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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo
DANIEL HESS, OF HENDERSON, TEXAS.
COTTON CLEANER AND CONDENSER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,087, dated August 9, 1887
Application filed December 1, 1886. Serial No. 22,208. (No model.)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, DANIEL HEss, a citizen
of the United States, residing at Henderson,
in the county of Rusk and State of Texas, have
5 invented certain new and useful Improvements
in Cotton Cleaners and Condensers; and I do
declare the following to be a full, clear, and
exact description of the invention, such as
will enable others skilled in the art to which
1o it appertains to make and use the same, refer-
ence being had to the accompanying draw-
ings, and to the letters and figures of refer-
ence marked thereon, which form a part of
this specification.
15 My invention has relation to cotton-gin at-
tachments, and the object is to provide a ma-
chine that will take the cotton as it comes from
the gin and clean and condense it at one op-
eration; and to this end the novelty consists,
20 first, in an inclosing-shell having a foraminous
drum revolving about an open-ended shell
which has a longitudinal opening in its pe-
riphery,so as to remove the sand and dirt,and,
second, in a foraminous drum revolving within
25 a semicircular wire cage, whereby the cotton
will be carried around in rolls on the drum
and inside of the cage, so as to remove theleaf
and trash, all of which will be hereinafter
more fully described,and particularly pointed
30 out in the claims. Theseobjectslattainby the
means illustrated in the accompanying draw-
ings.
Figure 1 is a transverse section of my im-
proved cotton cleaner and condenser, and Fig.
35 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.
A A represent the frame-work of the ma-
chine, in the end pieces of which is mounted
a longitudinal rigid shaft, B.
C is the flue into which the cotton is carried
40 from the gin. Upon the shaft B is rigidly se-
cured a pair of hubs, b, each provided with
radial arms b',which support the interior sheet-
metal shell, D, the upper portion of which is
open from the point d to d'.
45 E E are hubs journaled so as to revolve on
the stationary shaft B on the outside of the
hubs b, and they are provided with arms e, to
the outer curved ends of each set of which are
secured the annular rings F F'; and longitudi-
50o nally connecting these rings are a series ofwooden strips or bars, e', around which is
formed a fine wire-guaze cylinder, G, and on
the outside of this cylinder, parallel with and
to each of the bars e', is secured a strip, g,
which projects a short distance beyond the 55
periphery of the cylinder. This cylinder re-
volves within a semicircular cage, H H',which
is of a diameter slightly longer than that of
the cylinder, the portion H of said cage being
composed of sheet metal, while the remaining 60
portion,H',is made of coarse wire gauze or net-
ting.
The machine is placed, with reference to a
gin, so that the fiber or lint as itis discharged
from the gin will be carried into the flue C in 65
the direction shown by the arrows. Here the
fiber falls upon the periphery of the revolv-
ing wire-gauze drum, so that theloose sand and
dirt will fall into the sheet-metal shell D
through the openings d d', and will be dis- 70
charged at the ends thereof. The fiber as it
falls upon the revolving-drum G is carried
past the guard a, and by contact with the
portion H of the outside cage is converted or
condensed into small longitudinal rolls, and 75
while these rolls are revolving and passing
from the point i to the discharge-opening I
the leaf and trash are discharged through the
meshes of the gauze cage H', the process of
revolving the rolls between the inner revolv- 8D
ing-drum and the outer stationary cage gradu-
ally eliminating the leaf and trash until the
rolls arrive at the discharge-opening I, where
they fall out comparatively free from foreign
matter. 85
The drum or cylinder G may be revolved
by bands on the outside of the annular rings
F F'; or the periphery of these rings may be
provided with teeth which mesh with a pair
of pinions mounted on a shaftsuitably located 90
in a parallel and convenient plane.
Having thus fully described my invention,
what I claim as new and useful, and desire to
secure by Letters Patent, is-
1. The combination, with the outer or in- 95
closing shell having its upper half composed
of sheet metal and its lower half of foraminous
material and provided with a flue for the ad-
mission of the cotton, of the foraminous cyl-
inder and an inclosed open-ended shell hav- 1o3
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Hess, Daniel. Cotton Cleaner and Condenser., patent, August 9, 1887; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth171606/m1/2/?q=%22~1%22~1&rotate=180: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.