The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-09-04
An Important Invention for Cotton Planters
and SpinnerS.

The sHope Cotton Company of this city,
are the owners of a new and novel Invention IN
cotton machinery, which may be considered
the most important and valuable to the
growers, sellers and manufacturers of cotton
since the invention of the cotton gin. 1t is a
new machine, or series of machines, invented
by Mr.. Joe Ralston, of Texas; and is patented
under the name of the "Joe Ralston Cotton
Cleaner" By the use of this new machine
ry cotton is raised or improved in quality sew
eral grades, making cotton, which would not
class above ordinary under any other known
process of cleaning, at least middling or strict
middling, giving even and reliable grades free
from hulls, leaves, sand, dirt and decayed or
immature cotton. This is great advantage,
which the practical spinner will fully apprcci-
ate; as he knows the impossibility of freeing
the lint cotton from foreign and ,deleterious
substances, especially leaf and finely broken
hulls, after it has become broken up and incor-
porated with the lint, as it always does in 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 ginned it must be done before,
which work this machinery was invented to do,
and does to perfection. The new machinery
consists of "cleaner," which removes all for
eign matter, leaving the seed only, with the
| fibre attached, and so dstended as to be han
died by the "gin," (which is also of a new and
improved construction, with much greater ia
cility, guarding the fibre entirely from the liza
bility Of being broken or cut by the teeth OF
the gin, which has always been serious defect
in the old process of ginning. The machines
all work automatically together; the cleaner
delivering the cotton to the gin, by feeding it
| upon an endless apron to the "self-feeding au-
tomato gin feeder" which supplies the cotton
| to the gin witbthe most perfect regularity, en-
| ablng the gin to increase its work at least fifty
per cent. This wonderful improvement in pre-
pairing cotton for the manufacturer is not only
of great interest to the manufacturer in giving
him cleaner and more reliable uniformity OF
unbroken fibre, but it is of equal Importance to
the planter, also in enabling him to secure his
whole crop, which he is unable to do from the
great and increasing scarcity Of hand labor. By
| the use of this new and improved machinery
he can avail himself Of good weather and pro-
per time to secure his crop hurriedly as it may
| be picked, hulls and all if desirable, and he
| can then safely depend upon the cleaner to
separate all foreign substances from the tl6re
at his leisure, and in connection with the i'm
proved gin, he can produce much higher
grade of lint cotton, with much greater mar
ket value, 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 give to
the cotton crop, by saving in waste Of the raw
material and in the increase in value of the
whole amount of that sent to market, is esti-
mated at from fifty to one hundred millions Of
dollars neutrality-suspicious. II. ~ Journal