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Hull Extractor, US Patent No. 1880934
Hull Extractor, US Patent No. 1880934
Thomas Elliott · United States, October 4, 1932
Patent · 5 pages
US Patent No. 1,880,934, granted 4 October 1932 to Thomas Elliott of Birmingham, Alabama, and assigned to Continental Gin Company, for a hull extractor used to remove hulls and trash from seed cotton before ginning. It describes a main saw cylinder with a picker roller, stripper rollers and doffers, plus a reclaiming saw cylinder that recovers cotton escaping with the hulls. Two embodiments are shown: a single stripper roller version (Fig. 1) and a double stripper roller version with added cleaning rollers and screen concaves (Fig. 2). The patent ends with 11 claims. It concerns cotton processing machinery and has no weaving content.

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