IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES REQUIRING LIKE PRO- CESS
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Busfield, of Bradford, in the County
of York, Overlooker to Messrs. Waud and Company, of the same
Place, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES REQUIRING LIKE PRO-
CESS."
Scaled the 2nd March 1853, and dated the 28th December 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Busfield
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 28th December 1852.
I, WILLIAM BUSFIELD, of Bradford, in the County of York, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES REQUIRING
LIKE PROCESS" to be as follows:-
The Invention relates to improvements in apparatus for which
Letters Patent were recently granted to Samuel Cunliffe Lister and
George Edmund Donisthorpe (for preparing and combing wool and
other fibrous material), in which the wool or other fibrous material
is taken by nipping instruments from gill combs used to feed the
wool, into the machine, and the portion of wool so taken is trans-

page_text: ferred from then to a circle of combs, by means of a finer transfer
comb; and the present improvements consist in forming the "gills"
of a curved form, the curve being in a vertical direction; also in
forming the nipping surfaces of the nipping instrument, and the
transfer comb used in such like mentioned machines, of a like curved
form.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said William Busfield in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 27th June 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
WILLIAM BUSFIELD, of Bradford, in the County of York, Overlooker
to Messieurs-Waud and Company, of the same place, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two,
in the sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Busfield, Her
special licence that I, the said William Busfield, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Busfield, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES REQUIRING LIKE PROCESS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Busfield, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, 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 William Busfield, do hereby

page_text: declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
My improvements relate to that class of apparatus used for pre-
paring and combing wool and other fibrous material, for which Letters
Patent were granted to Samuel Cunliffe Lister and George Edmund
Donisthorpe, and more particularly shewn by the Specification of a
Patent granted to the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister on or about the
Twenty-fourth day of February, One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-one, in which the wool or other fibrous material is taken by
nipping instruments from gill combs used to feed the wool, into the
machine, and the portions of wool or other fibrous material so taken
by the nipping instruments, are then taken to be laid on to a circle
of passing combs by means of a finer transfer comb; and the
present improvements consist in giving to the "gills" a curved
form, the curve being in a vertical direction; and also in formning the
nipping surfaces of the nipping instruments, and the transfer.comb
used in such like mentioned machines, of a like curved form, in order
that the various fibres at any one time conducted by those instru-
ments may be laid uniformly, or nearly so, in the direction of their
length, on to the circle of passing combs, or laid of a curved form,
to suit the circle of the passing combs.
In order that the improvements may be fully understood, I will
proceed to describe the Drawing annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
And I would state that I have not thought it necessary to show
more than detached views of the parts to which my Improvements
apply, as those parts will be actuated in like manner to what those
parts are ordinarily actuated in machines constructed as above
referred to, except I prefer that the transfer comb i, should have a
little extra motion given to it, when it is laying its wool on to the
circle of combs; so that at that time it may be horizontal or nearly
so, or with its teeth at right angles to those of the circle, as shewn
by Figure 6.

page_text: Figure 1, shows a side view; Figure 2, a section of one of the
gill combs, by which it will be seen that in place of the gill teeth
being arranged in one vertical plane, they are curved downwards;
Figure 3, shows a face view, and Figure 4, a sectional view, of the
nipping instrument, the nipping surfaces of which have a like curved
form; and Figure 5, shows a front view of a transferring comb,
which has a like curve given to it, in order that the instruments
may correctly work together. The parts are to a scale of three
inches to the foot, and are adapted to a circle of combs of thirty-six
inches in diameter. I do not, however, confine myself to these di-
imensions, as variations may be made without departing from my
Invention, and I have only given these as an illustration of what I
have found to answer.
But what I claim is, giving to the gill combs the nipping surfaces
of the nipping instruments, and the carrying or transferring comb
the curved form, in manner and for the purpose explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Busfield, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of June, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
Witness,
H. F. MAKING.
WILLIAM BUSFIELD. (L.S.)