Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-01-23


timing it so that the cotton seed lard
of today became possible. The waste
products at first were the cotton and
seed meal and the bulls. The latter
were used for some years as fuel,
and the ashes, having a high percent
age OF potash, were made use of for
tertilizing purposes. 1t finally be-
came known that cotton seed meal
was most excellent feed for cattle, as
were also cotton seed bulls, and thus
the waste products of the manufacture
became almost as valuable as The oil
itself. Another saving was effected
when the seeds containing strands of
lint upon them were re-ginnel. In
Q mill of the smallest saws, frU,n one
TO five bales of cotton are saved per
day from the seed as bought.
The general plan for the manufac-
ture'o of oil from cotton seed pursued in
southern oil mills is that of crushing
the kernel, cooking it, and finally
COMPRISING the oil from the meal.
The machinery for this purpose has
been SO perfected that the industry
is well-paying one and is gradually
spreading itself over the entire area
OF cotton producing states. The cot
ton seed as it comes from the gin
after being separated from the lint,
is brought by the cotton oil companies
at from $12 to SIS per ton, freight
upon it being anywhere from So to
SIG per ton, according to the distance
transported.
Mills employing fifty men handle
about twenty thousand tons per year.
The general plan of the factories is to
have long seed house with conven-
lent railroad facilities where railroad
cars may be brought under shelter
and the seed loaded on elevator belts.
which dump it in bins to a depth of
from IL to Is feet. This store house
is called the seed house, and at the be-
ginning of the winter (the mills shut
down for five months in the year,
the seed house contains a quantity of
cotton seed, filling an area of from
125x400 feet, with depth of Is feet.
An endless belt is run out over the
mass which carries seed thrown upon
it to the drag belt, and then into the
mill, dropping lit into a revolving
screen, which tends to sift the seed
from dust and dirt. The seeds are
tumbled in this screen until the
power operated blower sucks out all
the dust and carries it into dust
house or box. A conveyor then car
ries the seed to the third floor and
drops it into cross-conveyor, where
magnets are set to make what is
known as nail catcher for attracting
all the iron and nails that may have
dropped into the cotton seed, thereby
saving much damage to the machin-
cry. The seed is then fed into cotton
gins containing very fine gin saws
The gins mainly used in the southern
mills are known as the Carver gins,
which are the best for removing fine
lint from seed. They are built by the
Carver Gin company of East Bridge
water, Mass.
The gin saw teeth of the Carver gin
are much finer than those of the regu-
lar gin. The gin rolls are also very
much tighter, and more carefully clean
the seed than in general gin house
work.
OF late years the amount of cotton
ginned from ton of seed by this re-
ginning has increased very much, as
from "a to SO pounds per ton of seed
lint are now secured, where ten years
ago ii was impossible to get more
than "a or 25 pounds. After the seeds
have been thus re-ginned a conveyor
carries them to the huller, which is a
wheel with cutting edges set in its in
side periphery. These edges, cut
ting the seed and to some extent
crushing them, allow them to drop
finally on to another conveyor belt,
which carries them into shaker
The cotton from the gins is swept
off the gin saws by blast of air and
by cylinder brushes, and is then
blown on to condensers which feed
the cotton gradually on to rolls, from
which it is rebaled for the market. A
number of special machines have
grown out of ginning practice in cot
ton mills. such as the Carver saw
sharpener and GUNNER, the latter
for making new teeth in worn saws,
thereby allowing the same saws to
be used for a period Of years.
The huller spoken of above receives
and cuts the hulls from the meat at a
speed of 900 revolutions per minute.
The cut seed are then dropped into a
power tumbler or sand screen, which
Sits in two directions. and shakes all
the meat possible out Of the bulls.
After the bulls have passed through
rollers and are re-sifted again they
pass to the hull pile in another part
Of the building by means Of convey
ing belt, while the meat is freed and
crushed so that the oil sacks will be
ready forrcompression after cooking
From the rollers the meats are car
ried to the press room, where they are
dumped by hand power into steam
heaters provided with stirrers to keeT
the meal from forming into what arr
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