Electric Driving of Cotton-Picking Machinery
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A 1910 article from Cassier's Magazine by Albert Walton on replacing belt and line-shaft drives with individual electric motors on cotton-mill picking machinery (opener, breaker, intermediate, finisher). It describes the picking process, the drawbacks of the traditional belt drive, and three motor arrangements: ceiling-mounted belt drive, silent chain drive, and direct connection to the beater shaft. It includes diagrams, photographs of picker rooms before and after conversion, and Westinghouse graphic wattmeter charts showing daily power use of a breaker, intermediate and finisher picker.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1910
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 16
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