Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-11-22
NEW COTTON COMPRESS
SAVES S. ON EACH BALE
Cotton Experts Believe New
Compress Will Work Rev.
olution in Crop Handling

"A COllOu compress lnaI turns out a
bale one-third the size of the ordinary
bale, and does away with recompressing,
is being exhibited at Union City by J.
N. Wood. chief designer Of the Nicely
Cotton Compress company, which is Of
Richmond, Va. Journal reporter visit
ed Union City Wednesday and saw one
compress at work ...
This new compress will save over IS
a bale in the handling of cotton. Fol-
lowing are items Of expense that 1t will
do away with:
accomplishing and handling at steam
compress, per bale, so cents.
Railroad freight account of bulk, 10
cents per 100 pounds. cents.
Marine freight account of bulk, 10 cents
per 10 pounds, Is cents.
RedTced bagging at steam compress, 9
cents.
Tare, per cent. at at least, $3.50.
Total, S3.s5.
Other items bring the saving to over IS
bale.
Cotton experts believe that the new
compress will cause a revolution in the
handling of cotton second only to the in
vention of cotton ginneries. 1t will have
greater effect in the south than any
other invention of recent years.
SIZE OF BALE.
The reduction that ii will make in the
size of the bale will be of the utmost
Importance. The Nicely Compress bale
weighing 500 pounds contains 16 cubic
feet, whereas the ordinary steam-com-
pressed bale contains from % to "A cubic
feet
The capacity of freight cars is, say
$1,000 pounds, but because of their bulk,
100 ginnery bales, weight $4,000 pounds
require three cars to carry them to the
steam compress, and 100 steam compress
ed bales. weight $1,000 pounds, require
two cars to carry them to the ship.
BY the Nicely compress 100 ginnery
bales can be so compressed at the gin
merry that one car can haul them direct
to the ship without hating at the steam
compress.
The Nicely bale is rectangular in form
and measures IS by 30 by 50 inches. It's
density is 30 pounds a cubic foot. 1t is
so compressed that there is no air what
ever left in the bale. This makes 1T
much better able to resist fire and water
than the ordinary bale, and gives it such
firmness that it can travel from one end
of the world to the other and land in
good condition.
Despite its frmness the bale Is soft,
and is easily sampled.
SIMPLE IN CONSTRUCTION.
The Nicely compress is simple in con-
struction, weighs less than any known
compress and costs rs per cent less to
build. Its market price will be about
$4,000. It turns out a bale In ten min
utes It is protected by Is patents, eff
fective in every part of the world.
The compress that is being exhibited
at Union City is the first of their latest
model that has been manufactured by
the Nicely company. Other congresses
are now being manufactured for the mar
ket, and orders will be filed quickly af-
ter being received.
The compress at Uhion city will remain
there throughout the winter and probably
permanently. 1t is at the ginnery Of the
Stonewall Milling company. 1t Is proba-
BILE that the Nicely company will estab-
lish a sales department in Atlanta with
in a few months.
The Nicely system of COMPRISING cot
ton consists of three processes embraced
in one machine; they are:
l. The production of a bat or web.
2. The COMPRISING Of the bat into a
bale box.
8. The tying up of the compressed bale,
outside of the machine.
The cotton is delivered from any ordi-
nary gin system to a condenser of stand
ard type, and the loose bat that comes
from it, passes directly to a series Of
rollers five In number), which reduce
the percentage of contained air and in
crease the bat density. This passes au-
tomatically to a series of COMPRISING
cams which deliver 1t in folded layers to
a bale box.
THE BALING PROCESS.
The bale box is made Of wood and iron
and is held in a large but light steel
frame which oscillates from 10 to Is times
y1ar roinuta through the oscillation of two
cranks. The oscillation Of the box Is
timed to correspond with the motion OF
the delivering cams. At each complete
oscillation-one motion back and forth
two layers of cotton are placed In the
box.
The box bottom Is movable, and con-
sists of a heavy wooden block contain
ing six recesses for ties, and rests on
the top of a hydraulic piston, carried in a
cylinder, the whole being a part of the
oscillator and swinging back and forth
with It. Pressure from a pump holds
the block up with a force controlled by
a relief valve which can be set at any
pressure desired. Practice has deter
mined this at 600to produce bale of 80
density. The ordinary steam recon-
presses have a gauge pressure Of 5000
to 4OOOs pounds.
The diameter of the cylinder being 1-2
inches, the area 81 square inches, the
total pressure is thus $4,000 pounds, or
III tons, compared with 1000 to 1000 tons
in steam congresses.
AS the cotton accumulates In the box,
the hydraulic piston is slowly forced