US1242126A - Gin attachment for bolly cotton. - Google Patents

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e. T. BECKNELL, GIN ATTACHMENT FOB BOLLY COTTON. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 9, 191,6.

1,242,126.. Patfinted Oct. 9,1917.

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GI N ATTACHMENT FOR BOLLY COTTON.

APPLICATION FILED FEB- 9, 1916,

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GEORGE 'r; BECK'NELL, or NEVADA, TEXAS.

GIN ATTACHMENT FOR BOLLY COTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 9;, 19ft.

Application filedlebruary 9,191 Serial No. 77,252;

To all whom it may concern v Be it known that I, GEORGE T. BEQKNELL, citizen of the United States, residing at Nevada, Collin county, Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gin Attachments for Holly Cotton, of which thefollowing is a specification. a

i This invention relates in general to uses of gin machinery, and isadapted to be combined with the present fornrof gin stand and operate in unison therewith.

tendant to closely watch the gin stand, and

at regular periods and intervals serve the machine by closing the gin feed spoutdoor which closes the cotton from the gin stand, and opening the hollow breast docr,which opening of the last mentioned door allows the wasteproducts of cotton to be precipitated from the gin stand.

The present invention disclosed in the unified attachment for operation in connection with gin stand eliminates the necessity for providing such attendant. as would be otherwise necessary.

lVith the above and other objects inview,

the invention has relation to a certain ar-,

rangement and combination of parts, an ex 7 ample of which is described in the. following specifications, pointed out 1n the appended claims, and illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, whereinz -Figure 1 illustrates said side elevation. I V v Fig. 2 illustrates a gin in side elevation, parts of which are shown in section, with parts of the correlated attachment shown 1n connection therewith. a J

Fig. 3 is a detailed view of an element of the invention.

attachment Fig. 4 shows the invention attached to a gin stand and illustrates a simple form of gin stand withwhich said attachment may be correlated, v Q 7 ,"Fig. v5' illustrates a front elevation of the invention attachedto a gin stand.

Referring nowmore in particular to the drawings,- wherein the same .reference'numerals are used to indicate identical parts, the numerals 1 and 2 indicate the standard or frame supports forthe gin stand. Numeral 3 in general points out the, gin stand. Numeral a indicates the exposed forward cutting edge'of the gin'saw cylindei'if The usual form of huller breast is illustrated in connection with the gin stand, the said huller breast being that portion of the gin stand which is adapted to receive the cotton 'from' a spout 6 and pass s'amere'arwardly through the gin stand 3. :The; usual form of picker roller 7fis' journaled' in the huller breast and adapted to pass the cotton into the saw cylinder. seed spout 6. is shown, which said seed spout is adapted to receive the seed precipitated downwardly from the, picker roller and upon the saw'cylinder as indicated by the arrow AcinlFig. 4:.

The gin stand is provided with the usual form of huller breast door 8, which member The usual form of is a depending door having an arcuate'form symmetrical in form to the picker roller 6 and spaced apart therefrom, said member being pivoted at its upper edge upon a tran verse shaft 9. T he cotton feed chute 61is pro.-

vided with a flap door or valve 10 depending from and hingedto atransverse shaft 11.

In the operation of the present form of gin machinery, a simple example of which present form of gin machinery has been above given, the cotton passes from its originating source into the spout .6 and gradually passes'downwardly through the opening 1-2 in the huller breast upon the picker roller andthere the ginning action is perfected whereby the seed and'lint are, separated. The said gin stand requires'the constant attention ofan attendant to regularly open and close'the valve 10, thereby shutting off the flow of cotton and subjecting the door 8- to an outward pull, which frees and releases the bolls and other waste products from its compressed form in and about the picker roller, allowing said waste products to be precipitated downwardly into a boll conveyer 13.

In vthe'application of the present invention to the gin machinery, the above de-v scribed attendant and operation is eliminated.

Reference is now had to Figs; 1, 2 and 3 for a description of the invention, and to Figs. AL

and 5 toraproper association ofsaid in-;

vention with the gin machine.

The numeral 14 represents an upright standard or frame of substantial strength and sufiicient height to carry the assembled elements of the present invention. Asub stantially large spur wheel gear 15 is jour-l naled upon a stud l5 which is fixed to'the upper portion of the standard; Said gear wheel carries upon the opposite sides thereof rollers 16 and 17 adapted to beretained and for the pulley and adapted to deliver there Ikpuired power for operating the devicelAn arm actuating lever 23 is pivoted upon the support member 18. Said member is mount ed upon a pin 24 and has its upper extremity lying adjacent to one side of the gear and in i direct path withtheroller arried by that side of the gear 15. The lower extremity of the. actuating lever 23 is'providedwith an eye and has a connecting link 25 connected therewith and extending rearwardly where linked connection is formed with the lower portion of the door member- 8, thereby establishing a controlling relation of the member 8 by the actuating lever 23. I The transverse shaft 11 which supports the flap valve 1 0 projects beyond the face 'of the driven member 15 and is provided upon its extremity with a depending actuating member 26. Said member hangs closely adjacent to one side of the drivenmember-15 and in direct path ofthe roller 16" carried by the said driven member. J ,I V The belt 22 delivers the power from a convenient overhead shaft and subj ects'the large gear member 15 to a slow rotary motion in the direction indicated by thea'rrow; The

members 23 and 26 are adapted to control the opening and closing of thedoor mem bers 8 and 10 and subject saidmembei's to a regularly timed opening and closing acu As the pin 16 approaches the actuating 26 and comes in contact therewith, the flap valve 10 is raised thereby, allowing a predetermined quantity of cotton to be precipitated into the hollow breast, as the pin passes on and beyond the extended length of the member 26 said member will drop into the position illustrated in the. drawings, and thereby close the spout 6 from a further delivery of cotton to the gin stand. During the'slow rev'olutionof the wheel 15 and beforethe pin 16 again opens the valve 10, the

gin will have completed its ginning action upon the quantity of cotton previously portioned thereto and be ready for the next quantity of cotton.

The roller 1? is so arranged upon the driven member 15 that iitcoines inoperative contact with the actuating lever when the flap door 10 is'closed. The roller passes ever thelface of the actuating lever; j ects the door '8' to. a forward actionQzSuh oftheir own accord, just at the tinieof 'r'e- 33 53 lieving anew quantity of unginned cottohf Since this machine givesa more' regulafrly timed control over the ginfe'ecler. andhull disposer, it is a pare t thatthe- 'Cottbn,

which is harvested inthe late part-" of fthe season and which at times contains'a great quantity of hulls, can be very'successfuHy ginnedfl'with a machine equipped witli this attachment and have thevalue of the p A;

' thereby increased. i

The invention i i l r r t0; inoll'ldeth'e following claim L a o 5,:

Claims:

l 1. In a gin attaehmentfor eoau ouin the passage "of the cotton through the cotton chute of a gin attachment when bollyfcotton is to be ginned, of a shaft,""a drivenpulley fixed upon the shaft, a driving pinion fixed upon the shaft, a driven member engaging thedrive pinion, a roller pin carried near the periphery of the driven memberfia closure device. located inthe cotton chute of the gin stand, a trip device 'correlatedwith the closure and adapted 't o operate said closure whenthe roller pincar'ried b'ythe driven member comes in contact with thetrip device. x f V 2. In a gin attachment for controlling the passage of cotton through th'e cotton" feed chute and forcontrolli'ng the disposition oof thecotton ginne d, the combination withi a shaft provided with suitable driving means, of a'pinion fixed upon the shaft, a gear mesh; ing with and adapted to bedriven from" the pinion, of a breast door pivoted thefgin v atrip device correlated with the chute valve,

1,242,126 I v a stand at a point forward of the point of are brought into Operation when they are ginning, a valve pivoted in the cotton chute contacted by the roller pins. roller pins carried upon the driven gear, a. In testimony whereof, I affix my signature 10 trip device correlated With the breast door, in the presence of a Witness.

GEORGE T. BECKNELL. the arrangement of the trip devices and the iNitnessz roller pins being such that the trip devices CARL O. HAMLIN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). C.

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