US138865A

US138865A - Improvement in revolving cotton-lint rooms

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Publication number: US138865A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1873-05-13
Anticipated expiration: 1890-05-13

Description

w. T. GBENSHAW. Revolving Cotton Lint Rooms.

N0. 138,865. Patented Mag 13,1873.

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STATES WILLIAM T. CRENSHAW, OF BURTON, TEXAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN REVOLVING COTTON-LINT ROOMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,865, dated May 13, 1873; application filed April 5,1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LWILLIAM T. CRENSHAW, of Burton, in the county of Washington and State of Texas, have invented a new and Improved Lint-Receiver, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists of a lint-receiver of two or more compartments or rooms arranged so as to revolve on a vertical axis, each compartment being provided with inlet-passages for lint and doors for taking out the same, so arranged that while the inlet-passage of one room is at the gin-stand, where the lint will be delivered into it as it comes from the gin, the door of another room will be at the press, whereby the ginning and pressing may be carried on continuously without the hands being exposed to the dust, as they must be when taking out the lint for packing from the same room into which it is delivered from the gin, which they must do to carry 011 the work continuously when only one room is used, and which is so inconvenient in practice that the ginning has to be stopped when the room is full till the lint is taken out and packed, and the packing has also to cease while the ginning is going on.

Figure 1 is a horizontal section of my improved lint-receiver, and Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section.

A is a large circular receiver, mounted on a vertical shaft, B, having suitable bearings and supports at top and bottom to allow it to turn freely. G is a partition, dividing it vertically and centrally into two rooms, D E, each of which has an inlet-passage, F, f0r.admitting the lint as it comes from the gin-stand H, and a door, G, for removing the lint to the press K. The said inlet-passages and doors are arranged in like relation to each room, and relatively to the gin-stand andthepress, so that when the inlet-passage of one room is in suitable relation to the gin-stand to admit the lint to the room as it falls from the gin the door of the other room will be in the right position relatively to the press to be most convenient for conveying the lint to it to be pressed, so that the pressing can be carried on simultaneously with the ginning without inconvenience from the dust and fine particles of lint; also, that when one room is filled and another emptied the receiver can be quickly shifted to bring an empty room to the gin and a filled one to the press.

I do not limit myself to two rooms, for three compartments, having inlet-passages F and discharging-doors G, arranged relatively to the gin stand and press, substantially as specified.

WILLIAM T. ORENSHAW.

Witnesses S. D. OURRTHERS, W. R. TIM.