Improvements in Noble's Combs.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 13th May, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 12th Nov., 1896-Accepted. 12th Dec., 1896
SIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Noble's Combs.
We, WILLIAM WHALLEY, Combing Overlooker, ARTHUR CLEGG, THOMAS
WASHINGTON BENSON, WILLIAM PARRATT, and JOE ROBINSON, all Worsted
Spinners, of Miall Street Mills, Halifax, in the County of York, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in circular combs for combing wool
and like fibres, and known as Noble's combs: the object being, by the use and
employment of simple and inexpensive mechanism, to enable the machine to do
considerably more work, and produce less noil, also to effect a saving in the
"leathers" and to obtain better practical results than heretofore. The invention
consists in partly drawing out the fibre from the large circle just before it reaches
the nip of the drawing off rollers, in such a manner that the latter draw off
both long and short fibres together.
According to this invention, we mount close to the inner edge of the large
circle, and at a short distance before the "nip" of the drawing off rollers, a
pair of nip rollers and a leather driven by bevel wheels and gear from any going
part of the machine. The nip rollers are placed horizontally, and at a slight
angle to the circle, and they partly pull out, or draw off the fibre from the circle,
so that a longer portion protrude for the ordinary drawing off rollers to lay
hold of.
Dated this 12th day of Mar 1896
BRIERLEY & HOWARD,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax, Agents for the Applicants.
We, WILLIAM WHALLEY, Combing Overlooker, ARTHUR CLEGG, THOMAS
WASHINGTON BENSON, WILLIAM PARRATT, and JOE ROBINSON, all Worsted
Spinners, of Miall Street Mills, Halifax, in the County of York, 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 an improvement in circular combing machines for
combing wool and like fibres, known as Noble's combing machine, the object being
by the use and employment of simple and inexpensive mechanism to enable the
machine to do considerably more work and produce less "noil," as well as to effect
a saving in the "leathers" of the rollers and to obtain better practical results than
heretofore. The invention consists in partly drawing out the fibre from the large
comb circle just before it reaches the nip of the drawing off rollers in such a

page_text: manner that the fibres are better presented, and the rollers draw off both long and
short fibres together.
Such being the nature and object of our said invention, the following is a
complete description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,
in which :-
Fig. 1 is a plan view of part of a Noble's combing machine having our
improvements applied thereto.
Fig. 2 is an elevation of the improved appliances for the purpose aforesaid, and
Fig. 3 is an elevation at right angles to Fig. 2.
According to our invention we mount close to the inner edge of the large comb
circle and at a short distance before the "nip" of the drawing off rollers 2. 2,
a pair of nip rollers 3. 3°. These are journalled at one end in a suitable upright
or frame 11 so that their other ends are open. The roller 3 has a leather band 4
passing round same and connecting it with a flanged roller 8 journalled in a
block 13 which may he adjustable in a slot in the frame 11. The roller 3* is
driven by the shaft 14 which carries a bevel gear 5 driven in turn by a bevel
gear 5 on a vertical shaft 6 driven by a spur wheel 6ª from some suitable moving
part. The shaft 14 carries a pinion which engages with another pinion 15 on the
shaft 16 of the roller 3, so that both rollers 3 and 3ª are driven.
The pressure of the upper roller 3 and the leather 4 upon the roller 3 is
regulated by means of the bearing block 9. moveable in the slot 17 of the frame 11,
and the adjusting nut 18, screwed rod 10, and spring 10%, the rod being rotated for
the purposes of the adjustment by means of the squared head, and the rod being
supported by a cap plate 20 screwed or attached to the upright 11. 21 is a fork
or arm suitably supported to keep the belt 4 from running. off the open end of the
roller 3. The device is suitably supported upon a bed plate 27.
The rollers 3. 3 it will be seen in Fig. I are placed at an angle to the comb
circle 1, so that during the revolution the fibres 7 laying out horizontally from the
comb circle, pass into the "nip" of the rollers and leather band 4, which by their
movement partly draw or pull out the fibre so that a longer portion protrudes on
the other side of the rollers for the ordinary draw off rollers 2. 2 or leather 2* to
lay hold of.
22 is a beater driven by a belt 23 and pulley, and carried by a standard 25 for
beating up the fibres protruding from the comb circle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
(1.) The general construction, arrangement, and combination of parts constituting
the improvements in Noble's combs, as and for the purpose herein described and
substantially as illustrated by the annexed drawings.
(2.) In a Noble's comb, a pair of nip rollers and a leather placed inside the
large circle and in front of the ordinary uip rollers, as and for the purpose herein
described.
Dated this 11th day of Novers 1900
WILLIAM WHALLEY,
ARTHUR CLEGG,
THOMAS WASHINGTON BENSON,
WILLIAM PARRATT,
JOE ROBINSON,
By their Agents, Brierley & Howard,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.