An Improved Method of Compressing and Baling Cotton.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 16th June, 1890-Accepted, 19th July, 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Compressing and Baling Cotton..
I. HENRY REMBERT, of Willis, in the County of Montgomery, and State of Texas,
United States of America, Inventor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:—
This invention has relation to a method of compressing and baling cotton batting.
The invention consists in certain steps hereinafter described and particularly referred
to in the claims.
In the accompanying drawing I have illustrated a longitudinal vertical section of a
machine adapted for carrying out my method and I will now proceed to describe the
same in order that a fair understanding of the method as practiced may be had.
1 represents a bed, from one end of which rise opposite standards 2, between which
there is journaled a pair of transverse rolls 3. At about the center of the bed there
rises a second pair of standards 4 between which journaled a single heavy roll 5
and upon the shaft that carries the roll there is mounted a pulley 6. Along the bed 1
and in rear of the standards 2 there is mounted a series of pairs of standards 7, said
standards serving to support between each pair thereof small rollers 8.
Upon the rollers 8 and adapted for movement over the same there is mounted a
carriage 9.
In front of the bed 1, upon suitable legs or standards 11, there is mounted a
table 10, the rear end of which is slightly below the adjacent portion of the peripheries
of the rolls 3 and upon the table there are mounted opposite pairs of short vertical
standards 12 and between each pair, loose rolls 13, the upper portions of the peripheries
of the rolls being about on a line with the upper portions of the periphery of the
lower one of the pair of rolls 3.
14 represents two pairs of opposite vertical standards rising from the table [O at its
front end and between each pair there are loosely mounted rolls 15.
16 represents a carriage mounted on the loose rolls 13 and connected by a pitman 17
to any suitable operating mechanism adapted to reciprocate the carriage back and
forth over the rolls 13 and under the rolls 15.
The operation of my invention is as follows
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The cotton batting is passed between the rolls 15 and the leading end held upon the
carriage 16, the machinery being started and the carriage reciprocated folds the
batting in alternate directions upon the carriage. The roils 15 serve to primarily
compress the batting upon the carriage and after a sufficient number of layers have
been piled upon the carriage and uniformly folded, said carriage is run down to the
rear end of the table, the web severed and the piled batting passed between the rolls 3
where a still further compression takes place. The carriage 9 being in waiting receives
the batting and in this manner is loaded by a sufficient number of compressed sections
to constitute a bale after which it is passed under the slowly revolving final compression
roller 5 and while under pressure from said roller, the bale bands are applied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. The hereindescribed method of forming bales from cotton batting, the same
consisting in first, folding the cotton in successive layers and slightly compressing the
same at their folds; second, severing the web at intervals into sections; third,
subjecting the sections successively and independently to compression fourth, piling
the sections, and, fifth, subjecting the mass thus formed to a final compression,
anbstantially us specified

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2. Th hereindescribed method of forming bales from cotton batting, the same
consisti
in first, folding the cotton in successive layers and slightly compressing the
same -1
their folds; second, severing the web at intervals into sections; third,
subjecting the sections successively and independently to compression fourth, piling
the sectors; fifth, subjecting the mass thus formed to a final compression and sixth,
hinding
or baling the same while under such compression substantially as specified.
ted this 16th day of June 1890.
L
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.