, is a mode of drawing loose combs, and combing
and carding the shorter material, which are called backings and milk-
ings, as they come from the combs, which are again operated on with
fresh materials, leaving nothing but the noil and refuse in the chambers
of the combs. These apparatuses are also to be applied to rotary or

page_text: oval combs when required for the same purpose, or any other differing
in shape to vertical, as my Patent of 1841, being new in combing in
other shapes.
I wish it to be distinctly understood that I intend by the foregoing
description to set forth the principles only of these my said improve-
ments, reserving to myself such variations of form and construction of
the parts as practice may suggest, without departing from the principles
of construction upon which the said improvements are based.