CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING FIBROUS MATERIALS TO BE COMBED OR SPUN
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Augustin Morel, of Roubaix, France, and No. 4,
South Street, Finsbury, London, Wool Comber, for the Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING FIBROUS MATERIALS
TO BE COMBED OR SPUN."
Sealed the 19th February 1856, and dated the 4th September 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Augustin Morel at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 4th
September 1855.
I, AUGUSTIN MOREL, of Roubaix, France, & 4, South Street, Finsbury,
London, Wool Comber, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING FIBROUS MATERIALS TO
BE COMBED OR SPUN " to be as follows, that is to say:-
The object of this Invention is to disentangle & lay parallel the fibres of
fibrous matters preparatory to combing or spinning. The improvements con-
sists in applying a cylinder supplied with needles on its circumference to the
ordinary gill box. One end of the fibrous material is introduced into the
needles either by the hand or mechanically, an endless cloth serving to present
the other end of the fibres not engaged in the needles of the cylinder to the
gill box. The matter may be treated at option, according to its nature,

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Augustin Morel in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
4th March 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AUGUSTIN
MOREL, of Roubaix, France, and No. 4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Wool Comber, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty, Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Augustin Morel, Her special license that 1, the said Augustin
Morel, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Augustin Morel, my exécutors, 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 "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING FIBROUS MATERIALS TO BE COMBED OR
SPUN," upon the condition (amongst others) that. I, the said Augustin Morel,
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 Augustin Morel, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what.
at. 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 Drawing heretó annexed, and
to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in applying a cylinder provided with needles on its
circumference to the ordinary gill box, for the purpose of disentangling and
laying parallel the fibres of fibrous materials previous to being combed or
spun. The same letters refer to similar parts in the Drawings.
Figure 1, front elevation of the machine; Figure. 2, vertical section of the
same through the centre;. Figure 3, plan; Figure 4, section of the cylinders.
A, internal cast-iron cylinder; C, external copper cylinder, provided with
needles on its circumference; B, frame or standard of the machine; D, sup-
port of the cylinders A, C.; E,-toothed wheel, put in motion by the endless

page_text: screw fixed to the extremity of the shaft I: F, endless cloth band; G,
circular brush; H, support for the gills Q; I, shaft working in the support
J; K, L, gripping cylinders; M, funnel; N, delivery cylinders; O, toothed
wheel; P, endless leathern band to put in motion the cylinders; Q, gills
worked by the screws U, U; S, driving shaft; T, fast and loose pulleys; U,
screws; V, cylinder; y, y, toothed wheels on the copper cylinder C, which
give motion to the pinions y'; Z, pipe to convey steam, hot water, or heated
air to the interior of the cylinder A through the openings g, g.
This machine works in the following manner :-The material is placed by
the hand or by mechanical means upon the needles of the cylinder C. An
endless cloth band F is placed under the copper cylinder, and which band
revolves with greater speed than the latter, so as to lay the material on the
needles and dispose it suitably for entering the gills Q. The needles of the
cylinder C are cleaned by the brush G, which forces the materials on the gills.
The material is taken from the gills by the gripping cylinders K, L, and passes
to the funnel M, from thence through the delivery cylinders N. In order to
prevent the materials from being injured by passing through the gripping
cylinders K, L, an endless leathern band P is made to pass over the cylinder
L. This band is kept tight by a cylinder V, which can be raised or lowered
at will.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to the precise details herein laid down; but what I claim is, the construction
and application of a cylinder, provided with needles on its circumference and
heated to the required degree, to the ordinary gill box, for disentangling and
laying parallel the fibres of fibrous materials preparatory to being combed
or spun, as herein-before described and referred to in the Figures of the
Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Augustin Morel, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of March, One thousand eight hundred