US1340691A - Cotton-gin - Google Patents

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R. S. WHEELER.

COTTON GIN.

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ROBERT' s. WHEELER; 0E GEENLQCH, 'NEW JERSEY.

COTTON GIN.

Application inea April 11,`

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT S. WHEELER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Grenloch, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cotof which the followingis a specilication.

My present invention relates to improvegins and has among its objects the following:

First to provide a gin that kwill not cut, break, or otherwise injure the fiber of the cotton in anyway, but on the contrary will improve the staple by giving a liber the full length it grew.

Second to secure a all trash and dirt.

Third to provide apparatus that is portable, and may be used in connectiony with a cotton picker, such for example asshown in myUnited States Patents Numbers 922,647 and 1,001,720; to ginthe. cotton as fast as it is picked, delivering the Vseed into one regin that will remove Voeptacle and the lint into another, or into a press on the same truck that carries the motive power, thus doingvthe eXtra work of ginning without the expense of any eXtra labor, or time and very little more power.

Fourth to provide a gin that will clean the lseed under allV conditions, cleaner than itis now done. l

Finally to provide a gin of low cost,sim ple and requiring little power to operate.

With these and otherobjects in View the invention includes the novel features of construction and arrangementiand combination of parts hereinafter described and particularly Adefined in the Vappended claims.

An embodiment of my invention isA illus- Y trated in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure l is a side elevation.

Fig. 2 is an end view.

Fig. 3 is a plan view.

Figs. 4:, 5 and 6 are views of details. Fig. 7 is a detail view of card clothing.

Referring by reference characters to this drawing A designates a pipe by which the cotton is conveyed from a suitable source to a hopper B, where it comes in contact with an endless traveling surface of card cloth which may conveniently be in the form of an endless belt C passing around the drums CandC2. j l f As the cotton is carried by the belt from Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented llay 18, 1920. 1919. serial No. 289,250.

thehopper it passes beneath a plurality of presser .feet D which insuresl its being brought into irm contact with and attached to the belt. From these presser feet the cot# ton is carried by a plurality of breasts or rows of seed arresters E. These are diago nally arranged feet or short bar members which may be conveniently suspended by vertical rods or bars member W.

The first seed arresters are set higher above the belt than those following and are so located as to allowthe seed, while thickly covered by cotton, to be pulled under them.

The following arresters are set closer to the surface of the belt so that the seed must pass around them, and they are also placed at a greater angle to the line of travel of the belt, so that as the seeds are cleaned andthe card cloth or belt loses its hold on them they arresters will push them faster toward the edge of the belt. n

The arresters therefore have a carding action as each arrester only slightly checks the seed that strikes it, giving it at the same time a little roll or push away from its line of travel while the lint that is fast on or adhering to the belt continues on in a straight line. Each time, therefore, that a seed is checked, no matter how slightly, a part of its lint is gently pulled off right at the seed which is the weakest place and the lint is not broken or cut but preserved in its full length.

One or more sets of wire arresters G or brushes are provided at suitablevpoints on the gin-belt to prevent cotton, line trash or small seeds from bedding down into the card cloth and thus missing the seed arresters, and also to prevent clogging of the a gin belt, as they will hold back the cotton and allow only just what the card clothwill grasp to go through, and Vin this vway every seed' will be acted upon by the arresters. f

At the inner end of the belt is provided an apron H, or final trash and small seed arrester, Vwhich is set at a suitable angle across the gin belt. The trash and seed from which the lint has been removed, will be pushed upon this andthe air blast from air pipes P (Figs. l, 2 and 3) will blow them into seed trough L, from which they may be removed by conveyer pipe M, containing conveyer screw N, and deposited into a sack or other receptacle (not shown).

F from the top frameV he lint is removed from the cardy clothing belt, or gin belt, by a doffer brush I of any suitable construction from which it is thrown by centrifugal force into box J, and removed through conveyer pipe by an air blast to a press or other receptacle on 'the truck (not shown). 4

Beneath the gin. belt is a table S or bric ge to prevent it from sagging or in any way getting away from the arresters so that they will not act properly. This table isrepresentative of any 'suitable supporting means.

A tightener pulley Q, may be used onV gin belt, if desired, with springs Il, l, to give it the proper power. i e

The bearings that carry the-pulley C are mounted in movable bearings and provided with adjusting screws and springs T, T, (Figs. 1 and 3) to keep the gin belt at proper tension. These bearings, also the ones for the pulley C2 are made easily removable, so that the gin belt may be removed without trouble.

.A power shaft U and gearing V, (Figs. l, 2 and 3) are shown as examples of suitable means for driving the drum C and brush and the seed conveyer screw N may be driven by a flexible shaft O, from end of shaft that carries pulley C2.

What I claim is:

l. In combination an endless moving gilining element, means for feeding cotton to' be ginned thereto, and a plurality of successively located stationary arresters arranged in proximity to the surface of said element, said arresters being oblique to the line of travel, each successive set of arresters being of increased Obliquity.

2. In combination an endless moving ginning element, means for feeding cotton to be ginned thereto, and a plurality of successively located diagonally arranged arresters located in proximity to the surface of said element. f

8. In combination an endless moving ginning element, means for feeding cotton to be ginned thereto, and a plurality of successively located stationary arresters arranged in proximity to the surface of said element, the succeeding arresters being nearer tothe surface of the element than the preceding ones.

4t. In combination an endless moving ginning element, a hopper for holding cotton in contact therewith.y presser means for pressing the cotton onto the surface of said element, and a plurality f diagonally arranged arresters in proximity to the surface of said element. Y f

5. In combination an endless moving ginning element, a hopper for holding cotton in contact therewith, presser means for pressing'the 'cotton onto the surface of vsaid element, and aplurality of diagonally arranged arresters in proximity to the surface of said element, and aseed and trash collector at the side of said element.` V n .6; In combination anlendless moving ginning element, a hopper for holdingcotton in contact therewith, presser means for pressa ing the cotton onto the surface of said eleinent, and a plurality of diagonally arranged arrestersin proximity to the surface of said element, and a collecting apron acting on said element after it has passed the arresters.

7. In combination an endless moving ginning element, a hopper `for holding cotton in contact therewith, presser means for pressing the cotton onto the surface of said element, and a plurality of diagonally arranged arrestersin proximity to the surface `of said element, and a collect-ing apron actingl on said element after it has passed the arresters, and a doffer brush acting on said element after it leaves the apron.

8.v In combination an endless traveling belt, means forsupplying cotton theretol and a plurality of rows ofdiagonally placed arresters arranged at different elevations above the belt and at varying degrees of inclination to the line of travel. I 9. In combinationan endless moving ginning element, means for feeding cotton tobe ginned thereto, a plurality of successively located stationary arresters v arranged proximity to theupper surface of said element, and means `located on the under surface of said elementv for maintaining itin proper relation to the arresters.A

10.,In combination an endless moving,

ginningV element, means for feeding cotton to be ginned thereto, aplurality of successively located stationary arresters arranged in proximity to the upper surface `of said element and means for maintaining the sur-v face of said element in proper relation to the arresters. i y:

In testimony whereof Ik affix my signature.

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