A New or Improved Appliance or Device for Dabbing Fibres into the Circles of Machine Combs.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 29th Jan., 1900-Accepted, 3rd Mar., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Appliance or Device for Dabbing Fibres into the
Circles of Machine Combs.
I, NOBLE HOWARD, of 10, Cross Lane, Bingley, in the County of York, Comb
Setter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new or improved appliance or device for dabbing
fibres between the pins of comb circles employed in combing machines particularly
Noble combs, and its object is to dispense with the bristle brushes usually
employed.
For this purpose I employ a dabbing appliance consisting of a number of metal
pins or teeth of flat cross section mounted in the form of a brush preferably in a
brass or other metal back or block approximately the size and shape of those
employed for bristle brushes. These pins or teeth are fixed with their flat sides
tangentially disposed in relation to the concentric rows of pins or the annular
spaces between them and their lower or dabbing ends are reduced more or less to
a knife edge. The flat pins or teeth may be placed in rows edge to edge or more
or less space may be left between them, and the pins in the rows are arranged to
be opposite the spaces between the pins of neighbouring rows.
The distance the rows of flat pins are apart will vary according to the kind
of comb circles with which they are used, and wider spaces may be provided for
the pins of the circles to pass into.
Dated this 28th day of March 1800
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.
A New or Improved Appliance or Device for Dabbing Fibres into the
Circles of Machine Combs.
I, NOBLE HOWARD, of Low Laith, Healey Lane, Bingley, in the County of York,
Comb Setter, and late of 10, Cross Lane, Bingley, aforesaid, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:―
This invention relates to a new or improved appliance or device for dabbing
fibres between the pins of comb circles employed in combing machines particularly
Noble combs, and its object is to dispense with the bristle brushes usually
employed.
For this purpose I employ a dabbing appliance consisting of a number of metal

page_text: pins or teeth of flat cross section mounted in the form of a brush preferably in a
brass or other metal back or block approximately the size and shape of those
employed for bristle brushes. These pins or teeth are fixed with their flat sides
tangentially disposed in relation to the rows of pins of the comb circles and their
lower or dabbing ends are reduced more or less to a knife edge. The flat pins
or teeth may be placed in rows edge to edge or more or less space may be left
between them, and the pins in the rows are arranged to be opposite the spaces
between the pins of neighbouring rows.
The distance the rows of flat pins are apart will vary according to the kind of
comb circles with which they are used.
To fully describe my invention, reference is made to the accompanying sheet
of drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of
reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the views.
Figure 1, represents a side elevation looking towards the flat side of the pins
of a portion of my improved "brush."
Figure 2, represents an inverted plan view of the same.
Figure 3, represents a view at right angles to Figure 1, that is to say, looking
towards the thin edge of the pins.
Figure 4 represents two views at right angles to each other of one of the pins
or teeth of the brush.
The plate 2 of brass or other suitable material is made, as regards area, the
size and shape of an ordinary dabbing brush and is throughout pierced with
suitable holes to receive the pins or teeth 4. The upper ends of the pins are
preferably bent over at right angles to form heads 5 and a sheet of india-
rubber & may be interposed between the plate 2 and the wooden or other backing
block 7. The plate 2 and block 7 are secured together in any convenient way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1
A dabbing appliance consisting of a number of pins or teeth of flat cross section
mounted in the form of a brush, substantially as herein shown and described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 26th day of Tenu 1000