IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPARATUS USED IN PREPARING AND COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick William Mowbray, of Bradford, in
the County of York, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS USED IN PREPARING AND COMBING WOOL AND
OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS."
the County of York, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS USED IN PREPARING AND COMBING WOOL AND
OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS."
Sealed the 29th September 1853, and dated the 7th April 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick William
Mowbray at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 7th April 1853.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM MOWBRAY, of Bradford, in the County of
York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for." IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS USED IN PREPARING AND COMBING WOOL AND OTHER
FIBROUS MATERIALS" to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to that class of machines used in preparing
and combing wool, where portions of fibre are detached from the
feeding means by nipping instruments, and thence taken by a carrying
or transferring comb, by which they are successively laid on to the
passing combs.

page_text: And the improvement consists,-
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First, in the application of a brush or series of brushes, or series of
teeth, arranged to force the fibre into the carrying or transferring
comb in a curved or straight line, corresponding to that in which the
passing comb is travelling, by which the fibre taken from the nipping
instrument will be in a position to be more effectually laid on to the
passing combs.
And, secondly, my Invention relates to the arrangement of the
nipping surfaces of the nipping instruments used in such machines, and
consists in forming one of such nipping surfaces with two or more ribs,
and the other with corresponding grooves lengthwise thereof, in order
better to hold the fibre which is being separated.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick William Mowbray, in the Great Seal
Patent Office, on the 6th October 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
FREDERICK WILLIAM MOWBRAY, of Bradford, in the County of York,
Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the sixteenth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Frederick William Mowbray, Her. special
licence that I, the said Frederick William Mowbray, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Frederick
William Mowbray, 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 APPARATUS USED IN PREFARING AND

page_text: COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Frederick William Mowbray, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Frederick William Mowbray,
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 following statement thereof (that is to
say):
My Invention relates to that class of machines used in preparing and
combing wool, where portions of fibre are detached from the feeding
means by nipping instruments, and thence taken by a carrying or
transferring comb, by which they are successively laid on to the passing
combs.
And the improvements consist, first, in the application of a brush
or series of brushes, or series of teeth, arranged to force the fibre into
the carrying or transferring comb in a curved or straight line, corre-
sponding to that in which the passing comb is travelling, by which the
fibre taken from the nipping instruments will be in a position to be
more effectually laid on to the passing combs.
And, secondly, my Invention relates to the arrangement of the
nipping surfaces of the nipping instruments used in such machines, and
consists in forming one of such nipping surfaces with two or more ribs,
and the other with corresponding grooves lengthwise thereof, in order
better to hold the fibre which is being separated.
But that the Invention may be fully understood, I will proceed to
describe the drawing hereto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, shows a side view, in section, of parts of apparatus, with my
improvements applied. And I would state, that I have not thought it
Figure 1, shows a side view, in section, of parts of apparatus, with my
improvements applied. And I would state, that I have not thought it
necessary to shew a complete machine, such being according to arrange-

page_text: ments for which Letters Patent have been granted to Messieurs Lister
and Donisthorpe, and now well understood. a, b, are the upper and lower
nippers of the nipping instrument employed to take the wool or other
fibrous material from the gill feeding apparatus; and c, is the carrying
or transferring comb employed to take the wool or other fibrous material
at the proper time from the nipping instrument, and lay it on to passing
combs. d, are series of points, or it may be a brush, into which the
points of the carrying comb enter after taking the fibre from between the
nipping instruments, so as to cause the fibre to be better pressed into and
more securely held by the teeth of the comb c; and when the fibre is to
be fed on to a circle of passing combs, I give to the teeth or brush d, a
curved form, as shown by Figure 2, corresponding somewhat to that of
the circle of combs on to which the fibre is to be laid by the carrier
comb c. The one shown is to a scale of three inches to the foot, and
is adapted to a circle of combs of forty-eight inches in diameter. When
the fibre is to be laid on to combs passing in a straight line, the form
of the teeth or brush c, is straight, as shown by Figure 3.
I would also state that, although I have shown the teeth or brush c,
affixed to the nipper a, it is not necessary that it should be so, as it may
be independent thereof, so long as such tooth or brush surface is
arranged or worked to come into position to act against the fibre
taken by the carrying comb, as explained.
The nipping surfaces a', and b', of the nipping instruments a and b,
are arranged according to the second part of the Invention. The one
surface having two, or it may be more than two ribs, and the other
having corresponding grooves, by which I am enabled to take a better
hold of the fibre than when only one rib or edge has been employed, as
heretofore, to act with a groove on such nipping instrument, to take
fibre from gill feeding apparatus, for the purpose of feeding it on to comb
teeth.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which I carry the same into effect, I would have it under-
stood that I do not confine myself to the precise details shown and
described, so long as the peculiar character of either part thereof be
retained.

page_text: First, the application of teeth or brush surfaces for the purpose of
pressing the wool or other fibre into the carrying or transferring comb,
so that such wool or other fibre may be in a better position to be laid
on to the passing combs, as explained.
Secondly, I claim the forming the nipping surfaces of nipping
instruments used to take wool or other fibrous materials from gill
feeding apparatus, to be fed on to comb teeth, with two or more rows
of ribs and corresponding grooves, as explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick William Mowbray, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of
September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-three.
FREDERICK WILLIAM. MOWBRAY. (L.S.)
15 Witness, WILLIAM J. SALLITT.