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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
HENRY REMBERT, OF HOUSTON, TEXAS.
METHOD OF MAKING COTTON-BALES.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 703,470, dated July 1, 1902.
Application filed March 19, 1901. Serial No. 51,823. (No model. -To aib wh07n it -may concern:
Be it known that I, HENRYREMBERT, a citi-
zen of the United States, residingat Houston,.
in the county of Harris and State of Texas,
5 have invented a-new and useful Method of-
Making Cotton-Bales, of which the. following
is a specification.
My present invention relates: to a novel
method designed to be employed in the mane-:
1o facture of cylindrical cotton-bales.
Considered in'a broad' aspect the process
originated by me for the purpose of overcom-
ing a number of objections urged against cy-
lindrical bales now on the market involves
15 the thought of. forming a bale from a bat by'
winding the latter without appreciable com-
pression in detail until a complete closely-.
wound bale is produced,.said bale being then
relieved of its core, and subjected' to great,
20 compression while. being rotated; the result;
of such a process being what is known as a
"compress bale" of uniform density and of
perfect fiber.
In order that the advantages accruing from
25 the practice of my process may be more read-
ily apparent and the distinction between said
process or method and the methods now em--
ployed in the making of cylindrical bales more'
readily understood, I shall describe briefly'
30 the most prominent or more distinct methods
of cylindrical-bale making and will 'call at-
tention to such objectionable results thereof
as have induced the experiments eventuating
in the subject-matter of this application.
35 In the art of cylindrical-bale making two
principal methods have been adopted with
more or less success. These methods are ex-
emplified, respectively, in the patents to J.
W. Graves, No. 546,009, September 10, 1895,
4o and *G. A. Lowry, No. 630,369, August 8,
1899. -'The Graves method consists in wind-
ing a continuous sheet or bat around a spin-
dle or core while being subject to continuous
pressure-that is to say, the pressure is ap-
45 plied to the'initial layer or convolution dis-
posed upon the core and is constantly main-
tained during the winding of the bale to ob-
tain detailed compression, by which is meant
the compression of each individual portion
5o of the bat as it is wound layer upon layer
around the core.
For the purpose of carrying out this methoda number of presses, differing more or less in
detail, have been devised; but in each in-
stance the cylindrical bale is formed between 55
compression-rolls, which compress the bale in
detailand which exert a pressure increasing
as the diameter of the bale is increased by the
winding thereon of the successive convolu-
tions of the cotton-bat received from the con- 6o
denser. A cylindrical bale produced by the
Graves method is possessed of certain desir-
able characteristics, the principal of which is
that the bat having been continuously wound
in the formation of the bale may with facil- 65
ity be unwound and fed into the opening
machine of a spinning establishment without
the necessity of first tearing up the bale
and feeding the cotton into the opening ma-
chines by hand, asis now done with cotton sup- 70
plied..to the operator in the ordinary planta-
tion-bales or such bales after compression by
the old-style hydraulic compresses. While
this winding of the bat is advautageous,how-
ever, for the reason stated, it has been found 75
that by reason of the detailed compression
hereinbefore defined the cotton or other fibers
are more or less injured, the bale is formed
with what is known as a "hard center," and
the removal' of the core-rod upon which the 8o
bale is wound is' rendered exceedingly diffi-
cult, 'if not impossible. These undesirable
characteristics of a cylindrical cotton-bale
produced by the method described are due
to the' detailed compression of the bat, as 85
each. layer is tightly compressed upon the
layers nearer the center. The truth'of this
statement will readily appear when it is con-
sidered that the innermost layer or convolu-
tion of the bale is first subjected to great 90
compression and is thereafter subjected to
continued pressure during the entire dura-
tion of the baling operation, and as a conse-
quence the completed bale will not be of uni-
form density throughout and will not have a 95
uniform weight for each unit of volume.
The method pu.rsued in the' operation of
the Lowry press differs materially from that
method which has just been described in that
the -bale is formed from loose cotton as dis- oo
tinguished from a bat, and while the con-
tinued subjection of the innermost portion
of the bale to pressure through the baling
operation is prevented the cotton is neverthe-
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Rembert, Henry. Method of Making Cotton-Bales, patent, July 1, 1902; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth512820/m1/4/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.