This section is from "The Domestic Encyclopaedia Vol2", by A. F. M. Willich. Amazon: The Domestic Encyclopaedia.
Comb, an instrumentit made of horn, ivory, or other materials, and used for separating, cleaning, and dressing flax, wool, hair, etc. Combs for wool are prohibited to be imported into England.
A very useful Cowl-pot was invented, a few years since, by John Ashman, an ingenious person em-ployed by Messrs. Daniel and Thomas Dyke, of Sarum. It consists of an almost cylindrical furnace for water, which contains a smaller one, keeping the sods of the second washing of the wool, to be used with the next quantity of wool, the first way. The whole being a manufacturing process, we refer the reader to the "Letters and Papers of the Bath and West of England Society ;" or to the 7 th vol. of the "Repertory of the Arts and Manufactures,'' where he will find it described, together with an illustrative engraving.
In June 1796, a patent was granted to Mr. William Bundy, of Camden-town, Middlesex, for a machine for cutting and making combs; a full description of which, together with a plate, is inserted in the 11 th vol. of the last mentioned work.
 
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