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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6147327 | Hot shelf tower dryer for a cotton gin using heating elements A hot shelf tower dryer includes a casing having substantially parallel shelves which alternately extend from opposite ends of the tower casing. As configured, the dryer includes a repetitively convoluted passage. At least one of the shelves has a hollow ... | 11/14/2000 |
| 5121522 | Humidity and temperature air conditioning in a textile processing line A fiber tuft processing line for processing fiber tufts preparatory to spinning, includes a plurality of fiber processing machines, fiber tuft conveying ducts serially connecting the machines, a blower generating a fiber tuft conveying air stream flowing ... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5008978 | Apparatus for treating cotton contaminated with honeydew The invention relates to an apparatus for treating cotton contaminated or imbued with honeydew. For this purpose, cotton flocks are fed into a microwave oven, in which the cotton flocks are heated by microwave energy, thus reducing the stickiness or tacki... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5003670 | Apparatus for reducing the stickiness of cotton flocks The invention relates to an apparatus for reducing the stickiness or tackiness of cotton flocks. For this purpose, cotton flocks delivered by any suitable conveyor structure are received in a flock chute and brought, by rolls or rollers, as a fiber batt b... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4989297 | Treatment of cotton The invention relates to a process for rendering harmless sticky material adhering to cotton fibers, termed "honeydew". According to the process the cotton is heated for a brief period of time to a temperature adequate to render said honeydew hard and bri... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4969234 | Method of reducing the stickiness of cotton fibers The invention relates to a method of reducing the stickiness or tackiness of cotton flocks. For this purpose, cotton flocks delivered by any suitable conveyor mechanism are received in a flock chute and brought, by rolls or rollers, as a fiber batt betwee... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4896400 | Method and apparatus for processing textile fibers in particular cotton fibers in pressed bales for removing therefrom adhering organic waste released by insects The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing textile fibers, in particular pressed bale cotton fibers, for removing therefrom possible adhering organic waste released by insects, which method comprises the step of processing in a... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4888856 | Treatment of cotton The invention relates to a process for rendering harmless sticky material adhering to cotton or cotton fibers, termed "honeydew". According to the process the cotton or cotton fibers is heated for a brief period of time to a temperature adequate to render... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4864694 | Apparatus for controlling the sliver drafting arrangement in a textile draw frame An apparatus for controlling the drafting of sliver in a draw frame wherein a control arrangement generates an adjusting signal in response to sliver mass variations to correspondingly vary the sliver draft. A modifying arrangement is provided for selecti... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4860405 | Apparatus for drying material transported in a fluid stream An apparatus for drying material transported in a fluid stream including a nozzle borne in the described embodiment by a suction tube of a cotton gin and defining an air channel which is operable to direct a stream of heated air to the intake end of the n... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4796334 | Treatment of cotton The invention relates to a process for rendering harmless sticky material adhering to cotton fibers, termed "honeydew". According to the process the cotton is heated for a brief period of time to a temperature adequate to render said honeydew hard and bri... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4693917 | Process and apparatus for preparing a filling material, particularly for an article giving body protection This invention relates to a process for the treatment of insulating materials in the supple, fluffy state, such as down, wherein the fluff of the down is subjected to a physical treatment adapted to take the filaments of the fluff into a substantially rad... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4535510 | Cotton drying tower for ginneries A drying tower for seed cotton in ginneries, which tower comprises four walls and a heated air flow from its bottom to its top. Seed cotton is fed at the top and collected at the bottom of the tower. The cotton is transferred over two sets of horizontal c... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4143470 | Even heat parallel flow tower dryer A seed cotton drying system of the parallel flow tower type, having vertically spaced horizontal shelves alternately extending from opposite sides of the tower to locations near but spaced from the opposite side to define a continuing zig zag cotton flow ... | 03/13/1979 |
| 4031593 | Hot shelf seed cotton tower dryer apparatus and method A seed cotton dryer system of the parallel flow tower type, having hollow vertically spaced horizontal shelves alternately extending from opposite sides of the tower to locations near but spaced from the opposite side to define a continuing zig-zag cotton... | 06/28/1977 |
