IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR COMBING "
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Terry and John Scott, of Dudley Hill, near
Bradford, in the County of York, Commission Wool Combers, for an
Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR COMBING
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Terry and John
Scott at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th October
1881.
WILLIAM TERRY and JOHN SCOTT, of Dudley Hill, near Bradford, in the County
of York, Commission Wool Combers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
This Invention relates to improved apparatus for feeding wool in detached tufts
to circular combs, and is specially adapted for the class of combing apparatus
described by us in the Specification of prior Letters Patent granted to us, and
dated February 17th, A.D. 1879, No. 625.
Our improved feeding apparatus consists of a small gill head placed outside the
circular comb therein described, between which comb and the gill head are fixed a
pair of nipping jaws, which are stationary, except for their opening and closing
movement. The gill head has a horizontal reciprocatory motion imparted to it to
and from the nipping jaws by means of suitable cranks and connecting rods, and
at each movement from the nipping jaws a tuft of wool is drawn off from the gill
combs, and held by the nipping jaws until transferred to the circular comb by
means of a flexible transfer comb or other suitable apparatus.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Terry and John Scott in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 13th April 1882.
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WILLIAM TERRY and JOHN SCOTT, of Dudley Hill, near Bradford, in the County
of York, Commission Wool Combers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
This Invention relates to improved apparatus for feeding wool in detached tufts
to circular combs, and is specially adapted for the class of combing apparatus
described by us in the Specification of prior Letters Patent granted to us, and
dated February 17th, A.D. 1879, No. 625.
For feeding the tufts of wool to the circular comb we employ a small gill head
placed outside thereof, and between the comb and the gill head are placed a pair
of nipping jaws, which are stationary, except for their opening and closing move-
ment. The gill head has a horizontal reciprocatory motion imparted to it to and
from the nipping jaws by means of suitable cranks and connecting rods, and at.
each movement from the nipping jaws a tuft of wool is drawn off from the gill
combs and held by the nipping jaws until transferred to the circular comb by
means of a flexible transfer comb or other suitable apparatus.
In order that our Invention may be more fully understood, we herein give
reference to the accompying Sheets of Drawings marked with figures and letters
of reference.
Fig. 1 represents a side elevation partly in section of our improved maching,
comprising both large and small circular combs, arranged as described in the
Specification of Patent hereinbefore referred to, and our improved feeding apparatus,
the former being partly in section; and Fig. 2 represents a plan view thereof.
1 is the large circular comb, and 2 the smaller one. The large comb is wido
enough, or has sufficient rows of teeth to support the whole of the tuft, with the
exception of the short fringe 3 containing the noil, which has to be pressed into
the smaller comb, and is supported above the points of the teeth thereof by the
guide plate 11.
In the frame 4 are mounted a pair of nipping jaws 5, and upon the bed 6 is
mounted a sliding gill head 7. At each revolution of the crank 8 the gill head is
brought close up to the open nipping jaws, which are then closed upon the pro-
jecting fringe of wool, and the gill combs receding a tuft of wool is drawn off, and
as the jaws open the tuft is taken by the flexible transfer comb 9, which bends to
the shape of the circle by being pressed against the plate 34 by means of the
pendulum lever 33. The tuft is then dabbed into the teeth of the large circle
comb by the dabbing brush 10, the fringe or noil end 3 projecting inside the comb.
In this position it is carried round by the large circle comb, and the projecting
fringe or noil end supported by the plate 11, as shewn, until reaching the tangent
point of the two circles, when it is dabbed or pressed into the teeth of the inner
circle by the dabbing brush 12, the divergence of the two circles combing the
fibres, and a sliver drawn off from each comb by means of the drawing rollers 13
and 14.
The mechanism of the gill head is operated by means of a ratchet wheel 15,
levers 16, pawls 17, and rods 18. The rods are attached to the frame, so that as
the gill head approaches the nipping jaws the lower catch turns the ratchet wheel
round the upper catch, slipping over the teeth, whilst in the receding motion the
upper catch is in operation and the lower one out of gear. On the same shaft as
the ratchet wheel is a toothed wheel 19, which gears with a pinion wheel 20 on

page_text: shaft 21, and by means of bevil wheels on this shaft the screws 22 for operating
the gills are caused to revolve.
The nipping jaws are opened and closed by means of cams on shaft 23, which
shaft also carries an eccentric 24 for operating the flexible transfer comb 9.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, we would have it understood that we claim,—
Firstly. The employment of a reciprocatory gill head 7 in combination with
stationary nipping jaws 5 for preparing tufts of wool for transfer to a circular
comb.
Secondly. The combination of a flexible comb 9 with the gill head 7 and nipping
jaws 5, as and for the purpose herein shewn and described.
Thirdly. The use in combination with the gill head 7, nipping jaws 5, and
flexible comb 9 of a circular comb 1 sufficiently wide to receive and support the
whole of the tuft, with the exception of the noil end thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Terry, for and on behalf of myself
and the said John Scott, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh
day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
eighty two.
WILLIAM TERRY. (L.S.)