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R. H. COLLYER. SUTTON SEED GLEANER. No. 408,085. Patented July 30, 1889..

. UNITED STATES einen..

ROBERT II. COLLYER, OF NENV ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR TO EDIVARD A. RLAKELY, OF SAME PLACE.

COTTONHSEED CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,085, dated July 30, 1889.

Application filed September 24, 1888. Serial No.286,154. (No model.)

To all whom. it may concern: B indicatesabruslrbody, which is of a coni- Be it known that I, ROBERT II. COLLYER, a cal form, there being three of these brushes citizen of the United States, residing at New employed B C D, arranged obliqucly one Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of above the other, as shown. These conical 5 Louisiana, have invented certain new and brushes are secured to shafts I, which have 55 useful Improvements in Cotton-Seed Cleantheirbearings in themain frame, as shown,and ers; and I do declare the following to be a may be provided with drive-gears, as shown, full, clear, and exact description of the inwhereby motion may be imparted from oneto vention, such as will enable others skilled in the other. rlliese conical brushes are adapted To the art to which it 'appertains to make and to be adjusted longitudinally. with respect to 6c use the same. their supporting-shafts, and the small end of This invention relates to machines for deone is designed to lie in the same vertical linting cotton-seed, and it is designed as an transverse plane as the large end of another, improvement upon the invention shown and so that the full effect of eachcone maybe had 15 described in my application for patent filed in operation. 65 March 27, 1888, Serial N 268,7 The nov- As a means of adjustment I have provided elty will be fully` understood from the followeach brush-cone at one end with an integral ing description and claims, when taken in collar a, through which the shaft P passes, connection with the accompanying drawings, and to which, by the employment of the setzo in which screw N, the said conc may be adjustably se- 70 Figure l is a vertical transverse sectional cured upon the shaft, thereby regulating the view of my improved machine, taken in the distances between thcgauze cones, which will plane indicated by dotted line a; a on Fig. 3. be presently described, and the cleaning Fig. 2 is a view of one of the brush chambers brushes. 2 5 and cylinders removed, with the gauze partly A indicates a wire-gauze conical chamber, 75 broken away; and Fig. 3 is a vertical longiwhich is of a contour similar to that of the tudinal sectional view. brush-cone, but sufficiently large to receive Referring by letter to the said drawings, O and surround the said brush-cone and permit indicates a frame, which may be of metal, of thesamebeingadjusted therein. The gauze 3o wood, or other suitable material, and made in conical shells or casings A, which surround the 8O any suitable manner to receive the various brush-cones, are connected by ports or pasparts of my machine, as will be hereinafter sages II and I, the passage H leading from the more fully described. This frame is provided top gauze cone or casing at its lower portion at its upper end with a hopper F to receive and communicating with the upper portion of 3 5 the cotton-seed, and this hopper is provided the intermediate gauze cone, the said interme- S5 in its throat with a feed-roller G or agitator diate cone having its lower portion connected to prevent the said hopper from becoming with the higher portion of the lowest cone in clicked. This roller has apinion on the outer the series, so that as the cotton-seed is fed end of its shaft, so that it may engage the from the hopper it will get the full force and' 4o gear on the shaft of the upper cylinder and effect of each brush before being discharged 90 receive motion therefrom. The main frame from the main frame. is furthermore provided in its upper portion The cones B O D, which are adjustably seadjacent to the said hopper with an aperture cured to the shafts I), are provided each with M, adapted for the admission of air to the ina brush b, and each one may carry a brush of 45 terior of the machine, and is provided at its different texture. 95 lower portion with a discharge -aperture L, R indicates a cotton or lint chamber, which which communicates with the lowest conical is arranged so as to communicate with the chamber, whereby the cotton seed, after it main frame or case O at a suitable point, the has been stripped from its lint, may be disposition here shown being in a plane between 5o charged or received in a suitable vessel. the upper and intermediate cones. roo

Q indicates a suction or draft fan, which is arranged within a casing S', placed v,in the main frame adjacent to the lint-chamber R, the discharge-spout of the famcasing being arranged to discharge the blast of the fan into the lint-chamber. This fan Q is driven by a belt T, leading from a pulley on the shaft P of the upper cone l, the said belt passing over a similar pulley on the fan-shaft.

By having conical cones arranged ou horizontal shafts I iind that they are not so liable to choke as when arranged vertically.

Having described my inventiomwhat I claim isl. In a machine for delinting cotton-seed, the combination, with the main frame, of a plurality of conical gauze chambers arranged one above the other' obliquely and having communication with one another, the small end of one being in a Vertical transverse plane with the large end of another, brush-concs mounted on horizontal shafts and arranged within the gauze chambers, a lint-chamber communicating with the main frame, and a fan for drawing' the cotton from the gauze conical chambers and discharging it into the lint-chamber, substantially as specified. K

2. Ina machine for deliuting cotton-seed, the combination, with the main frame or case having a feedhopper at its upper end, an inlet-aperture adjacent thereto, and a seeddischarge aperture at its lower end, of a plurality of conical gauze chambers arranged obliquely one above another and communicating with one another by the passages II I, and having the large end of one lying in a vertical transverse plane with the small end oi' another, brush-cones arranged upon horizontal shafts Within the said gauze cones, a lint-chamber communicating with the main rame, and a suction-fan for delivering the lint into the said holder, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I aiilixy my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ROBERT H. COLLYER. VitnesseS:

HENRY J. RHODES, PERCY D. PARKS.

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