Cotton Gin
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A single-page dictionary entry on the cotton gin from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary. It describes the device credited to Whitney in 1794, in which saw-teeth pull lint from seed through a grid, and a variant with needle-pointed teeth on a segmented ginning cylinder. Two cross-section diagrams (Figs. 1486 and 1487) show the brush cylinder, mote-board, wire-gauze cylinder and compacting rollers.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1876
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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