Method and apparatus for reorienting seed cotton on a ginning apparatus

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PATENT NO 5003669
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07530808

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An apparatus for processing seed cotton and removing fiber fractions from the seed cotton includes a plurality of freely rotatable first rollers that are arranged substantially parallel to one another and that are rotatably driven in a continuous path. A plurality of nip rolls are positioned in abutting relation to the first rollers on the side on the continuous path that is opposite to the side on which the seed cotton is deposited. The apparatus includes a reorienting arrangement for reorienting the position of the seed cotton on the first rollers to thereby permit all or substantially all of the fibers on the seed cotton to be removed. In one embodiment, the reorienting arrangement includes a rotating reorienting roller that contacts the seed cotton located on the first rollers. In another embodiment, the reorienting arrangement includes an apparatus that directs streams of air at the seed cotton on the first rollers.

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COTTON INCORPORATED6399 WESTON PARKWAY CARY NC 27513

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Lalor, William F Raleigh, NC 4 33
Mehner, Martin Lubbock, TX 3 16
Wilkes, Lambert H College Station, TX 4 29

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