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THE

REPERTORY

OF

PATENT INVENTIONS,

AND OTHER

Discoveries and Emprovements

IN

ARTS, MANUFACTURES,

AND

AGRICULTURE;

BEING A CONTINUATION, ON AN ENLARGED PLAN,

OF THE

Repertory of Arts and Manufactures:

A WORK ORIGINALLY UNDERTAKEN IN THE YEAR 1794, AND STILL CARRIED ON, WITH
A VIEW TO COLLECT, RECORD, AND BRING INTO PUBLIC NOTICE, THE
USEFUL INVENTIONS OF ALL NATIONS.

ENLARGED SERIES.-VOL. XXIV.

July-December, 1854.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETOR,

BY ALEXANDER MACINTOSH, GREAT NEW-STREET;
AND SOLD BY SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., STATIONERS'
HALL COURT; J. WEALE, HIGH HOLBORN; AND
G. HEBERT, CHEAPSIDE.

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THE

REPERTORY

OF

PATENT INVENTIONS.

No. 1. VOL. XXIV. ENLARGED SERIES.-JULY, 1854.

Specification of the Patent granted to ISAAC AMBLER, of Manningham, near Bradford, in the County of York, for Improvements in Preparing or Combing Wool and other Fibrous Substances.-Dated October 1, 1853.

WITH AN ENGRAVING.

To all to whom these presents shall come, &c., &c.This invention consists in causing a sliver of wool, or other fibres, to be moved at intervals, on or between a surface or surfaces, either perforated or so formed as to admit of points or teeth passing through or between the same, and entering into the fibres. The movement of the sliver takes place when the teeth or points are out of the fibre, and the movement causes a quantity of the fibre to protrude beyond the ends or edges of the surfaces, and such protruding quantity may be removed by a comb, or other instrument, by which the shorter fibres will remain in amongst the holding teeth or points passed through or between the surfaces, and the short fibres so retained, or held back for a time, will, together with the ends of longer fibres, at the next movement of the sliver be moved forward and be protruded, and will, No. 1.-VOL. XXIV.

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