IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING WOOL FOR COMBING
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Emmott, of Farsley, near Leeds, in the
County of York, Machine Wool Combing Overlooker, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING WOOL FOR
COMBING."
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said James Emmott at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 28th April 1871, pursuant to the 9th Section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
EMMOTT, of Farsley, near Leeds, in the County of York, Machine Wool
Combing Overlooker, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR PREPARING WOOL FOR COMBING," and have petitioned Her
Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn
Declaration that I am the true and first Inventor thereof.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that 1, the said James Emmott, do hereby declare
that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and seal, fully
describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed in and by the following statement
and accompanying Sheet of Drawings (that is to say:-
This Invention relates to a method or means of balling a series of
slivers of wool as they come from the gilling machine.
Heretofore each sliver from the gill has been balled separately, and
the series afterwards combined in one ball by a distinct process. Now
my improvements consist in the application of a series of guides,
conductors, or carriers placed between the gill machine and the bobbin
of the balling machine, whereby the serics of slivers are conducted to
and wound upon the said bobbin simultaneously.
In order that this Invention may be fully understood, I herein give
reference to an accompanying Sheet of Drawings of a double gilling
machine with my improvements applied thereto.
Fig. 1 is an end elevation; Fig. 2 is a plan of same.
A and B are two sets of ordinary gill combs, each set being constructed
to take two slivers through simultaneously, which are supplied through
the guides C, D, E, and F, and delivered by the fluted feed rollers G
and H to the gills A and B, and from thence drawn off or forward by
fluted rollers I, and passed through the funnels J in the usual manner.
Heretofore these four slivers have been delivered to four different
bobbins upon which they were wound separately into balls, and these
balls were afterwards combined in one ball by another process or
machine.
Now by the application of the eight guide rollers K' to K³, the four
slivers are delivered to the ball or bobbin L being carried forward by the
fluted rollers M and N in the usual manner.
Having thus described the nature of this my said Invention, and
shewn by Drawings how the same is to be or may be performed or
carried into practical operation, I would have it understood that I do not
confine or restrict myself to the precise construction and arrangement
of the several parts of the machinery or apparatus shewn and described,
nor to the number of slivers to be combined or wound together upon one
bobbin; but what I claim as my Invention is, the application to gilling
machines of a series of guides, conductors, or carriers K. arranged in

page_text: such manner that a series of slivers of wool may be balled or wound
together upon one bobbin.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Emmott, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.