CERTAIN MACHINERY FOR COMBING AND PREPARING OF WOOL, COTTON, SILK, FLAX, HEMP, AND MOHAIR, FOR THE PURPOSE OF SPINNING
Year: 1793

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, HENRY
WRIGHT and JOHN HAWKSLEY, both of Arnold, in the County of Nottingham,
Worsted Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Royal
Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster, the Eighth day of June, in the
thirty-third year of His reign, hath given and granted unto us, the said
Henry Wright and John Hawksley, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, during the term of
years therein expressed, to make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of
His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our Invention of "CERTAIN
MACHINERY FOR COMBING AND PREPARING OF WOOL, COTTON, SILK, FLAX, HEMP,
AND MOHAIR, FOR THE PURPOSE OF SPINNING;" in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso obliging us, the said Henry Wright and John Hawksley,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, under our hands and seals, and
cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within one calendar month next after the date of the said Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, may more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Henry Wright and John Hawksley, do hereby describe and ascertain the
nature of their said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be
performed, as well by the figures or delineations of machinery, as by the
description or explanation set forth, that is to say:―
Figure 1, Letter A, an upright shaft revolving about forty times a minute;

page_text: B, a pair of wheels of equal number of teeth or cogs; C, a pinion with nine
cogs; D, a wheel with seventy-one cogs; E. a pinion with nine cogs; F, a
wheel with seventy-one cogs, (both the pinion E and wheel F to rise or fall
according to the length of the wool); G, a wheel with forty-one cogs; F, a
wheel with thirty-two cogs giving motion to the comb wheel (I), which has
three rows of comb teeth on each arm; K, combing cylinder, with three rows
of teeth, to be either horizontal, as drawn, or perpendicular; L, a wheel with
one hundred and forty-four cogs; M, a pinion with sixteen cogs 0, a worin
working into the wheel (N); N, a wheel on the upright shaft to the feeding
frame wheel a, a, in Figure 2; S, a pinion working into a wheel to be put on
the end of the rollers or wheels a, a, in Figure 2; P, P, two wheels of equal
numbers to turn the long cogged wheels Q, Q, which wheels are to draw the
wool from the cylinder K; R. two rollers to conduct the wool into a can or
baskot. Figuro 2, feeding frame; a, a, two long cogged wheels working from
pinion S (in Figure 1); b, b, b, three rollers, round which a linen cloth is
making constant revolutions to conduct the wool forward to the wheels a, a;
C, a roller, round which a linen cloth is wrapped with wool spread on it, the
end of which passes over roller (d), and down to roller (e), where having at
(d) conducted and got quit of its wool, it wraps itself up again, and so on in
succession with others by which it is replaced; ff, f, three pullies by which
the rollers receive their motions with bands or cords; 9, y, the two linen
cloths above mentioned; h, h, two rollers, the bottom one revolving by the
pulley (), causes the two upper ones to revolve also; the roller (e) conse-
quently wraps up the cloth, and that above it is meant to be of a sufficient
weight to prevent its rising up, and to press upon it sufficiently to make it
revolve. Figure 8, a fly, with brushes and rollers working with spiral springs to
lay the wool close to the teeth of the cylinder (K) in Figure (1), and to be fixed
with a relative motion over the long cogged wheels (Q, Q). Figure 4, a pair
of blast bellows to convey hot air to the wool, and to assist in laying it close to
the teeth on cylinder (K), Figure (1), and to be fixed just above the long
cogged wheels (Q, Q). Figure 5, a circular brush fixed at the back of the
combing cylinder K, Figure 1, revolving quick to take the noils off the teeth;
and close to it is fixed a row of teeth to take the noils off the brush as it
revolves, and to be cleared occasionally as they fill. Figure 6 is another comb
ing machine either as a preparer or finisher, or both.
combs in three compartments A, B, C, and connected
catch at the top, as at D, D, and moving in a slide or groove, and made to
remove or take off after they have passed the long cogged wheels (E, E), wher
they will have got quit of the wool. F, a rack which has a very slow sliding motion
A, a straight range of
together by a hook o

page_text: and is moved by pinion G. E, E, two long cogged wheels to draw the wool
from the comb teeth, against which are to be placed two conducting rollers
for the same purpose as (R) in Figure 1. H, three rows of comb teeth. The
motion of the straight range of combs A, B, C, being slowly progressive from
A to C, it follows that when the straight range of combs has advanced the
length of one compartment, that part must be taken away and discharged of its
noils, and then passed to the other end of the machine on the inclined plane (I)
or otherwise, and fixed in the vacancy which will then be at (A), and so on
alternately, by which means a perpetual slever of wool will be produced. Kis
the same comb wheel as I in Figure 1, and moving with the same velocity.
The feeding frame is the same as Figure 2. L, a wheel with one hundred
and forty-four cogs; M, a pinion with sixteen cogs; N, two wheels with equal
numbers of teeth; P, two wheels with equal numbers of teeth; H, the teeth
drawn horizontally, but also to be placed perpendicularly in case of need or
choice.
In witness whereof, we, the said Henry Wright and John Hawksley,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, the Twenty-fifth day of June,
in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.