Agricultural Research Service

Filed:

June 30, 1998

Abstract:

The invention relates to a means of reducing fiber waste and damage during the process of lint cleaning. Present systems utilize lint cleaners which are designed to provide an unvarying level of cleaning which is adequate for highly contaminated cotton. This however causes the typical cotton flowstream to be "overcleaned" with a resultant increase in both fiber loss and fiber damage. The present invention provides a method for mechanically controlling the level of cleaning that is applied to a given cotton flowstream so that a minimum of loss in terms of fiber quality and fiber waste occurs

Inventors:

William S. Anthony
Cotton Ginning Research
Stoneville, Mississippi 38776
(601) 686-3094

Industry Keywords:

mechanical processing, cotton, lint cleaners, extracting, ginning, mechanized harvesting