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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JOSEPH G. GOLDTIHWAITE, OF GALVESTON, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR TO THE REM-
BERT ROLLER COMPRESS COMPANY, OF TEXAS.
CONDENSER FOR COTTON-GINS.
SPECIFICA.TION forming part of Letters Patent No. 462,404, dated November 3, 1891.
Application filed March 12, 1891, Serial No. 384,746. (No model.)
To all whoa , it 2may concern: of the fiber-laden current, and also to expose
Be it known that I, JOSEPH G. GOLD- a greater area of the condenser-surfaces for
THWAITE, of Galveston, in the county of Gal- the lodgment of the cotton thereon. 55
veston and State of Texas, have invented cer- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is
tainImprovements in Condensers for Cotton- an elevation of the leading parts of a com-
Gins, of which the following is a specification. pressing and baling plant with my improve-
In Letters Patent of the United States No. ments incorporated therein. Fig. 2 is a lon-
441,022, granted November 18, 1890, to Henry gitudinal vertical section through the trunk, 6o
Rembert, is described a method of compress- condenser, and adjacent parts. Fig. 3 is a
ing and baling cotton, consisting in delivering horizontal section on the line 3 3 of Figs. 1
the lint-cotton from the gin or gins directly and 2. Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4 4.
to a condenser, by which it is formed into a Referring to the drawings, A and A' repre-
soft bat or sheet and delivered between rolls, sent two ordinary cotton-gins of any approved 65
by which it is in turn subjected to an extreme form, each containing, as usual and as shown
compression to suppress its expansive tend- in the drawings, the rotary-brush cylinder, by
ency and then delivered to a lapping mech- which the lint is delivered and a strong out-
anism, which acts to build up a balefrom the ward blast produced, arranged to deliver the
compressed sheet. In order that the bale thus lint-cotton through short flues a a' into the 70
built up of a great number of thin laminm side of a common trunk or conductor B, pref-
may be of uniform thickness, and that the erably of rectangular form in cross-section,
fiber passing between the rolls may receive which extends to and delivers the cotton at
a uniform and adequate pressure without dan- its end in a horizontal direction upon the sur-
ger of being crushed, it is necessary that the faces of the two pervious condensing-cylin- 75
fiber shall be fed to and distributed upon the ders C C', mounted one above the other in an
condenser-surfaces with uniformity. In prac- inclosing case or chamber D, having side pas-
tice I have found that it is extremely difficult sages d, through which the interior spaces of
to secure this result. The practice has been the cylinders communicate with an uprising
to deliver the lint from a gin through a trunk dust-flue d', and a descending chamber d to 8o
or flue to the condenser, as shown in the pat- receive the heavier impurities.
ent above cited and the companion patent E E' are two smooth strongly-supported.
to Rembert, No. 446,888, dated February 24, rollers, to and between which the cotton from
1891; but as the parts have been heretofore the condenser is guided that it may be com-
constructed and arranged the fiber was re- pressed to a degree suitable for baling. 85
ceived unevenly by the condenser, and the The rotary brushes a2 of the gins produce,
bat or sheet passing to the rolls consequently as usual, a strong outward blast of air, which
varied in thickness. My present invention is passes through the trunk and the pervious
designed to overcome this difficulty and se- surface of the condenser-cylinders to their
cure the delivery of the cotton to the con- interiors, whence it escapes at the end pas- 90
denser at a constant rate and evenly from one sages to the dust-flues. This air-current car-
side to the other. To this end I combine with ries with it in suspension the loose ginned
oneor more ginsatrunk, into whichthefiberis fiber or lint, which is deposited on the sur-
discharged and through which it is carried by faces of the cylinders and by their revolution
the air-blast produced by the gin-brushes to in the direction indicated by the arrows 95
the condenser-cylinders. The mouth or de- formed into and delivered between them as a
livery end of this trunk, as it closely ap- loose light coherent bat or sheet, which passes
proaches the condenser in such form asto de- it to the compressing-rolls.
liver the fiber in a horizontal or substantially In order to secure the uniform delivery of
horizontal direction, is enlarged vertically by the fiber to the condenser-cylinders, I curve moo
rounding its top and bottom walls upward the top wall of the trunk upward immedi-
and downward, respectively. The result of ately in advance of the cylinders, as shown
the enlargement in this manner is to increase at a, and in like manner curve the bottom
the sectional area and diminish the velocity wall downward, as shown at a'. The top and
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Goldthwaite, Joseph G. Condenser for Cotton-Gins., patent, November 3, 1891; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172840/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.