IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING AND COMBING WOOL
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
AMBLER, senior, of Manningham, near Bradford, York, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the First day of May, in the eighth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said James
Ambler, my exors, adñors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I; the said James Ambler, my exors, admors,
and assigns, her such others as I, the said James Ambler, my exors, adñors,
or 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 Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING AND
COMBING WOOL;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I,
the said James Ambler, shall cause a particular description of the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Ambler, do hereby declare that. the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof:―
I first prepare the wool. (Botany or. Saxony, or similar short fine wool), by
washing it, and then carding it in the usual manner so as to open out the
staples and separate the fibres. It ought to be carded as free as possible from
knots or slubs, or it will be difficult to make good work from it when combed.
After it has been well carded I then again wash it, and it is then filled on to
the combs by some suitable method whilst in a moist or damp state; and I
may here remark, that it is essential that it should be in a damp state, or
otherwise when combed the top produced. from the carding will not be good
and clear from trash. As the carding of fine short wool, and also the combing,
when taken separately, are well understood, and therefore do not require to be
more particularly described by me.
The novelty of my Invention consists in combing short fine wool upon
actuated combs, after being carded and washed. What I claim is,-
First, the carding of Botany, Saxony, or similar short fine wool (and I may
here state that my claim is only intended to apply.to such wools, and I dis-
claim all others), and then combing it upon aétuated .rotatory combs, each
having a movement towards their axis when revolving, and at the time of
combing the wool; and I would have it understood that I only claim for
combing such wools upon actuated combs after being carded:...
Secondly, I claim the backwashing of Botany, Saxony, or similar short fine
wools, after being carded and before being combed; and I would have it
understood, that my claim only extends to such descriptions of wool.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Ambler, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-five.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the.
-within-named James Ambler, in the
presence of,
JAMES (L.S.) AMBLER.

page_text: AND BE IT. REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of October,
in the year of our Lord 1845, the aforesaid James Ambler 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..
Enrolled the First day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-five..