Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-09-04
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of the old connoisseurs, with an, air
Of triumph; 1 samit.was one o4tlhe oi3l
'postles."
An Important Invention for COtson
Planters and SN!nnefS' g

Tfrom the prOuiasaos, s h. htJ +, Joumdt:5
The {" Hope Cotton Company, Of
this city, are the owners of new and
novel invention in eottonsmachinery
which. may be considered the most
important and valuable to the grow
srs, sellers and manufacturers of cot
ton since theinventipn oftae cotton gsin' gsin'c
It is a new machine, or series Of ma
chimes. invented by. Mr. doe Raaassssn5
of Texas, and is patenl ed andsr, ts ,tAs. tAs
name Of tie Joe Rafston Cotton
Cleaner" By tHee'usg aof this new
machinery cotton issraisea, or :iul7
proved in equality several grades, ma,
king cotton, which would not class
above ordinary under, any other
known process Of cleaning, at least.
middling. or strict rniddlings giving
even and reliable grades free from
hulls, leaves, sand, dirt and. decayed,
or. immature cotton. Thiscise asgreat
advantage, which the practical SPIN
ner will fully appreciate as he Knows
the impossibility of freeing. the lint
cotton from foreign and deleterious
substances, especially leaf }ands finely
broken / hhllsE after it lhassSecnne'
broken up aud incorporated with the
list as it always does III the process Of
ginning unless it is previously re-
moved, and this, with the present
scarcity. of hand Labor is impossible
except it is done by machinery.
There is no machinery which will
remove this foreign matter from the
lint cotton after it is !gihnea;' it must
be. done bef ire, which work this ma
chinery was inyented-to do, and does
to perfection, The -snew machinery.
consists d d "clelper.E (which re-
moves all foreign matter, leaving the
seed only, with the fibre attached,
and 81. lisirndell as to be handled by
the p siil, (Which is also Of q new
and IMPROVED eoustruction0 with
much greater facility, guarding the
fibre entirely from the liability Of be-
ing broken or cut by the teeth Of the
gin, which has always been II serious
defectin the old process of ginning
The machines all work automatically
together; the cfeaner delivering The
cotton to;tllc gin, by feeding df ppon
an endless apron to the "seli-feedlng
automatic gin feeder" which supplies
the cotton to the gin with the most
perfect regularity, enabling the gin
to increase its work at least fifty per
cent. This wonderful improvement
| in preparing cotton for tie manniac
tiirer is not only OF great Interest to
the manufacturer in giving him a
cleaner and more reliable uniformity
of material Of unbroken fibre, but is
Of equal Importance to the, planter,
also in enabling Him to SECURE Ills
whole crop, which he is unable to do
from the great and Increasing scarcity
of hand labor. By the use of this
new aud improved machinery he can,
avail. himself of7good weather and
proper time to secure his crop hur
riedly as it may De picked, hulls and
all if. desirable, and he can then safe
ly'depend upon the cleaner to sepa-
rate all foreign substances from the
fibre, at his leisure, and in connection
with the improved gin he can pro-
duce a much higher grade of lint
cotton, with greater market vahae,
than can be done under any other
known process. If the machinery
was now in general use in the cotton
growing districts of the South, the
increased value it would giveto the
cotton crop, by saving in waste Of the
raw material and in the increase in
value of the whole amount Of ti.qt
sent to market, is estimated 1T !ro;n
fifty TO one hundred millions ot do,
lars annually.