US1155188A - Cotton-gin. - Google Patents

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A. A. Z ALONDE K. COTTON GIN.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4.1914.

1,155,18 PatentedSept. 28, 1915.

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A. A. ZALONDEK.

COTTON GIN.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4.1914.

Patented Sept. 28, 1915.

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ANTONQALBERT ZALONDEK, or CAPITOL HILL, OKLAHOMA.

COTTON-GIN.

I Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept]. 28, 19 15.

Application filed. June 4, 1914. Serial No. 842,901.

To all whom it may concern: l

Be it known that I, ANTON A. ZALoNDEK,

a citizen of the United States,zand a resident of Capitol Hill, in the county ofOklahoma,

and State of Oklahoma, have invented an Improvement in Cotton-Grins, of which the following is a specification,

My present invention relates to cotton gins, and my object is to provide'an apparatus of this characterwhich will obviate many of the difliculties incident to ginning machinery now ingeneral use and which usually 111- cludes a horizontal shaft on whlch the saws retained with the cotton roll? on the breast.

In overcoming this important difi iculty I attain otheradvantages as regards simplicity and reduced cost, as well'as reduction'of space required for installation and operation by the gin shown in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and-in which= j Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a side elevation partlybroken away and in vsectlon.

Fig- 3 is aview partly in front elevation.

and partly in vertical section, taken therethroughsubstantially online 33 of Fig; 2.

Fig. 4 is a detail horizontal section through the air supply pipe ofthe cotton removing nozzles. Fig. 5is an elevation of a portion of the air supply pipe with a pair of its nozzles, one of which is partly broken away, and in section, and looking from the side thereof, and Fig. 6 is a similar viewlooking at the pipe endwise of its nozzles. i

Referring now to thes'efiguresit Wlll be seen thatv I provide an upright cotton gin, the lower portion of which is in the form of a hollow gear casing A, horizontally through the lower portion of whichis journaled the main driving shaft B having a bevel gear 137 thereon within theqcasing. The casing is also arranged to support in its top plateA a journal for the-lower portion of the vertical saw shaft C, thelower extremity of which depends withinthe gear casing A and is provided with a bevel gear C in mesh with the bevel gear of the driving shaft B beforementioned. I

The saw shaft C extendsvertically above the gear casing A within an upright rectangular box D, through the top D of which the uppernextremity of the said shaft is tical series within the boX.

The front'side of the box D as will be seen by reference to Figs. 1 and 3 is open above the forwardly, extended upper portion A of the gear casing A and above which extension A is arranged, a vertical 7 cylindrical shell E secured with its lower end spaced above the top A of the gear casing and with its rear inner open portion toward the gin saws to receive the periph cries of these saws partially thereinns will be plainly seen from Fig.,1. Vertically through this shellE is mounted a shaft F, the, lower end of which depends through the top A of the gear casing and within the. forward extension A of said casing and is journaled, and is provided with the usual I 'clrcular gin saws (J spaced apart in a verprovided with a pinion F in mesh with a somewhat smaller pinion C mounted on the saw shaft C above its bevel gear C.

At the upper extremity of shaft C which projects above the open top of the shell E is secured a head F having feed arms projecting in relatively opposite; directions therefrom and spirally curved and terminating in upwardly and laterally inclined end hooks f whereby to feed cotton from not shown, downwardly into the, upper open end of the shell E, at the front side ofwhich is hinged a main'door E through Whichready access may be had to the cotton space Within the shell E and to the conical fluted roller G which is secured upon'the shaft F withits smaller end uppermost and its enlarged lower end spaced above the top A of the gear casing A.

Vertically along one side of the series of gin saws and between the boX D andthe shell E is arranged a vertical supporting beam H to which are secured the outer ends of a vertical series of horizontal ribs H, the inner free ends of which project between the several saws C in order to performthe functions of the ribs in the gins now in use.

Upstanding within the box D at one: side of the vertical series of saws is an air supply pipe I having equidistantly spaced ports 2' from which project a vertical series of nozan upper supply pipe,'hopper or the like,

" zle pipes I, the outer free ends'of which are projected between and-tangentially of the several gin saws C in the manner best shown in Figs. 1 Land 5, and the outer end's of which pipes arev criniped centrally at z" in order to provide separate discharge ports Z2 at sllghtly diverging angles w th respect to one another and thus .direct jets of air against the ad aCent surfaces of the saws above and below the same'as Will be plainly seen in Fig. '5.

Thus it will be seen that'vthe gin saws and Y the conical fluted roller Gr are rotated in operation inrela-tively opposite and at'su bstantially" diii'erent speeds the :speed of movement of the gin saws being greater than that'of the roller, The cotton .to he ginn'ed is, by means of the head'F 'fed'eYenl-y into the upper end of the shell E around the fluted roller, the latter icansingetheicotton, at its upper-,or smaller end, to begin to revolve around it as core @The travel of i-the cotton'YaroLmdv-iniithe shell E wilgl be retarded somewhat due to the slower relative rotation of thegfiuted-"nol'ler G to thatof the gin saws, .andathe frictional resistance .of the wall of the shellitself, so as to permitof a maximum-action oft-lie gin saws upon the moving cotton. rcllfithus me i i As the ginning action of the sawsfggradw ally reduces the buljk'ofthe. cotton,'it gradually worksdownward on the fluted roller G and is Lspreadto the aetionef the isaws in suehjdownward 'mo zeinent so that in the course i fth s o me t all of the-cotton seedwill be acted up on bya-each of 'thelsaws.

of the entire seriesnnt-i-l the completely ginned seedwith the trash andirefuse mat- Lire c lg d from the lower end bf and lgmoved i The discharge spacei at the lower end :of I

the shell E may beincreased'by"vertical adjustment of a-supplemental dischargedioor E rnovablein guides upon'thelower portionof the main door E of the shell. In'the meantime the cotton collected. @by

the gin saws is continuously removedthere-V from by the action of the several nozzles- 1" arranged as before described and maybe 1 removed at oneside ofthe shell Thus with a'niachine constructed and i0 5 stating in this manner, the working load is distributed evenly throughout the series of saws. C and the ginning operation is efiectiyely completed in considerably less time than it can be done with the machines now in'use. Y

It is perfectly apparent that a machine such asfI propose is considerably more simple andless expensive than those now in use and that it requires less space for its installation and operation than the usual horizontal'gins. It is' also, apparent that by the use of a machine such as I propose-seed horizontally through the flower portion of the casing, asubstantialiy rectangular box" cotton will be prevented from out unginned and that there will be no idle saws until the roll of Cotton begins to gin out. Furthermore there can "be no overlapv of ginning periods in ginning custom cotton as each roll is ginned entirely out before the next-roll. is begun, thus avoiding the danger-of mixing a high grade of cotton of one customer 'iui th the low grade of another.

Furthermore the trash is continuously discharged throughout the entire operation 10f .thegin. Itis to be understood, however,

that zthis gin is not-confined to the ginning V of-seed cotton but maybe used withjcqual facilitya-nid equal effective results inconnGCtlOH with the de'llntingof cotton seed as required in mill service.

Iclairn; H

1 Ina cotton gin,-=th e combination offa lower gear-casing; a drive shaft journaled secured in upright position upon the gear casing and open at its front side, a saw shaft gonrnaled vertlcallygthrough the boxing and through the upper'portion of the gear casing, gearsconnecting the saidsa-w shaft to the said drive shaft, a vert cal series of ginning saws mountedinspfaced relation upon the saw shaft withinthe box, a shaft jour' ml'edertically through the upper portion .of thesgear:casingand extending parallel with and spaced from the'saw shaft at the openisi de of the box gears connecting said shaft ix'vith' the saw shafaa eonicalfiiited roller mountedigon the latter shaft with its smaller-end uppermost its lower enlarged end spaced above-the top of 'thege'ar casinga shell open at its upper and lower ,J

ends-and disposed around thesaid fluted roller and its shaft andfopen adjacent to the sawsfthe' lower open end of the said ed in guides on the lower portion of the said shell being spaced above the top of the gear i adjustable diseharge'door mountshell; and a feeding head'securedupon the casing "and openat its fronts'idega saw shaft journaled vertically through the boxing and through the upper portion of the gear ,vca sing, gears-connecting the said saw shaft to the said-drive shaft, a ertical series of ginning saws mounted "in spaced relation upon the saw shaft within the box, a shaft jour secured in upright-position upon the gear I naled ertically through the upper portion of the gear casing andeXtending-parallel with and spaced trom the saw shaft at the open v side of the box, gears connecting said shaft With the saw shaft, a conical fluted roller mounted on the latter shaft With its smaller end uppermost and its lower enlarged end spaced above the top of the gear casing, and a shell open at its upper and lower ends and disposed around the said fluted roller and its shaft and open adjacent to the saws, the lower open end of the said shell being spaced above the top of the gear casin 3. In machinery of the character described, the combination of a vertical saw shaft, saws mounted horizontally thereon in spaced relation, a beam mounted to extend vertically along the series of saws, a plurality of ribs secured to the beam and having their free ends extending between the saws, a shaft mounted parallel with the saW shaft and spaced therefrom, a conical fluted roller mounted upon the last mentioned shaft, means for driving the saw shaft, and geared connections between the saw shaft and the roller shaft, all for the purpose described.

4. In 'machinery of the character described, the combination of a vertical series of ginning saws, a conical roller arranged and operating at one side of the series of saws with its smaller end uppermost, means for rotating the saws and roller in relatively opposite directions and at different speeds, a shell open at its base and in which the roller is mounted, and a box in which the saws are mounted, opening at one side into the roller shell, all for the purpose described.

I 5. In machinery of the character described, the combination of a vertical series of ginning saws, a conical feed roller mounted and operating at one side of the series of saws With its smaller end uppermost, means for rotating the roller and saws and housings communicating With one another and in which the said saws and said roller are disposed.

6. In machinery of, the character described, the combination of a vertical series of ginning saws, a conical fluted feed roller arranged and operating at one side of the series of saws, means for rotating the, said roller and saws in definite relation with respect to one another, and housings communicating With one another and in Which the saws and feed roller are disposed.

7. In machinery of the character described, the combination of a vertical series of saws and a conical fluted feed roller arranged vertically along and operating at one side of the series of saws, for the described.

8. In machinery of the character described, the combination of a vertical series of ginning saws, and a conical feed roller mounted vertically along and operating at one side of the series of saws,with its smaller end uppermost.

ANTON ALBERT ZALONDEK. Witnesses:

H. V. CoonRELL, HORACE HAYDEN, Jr.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

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