The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-03
LINT FLIES FROM THE SEED.
a MACHINE THAT POLIsHEs COTTON
SEED NOW IN OPERATION HERE.

The Machine Cleans and POIfshes
Ten Tons of Cotton Seed a Day.
The Property of a Company Capt.
taIized at $500, OOO-savannah's
Commercial Advantages Led to Its
Being Put Up Here.
There is now in operation in this city
a plant which will beyond a doubt, revo-
lutionize the cotton seed oil industry not
only in the south. but wherever there are
factories for the utilization Of that pro
duct
For some months past the inventor,
Mr. 0. T. Bugg Of Baltimore, and his
/ corps Of assistants, representing the
/ American Manufacturing and Export
/ Company, have been busily engaged in
! setting up at the old lyman foundry at
/ West Broad and Indian streets the only
/ one Of these perfected machines that has
/ yet been made. Briefly stated, the work
/ done by this machine is to perfectly de-
nude the upland or green cotton seed and
remove from it every particle of lint,
which still covers the seed after ginning
! The plant has once before this been in
/ successful operation for the purpose Of
making test of its work. and from the
results achieved then, there is now no
] doubt that success is assured.
The seeds, after passing through the
machine, are perfectly polished and can
hardly be distinguished from sea island
or black cotton seed. except that the hull
has a very dark green notified cast in
stead Of black. and that the seeds are
much more plump and well filled.
This machine like the majority of sue
/ cessful devices is very simple and con-
sists Of a number Of horizontal disks ar
mored with emory. BY an ingenious ar
rangement the seed is automatically held
and carried from one rapidly revolving
disk to the other, passing between the
disks and heavy brushes held stationary
and carried from one rapidly. revolving
two inches above them. until it is dis
charged with evrey particle of lint removed
while fan absorbs the lint as fast as 1t
is separated and carries it to a condensing
| chamber.
Through this operation the bulk
Of the cotton seed is reduced
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great Importance. as reducing the bulk
80 per cent. means a corresponding
reduction in freight and storage charges
it renders the shipment Of cotton seed
to great distances practicable, as the
great bulk and comparatively light weight
| of the upland cotton seed were one of
the greatest obstacles TO its being ex-
ported, hence limiting its markets and
entirely combining its use to southern mills.
The lint on the green seed absorbs and
retains moisture easily, If the seed is
| closely packed for q length of time, and
| this moisture causes the seed to heat
| and to ferment, destroying its value
The cleaned or polished cotton seed can
| be kept for six months or a year, as
! there is no absorption of moisture to de-
| stroy IT, ana instead of working night
| and day for six or seven months and
! closing down the balance of the year the
oil mills will be enabled by their preserva-
| ton of the seed to work the year round.
This is the first machine of it's kind
! that has ever been perfected and the
only one that successfully accomplishes
complete removal of the lint on a large
! and commercial scale at a moderate cost
Attempts to accomplish the same objects
date back to the year 1882, when a large
mill owner in Liverpool developed a pro-
| cess for burning the fiber from the seed,
| but II was found that this process par
! TALLY destroyed the seed and it was not
a practical success. In 1885 a Mr.. Green
| of Jackson, Miss, discovered that sui
| phuric acid would char and corrode the
| fiber from the seed, and that a diluted
| bath of this acid would so carbonize the
| fiber so that it could be removed by wash
| ing. This process was, although sold to
the American Cotton Oil Trust for S., 500, :
| 600, also proved a failure. but 1t was
| this that first called the attention of in
/ tors fha 49,
! fact that some practical method of doing
! this work was in great demand. Sulphuric
! acid after many trials, was abandoned,
as the process was not only found too
expensive, but 1t damaged the seed both
| for exporting and manufacturing.
The large amout paid for the process
/ showed, however, the incalculable value
| of machine or process that would ac-
| complish a complete removal of the lint
| without injury to the seed and efforts were
| then made to devise some mechanical
means for removing the lint Immense
amounts of money have been spent to de-
wise some such machine as would do the
work, and large number of experiments
resulted in failure. This machine how
| ever, is the only one that has ever been
| demonstrated to be a success and il
! overcomes all the objections that can be
| and have been made to The others. Some
! $40, 600 to $50, 600 have been spent in the ex-
/
! the present machine, yet one of them can
be built and put in running order now
| for about $3.50. Mr.. Bugg himself has ex-
| pended a great deal Of money in his ex-
! periments. but with their successful issue
| he has found no difficulty in having or
! ganized company with large capital to
! back the new industry thus begun.
The invention, fully covered by patents
| Is the property of the American Manufac-
turing and Export Company, organized
under the laws of the state of New Jer-
| sey, which has a paid in capital stock of
! $500,000 which has already been subscribed
and paid in. and the company is practi-
| cally ready TO start the business 1t pro
! poses to do. There are about fifteen
/ stockholders in this company, and they in
clude some of the capitalists of New York,
Baltimore, Indianapolis and other large
cities.
The object of this company is not alone
! to introduce these machines throughout
the south, but also is to buy. clean and
export cotton seed and to manufacture
! and operate machines for cleaning 1t. 1t
! is the exclusive owner of the patents on
/ this machine. The annual production of
! cotton seed in America is about 45OO 900
| tons, but it cannot be exported like wheat
! ~. o+bar grain on ncrotlut of tho ,,,.,eo,,~a