US240722A - Device for handling seed-cotton to be ginned - Google Patents

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Device for Handling Seed Cotton to be Ginnefl.

No. 240,722. Patented April, 26,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

ANDREW P. JAMES, OF SHERMAN, TEXAS.

DEVICE FOR HANDLING SEED-COTTON TO BE GINNED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,722, dated April 26, 1881. Application filed March 1, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANDREW P. JAMES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sherman, in the county of Grayson and Stateof Texas, have invented new and useful Devices for Handling Seed-Cotton to be Ginned, of which the following is a specification.-

My invention relates to improvements in devices for handling seed-cotton to beginned, in which a track is laid and box-cars suitable for storing cotton employed in place of bins in the gin-house, as heretofore; and the objects of my invention are, first, to provide a convenient method of handling the cotton; second, to afford facilities for the safe storing of the same at a distance from the engine and gin-building; and, third, to reduce the cost of the gin-building and danger of fire by storing the cotton in cars along the track at a distance from the ginhouse. I attain these objects by the devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical end elevation of the ginbuilding, showing a side view of the track; Fig. 2, a side view of the building, showing end' view of tramway; Fig.3, a section on the linear m, Fig. 1, showing the second floor of the building; and Fig. 4, a section through the line 1 2, Fig. 1, showing first floor of the building.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The sills A, posts B, and cross-timbers O constitute the frame-work of the building, which should be set at the side of a bank, bringing the second floor D level with the sur- Upon this floor, and extending back about one hundred yards along the bank, I lay a double tramway, E, of wood, and provide a simple switch, F, at each end, for transferrin g the cars from one track to the other.

G represents the style of car I deem preferable for storing the cotton, and as many may be employed as the business requires. They should be ten feet long, three feet eight inches wide at bottom, four feet eight inches wide at top, and the sides three feet high. The roof should have one foot pitch from center of car each way, and made tight to shed rain. One side of roof is nailed down, the other hinged toit at center, forming a lid, which maybe emptied, is taken out and the cotton removed through it and placed in the gin. Each car should be provided with a lock, and have its weight and number marked upon it in a conspicuous place.

The switch-rails F of tramway rest upon platform-scales J, which should be placed opposite gin-stand H. With this arrangement a whole car of cotton, when run in to be ginned, may be weighed at once, instead of by baskets, as heretofore. When a car is unloaded it is switched off on the side track and run back out of the building to be tilled again.

K represents an open-top car constructed so as to dump on either side. This car runs upon a single straight track, L, passing directly under the gill on lower floor of building. The seed, as it falls from the gin, drops into this car, which should be emptied at one of the numbered posts M, stationed at convenient distances apart outside of the building, as often as anyone customers cotton is ginned.

1 am aware that prior to my invention cars and tramways have been constructed similar to mine and employed for various purposes; but I am not aware that they have been used in conjunction with a gin-building to facilitate the handling of seed-cotton.

What I therefore claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The combination, with a gin-house constructed as shown, of the double tramway E and cars G, provided with switch F, resting upon scales J, substantially as set forth,

2. The track L, seedcar K, and numbered posts M, in combination with a gin-house, for the purposes herein specified.

ANDREW P. JAMES.

Witnesses Tnos. W. RANDOLPH, J. F. YOUNG.

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