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UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE
GEORGE E. RICHMOND, OF HOUSTON, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF
TO CHARLES L. DESEL, OF HOUSTON, TEXAS.
MACHINE FOR PICKING AND CLEANING COTTON.No. 830,102..
Specification of Letters Patent.
Annlication filed March 5,1906. Serial No. 304,326.TO all- n if ,1 1 n/ i 1(1/ 1 e(4 :'7:
Be it known that I, GEORGE E. RICHMOND.
a citizen of the United States, residing at
Houston, in the county of Harris and State
5 of Texas, have invented a new and useful
Machine for Picking and Cleaning Cotton, of
which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to machines for
picking and cleaning cotton; and its object is
10 to provide mechanism of this character which
can be drawn over a cotton-field and which
will remove the ripe cotton from .the plants
and discharge it into a separator, where the
cotton wXXill be cleared and finally discharged
15. into suitable receptacles provided for it.
Another object is to provide pneumatic
means for removing the cotton from the
plarits sild means being adapted to be ap-
plied to all portions of the plants automat-
o ically.
A further object is the provision of novel
mnechniiisim u for projecting the pneumatic
)ickin!g n l(tlO'(nhi'rs along Var1i0us planes and at
di alerenit nlies so is to insure the removal
25 of a'l alcetoil 11111 the plants.
Otier 'bjc( ts il rto provide a Compact
.n( du(1 1)11 1aci ih4 111iframe of which is
t[.m I'i:L d S a reep'1t a('l(fur the 1111id1 emlploy'e(1
i'_n :'1t"1I1);u t hepr>p"sonof te mechanism, :and(1to
30 )', ) i 1 wh01r15v by h(' eb, 11w. wato acting of all
tooarts OL the mtliinio' aiw reiliideI' the imine-
,listI: :O1 1ol f'1 &t10; Opjr( .l. tor.
th 11t 1 and other objects in view
t ( h : o 1osi sts of a Iiiframe the sides of
35 wl :hi a. preraoblv formneol (of large pipes,
which i it Ite recent ladles for omi or other.
[i[[idt ul-r( iii the propulsi(.nof thle machine.
1j lnot OI n' orves to propel the machine,
40 hit. - co u',44 r! fan which' communicait(s,
tioro gitil I l-Ol ait' of lexib'le tutbes, with t -
a VI 'ii i1 'Vt 011 a ) il ~ l)Olr t'IY-
ported \w i[ 111O11.1ex t 1}( 11,111 oppositely-
dlispusd h1O , 1thes hoods S11i(a p' vaOte( to
45 thetO farmal f( It t i" in1E' adi l have m1ec1(h-
~aism1t wh y tlhey et h. iereadily raised or
lo wered. \aos ae, a.( p)oid od within the
hoods for projecting tl picking-arms uo-
word eaci oti:her and ft constanxltly-changIng
50 angles. so that all portions of a plantt located
between The hoods will be acted upon by the
arms and insure the renoval of the cotton.
The -fan serves to suck the cotton through
the picking-arms and to discharge it into aPatented Sept. 4, 1906.
separator which is supported by the frame of 55
the machine and serves to remove sand,
stones, and other objectionable materials
from the cotton and deposit them in recep-
tacles provided for that purpose, wide the
clean cotton is collected in separate recep 6o
tacles.
The invention also consists in certain novel
features of construction and combination of
parts which will be hereinafter more fully de-
scribed, and pointed out in the claims. 65
In the accompanying drawings is shown
the preferred form of the invention.
In said drawings, Figure 1 is a view, partly
in section and partly in side elevation, of the
complete machine. Fig. 2 is a front eleva- 70
tion thereof, the bearings of the hoods being
shown in section. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation,
and Fig. 4 is an enlarged horizontal section
through one of the hoods anld showing some
of the numerous positions adapted to be as- 75
sUled by the tubular picking-arms.
Referring to the figures by ninumerals of ref-
erence, 1 and 2 are the rear and front axles,
respectively, of the machine, each being
formed of an upstandiling yoke terminating in 8o
lateral extending bearings and in which the
wheels :3 are mloluntel. The bearings 4 of the
front wheels are preferably pivotally con-
nected to the front yoke I and upon shafts 5,
with which they are adapted to rotate. 85
These shafts .'xtendi1 upward above the upper
clck 6 of the machine. which is mou-nted on
the yokes 1 and is held in proper position by
means of bracc's 7, wicl extend upward
fromill said yokes. T l ut tipper ends of the 90
shafts 5 have sprockets S thereon, around
which extends a chain 9, which engages a
dri ve-sproket 10. This drive-sprocket is se-
cired to a shaft 11, which is mounted on.the
dook 6 near its forward end and has a hand- 95
wheel , 2,wher4hy it may be readily rotated.
By means of this hand-wheel the machine
can be guided wNhile being propelled. Ex-
tending laterally from the yokes 1 and 2 and
below the deck 6 are ruining-boards 13, 100
which constitute the lower deck of the ma-
cline and which are also supported by braces
7. The sides 14 of the frame are securd to
the yokes I directly below the lower fleck and
are in the form of pipes which are closed at 105
their ends and have funnel-like inlets 15,
whereby oil or other fluid for use in propel-
ling the mechanism may be supplied to the
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Richmond, George E. & Desel, Charles L. Machine For Picking and Cleaning Cotton, patent, September 4, 1906; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth509671/m1/5/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.