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Apparatus for Cleaning and Handling Seed-Cotton

Patent for "improved means for conveying seed-cotton from wagons or store-houses to a series of gins, to clean it during its passage, and to avoid clogging the gins or the devices themselves by rapid feeding of the cotton" (lines 14-18).

Date: November 26, 1889

Creator: Elam, William E.; Thomas, Robert S. & Hardwick, Sauny W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.

Patent for improvements in apparatus for handling and cleaning seed-cotton by “conveying cotton through a pneumatic tube and for automatically delivering therefrom to each of a series of gins an amount of cleaned cotton graduated at all times to the need of each gin. The flow of the main current in the tube is not interrupted by the several subtractions.” (Lines 17-23) Illustration is included.

Date: June 2, 1891

Creator: Elam, William E.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.

Patent for improvements in apparatus for handling and cleaning seed-cotton that “use a pneumatic tube, through which cotton is drawn by an exhaust-current.” (Lines17-19) Illustration is included.

Date: June 16, 1891

Creator: Thomas, Robert S.; Hardwick, Saunie W. & Elam, William E.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Handling and Cleaning Seed Cotton.

Patent for improvements in machines for handling and cleaning seed cotton: "For uploading cotton from wagons and for transferring it from place to place, for example, from wagon to storehouse or from the wagon or the storehouse to the gin house when it is to be delivered to gins or gin feeders, pneumatic apparatus has advantages over other devices" (lines 12-18).

Date: April 17, 1894

Creator: Elam, William E.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seed-Cotton Feeder.

Patent for a gin feeder that carries "the cotton forward, and is provided with some one or more of many additional devices to regulate the amount delivered by the conveyer, independently of the amount that may be in the feeder, provided only that the supply be not to scanty" (lines 13-18). Other feeders do this, but the patent is for an especially simply designed and does not use a belt conveyer. It also does not wear out easily.

Date: November 7, 1893

Creator: Elam, William Erwin

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Conveying and Cleaning Apparatus.

Patent for improvements in cotton conveying and cleaning apparatus by using the combination of “a rearwardly-open feeder and a conveyer in position to receive cotton discharge at the rear of the feeder” (lines 103-105), as a result when a conveyer bring “cotton to the feeder, it would provide a branch in position to take up the cotton delivered by the conveyer” (lines 106-108) thus preventing undue accumulation of excess cotton and continuous movement of the cotton in all the parts. Illustratio… more

Date: May 5, 1891

Creator: Elam, William E.; Thomas, Robert S. & Hardwick, Saunie W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Gin Brush.

Patent for a gin brush that operates at high speeds with a large diameter. "Centrifugal force exerts a great strain tending to dismember it, and further, if it be not at all times accurately balanced there is a tendency to spring the shaft and cause rattling in the bearings which results in rapid wear and failure to work well" (lines 13-19).

Date: March 21, 1893

Creator: Elam, William E. & Thomas, Robert S.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department