US268209A

US268209A - Cotton-cleaner

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Publication number: US268209A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1882-11-28
Anticipated expiration: 1899-11-28

Description

Patented Nov. 28, 1882 INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

(No Model.)

J. E. ENGRAM.

COTTON 'GLEANER.

No. 268,209. l

T -I f PATENT EEtcE.

JOHN E. ENGRAM, OF EUFAULA, ALABAMA.

COTTON-CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,209, dated November 28, 1882,

Application filed September 30, 1882.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN EDWARD ENGRAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Eufaula, in the county of Barbour and State of Alabama, having invented a new and Improved Cotton-Gleaner, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of cottoncleaners used as an accessory to the common gin to clean the cotton of dust, trash, and dirt immediately after the cotton passes the brush which takes it from the gin-saws and it consists in the construction and combinationof parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of acotton-gin. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional elevation of my invention, showing its relation with a cotton-gin. Fig. 3 is a detail view.

. A represents the saws, and B the brush, commonly used in cotton-gins.

As my invention does not relate to the gin proper, I make no description thereof; but my device is attachedto any Kind of a cotton-gin which uses a rotary brush to clean the cotton from the saw-teeth and to throw or blow it into the lint-room or condenser.

G is an inclined bed made up of pivoted slats 0, like a Venetian blind. These slats 0 may be given any desired pitch by means of the connecting-rod a, linked bysmall staples to each slat. They usually stand nearly vertical, about one-halfor three-quarters of an inch apart, their upper faces being given about the incline of their general plane.

I) I) represent two indepemlently-pivoted slats or bars,in each ofwhich a series of wires, d, is fixed, the wires being about a half-inch apart along the slats I), and the slats are slanted to point the wires out of the gin-flue in the direction which the cotton is blown by the gin.

e is an upper pivoted bar or slat, similarly provided with wiresf, pointing in a downward plane out of the flue. The wires are of a size and material to spring under pressure and continually restore themselves to their normal position when the pressure is removed. Their (No model.)

forcibly against them to jar thedust and dirt.

out. To this end the lower set of wires first receives the flying cotton and deflects it to the upper wires, and they in turn deflect it to the outer tier of wires, thus thoroughly beating it in its escapefrom the gin. The dust and dirt, being much heavier than the cotton, especially after the cotton is loosened by the gin, fall to the bottom when so jarred out; and the cotton, gather-ingcontinually against the wires, causes an eddy behind them in the current of air, which leaves the dirt more free to settle there than in the direct current. The spaces between slats c are to allow the dirt to fall out of the machine, and they may be regulated to any desired width by changing the pitch of the slats. The bars holding the wires may also be set to any desired angle to offer more or less resistance to the flying cotton. The slats c and bars b e are pivoted so closely as to stay in any position in which they are set.

The use of my invention renders the cotton cleaner, and consequently more valuable, without any extra cost in the process of ginning and cleaning over the common cost of cleaning.

What I claim as my invention, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a cotton gin flue having openingsthrough its bottom, of deflecting-wires secured within the flue, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with a cotton-gin flue having openings through its bottom, of adj ustahly-pivoted bars or slats provided with deflecting-wires, substantially as described. 3. The combination, with a. cotton-gin flue provided with the deflecting-wires described, of adjustably-pivoted slats in its bottom, having openings between them, substantially as specified.

JOHN EDWARD ENGHAM.

Witnesses: I

J. E. SPANN, A. H. MERRILL.