US23168A - Improvement in cotton-harvesters - Google Patents

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. i Steam Catton Harvester.` Y "No, 23,168. u Patentedrvaamhs,1859.

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Specification forming part- Letters Pat-entl N 0.'2:V,l76, dated 'Y I i .To alll whom t may concern: ,o v Beit knownvthat I, JOHN GRIFFrN, of Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and' useful Machine or Device for Picking orHarvesting Cotton by Steam; and I'do hereby declare vthat the following is a full, clear,l and exact description of the same, reference vbeing had ng a part of this specification, in which-f Figures l and 2 are vertical central 'sections' planes Aof 'sectionsi crossing each other at right angles.

of my4 invention, the tw Similar letters of reference indicate correl vspending parts in the two ligur'es;l

This invention consists in' connectinga ilexif lble tube with a cylinder provided with a perfcrated plate and connected with a steam-l boiler, substantially ,as hereinafter fullyshown and described, 'whereby1a-vacuum may be produced withinlthe cylinder and the cotton pickedfrom the bcllspn the standing stalks by atmospheric pressure, the tubes being presented-tothe cotton by suitable attendants.

In carrying out this invention, I design-to Si; have the'cylinder above mentioned connected with the boiler of atraction-engine in order. to

facilitatethe transporting of the machine and the moving-of it from place vto place, or from row to row in the course of the operation. I

also design to employ one or more cylinders.

and a plurality of tubes, so that several hands may be employed and several -rows of cotton picked or harvested simultaneously.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A represents a steam-boiler, which is supported in a frame, B, and() 1s a cylinder which is placed above the boilerA, and has a tube, D, attac-hed to itsv upper part. 'VVithc inv the cylinder O'a horizontaly plate, a, is placed.4

, 'be near the upper part of the cylinderor above rIhis platev a is perforated, and may its center,

Below the plate a, within'the vcylinder C, a

taclled, as shown n Fig. 1.

way to resistthe pressure of the external'air. The tube d mayalso be provided with two or more lexible branch tubes, e, as shown` in Fig. 1.

passes from the upper part of the boiler into thetube D, andvcommunicates with 'a short. vertical tube,'g, in the lower partof D, as shown clearly in 1. The tube fis provided with?- a cock, 7L. The operation is as follows: Steam is, gen erated in the boiler A, as usual, and when the cock h in tube f is opened vthe steam escapes through the tubej' into g. and up, throughD. producing thereby a suction in the tube d and cylinder as indicated by the arrows in Fig. '1. The operators o r attendants grasp the ends e e ofthe tube d and print their'orilices to the bolls, and the cotton is ektractedxtherefrom and lconveyed or forced up the tube d, into the cylinder G below the platea. When the cylinder is llled the cock h is closed, the ends of the cylinder C opposite :tube d reinder by operating the plunger The per forated plate a., it willA be' seen, prevents the cotton (shown permits the `cotton to pass through and fill the whole ofthe cylinder O below the platea'.l The boiler A, as previously stated, may be and an engineerv employed to drive the ina'- chine from place to pla-ce, as may be required in the operation of harvesting.

said'plunger having au 4 opening, b, made through it, and ahandle, o, at-

As any form of traction-engine may be used,

aproper kind would suggest itselt'to an in i' telligentmachinist or engineer. Noparticular l The cylinder C is made to communicate 'with `the boiler A as follows: A tube, j',4

moved and the cotton forced from the cyl-V v in red) from being drawn up intotube D, while the hole bin the plunger 33ans one therefore is herein descrbed,.it being nn-V and madero.communicate with n steam-boum',

necessary.

. l "A, by means ot' the tnbesj' g I), substantially Havng'thns described my invention, what I as and for thnp'nrpose-set forth. claim as-new, and desire to secure by Letters JOHN GHI FINN.

Patent?, is Witnesses z' The byl'mder (3,0116 or more, providedwvth JOHN K. LANE, a, perforated plate, a, exble Lube or tubes d, T. (l). LANE.

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