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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
EUGENE E. BATEMAN, OF MARQUEZ, TEXAS.
COTTON SEPARATOR, DISTRIBUTER, AND FEEDER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,986, dated June 19, 1900.
Application filed March 6, 1900. Serial No. 7,565, (No model.)To all whom it may concern.
Be it known that I, EUGENE E. BATEMAN, a
citizen of the United States, residing at Mar-
quez, in the county of LeonandState of Texas,
5 have invented certain new and useful Im-
provements in Cotton Separators, Distribu-
ters, and Feeders; and I do declare the follow-
ing to be a full, clear, and exact description
of the invention, such as will enable others
ro skilled in the art to which it appertains to make
and use the same, reference being had to the
accompanying drawings, and to the letters of
.reference marked thereon, which form a part
of this specification.
15 This invention relates to new and useful im-
provements in cotton conveyers and distribu-
ters in which the said cotton is drawn by
pneumatic suction into and through a trough
or passage-way to a distributer box or com-
20 partment which has disposed across its upper.
portion an adjustable rack, between the teeth
of which rack the spikes mounted on the cir-
cumference of a rotary cylinder are adapted
to turn for the purpose of clearing the rack
25 of the cotton falling thereon and conveying
the same to and depositing the cotton into a
suitable compartment, from which the cotton
falls into a rotary compartment-wheel, from
which compartments the cotton is deposited
30 into a trough, from.which it is conveyed by a
current of air, which blows the cotton through
a suitable trough-to the battery of gins.
Another feature of the invention resides in
the provision of means in connection with the
35 conveyer passage-way over the battery of gins
whereby the cotton after a certain quantity
is fed to the first of the gins of the battery
may be carried forward into the feeding pas-
sage-way by means of the pneumatic current
40 to the successive gins, suitable slatted mem-.
bers being provided, one above each gin and
extending into the conveyer passage-way, so
disposed as to allow the air to pass through
between the slats, but prevent the cotton
45 'passing through the same, thereby allowing
the current of air a comparatively-uninter-
rupted passage way.
My invention will be clearly understood
when taken in connection with the drawings
50 forming part of this application, in which
drawings I have shown, in-
Figure 1, a diagrammatic view showing thecourse of 'the pneumatic current to and -
through the separator and thence through the
conveyer to the battery of gins; Fig. 2, a top 55
diagrammatic view of the conveyer passage-
way; Fig. 3; a vertical sectional view trans-
versely through the separator-compartment
and cylinders; Fig. 4, a vertical sectional view
on line 4 4 of Fig. 3; Fig. 5, a vertical central 6o
longitudinal view through a cotton-gin and
conveyer passage-way above the same, and in
Fig. 6, a central sectional view vertically on
line 6 6 of Fig. 5.
Reference now being had to the details of 65
the drawings by letter,A designates the pneu-
matic - feeding passage-way, into which the
cotton is drawn by suction from a fan-wheel
13, which has an air-tight passage-way lead-
ing to and communicating with said feeding- 70
trough, and at any suitable location is a sepa-
rator-compartment C, with which said feed-
ing passage-way communicates at the upper
end of the separator-compartment. Journaled
in the opposite walls of said separator-com- 75
partment is a cylindrical drum D, which has
a wire-gauze D' about its circumference and
has a series of longitudinal bars E, in which
are securely fastened the spikes E', said spikes
being arranged at given distances apart on 8o
each of the bars. Mounted on a rock-shaft
F, which is journaled in the opposite walls of
the separator-compartment in an offset F', is
a rack G, having a series of rack-teeth G',
which are preferably slightly curved at their 85
free ends and adapted to normally rest .over
the cylinder in such position that the spikes
E', mounted on the circumference of the cyl-
inder D, will enter the spaces between said
teeth of the rack as the cylinder rotates for 90
the purpose of clearing thecotton which rests
upon.the rack and drawing it off from the free
ends of the teeth. Secured to said rock-shaft
-F is a lever F2, whereby said rack may be
raised or lowered, accordingly as it may be 95
desired to prevent the cotton being fed or
allowing the same to be drawn off the ends
of the teeth of the rack as the cylinder rotates.
By adjusting the rack at different heights the
quantity of cotton to be fed may be regulated. ioo
Said separator-compartment is provided with
air-tight walls, through which the feeding
passage-way enters at the top, as described,
and at a location preferably at the rear of
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Bateman, Eugene E. Cotton Separator, Distributer, and Feeder, patent, June 19, 1900; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth509287/m1/4/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.