IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CARDING AND COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FILAMENTOUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Emile Alcan, of Coleman Street Buildings, in the City
of London, Merchant, for, the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
FOR CARDING AND COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FILAMENTOUS SUBSTANCES." -A
communication from abroad by Celestin Martin, of Forge Thiry lez
Verviers, Belgium.
Sealed the 25th February 1862, and dated the 2nd September 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Emile Alcan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd September
1861.
I, EMILE ALCAN; of Coleman Street Buildings, in the City of London, Mer-
chant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY POR CARDING AND COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FILAMENTOUS SUBSTANCES,"
(communicated to me from abroad by Celestin Martin, of Forge Thiry lez
Verviers, Belgium,) to be as follows:-
This Invention will be understood by reference to the accompanying
Drawings, and the following description thereof.
A, A, Figure 1, are rollers, and B, B', Figures 1 and 2, are comb cylinders;
C, C, Figures 1 and 2, are draw rollers, which draw the sliver formed by the
funnel tubes D, D.; E, E, Figure 2, are combs which detach the wool from
the comb cylinders B, B'; F, F, Figure 2, are rollers for drawing the sliver
led upon the endless web G, and for imparting to it a direction corresponding

page_text: with that of the wool detached from the comb and towards the funnel tube.
When the sliver issues from the upper draw rollers C, C, it descends on to the
endless web G, and is then passed through the draw rollers F, F, gathers in
passing the wool from the lower comb cylinder, which is rolled with it by the
rotary action of the funnel tube D', and issues through the draw rollers C', C'
It is not essential that the sliver should pass on to the endless wob, and the
web may be dispensed with by changing places with the lower draw rollers
C', C, and funnel tube D' and tho draw rollers. F, F, and causing the sliver
on issuing from the upper rollers C, C, to enter directly between the lower
rollers. Figures 3 and 4 arc side elevation and section of an improved bearing
for carrying the cylinders. The shank of the bearing is secured to the
frame H E is a movable socket formed with a funnel F, and pivotted upon
the shank by means of a stud G fixed in the centre of the head thereof, which
enters a hole made for its reception in the socket at I. The advantage of this
bearing is, that it always receives uniformly over its whole length the pressure
of tho cylinder, whereby the rapid wear of the bearing or of the axis of thic
cylinder is prevented when from any cause the shank or the cylinder beconies
out of truth.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters, Patent, filed
by the said Emilo Alcan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st March
1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EMILE
ALOAN, of Coleman Street Buildings, in the City of London, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Emile Alcan, Her special licence that I, the said Emile Alcan,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as. I, the. said Emile
Alcan, 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 IN
MACHINERY FOR CARDING AND COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FILAMENTOUS SUE-

page_text: STANCES," (a communication from abroad by Celestin Martin, of Forge Thiry
lez Verviers, Belgium,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Emile Alcan, my executers or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, 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 I, the said Emile Alcan, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that
is to say:-
This Invention will be understood by reference to the accompanying
Drawings, and the following description thereof.
A, A, Figure 1, are rollers, and B, B', Figures 1 and 2, are comb cylinders;
C, C, Figures 1 and 2,, are draw rollers, which draw the sliver formed by the
funnel tubes D, D'; E, E, Figure 1', are combs which detach the wool from
the comb cylinders B, B'; F, F, Figure 2, are rollers for drawing the sliver
led upon the endless web G, and for imparting to it a direction corresponding
with that of the wool detached from the comb and towards the funnel tube.
When the sliver issues from the upper draw rollers C, C, it descends on to
the endless web G, and is then passed through the draw rollers F, F, gathers
in passing the wool from the lower comb cylinder, which is rolled with it by
the rotary action of the funnel tube D', and issues through the draw rollers
C, C. It is not essential that the sliver should pass on to the endless web,
and the web may be dispensed with by changing places with the lower draw
rollers C, C, and funnel tube D' and the draw rollers F, F, and causing the
sliver on issuing from the upper rollers C, C, to enter directly between the lower
rollers. Figures 3 and 4 are side elevation and section of an improved bearing
for carrying the cylinders. The shank of the bearing is secured to the
frame H; E is a movable socket formed with a funnel F, and pivotted upon
the shank by means of a stud G fixed in the centre of the head thereof, which
enters a hole made for its reception in the socket at I. The advantage of
this bearing is, that it always receives uniformly over its whole length the
pressure of the cylinder, whereby the rapid wear of the bearing or of the axis
of the cylinder is prevented when from any cause the shank or the cylinder
becomes out of truth.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, I'declare that I claim the machinery
for carding and combing wool and other filamentous substances, constructed
and acting substantially in manner herein-before described:
In witness whereof, I, the said Emile Alcan, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of March, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-two