IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, of the Firm of Robert-
son, Brooman,and Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London,
Patent Agents, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES."-A communication from abroad by
Amédée Provost of Roubaix, France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th October 1866.
I, CLINTON EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and
Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to combing machinery in which circular plates or
discs are employed in substitution for the old "dabbing" brushes for the
purpose of pressing the wool or other fibre into the pins or teeth of two rings
or circles to which the fibre is fed.
The present improvements consist in combining with the said circular plates
ordiscs an intermediatecircular plate, or disc, or other equivalent appliance in
front of the said circular plates or discs, and between those plates or discs
which work between the teeth or pins of the outer ring and those plates or
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page_text: discs which work between the teeth or pins of the inner ring, that is to say,
the intermediate disc or appliance is placed in the angle at the tangential
point of the two rings. This intermediate disc or appliance is for the purpose
of keeping the wool or other fibre at the tangential point. I prefer to employ
flat pins or teeth instead of pins or teeth of the ordinary round form, so that
the passage of the circular plates or discs between the rows of pins or teeth
is not interfered with.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman in the Great Seul Patent Office
on the 24th April 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CLINTON
EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and Company, of
166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent,bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said Clinton
Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns,or such others
as I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Broomau, 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 COMBING WOOL AND OTHER
FIBRES," (communicated to me from abroad by Amédée Prouvost, of Roubaix,
France,) upon thecondition(amongst others) that I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe
Brooman, my executors 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 Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, 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

page_text: following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to combing machinery in which circular rotating
plates or discs are employed in substitution for the old " dabbing "brushes
for the purpose of pressing the wool or other fibre into the pins or teeth of two
rings or circular combs to which the fibre is fed.
The present improvements consist in combining with the said circular plates
or discs an intermediate circular plate or disc, or other equivalent appliance
in front of the said circular plates or discs and between those plates or discs
which work between the teeth or pins of the outer ring or circular comb and
those plates or discs which work between the teeth or pins of the inner ring
or circular comb, that is to say, the intermediate disc or appliance is placed in
the angle at the tangential point of the two rings or circular combs. This
intermediate disc or appliance is for the purpose of keeping the wool or other
fibre in the teeth or pins of the combs, so that the fibres cannot come out
when the separation of the two combs is effected.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a sectional elevation of a
combing machine with this Invention applied thereto; Figure 2 is a side
elevation, and Figure 3 a horizontal section taken just above the circular
plates of a portion of the machine on a larger scale.
A is the outer or larger ring or circle of the machine with rows of pins or
teeth forming combs; B and B¹ are two of several of the smaller or inner
rings or circles having also rows of pins or teeth. Each of these smaller
rings or circles at one part of its revolution comes in contact with or in close
proximity to the outer ring A, as clearly seen in Figure 3, and as is the case
iu all combing machines of this description which are known as "Nobles."
C, D, are two circular plates or discs which work between the rows of
pins or teeth of the outer ring A ; and E, E, are two circular plates or discs
which work between the rows of pins or teeth of the inner ring B; these
four plates act as shewn at the tangential point of these two rings; they
cause the slivers supplied to the latter to penetrate, and they hold them
during the combing; G, H, are two other discs, one for each ring, and set
higher than the four discs C, D, E, F, for the purpose of partially keeping
down the slivers; I is an intermediate circular plate or disc in front of the
other discs, and set between the disc C, D, and the discs E, F, in the angle
at the tangential point of the two rings as shewn. This disc I serves to keep
the wool or other fibre in the teeth or pins of the combs, as before mentioned.
It is the employment of this intermediate circular plate or disc I or other
equivalent-appliance in the particular situation shown that constitutes the

page_text: main feature of the present Invention. The other parts of the machine will
be fully understood by the Drawings. I prefer to employ flat pins or teeth
instead of pins,or teeth of the ordinary round form, so that the passage of the
circular plates or discs between the rows of pins or teeth is not interfered
with.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,―
First, the employment in combing machinery of the description herein-
before mentioned of the intermediate circular plate or disc I, or other
equivalent appliance in the particular situation and for the purpose herein-
before described and represented in the accompanying Drawings.
Second, the employment in machinery of the description herein-before
mentioned of flat pins or teeth instead of pins or teeth of.the ordinary round
form, as and for the purpose herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of April, Onethousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven.