The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-03
A COTT0NSEED MACHINE
DOES AWAY WITH SEVERAL OF THE
PRESENT PROCESSES
For Reducing the Seed to a Form
Where It Can Readily Be Worked
in the Oil Mills.

Washington, January IA private demon
stration was made in this city today Of an
invention which has been pronounced by
authorities on cotton and by eminent chem
lists throughout the country to be the great
est stride forward in the cotton industry
since Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin
IN the early part of the Nineteenth cen
fury 1t deals entirely with the cotton
seed, and covers all steps In its develop
meut from the time the seed leaves the
Stn. after tho cotton has been removed, TO
IFS production into refined oil, making pos
sibic the abandonment OF six separate
operations. requiring the use Of like
number OF Intricate machines. IL com-
priseS the complete and perfect dGlintlug
ana me hullng OF cotton seed py a SecrCu
chemical process In twenty minutes com
pared with the mechanical means and the
processes required under the old process;
the recovery of all the lint and hulls of
the seed in condition for paper stock of
nigh utility, uS compared with the 70
eoNcry OF only a small percentage ia poor
condition md worthless MS paper stock
under tlu old process: the production or
refined oil from the seed in three opera
lions, occupying one hour aud twenty min.
nies as compared with ten separate opera
tlohs, occupying many hours under the
The new process, it is claimed. not only
shortens the time required under the old
process thousand per cent, but reduces
suc cost OF producing the product in its
nlNl state, 50 pcr sent.
Inc seed, as 1t comes from the gin, en-
cascd In huls and lint. is treated by the
secret chemical solution, which opens the
hulls and releases the kernels in twenty |
minutes. The kernels are then dried |
, here has heretofore been no feasible |
process for separating the cotton seed |
Kernels from the hulls and lint, 4 being
however, possible to partially clean :he |
seed after ginning, leaving tufts of cotton |
clinginG to the huls and the huls them
selves intact The rate of insurance on
such seed, when slapped abroad Ia very
high, owing to the danger Of spontaneous
combustion in cargo Of cotton seed In
the state mentioned.
The recently discovered process, its In,
Yentors claim removes the hulls entirely
and dries the kernel, or meal, Of the seed,
which can then be shipped as ordinary
Ing been eliminated by the removal of the
hulis and attached lint and the drying
Of the seed.
Cotton seed lmperfectly cleaned by the
method now in use and encased In It's
hull brings $40 ton in European mar
Sets, while under the now treatment 1t
Is expected that seed will not only bring
much higher price because of the greater
net per cent Of meal, but the shipments
II the product abroad will he greatly cheap
ned by the low rate Of marine mghrance
md the greater facility with which the
ICED can be handled and shipped The
process Of separation of the kernels from
he lint aud hun reduces the weight Of the
eed onc-half, and Its bulk two-thirds for !
transportation to oil mills. while the cost
4 dcnuding the kernels is reduced 30 per ,
ent as compared with he present prevail |
ng methods Of treating the seed by de-
lnting ard hulllng by mechanical means.