US180565A - Improvement in lint-room automatic fire-extinguishers - Google Patents

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F. L. ELLIS.. LINT-ROOM AUTOMATIC `FIR.EEXTINGUISHER.

No.180,'565. Patented Aug.1,1876.

VIIIIlI'lIl//IA N4 PETERS. PNOTO'UTHOGRAFHER. WASMINGTQN. D. C..

UNITE' FIEIIDING L. ELLIS, QF GREENVILLE, ALABAMA.

IMPROVEMENT IN LINT-RCOM AUTCMATIC FIREEXTIlNlC-iUlSi-IERS.`

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent N0. 180,565, dated August l, 1376; application filed March 8, 1876.

To all 'whom it may concern Be it known that I, FIELDING LoUrs ELLIS, ot' Greenville, in the county of Butler and State of Alabama, have invent-ed a new and Improved Portable Lint-Room; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying draw- -ing, forming a .part of this specification, in

which the ligure is a vertical longitudinal section of the car upon the inclined track, in position beside the gin-house.

The object of my invention is to provide a portable fire-proof lint-room, in the form of a car, for conveying the lint from the gin-house to the cotton-press; and it consists in the construct-ion and arrangement of the car, which the form of a throat, a, and receives its lint through the opening b at the bend, thelower,

end ot' the box being left open and projecting through the floor, so as to form a flue, down which pass all impurities in the shape of metes, which are of' greater weight than the lint. C is the portable lint-room orcar, which is made of any suitable material and dimensions, and is constructed of a little greater area' at the top than at the bottom.

To contain lint to the amount of four bales of tive hundred pounds each, the dimensions should be twelve by ten feet upon the inside at the bottom, ten feet high, and ten by thirteen feet upon the inside at the top. This room is mounted upon Wheels, 'Which,.for the sake of cheapness, may be made of wood. These Wheels are constructed with flanges, after the manner of car-Wheels, and are arranged to run upon a wooden tramway or track, D, which track is inclined away from the gin-house to the cotton-press, with a fall of about one-half inch to the foot, so that when the car is loaded it passes of its own weight down the inclined track to the press to be unloaded.

which the lint is discharged at the cottonress. p By means of this arrangement, it will be seen that the extra handling and packing the cotton in baskets is dispensed with, and the lint kept cleaner from impurities, so that it samples better.

The arrangement of the car upon the inclined track also enables me to economize time and labor to a very considerable extent, as with this arrangement two boys are enabled to accomplish the work ordinarily performed by two men and a boy in packing the lint into baskets, transporting it to the press, and unpacking the same. The movable character of' the lint-room also involves other important advantages, in thatit permits, in case of Iire, of the detachability of the car, which will start down grade from the slightest start, and thus diminish the percentage of possible losses from this source.

In order to provide additional means of security against re, I construct upon the roof of the car a water-tank, G, in the bottom of which is located a valve, H, which opens or closes communication between the tank and the interior of the car or lint-room. In the top of the car also, beneath the water-tank, and extending nearly across the whole area, is a perforated ceiling, I, of wood or sheet metal, upon Which the water is discharged from the tank. Now, Whenever a lire occurs,

the hinged valve H is opened by a pull upon a rope, and the water, descending through the perforations in the ceiling, ills the rooin with an extinguishing shower. Upon the roof of the car also is arranged a ventilator or airvent, J, which is provided with a hinged leaf, K, and a rain-shed, Il, the hinged leaf being connected by a rope with the rope operating the valve in the water tank. Whenever, therefore, the water-tank valve is opened, the

Water with a valve and spray-pipes, in which in the event of fire, and I therefore limit this device the valve is opened by the fall of a Weight ei'ected by the discharge of gunpowder portion of my invention to the combination of the tank and valve with'th'e Ventilating apparatus, so arranged as to let on the Water and close the ventilator simultaneously and by the same movement.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- The combination, with the lint-room, of the perforated ceiling I, watertank G, valve H, air-vent f, am". hinged leaf K,'connected with valve H, and operated simultaneously therewith, for the purpose set forth.

FIELDING LOUISA ELLIS.

Witnesses: Y Y

DUNKLIN B. TAYLOR, JAMES L. DUNKLIN.

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