AN IMPROVEMENT IN TEASING, SCRIBBLING, CARDING, AND COMBING ENGINES
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Ashton, of Abbey Mills, in the Parish of
Morpeth, in the County of Northumberland, Woollen Manufacturer,
for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN TEASING, SCRIBBLING, CARDING,
AND COMBING ENGINES."
Sealed the 15th December 1857, and dated the 14th July 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Ashton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th July 1857.
I, THOMAS ASHTON, of Abbey Mills, in the Parish of Morpeth, in the
County of Northumberland, Woollen Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN TEASING, SCRIBBLING, CARDING
AND COMBING ENGINES," to be as follows:-
The Invention has for its object an improvement in teasing, scribbling,
carding, and combing engines. This is effected by the server and the rollers
connected with it being so constructed as to have, in addition to their former
rotatory motion, a to-and-fro or cross motion, from right to left and from left
to right alternately, across the teeth or cards of the machinery used for
teasing, scribbling, carding, or combing of wool, cotton. flax. or other fibros
that aro teased, scribbled,. carded, or combed, and for the better mixing of
such fibres.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Ashton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th January 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
ASHTON, of Abbey Mills, in the Parish of Morpeth, in the County of
Northumberland, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Der heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Thomas Ashton, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas Ashton, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Ashton, my executors, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN TEASING,
SCRIBBLING, CARDING, AND COMBING ENGINES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Thomas Ashton, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
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 Thomas Ashton, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following.
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in teasing, scribbling,
carding, and combing engines. This is effected by the server and the rollers
connected with it being so constructed as to have, in addition to their former
rotary motion, a to-and-fro or cross motion, from right to left and from left to
right alternately, across the teeth or cards of the machinery used for teasing,
scribbling, carding, or combing of wool, cotton, flax, or other fibres that
are teased, scribbled, carded, or combed, and for the better mixing of such
fibres.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a side view, and Figure 2 is an end view, of part of a teasing,
scribbling, carding, or combing engine, showing the way in which my improve-
ments may be applied thereto. a, a, is the framing of the machine, and 6 is
the main drum; c and d are the feeling rollers, which feed the fibre on to the
drum b; e, e', are two rollers, over which an endless apron f passes. The
bearings of the rollers c, d, and e, e, in place of being bolted to the main
frame a, as heretofore, are mounted on a separate frame or carriage 9, 9,
which is capable of sliding to and fro on the bars h, h, fixed to the frame a.
The to-and-fro motion is given to the carriage g by means of the connecting
link i and lever j, which at its lower end is attached to a piece k; thus when
the revolution of the shaft by the inclined wheel m gives an alternating
motion to the piece k, the motion is communicated to the carriage g, and by
altering the position of the centre of the lever j, the extent of this motion can
be adjusted. n, o, p, are spur wheels, by which the axis of the roller c is
driven. This roller is capable of travelling longitudinally on its axis, but it is
compelled to turn with it, and it has a toothed wheel fixed at its end, which
takes into a toothed wheel on the axis of the roller e.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Ashton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
5 Witness,
ANTH CHARLTON, Sul., Morpethi.
THOMAS ASHTON. (1.9.)