US418088A - Condenser for cotton-gins - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

A. D. THOMAS. CONDENSER FOR COTTON GINS.

No. 418,088. Patented Dec. 24, 1889.

RS. Phnlhuthnlnpher, Washinglon. |J. Q

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABNER D. THOMAS, OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.

CONDENSER FOR COTTON-GINS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 418,088, dated December 24, 1889. Application filed February 25, 1889. Serial No. 301,009. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABNER D. THOMAS, of Little Rock, Arkansas, have made a new and useful Improvement in Condensers for Octton-Gins, of which the following is a full,

clear, and exact description.

Prior to the date hereof a single condenser has received the product of two or more cotton-gin stands-that is, the delivery from the gin-stands was into a common flue, which in turn led to a single condenser having but a single apartment, into which the entire product of the gin-stands was delivered.

In the present improved construction the condenser, while having but a single shaft and whose drum is rotated as a single part, has its drum divided into compartments, which respectively belong to the gin-stands, and are respectively connected therewith by independent fiues, the advantages whereof being that the cotton is delivered more evenly to the condenser. The operation of the remaining gin-stands is not interfered with in the event of the flue leading from some one of the gin-stands being inoperative, and any excess of air-pressure from certain of the ginstands does not work backward into the fine or fiues leading from the remaining ginstands of the series and clog the operation of those remaining gin-stands, and at the same time the benefit of a positive free" delivery of the output of the gins derived from the operation of one large condenser in combination with several gin stands is fully obtained;

The most desirable mode of carrying out the improvement is exhibited in the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which-- Figure 1 is a plan showing two gin-stands, the condenser, and the independent fines which'respectively lead from the gin-stands to the condenser; Fig. 2, a broken side elevation of the same; and Fig. 3, a vertical longitudinal section, upon an enlarged scale, taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Only those parts of the mechanism essential to an understanding of the improvement are shown, and the same letters of reference denote the same parts.

A A represent the two gin stands.

B B respectively represent the lines lead ing from the gin-stands to the condenser O. The gin-stands are made and operated in the usual manner. The condenser in length is approximately if not quite equal to the combined lengths of the gin-stands, and by means of a cross-partition cit is divided Within and without the drum into two compartments 0' 0 Fig. 1, with which respectively the fiues B B connect. The flues are not connected with each other, but they respectively connect the gin-stands with the condenser-compartments c 0 and the product delivered from the ginstand A passes solely into the compartment 0' and the product delivered from the ginstand A passes solely into the compartment 0 The condenser-shaft c is driven in the usual manner, and in its rotation it carries around the entire condenser-drum, and, saving as the condenser is modified or supplemented by the improvement under consideration, its construction and operation are of the usual character, and the cotton is discharged from each compartment 0 or 0 as indicated by the arrow :0, Fig. 3, and in a manner analogous to that in which cotton is discharged from an ordinary condenser, and the dust passes into the dust-flue D. \Vhen more than two gin-stands are connected with the condenser, that part is divided into as many compartments as there are gin-stands and as there are flues.

By the term condenser herein used is meant the combination of the condenser-drum and the inclosing-casing, and the condensercompartments include the interior of the drum as well as the annular space between the drum and the casing.

I claim The combination of two or more gin-stands, a condenser divided into compartments, and independent fiues connecting said gin-stands with said compartments, respectively, substantially as described.

Witness myhand this 31st day of January, 1889.

ABNER D. THOMAS.

Witnesses:

L. B. MCDONALD, B. L. WILLIAMsoN.

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