New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-03-23
aS- Telegraph, etc., on eighth page. -ea
THOMAS o11vER's PATENT COTTON FAN.

We yesterday had the opportunity of inspecting
the practical operation of of the above machines
as driven by seam and are quite convinced that it is
most efficient contrvance, and one which will ma.
terlay appreciate the value of the cotton product
the country for it accomplishes the work for which
it is designed and supplies the long existing desde-
ratnm-a process which will cleanse and prepare for
the gin the dirty, foul, and dusty cotton, usually
termed storm cotton which has been beaten to
the ground and laid there amid the dirt, and is
gathered up in knotty, tangled and filthy mass
It's, in fact, sort of preliminary gin for preparing
refuse cotton for the final operation of the saw gin
and at the same time freeing it from impurities
which at once lessen its intrinsic value and add cti
tlous weight 1t is an exceedingly simple machine,
though its few parts are adjusted with exceeding
nicely to render it efficient. The cotton is fed at
hopper at one end and where it Immediately seized
by the spikes set in the circumference Of cylinder
reVol'lhg ABOUT tnree hundred times per minute the
spikes being adjusted relatively to those of another
and similar cylndar, to which the revolving action
transfers the cotton, and on till it runs the gaunt
let OF four cylinders, which all take nip at it with
their spike but before it gets out of the
1t hnds itself exposed to the powerful blasts of an
iron four Hanged FAM revolving over twelve hundred
EXPANDED
mass of fibre with force and velocity that drives
from 1t and into the outer air all dust and other i'm
purities, the cotton prevented from being blown
away by lattice OF wire which retains and being dis.
charged from the machine at another point in readi
ness for the GIN Going through once will suffice for
the preparation OF all ordinarily dirty storm cotton
but II very bad it may be put through second time
with advantage, as the operation is very speedy the
ont of and, ,1,,
with its admission at the other.
The usefulness claimed by this invention, and at
tested as accomplished by many wellknown cotton
men, IS that 1t adds about twenty per cent. to the
value of =" storm-cotton F." which passes through it
before being glnned-that it prepares much for the
operation which could not otherwise be ginned, but
would have to be thrown away-that it remov es for.
eign substances which do great injury to gins by
dulling and deranging the saw,teeth.
Several gentlemen, extensively known both in
Europe and this country by their connection with
the cotton trade certify that cotton which they had
seen passed through the fan was increased two cents
per lb in value by the operation. Thus, famed
cotton will come to be market grade when
this machine is in the general use that its qualities
ents it to. great many of them are already
owned in Georgia and Mississippi, and the ensuing
crop will give evidence of the benefit accruing,
The machine was yesterday exhibited at the ma.
chineshop of Mr.. I. Beard on ST. Mary,s street Init
in few days Messrs. Thomas J. Spear & Co., l77
Canal street, who are agents for the sale of State
County and District rights will have one set up for
inspection in more convenient location downtown,
where cotton men may visit, examine and satisfy
themselves OF its character without trouble, Its
exhibition is superintended by the patentee, Col.
Oliver himself.