IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Isaac Battinson, George Battinson, Commission
:
Wool Combers, and Thomas Whitehead, Overlooker, all of Halifax,
in the County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES."
Sealed the 9th November 1869, and dated the 13th May 1869.
George Battinson, and Thomas Whitehead, at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 13th
May 1869.
We, ISAAC BATTINSON, GEORGE BATTINSON, Commission Wool
Combers, and THOMAS WHITEHEAD, Overlooker, all of Halifax, in the
County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention

page_text: for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a means of dispensing with the apparatus
" Noble's
and gearing heretofore employed on what is known as
machine," for actuating or imparting the necessary rotation to the
"small circle," or the small circular comb of such machines. This we
effect by placing the "small circle" nearer the large circular comb,
and the "dabbing brush" is so arranged that a portion of the wool
(being combed or operated upon) is forced upon the small circle or
comb; such wool or fibre being part of or intermingled with that on the
larger comb. The tensional strain exerted on such fibre by the rotation
of the large circle or comb draws on the small circle or comb and
imparts the necessary rotary motion without the wheels and shafts or
spindles and stud as heretofore employed for the purpose, and less power
is required for working such machine,
Whitehead in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th November
1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ISAAC
BATTINSON, GEORGE BATTINSON, Commission Wool Combers, and
THOMAS WHITEHEAD, Overlooker, all of Halifax, in the County of York,
Bend greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Isaac Battinson, George Battinson,
and Thomas Whitehead, Her special licence that we, the said Isaac
Battinson, George Battinson, and Thomas Whitehead, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Isaac Battin-
son, George Battinson, and Thomas Whitehead, our exccutors, adminis-

page_text: trators 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 MACHINERY
FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Isaac Battinson, George Battinson, and
Thomas Whitehead, our executors or administrators, 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, 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 Isaac Battinson, George Battinson,
and Thomas Whitehead, 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 state-
ment:-
This Invention relates to a means of dispersing with the apparatus
and gearing heretofore employed on what is known as " Noble's
machine," for actuating or imparting the necessary rotation to the
"small circles," or the small circular combs of such machines. This we
effect by placing when constructing new machines the "small circles
nearer the large circular comb, and the "dabbing brush" is so arranged
that a portion of the wool (being combed or operated upon) is forced
upon the small circles or combs; such wool or fibre being part of or
intermingled with that on the larger comb. The tensional strain exerted
on the wool or fibre by the rotation of the large circle or comb draws on
the small circles or combs and imparts the necessary rotary motion on
their bearings without the wheels and shafts or spindles and stud as
heretofore employed for the purpose, and less power is required for
working such machine.
It will be evident to persons practically acquainted with this machine
that by employing the wool travelling on the larger comb as the agent
or means of imparting the necessary rotation of the little combs we

page_text: dispense with the gearing heretofore employed for actuating such combs,
and obtain perfect uniformity of rotation of all the combs.
In witness whereof, we, the said Isaac Battinson, George Battinson,
and Thomas Whitehead, have hereunto set our hands and seals,
this Eleventh day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Witness,
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Patent Agent,
ISAAC BATTINSON.
GEORGE BATTINSON.
(L.S.)
(L.S.)
THOMAS WHITEHEAD. (L.S.)
Halifax & Blackburn.