IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR .APPARATUS FOR COMBING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Mortimer, of Bradford, in the County of York,
...Machine Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
.APPARATUS FOR COMBING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 15th February 1867, and dated the 18th August 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Mortimer at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th August 1866.
I, SAMUEL MORTIMER, of Bradford, in the County of York, Machine
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR COMBING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to machinery for combing wool and other fibrous
substances, commonly known as "Lister's machine," and in which the nipping
jaws and the transfer comb are worked or operated by a single train of gear
wheels from the main driving shaft of the machine. Now I find there is a
want of firmness or a springing or straining of the connecting parts which is

page_text: objectionable; I remedy this by having a double train of gear, or a train from
each end of the main shaft to drive these parts with, by which I obtain a
steady or firm action in the connecting and working parts of these machines.
о
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Mortimer in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th February 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
MORTIMER, of Bradford, in the County of York, Machine Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Samuel Mortimer, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel Mortimer,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Samuel Mortimer, 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 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 " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR COMBING WOOL OR OTHER FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel
Mortimer, 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 Samuel Mortimer, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to machinery for combing wool and other fibrous
substances, commonly known as "Lister's machine," and in which the
nipping jaws and the transfer comb are worked or operated by a single train
of gear wheels from the main driving shaft of the machine. Now I find

page_text: there is a want of firmness or a springing or straining of the connecting parts
which is objectionable; I remedy this by having a double train of gear, or a
train from each end of the main shaft to drive these parts with, by which I
obtain a steady or firm action in the connecting and working parts of these
machines.
In performing or carrying this Invention into practical effect I procure
duplicates of the gear wheels which are now employed to connect one end of
the main driving shaft of the machine with one end of each of the shafts
carrying the nipping jaws, the transfer comb, and also the dabbing brush by
which motion is now given thereto, and I apply these duplicates in like
manner to the opposite side of the machine connecting the other end of the
main shaft with the other ends of the shafts of the jaws, the comb, and the
dabbing brush, so that a more steady and firm motion is given to these parts
than by a single train, whereby these machines may be run at a quicker speed,
and thereby produce more work than heretofore.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is performed, I would have it understood that I do not confine
myself to nor claim the use of these or any particular kind of gear wheels or
other means of communicating motion to these parts; but what I do claim is
the double connection, or connecting both ends of the main shaft with those
parts to obtain a more steady or firm action thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Mortimer, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of February, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Samuel Mortimer,
in the presence of
ARTHUR B. CROSSLEY,
Clerk to William Tasker,
Patent Office,
Halifax.
SAM. MORTIMER. (L.S.)