IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES
Year: 1884

page_text: We JOSEPH MIDGLEY, of Lady Royd Works, Bradford, Yorkshire, Machine
Maker, and JOHN EDWARD BEAULAND, of Harris Street, Bradford, Contractor, do
hereby declare the nature of our invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR
COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This Invention has reference to prior Letters Patent granted to John Walter
Bradley and Joseph Wood, bearing date June 30th A.D. 1882 N° 3088 which
invention, in addition to other things, consisted in feeding fibre to the teeth of the
comb from within the circle instead of from without as was previously the case.
Our improvements therein relate to the means or method to be employed in trapping
or holding the fibre at a point just before it is drawn through the teeth of the comb;
and for this purpose we employ a number of loose segments which when put
together form a circle, but they are so placed and arranged that the full weight of
each segment rests upon the fibre, and they are so far independant of each other
that when an unequal sliver of fibre is passing under one segment, such segment will
raise and adjust itself without effecting any other of the segments.
In order however that the invention may be better understood reference is made
to the accompanying sheet of drawings wherein Fig 1, is sectional elevation and
Fig 2, plan view of so much of the Bradley and Wood's combing machine as is
necessary to illustrate our improvements. A is the circular comb having pius
therein as usual, which it will be seen are fed with fibre B from within the circle..
C is a conical shaped casting rotating on an incline within the circle A, and our
improvements are shewn at D and E, the former of which is a trap capable of
sliding up and down the guide E, having its lower edge resting upon the fibre as it
travells from the ball F to the teeth of the comb. It will be observed that the
guide E is secured to the periphery of the casting C, by screws or other means,
and that the traps D have grooves formed in each side thereof, and are capable of
sliding up and down the guide according to the varying thicknes of sliver, and in
order that the trap may grip or bite the fibre, the bottom of the trap is serrated, as
is also the rim G, by which means the tufts of fibre are drawn from the sliver in a
radial line from the centre. By the employment of these traps, the whole weight

page_text: of which rost upon the fibre, that part of the sliver.not required in the combis
hold away therefrom, and the weight of the traps prevent unequal tufts from being
drawn out.
Although we have shown and described the application of traps D, consisting of
a dead weight, we would have it understood that hinged weights, such as arc
shewn in Fig 3, may be employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our maid
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is,
The use and employment of the segment traps. D and guides E, when applied to
combs where the fibre is fed from within the circle, in manner and for purposes
substantially as herein shown and described.