IMPROVEMENTS IN THAT CLASS OF COMBING MACHINERY KNOWN AS 'NOBLE'S MACHINE.
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Blakey Anderton, of the Firm of
S. Anderton & Sons, of Bradford, in the County of York, Worsted
Spinners, and John Gouldin, of the same Place, Combing Over-
looker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THAT CLASS OF COMBING
MACHINERY KNOWN AS 'NOBLE'S MACHINE.'
Sealed the 27th May 1873, and dated the 30th November 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Blakey
Anderton and John Gouldin at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 30th November 1872.
We, SAMUEL BLAKEY ANDERTON, of the Firm of S. Anderton & Sons,
of Bradford, in the County of York, Worsted Spinners, and JOHN
GOULDIN, of the same Place, Combing Overlooker, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THAT CLASS OF COMBING
MACHINERY KNOWN AS 'NOBLE'S MACHINE,' to be as follows:-
"
These improvements consist in dispensing with three of the four
funnels now used in connection with the "Noble's machine" for
receiving and conducting the slivers from tho, drawing-off Icathers to the

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"balling head or apparatus for balling the sliver; also all belts and
bands employed for driving the same, and instead of which we only
employ one funnel, placed so as to receive all the four slivers, and this
funnel we drive by shaft and gear wheels, either direct or by inter-
mediate gear from the main driving shaft of the machine, or by other
positive driving means, whereby we avoid any "break down" or breakage
of the slivers, and the consequent stoppage of the machine for piecing
- them.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Blakey Anderton and John Gouldin in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th May 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, SAMUEL
BLAKEY ANDERTON, of the Firm of S. Anderton and Sons, of Bradford,
in the County of York, Worsted Spinners, and JOHN GOULDIN, of the
same Place, Combing Overlooker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Samuel Blakey Anderton and John
Gouldin, Her special licence that we, the said Samuel Blakey Anderton
and John Gouldin, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said Samuel Blakey Anderton and John Gouldin,
our 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 IN THAT CLASS OF COMBING MACHINERY KNOWN AS ⚫ NOBLE'S
MACHINE,' upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Samuel
Blakey Anderton and John Gouldin, 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
"""

page_text: wheel T gearing with another bevil wheel T" keyed on the main shaft A,
by which means a positive motion is given to the funnel G.
It will now be seen that when motion is communicated to the machine
the two slivers U and U', as taken off the large comb by the drawing-off
rollers U and Us, and the two slivers V and V' taken off the two smaller
combs by the drawing-off rollers V2 and V³ are all conducted to and pass
through the funnel G together, thence between the pair of rollers W to
the guide W¹, and between the pair of rollers X, thence through the
guide Y to the ordinary balling machine Z.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and shewn by
Drawings and explanation thereof the manner in which the same is
performed or carried into practice, we would have it understood that we
do not confine ourselves to the precise details shewn and described, as it
is evident that the shaft K may be continued towards the shaft A, and
driven direct therefrom by means of a pair of bevil wheels without the
intermediate wheels P, Q, and R, or that the funnel Ġ may be driven
direct by chain or belt from a pulley on the main shaft and a pair of
gallows pulleys placed in suitable position, but what we claim as our
Invention is, the constructing and arranging this class of combing
machines so that the four slivers may be conducted to and passed' through
one and the same funnel together, forming one sliver.
In witness whereof, we, the said Samuel Blakey Anderton and
John Gouldin, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Twenty-ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-three.
Witness,
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Tasker & Brierley,
S. B. ANDERTON. (L.S.)
J. GOWLDIN.,
(L.S.)
Patent Agents,
Halifax, Bradford, & Blackburn.