Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-04-05
COTTON PICKER
 COMING HERE Hand Cotton Picking Ma chine to be Exhibited In
 This County.
A PINE BLUFF MA N
Believes That Cotton Picking Indus try Will Be ReyOlutiOniZed
 By It.

 West Eleventh avenue, one of the in- yentors of the Coy and Petersen hand cotton picker, who recently exhibited the Coy and Petersen mechanical picker, will soon exhibit the hand picker in this county in the presence of a large number of Jefferson coun- ty cotton growers. They claim the hand picker will perform wonders in cotton-picking, and will practically revolutionize the industry. The in- ventors believe that the hand picker will perform the work expected of it.
 Relative to the Coy mechanical cot ton picking machine, which was re- gently seen on plantation near Scotts, Ark, and which was inspect ed by many Pine Bluff and Jefferson county planters, the Chicago Tribune of recent date says:
 The enormous amount of hand la-
 
 and the financial rewards for the man who could design a practical machine to do the work has inspired a host of inventors. The patent of flee at Washington, it is said, has issued more than 700 patents for cot ton pickers alone, and no doubt there nfh n,s machines designed and not patented.
 The latest patent for machine which is said to promise much in a really practical way has been issued to Herbert c. Coy of Chicago. MT. Coy has visited c. P. Taft's 2S,000 acre plantation near Corpus Christi, Texas to study the actual needs of the cotton picker.
 The basic principle upon which the machine depends is the rapid pro- jection and withdrawal of the picker blades by reciprocal action. By this action the blades extract the cotton lint from the open bolls.
 The picker mechanism is in front of the machine and can be seen at all times by the operator. It can be rais- ed and lowered or adjusted at any desired heighth to suit the condition of each field. The machine is driven by motor and operated, it is said as easily as an auto.
 The sides of the frame which hold the picker blades are two feet apart, and from them the blades play back and forth at any speed desired, cov- ering the two foot space between the sides through which the plants pass as the machine moves forward The aXles are arched to a sufficient height to allow the cotton plant to pass un- der the machine without injury.
 AS the blades play back and forth 60 to 100 times minute and the ma chine runs at positive forward speed in reference to the pickers, the area of each plant will be covered several times by the blades.
 There are twenty-nine blades fourteen on one side and fifteen on the other side of the frame-which are projected towards each other and to the center of the two foot space occupied by the plant. The blades are easily detached, and only the number needed will be used at any time. For the first picking, when the open bolls are on the lower part of the plant, it would not be necessary to put in but a few of the lower blades; the second picking, the mid dle blades; and the last,. the upper ones could be used. If there was on- " one picking put them all in at once. The part of the plant not cov- cred by the blades cannot be injur- ed, as there is nothing that can touch it.
 The inventor makes the following claims fore the picker:
 It will pick 80 per cent of the cot ton.
 The machine is run by motor and under control of one man, and the picker frame is in front in view of the operator.
 It will pick the cotton from the open boil and deliver it into a recep. cle in as good condition as if pick. ed by hand. ..-,
 It picks thA cotton and leaves the lint fiber in straight normal con. ditfon.
 It will raise ali] fallen branches and bring them into Re picker field to P picked by the blseS <; =; ;''' { ''''''. 2; 2; ;;; E: