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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
CHIIARLES W. WHITE, OF WACO, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR TO MARY J. WHITE, OF
SAME PLACE.
APPARATUS FOR REMOVING CORES FROM CYLINDRICAL COTTON-BALES.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,458, dated December 31, 1895.
Application filed April 15, 1895, Serial No, 545,804, (No model.)To all wlon it rna y conzcer7:
Be it known that I, CHARLES W. TWHITE, a
citizen of the United States, residing at Waco,
in the county of McLennan and State of Texas,
5 have invented certain new and useful Im-
provements in Means for Removing Cores
from Cotton-Bales; and I do hereby declare
the following to be a full, clear, and exact de-
scription of the invention, such as will enable
to others skilled in the art to which it appertains
to make and use the same.
My invention relates to means for removing
screw-threaded cores from cylindrical cotton-
bales; and it consists of certain novel features
'5 hereinafter described and claimed.
Reference is had to the accompanying draw-
ings, in which the same parts are indicated by
the same letters throughout the several views.
Figure 1 represents an end view of the cot-
20 ton-compress shown in Letters Patent No.
530,001,granted November 27,1894, to Charles
L. and William T. Bessonette and assigned
to the Bessonette Cotton Manufacturing Com-
pany, of Waco, Texas, the said figure repre-
25 senting the bale broken away to show the
screw-core. Fig. 2 represents a section along
the line y y of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a side
elevation, partly in section, showing the core
in position in the bale, and illustrating the
30 means of removing the said core from the
bale. Fig. 4 represents a section along the
line x x of Fig. 3 and looking in the direction
of the arrows. Fig. 5 represents an end view
of the bale and the truck on which the same
35 is secured while the core is being unscrewed;
and Fig. 6 represents a detail view of the hand-
lever and the teeth for engaging the same,
being a section along the line z z of Fig. 5.
The method by which the cotton is wound
40 about the core, and the finished bale is re-
moved from the compress, is clearly described
in the Letters Patent No. 530,001 aforesaid,
and therefore the description in this applica-
tion will be confined to the method of remov-
45 ing the core from the finished bale.
Referring especially to Figs. 3 to 6, A rep-
resents a suitable framework on which are
mounted the tracks B which project beyond
the timbers on which they are mounted, as
50 shown at b.
C represents the truck on which the bale ismounted, the said truck being provided with
two or more shoes C' for supporting the bale,
which shoes are cut away, as at c, to enable
the bale to rest securely therein. The truck 55
is mounted upon wheels Co running upon the
tracks B, and is provided with dependent
hooks or arms c' which pass beneath the over-
hanging edges b of the rails, and thus hold the
truck on the track against any force tending 6o
to lift the same. The truck is also provided
with pivot-plates c2 to which the pivoted arms
D and E are connected. The arm D has piv-
oted thereto the hand-lever F, which is pro-
vided with a pawl f adapted to engage in one 65
of the teeth e of the pivoted arm E, as shown
most clearly in Figs. 5 and 6.
In practice, the bale is put upon the truck,
and is clamped against turning by pressing
down hard on the hand-lever F and engaging 70
the same by means of its pawl with the piv-
oted arm E. The bale is provided with a
screw-threaded core I, the threads h of which
are preferably coarse and flat on top both to
facilitate the process of winding up the bale 75
and to prevent the screw-thread from cutting
the fibers. The end of the core is made polyg-
onal, preferably square, to engage the un-
screwing mechanism. This mechanism con-
sists of the member K pivoted at k and pro- So
vided with a rectangular opening into which
the squared end of the core enters, and a sec-
ond member K', which is pivoted to the fork
m on the end of the shaft M, as at k'. The
pivots ik and lk' are at right angles to each 85
other, and thus the two members K and K'
form a universal joint which is vertically and
laterally flexible, but which is secure against
torsional strains.
The shaft M is rotated by the crown-wheel 9o
N, meshing in the pinion O, which is mounted
on the same shaft P with the pulley Q, which
is driven by the belt R from any suitable
source of power.
The mechanism for rotating the shaft M 95
may be varied at will.
The member K, as also the end of the core
H, may be perforated to receive the cotter-pin
h', if desired, but this will not always be nec-
essary. ioo
In the operation of the device, the bale is
clamped on the truck and is run forward into
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White, Charles W. Apparatus for Removing Cores from Cylindrical Cotton-Bales., patent, December 31, 1895; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174177/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.