Patent ID: 8448302

Claim:
A cotton gin including: at least one gin stand adapted to remove cotton seed from seed cotton; a module feeder equipped to handle rectangular modules and cylindrical modules, at least said cylindrical modules wrapped with a cover and having a smaller cross-sectional size and shorter height than the rectangular modules including: a disperser; a motorized conveyor having an outlet end adjacent the disperser and an inlet end for moving the modules toward the disperser; a device, intermediate the ends of the conveyor, facilitating removal of the cover from the cylindrical modules, the device being movable from a position adjacent the conveyor in the path of movement of the rectangular modules to a position outside the path of movement of the rectangular modules to allow the rectangular modules to pass toward the disperser; and wherein the device facilitating removal of the cover includes a mechanism to raise a cylindrical module at least partially off the conveyor, the mechanism being movable to a position outside the path of movement of the rectangular modules to allow the rectangular modules to pass toward the disperser.