CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBS FOR COMBING WOOL
Year: 1838

page_text: TO. ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN PERRY,
of Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Wool Comb Maker, send greeting...
WHEREAS I did, by Petition, represent unto Her most Excellent Majesty
Queen Victoria that I had invented "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBS FOR
COMBING WOOL," and Her said Majesty, being willing to encourage all useful
Inventions, did issue Her Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great
Britain, bearing: date at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh day of June, in
the second year of Her reign, whereby Her said Majesty did, for Herself, Her
heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John; Perry, Her espe
cial licence that: I, the said John Perry, my exors, admiors, and assigns, or such
others.as I, the said John Perry, my, exors, admiors, and assigns, should at any
time agree: with, and no, others, from time to time and at all times during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend,, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my said Invention, in which said Letters. Patent there is a proviso
obliging me, the said John Perry, by an instrument in writing under my band
and seal, particularly, to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed; and to cause the same
to be enrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months.next,and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
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NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Perry, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,

page_text: and in what manner the same is to be performed, by the following statement
thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed and the letters
marked thereon (that is to say):-
My improvements relate to the application of a peculiar construction of
teeth to the combs used in combing wool, whereby I am enabled to obtain a
larger number of teeth of the required strength in a given surface than can
be obtained when using the ordinary teeth of wool combs. In constructing
combs for combing wool as at present used, whether for hand or machine
combing, the section of any part of each tooth of the comb is circular; now
in combs made according to my Invention the teeth are flattened at two
sides from the lower or butt end for some distance along the tooth towards
the point, and the compressed or flattened sides of the teeth are placed towards
each other in the head of the comb, so much of the length of the tooth to be
so flattened or compressed as. will effect the object in view, namely, that of
placing a greater number of teeth in a row of a given length and strength
than can be effected by the circular form of the tooth now in use, and will
allow as much space to be left between the teeth at the lower or butt end as
by the form of the tooth now in use.. My improvements will increase the
fineness of the comb, that is to say, its capacity for clearing or combing wool,
without diminishing the strength of the tooth in the direction in which
the strength is required in the use of it. My improvements can be applied
both to combs worked by the hand and to combes used in machinery, my
Invention relating to the nature and application of a peculiar construction
of teeth to combs in combing wool.
The Drawing annexed to these Presents:-Letter A represents a tooth such
as is employed by me; B represents the head of a hand comb with teeth
therein made according to my improvements; and C, the head of a like comb
with teeth therein according to the form now in use. By which it will
readily be seen, that in using or applying teeth such as is shewn at A to combs
for combing wool, the comb maker will be enabled to place more teeth of
the required strength in a given space as above explained. And I would have
it understood that what I claim as my Invention is, application of flattened
teeth to combs for combing wool as above described..:
In witness whereof, I, the said John Perry; have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
JOHN PERRY. (L.S.).

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighth day of August, in the
year of our Lord 1838, the aforesaid John Perry came before our said Lady
the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Thirteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.