Roller gin and feed system incorporating the same
AssigneeLummus Industries, Inc.
InventorsRobert R. Einglett, John M. Conner, William A. Harmon, James B. Hawkins, William C. Pease, III, Donald W. Van Doorn
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Abstract
Disclosed is an improved ginning system incorporating a roller gin and a feeder for the same. Means is provided for presenting the cotton to the roller gin substantially one lock at a time. Incorporated in the gin is means to move the ginning roller into and out of ginning relation to the ginning knife, and means is provided in the system to cause the ginning roller to move out of ginning relation to the knife whenever there is less than a predetermined amount of seed cotton in the feeder.
Claims11
In a cotton ginning system embodying at least one roller gin having a ginning roll, a ginning knife and a feeder having a pair of driven feed rollers disposed to feed seed cotton to the gin, the improvement comprising:
- (a) means associated with the feed rollers to single lock bolls of seed cotton passing therethrough,
- (b) means mounting the ginning roller for movement into and out of ginning relation to the ginning knife, and
- (c) means responsive to the absence in the feeder of a predetermined minimum amount of seed cotton to move the ginning roller out of ginning relation to the ginning knife.
In a roller gin of the kind having a ginning roll and a ginning knife, together with means mounting the roll and knife for relative movement toward and from each other, the improvement comprising:
- (a) means automatically effective, in response to moving the knife and roll relatively apart to non-ginning position to remove cotton which may have accumulated on the knife, thereby decreasing the friction between the knife and the roll.
In a cotton ginning system embodying at least one roller gin having a ginning roll, a ginning knife and a feeder having a pair of feed rollers disposed to feed seed cotton to the gin, the improvement comprising:
- (a) means to feed seed cotton substantially in single locks to the ginning roll and ginning knife,
- (b) means effective to produce relative movement between the ginning roll and knife for moving the same out of ginning position relative to each other,
- (c) means responsive to the absence in the feeder of a predetermined minimum amount of seed cotton to bring about relative movement between the ginning roll and ginning knife, to position them in inoperative position,
- (d) means associated with the ginning knife to remove therefrom cotton which accumulates thereon during ginning, and
- (e) means operable at predetermined times in the ginning cycle to actuate the cotton removing means set forth in (d), above, while the operative parts of the gin are in non-ginning position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.