IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO COMBING MACHINERY
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Milligan, of Harden Mills, Bingley,
in the County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
Sealed the 25th January 1853, and dated the 1st December 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Milligan at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 1st December 1852.
I, ROBERT MILLIGAN, of Harden Mills, Bingley, in the County
of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO COMBING MACHINERY" to be as
follows:-
This Invention is applicable to combing machinery, in which the
combs constantly move or are slided in the same direction, to have
the wool and noil drawn off therefrom.
The improvements consist in applying a plate and a conical roller
to direct or control the wool in its passage to pressing or drawing
off rollers, and also in applying an open frame of wire or metal work,
which, being within the teeth of the combs, raises the noil in the

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said Robert Milligan in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 31st May 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
ROBERT MILLIGAN, of Harden Mills, Bingley, in the County of York,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said Robert Milligan, Her special
licence that I, the said Robert Milligan, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert Milligan,
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
"IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO COMBING MACHINERY," upon the condi-
tion (amongst others) that I, the said Robert Milligan, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Robert Milligan, 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):
This Invention is applicable to combing machinery, in which the

page_text: combs constantly move or are slided in the same direction, to have
the wool and noil drawn off therefrom.
The improvements consist in applying a plate and a conical roller
to direct or control the wool in it's passage to pressing or draw-
ing off rollers, and also in applying an open frame of wire or metal
work, which, being within the teeth of the combs, raises the noil in
the teeth, and facilitates the same being removed in a continuous
sliver by pressing or drawing off rollers; and in order that the In-
vention may be most fully understood and readily carried into effect,
I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.
combs constantly move or are slided in the same direction, to have
the wool and noil drawn off therefrom.
The improvements consist in applying a plate and a conical roller
to direct or control the wool in it's passage to pressing or draw-
ing off rollers, and also in applying an open frame of wire or metal
work, which, being within the teeth of the combs, raises the noil in
the teeth, and facilitates the same being removed in a continuous
sliver by pressing or drawing off rollers; and in order that the In-
vention may be most fully understood and readily carried into effect,
I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING,
Which shows so much of a combing machine as will enable me to
explain the nature of my improvements. a, a, is a comb, moving
in the direction of the arrow; b, b, are drawing off rollers, which are
inclined to the comb, as they have heretofore in some cases been ar-
ranged; c, is a conical roller to which rotary motion is communicated,
and it is by the revolution of this conical roller in a direction away
from the comb which causes the wool to come more correctly to the
drawing off rollers; d, is an angular plate, which receives and
partly supports the wool as it leaves the conical roller in it's passage
to the drawing off rollers. For the purpose of drawing off the noil
in a continuous sliver, I combine with the conical roller the use of
a frame of wires or metal work within the teeth of the comb, which,
being raised
up as the comb travels along it's bed or gauntree, raises
the noil up in the teeth of the comb, and facilitates it's removal in
a continuous sliver by drawing off rollers. The diameter of the
conical roller and the distance of the drawing off rollers from the
comb are governed, as will readily be understood, by the length of
fibre to be combed by a machine.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that
what I claim is, the application of a conical roller, as herein described,

page_text: and, for the removal of the noil, the combining therewith a frame
of wire or metal work working within the comb.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Milligan, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of May, in
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
year
the
three.
Signed and sealed in the presence of
SAM. WEATHERHEAD, Sol'.,
Bingley, Yorkshire.
THO HALLOWES, his Clerk.