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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
JOHN T. MOORE, OF YANTIS, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO KIMBRO
T. DENTON AND ROBERT S. BLYTHE, OF SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS.
COTTON-SEED CONVEYER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 686,414, dated November 7, 1899.
Application filed August 12, 1899. Serial No, 727,064. (No model,)To all whomn zt may concern:
Be it known that I, JOHN T. MOORE, a citi-
zen of the United States, residing at Yantis,
in the county of Wood and State of Texas,
5 have invented a new and useful Cotton-Seed
Conveyer, of which the following is a specifi-
cation.
My invention relates to means for discharg-
ing cotton-seed from one or a battery of cot-
to ton-gins; and one object of the invention is
to provide improved means for carrying off
the cotton-seed, which means permits ready
access to be obtained to the under side of the
gin-stand for cleaning out the space therebe-
t5 neath, whereby accumulations of seed and
cotton beneath the gin-stand may be removed
with ease and despatch.
A further object of the invention is to util-
ize the blast from the exhaust-fan of the cot-
20 ton-handling apparatus in the best possible
manner for conveying the cotton-seed from a
gin or gins-that is to say, the seed-convey-
ing flue is constructed with a straight flat
bottom and with inclined surfaces in the top
25 wall, which permit the blast from the fan to
expand in said flue to be concentrated there-
in at the line where the air-blasts strike the
discharged seed.
With these ends in view the invention con-
30 sists in the novel construction and arrange-
ment of parts, which will be herein after fully
described and claimed.
In the drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional ele-
vation illustrating my seed-conveying mech-
35 anism in operative relation to a battery of
cotton gins or linters and an ordinary cotton-
handling apparatus. Fig. 2 is an enlarged
sectional elevation on the plane indicated by
the dotted line 2 2 of Fig. 1 through one of the
40 gins of the battery and the seed-discharge
flue and the hopper therebetween.
The same numerals of reference denote like
parts in both of the figures.
A battery of ordinary gins or liters is in-
45 dicated by the numeral 5, each gin being pro-
vided with a breast 6, a saw - cylinder 7, a
brush-cylinder8, and a feed-mouth 9. Above
the gins of the battery is an ordinary dis-
tributer-flue 10, having a series of feeders 11,
5o arranged to discharge individually to the gins
of the battery, one end of said distributer-flues being coupled in an ordinary way with
the exhaust-fan 12. All these parts are ordi-
nary in the art. Hence they may be of the
usual or any preferred construction. 55
The seed-discharging mechanism of my in-
vention includes as one element thereof a dis-
charge-flue 13, which is arranged, as desired,
above or underneath the floor of the gin house
or apartment in which the battery of gins 5 6o
is contained. This discharge-flue 13 is situ-
ated immediately beneath the breast 6 and
in front of the series of gins. This seed-dis-
charge flue is preferably square and pecul-
iarly constructed, as will hereinafter appear, 65
for the purpose of concentrating the energy
of the blast at the several points where the
cotton-seed are discharged from the gins and
hoppers into said flue; but I desire to remark
at this point that the flue 13, whatever its 70
shape, must necessarily comprise a straight
flat bottom 14, which is free from irregulari-
ties or curved or inclined surfaces of any char-
acter whatever, for the purpose of forming a
straight wall, which will permit the free and 75
unobstructed passage of the cotton-seed un-
der the propulsive energy of the blast of air
from the exhaust-fan 1i. The upper wall or
inside of this seed-discharge flue is enlarged
or expanded, so as to make the interior di- 8o
mensions of the flue of greater cross-sectional
area than the corresponding area of the mouth
at the point where the flue is coupled to the
casing of the exhaust-fan, the enlarged or ex-
panded portion of the flue being indicated by 85
the numeral 15.
16 designates a series of hoppers which
have communication individually with the
flue 13, one of said hoppers being devoted to
each gin of the battery. Each hopper com- 90
prises converging walls 17, the one wall be-
ing inclined from the gin-breast toward the
flue 13, and the hopper is seated in such man-
ner upon the flue as to surround an ingress-
opening 18 therein to provide a practically 95
tight joint therewith, said hopper serving to
conduct the seed from the saw-cylinder of the
gin directly to the said seed-discharge flue.
One of the important features of my inven-
tion consists in hinging the hoppers individu- too
ally to the flue 13, whereby the hoppers may
be individually thrown downward and for-
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Moore, John T. Cotton-Seed Conveyer., patent, November 7, 1899; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514152/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.