The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-02
DESCRIPTION OF THE MULTIPLE
GIN AT NASHVILLE.
GREATER DENSITY FROM PRESS
Staple is Not Injured. and Cotton Ar
rjyes at Mill With Fibre IN as
Good Condition asWhen it
Left the Gins.
Left the Gins.
Manufacturers Record.)

consists OF one OF It's latest Improved Cot-
ton congresses and a new multiple gin.
The press is the outcome of an extend
ed experience and is as nearly perfect as
mechanical ingenuity and skill can make
it, and when compared with the first
round-bale cotton press is marvel OF
compactness and simplicity. 1t makes
bale four feet long and two feet in diam
eter. weighing over thirty-fve pounds
per cubic foot. or over 80 per cent. more
dense than the best compressed bale
made on the enormously heavy and ex-
pensive congresses now in use. More
over. the regularity of the shape, of the
bale, being four feet long by two feet
diameter makes it pack much closer than
the irregular. turtle-back cotton as now
generality made, and the saving in space
is even more than is indicated by the diff
ference in actual density. In this press
the cotton is pressed gradually and not
all at once. hence the greater density;
while the pressure required on the cotton
in the old-style compress is over 2OO
times greater than that used in making
the round bale For this reason the
staple is not injured, and the cotton ar
rives at the mill with the fibre in as good
a condition as when it left the gins. The
heavy bagging and ties are entirely dis
pensed with, as the air is pressed out of
the cotton and it has no tendency to
expand. and the covering needed is only
sufficient to keep the cotton clean.
The round cotton bale is both fire
and water proof The cotton is COM
pressed as fast as ginned, and is shipped
direct from the ginhouse to warehouse
or mill.
In order to avoid stopping the gin
for covering and discharging the bale,
double or duplex press is used, and
by feeding the bat alternately first to
one press and then to the other the
gins are run continuously and ample time
is given for covering and discharging the
bale from one press while the baling pro-
ceeds in the other. The power required
to drive this press is no greater than is
required to operate a gin box press, nor
does it take any more room than one
double press occupies. The weight of
the press is about twelve tons, and 1T is
so simple and durable in its construction
that its operation can be conducted by
anyone intelligent enough to run a gin.
The multiple gin used at this exhibit
is the first one of the kind ever built. 1t
contains four saw cylinders, which can
be increased to any desired number. Its
simplicity and compactness cannot but
appeal to any practical ginner. 1t as
the first real departure from the old
Whitney gin, over which it possesses
many advantages.
list. This gin can be made of any de-
sired size.
| I'd. 1t requires only half the number
of brushes and consequently requires
much less power
Sd. The seed cotton is fed all at one
place, and dispenses with all but one
feeder.
4th. The seed is all discharged at one
place, and all complicated seed convey
ers are dispensed with.
9TH. The cotton is all fed underneath
the saws and not ON the top of the saws,
as in all other gins. Consequently all
rocks, nails, sand and other heavy for
eign substance fall to the bottom of the
carrier and do not come in contact with
the saws, which, therefore, last much
longer and are not liable to damage.
9th. No stationery ribs are used in
this gin, and their construction makes
it impossible for them to clog, even
with wet cotton, and the danger from
fire origina ting in the gin and the dam
age to the fibre from the ribs becoming
clogged are wholly eliminated.
7th. The ginning does not take place
from tight roll, but from very loosely
packed cotton, which is in constant cir
culation, and the full length of the fibre
is preserved.
Sth Umpire bolls, hulls and other for
-, 1a% how
to be worn out by the saws and mixed
in the lint cotton will all accumulate
at the end of the apron, where they
may be readily discharged without COM
ing in contact with the gin saws.
9th The noting is done all at the end
of the gin, and is under perfect control
by adjustable slides.
10th. This gin takes but fraction of
the space occupied by the old gins, and
does away with the long expensive flues
necessary with the old system.
11th One man will easily operate and
attend to the working of one of these
gins, regardless of its size.
18th The setting and driving of this
multiple gin is much simpler and cheap
er for the same capacity than with the
old system.
18th. 1t is so constructed that anything
getting out of order is but a remote pos
sibility.
14th Experienced gin and cotton men,
after having thoroughly examined the
samples made on this gin and compared
them with samples made on the old gins.
are unanimous in their opinion that the
use of this multiple gin greatly enhances
the value of the cotton, and that the multi
pie gin is as great an improvement over
the old-style gins as the round-bale press
is over the old square-bale gin press.
This exhibit was prepared under the