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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE-
WILLIAM E. ELAM, ROBERT S. THOMAS, AND SAUNIE W. IHARDWICK. OF
DALLAS, TEXAS.
APPARATUS FOR HANDLING AND CLEANING SEED-COTTON.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 453,551, dated June 2, 1891.
Application filed August 12, 1890. Serial No. 361,809, !No model.)To aZl zltomia it may concerns:
Be it known that we, WILLIAM E. ELAM,
ROBERT S. THOMAS, and SAUNIE W. IIARD-
WICK, citizens of the United States, residirig
5 -c Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State
.of Texas, have invented certain new and use-
ful Improvements in Apparatus for Handling
and Cleaning Seed-Cotton; and we do declare
the following to be a full, clear, and exat de-
To scription of the invention, such as will enable
others skilled in the art to which it apper-
tains to make and use the same, reference
being had to the accompanying drawings, and
to the letters and figures of reference marked
15 thereon, which form a part of this specifica-
tion.
Our invention is in devices for conveying
cotton through a pneumatic tube and for au-
tomatically delivering therefrom to each of a
Zo series of gins an amount of cleaned cotton
graduated atall times to the need of each gin.
The flow of the main current in the tube is
not interrupted by the several subtractions.
The invention is fully shown.in the accom-
25 panying drawings, in whichf-
Figure 1 is an elevation, partly in section,
of the whole apparatus. Fig. 2 is a plan of
the same. Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 are detailviews.
The devices for supplying each gin except
30 the last of the series being identical with
those for the other gins, it is only necessary
to describe the mechanism connected with
the first and the lastgins.
In the drawings, A A are the -floor and
35 walls of a building, and. B B' B" are gins
therein driven by belts B"'from a power-
shaft C beneath the floor. Upon thegins rest
feeders DD,a.:: atsome distance abovethese
is a suitably-supported sectional cotton-con-
.4o veying tubeE, in which an air-current is pro-
duced by any exhaust mechanism. (Illus-
trated as a fan F.) The fan is driven from
the power-shaft through ordinary speed-in-
creasing devices, and from it leads a dis-
45 charge-pipe F', preferably passing out of the
building. The opposite end of the tube passes
through the wall of the building and has at-
tached a pendent section capable of universal
motion and adapted to take cotton from a
~o wajot or other source of supply, as fully
shown in our patent, No. 414,762. For con-venience the tube is made in sections that
slip together after the manner of stove-pipe,
and these when joined form a continuous pipe
having lateral chambers or pockets--one in 55
each section-into which the desired amount
of cotton is diverted by devices to be described
and from which it is transferred to the re-
spective gins. The chambers are shown as
boxes G, secured to the lower side of the tube- 60
sections,with which they freelycommunicate,
the lower side of the tube being cut away at
these points. The bottoms of the boxes are
cut away at one end to form a passage to the
feeders directly below. The passage is closed 65
by a short endless conveyer I, running upon
drums H', driven .,y a chain belt H", and
provided with wiigs II"', adapted to carry
the cotton along with the'belt and drop it into
the feeder. Both box and conveyer are pro- 70
vided with the usual elastic flaps H to pre-
vent the ingress of air from below. The cur-
rent in the tube moves in the direction of the
arrow, and as it approaches the opening into
the box it passes over a deflecting-board I, 75
lying upon and hinged at to the bottom of
the tube and projecting some distance over
the edge of the opening. At the opposite side
of the opening is hinged a second deflecting-
board I', that projects toward the first and is 80
fixed at any desired angle with theplane of the
bottom of the tube by means of a hand-wheel
", fixed to the end of its pivotal rpd which
projects beyond the tube-wall, the rod being
held against accidental displacement by fric- 85
tion in its bearings or by other well-known
means. Evidently, if the board I' be raised
above a horizontal plane it deflects into the
chamber a portion of the current, increasing ,
with its angle, and, as plainly seen, raising the 99
board I deflects the current upward and tends
to throw the cotton carried thereby beyond
the opening. By varying the inclination of
these two none.or a large part of the current
may be intercepted, and practically it is found 95
that sufficient change is made by setting the
board I' at a small angle and varying the
other only. The former is therefore arranged
to be set by hand and the latter is so con-
nected with devices to be described that the zoo
accumulation of cotton in the feeder auto-
matically raises it and thus diminishes the
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Elam, William E. Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton., patent, June 2, 1891; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172712/m1/4/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.