Description of a Patent Machine for Combing Wool
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Edmund Cartwright describes his patented machine for combing wool mechanically, in place of hand-combing. He discusses the economic importance of the invention, the opposition from wool-combers and the rejected parliamentary bill, his three patents of 1790 and 1792, and the labor and cost savings. The article ends with a specification of the machine's parts (crank lasher, circular clearing comb, comb-table with drawing rollers), keyed to an engraved plate.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1794
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 7
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