The Van Buren press., 1895-03-16
FARMER AND PLANTER
sessowerTes coMpsEsa.


the Bessonette prneesH ct enmpressilig
eotton promises 'tn completely rsvoi1i-
tionize that industry Thenew proeess
has long since passed the experimental
sfaqe,. over Thousand hales having
already been treabea and shipped 10
the EASTERN and Goreigli markets. And
the yearly saving OF a40 0,000,00o to the
states wherein the heecy staple IL pro-
a4ieed is pr7eticallly asssnrea-
The inventor OF the new compress is
W. b. Ressanette,, an ingenious young
man of Waco, Tex, who is not yet
thirty years OF age. Efe' has all ms.
Life been Devoted to Bhe origination or
of uniuue enntrivanees for hettering
manis welfare, but the invention OF the
machine IN question is his most ann
bitious effort, and one which was inar
neaiatelY appreeiatea.-
Some local capitalists at Waco, seeing
at a gianee the bonanza which Bes-
sonetteis Invention opened To Them,
took the mauter in hand and organized
a stock company with a capital OF
Al. 600 N0G The stock was at once sub
scrifsed, several blocks being taken IN
ST. Louis, and the first plant was ereeb-
ed in the inventors home citg-aftef
many improvements. however, had
been made npon the press originally
designed.
Among these was the attachment OF
the pneumatic system of conveying
eetton, which is now IN PROCESS OF nlanr
ufaeture by the EinQsland Il Douglas
Manufacturing Co. of this city. When
this system is attached to the
plant already ereeted in Wact1
the raw COTTON will be taken
through pneumatic pipes from the
car or wagon direct to the storage
house, or the gira, passing through the
cleaners ON the way. After being
ginned it will be CARVED Through metal
pil,as to the compound condenser, which
converts the cotton into a bale aEd de-
Iivers 1T direct to the BessoneGBe press.
It i.s there subjected to high pressure
Between a series OF rollers, which
presses all the air out of the staple
and converts it into a cylindrical shale
five and half feet in length by TWEEN
tY-5wo inches IN diameter and averag-
ing five hundred and fifteen pounds in
weight, although the weight may be
Increased to as mach as one Thousand
pounds.
The bale is absolutely free from dirt.
ia as solid as rock, and is positively in
enmbustible, the absence of air below
Bhe top layer making 1T impossible for
fire to affect the bale further than to
senrch the ends and outside Layer to a
depth of about ore~twenbfeth of an
inch. It is proposed, however, to ren-
der even this slight damage impossible
by the use OF a Are-proof wrapper for
the bale, which, it Is thought, can be
manufactured sufficiently cheap to JUS
tifY its use
The covering now In use is simply d
fold of cotton CLOTH which Is the only
ssBarer about the entire bale Tare, in
the vernaeuIar of cotton men, means
everything about bale of cotton save
the staple itself, and thus ordinarily
eonaprehends the ties and iate bag
ging. The vaIue of the tare of a Bes-
sonet5e bale, which gets to the mills
untouched by the sampler, and in as
good condition as when it left the gin,
Is reclSoned at double the selling price
of the tare of the old style bale.
The method of sampling cotton
ginned by the new process Is to take a
specimen Of the product off the roll
just before the last end enters the com
press. This bit of cotton Is numbered
to correspond with the number of the
bale from which it was taken, and is
mailed ahead of the bale to the pur-
chaser. When the bale arrives it must
of course, compare perfectly with the
sample
When a Bessonette bale leaves the
gin it Is ready for the spinner, thus
doing away with the old system of
conveying bale to the cotton yards
and thence to the compress, and from
there to the railroad yards Besides
this great advantage in the saving OF
handling and dray age, it is also much
more easily mixed in the mills
In short. the claims made by those
who are conversant with the process
are that it rffectually does away with
everything and every medium between
the ginner and the spinner. 1t saves
loss and expense by yardage, storage,
stealage, samplage, rottage and vast
age, and in the bagging and ties.
II the process is all that is claimed
for it by its friends it will undoubted-
ly create havoc among several big
branches of the south's leading in
dustry, and will result in increased
profits to the planter-which last is a
contamination devoutly to be wished
1t will certainly affect the existence OF
the cotton merchant, becauseathe spin
ner will prefer to buy from the ginner
| direct, without the aid or mediation OF
the factor. For the same reason, the
existence OF all cotton exchanges lex
cept those dealing in futuresJ, is like
wise threatened. More than all, II the
Bessonette process comes into general
use throughout this and other cotton
raising countries, it will send the great
Jute Bagging trust into the limbo ot
| things undone.
Railway and steamship companies
have already guaranteed a reduction OF
about thirty per cent. in freight rates
because OF the ease with which the
spool-like bale may be handled, and the
facility with which it may be packed.
IN car that would hold twenty
ginned, or forty-four compressed bales
Of the old style, may now be put seven
| ty-fvc bales compressed'under the Bes-
sonette plan. In fact, it is said, that
any car may be loaded beyond its ca
pacity.
The saving on each bale under this
process is as follows:
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