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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
FRIEDRICH ZEDLER, OF CUERO, TEXAS.
APPARATUS FOR THE TREATMENT OF COTTON.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 520,285, dated May 22,1894.
Application fied July 25, 1893. SerialNo, 481,404. (No model.)To cll whom it 7nacy concern:
Be it known that I, FRIEDRICH ZEDLER, of
Cuero, in the county of De Witt and State of
Texas, have invented a new and. useful Im-
5 provement in Apparatus for the Treatment
of Cotton, of which the following is a full,
clear, and exact description.
Miy invention relates to an improvement in
apparatus for the treatment of cotton, and it
ro has for its object to provide a means where-
by a number of gins and condensers may be
located in consecutive order and over a flue,
the lint cotton in bat form being delivered
from all of the condensers in independent
I5 bats to a common conveyer, the bat cotton
increasing in thickness upon the common
conveyer and in its travel to a press, com-
press or other receptacle, receiving the dif-
ferent bats from the different condensers, one
20 batlying smoothly upon the other, until at the
discharge end of the common conveyer, the
bat in which the lint is evenly distributed and
which is of considerable thickness, will be
conveniently discharged.
25 A further object of the invention is to pro-
vide a means whereby the flue in which the
common conveyer is located and into which
all the conveyers of the condensers lead, will
be provided with ventilators for the escape of
30 surplus air.
The invention consists in the novel con-
struction and combination of the several
parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth
and pointed out in the claims.
35 Reference is to be had to the accompanying
drawings forming a part of this specification,
in which similar figures and letters of refer-
ence indicate corresponding parts in all the
views.
40 Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through
a flue, illustrating the position of the con-
densers and gin with respect thereto. Fig. 2
is a partial plan view of the flue, showing the
position of the stands at which the gins and
45 condensers are located. Fig. 3 is a vertical
section taken through the flue, substantially
on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a detail
view illustrating the adjustable bearing for
the lower rollers of the endless carrier belts.
50 In carrying out the invention the flue A, is
constructed of any desired length, and iserected upon any suitable form of support.
The flue usually consists of upper and lower
side boards 10, as shown in Fig. 3, connected
by suitable uprights 11; and below the top 55
board at each side of the flue a ventilator 12
of any approved construction is located; usu-
ally woven wire is employed as a ventilator,
but perforated metal may be substituted if
desired. The bottom board 13, is located be- 60
tween the center and bottom of the flue and
extends practically from end to end thereof
and from side to side, which bottom board may
be supported upon the lower side boards 10.
Two inwardly and downwardly inclined side 65
boards 14 and 15, are secured to each side of
the trough, as shown in Fig. 3, the lower side
boards extending practically downward to an
engagement with the floor 13, being however
ordinarily provided with recesses 16 in their 70
lower edges. The lower edges of the upper in-
clined boards 14, do not extend as far down-
ward as the lower edges of the lower boards.
Within the flue thus formed a common con-
veyer belt B, is adapted to travel. The upper 75
stretch of the belt is adapted to travel immedi-
ately over the top of the floor 13 of the flue, and
the belt, which is endless,, is passed around
pulleys 17, located at what may be termed the
front end of the flue; and the lower stretch of 80
the belt is supported by one or more idlers 18,
located between the ends of the flue, while an-
other set of pulleys 19, is located at what may
be termed the discharge end of the flue, with
which pulleys the lower stretch only of the 85
endless belt engages.
At the discharge and of the flue an up-
wardly and rearwardly inclined extension A',
is erected, and the main conveyer belt B, at
its rear end passes over a series of pulleys 20, 90
located in the extension near its upper end,
which pulleys are secured upon the drive
shaft 21.. It will be understood that when-
ever pulleys have been heretofore alluded to a
single drum may be used for the purpose, as 95
shown in Fig. 3.
In addition to the main conveyer belt B an
assistant conveyer belt B', is located in the ex-
tension A' of the flue, and thisbelt passes over
a large pulley or drum 22, located partially Ioo
within the extension and partially within the
main section of the flue, the belt being further
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Zedler, Friedrich. Apparatus for the Treatment of Cotton., patent, May 22, 1894; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173730/m1/3/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.