Improvement in Cotton Feeders and Cleaners for Cotton-Gins.
Description
Patent for "devices for feeding seed-cotton to cotton-gins, and also, for cleaning the same preparatory to ginning; and it consists of a hopper having wires extending from side to side over a revolving toothed cylinder and a concave thrasher, and being made to reciprocate on a track by pinions on the ends of the thrasher-cylinder, working in double rack-bars, one in each side of the hopper, so contrived that the pinions run them over one way and under the other, making a simple and cheap mode of obtaining the motion." (Lines 6-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
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Titles
Main Title:
Improvement in Cotton Feeders and Cleaners for Cotton-Gins.
Added Title:
Cotton Feeders and Cleaners for Cotton-Gins.
Description
Patent for "devices for feeding seed-cotton to cotton-gins, and also, for cleaning the same preparatory to ginning; and it consists of a hopper having wires extending from side to side over a revolving toothed cylinder and a concave thrasher, and being made to reciprocate on a track by pinions on the ends of the thrasher-cylinder, working in double rack-bars, one in each side of the hopper, so contrived that the pinions run them over one way and under the other, making a simple and cheap mode of obtaining the motion." (Lines 6-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Physical Description
[1], 1 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,206, dated July 25, 1876; application filed May 9, 1876.
Colquitt, George F.Improvement in Cotton Feeders and Cleaners for Cotton-Gins.,
patent,
July 25, 1876;
[Washington D.C.].
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth166566/:
accessed July 18, 2024),
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