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COTTON-GIN 



the seed. There is no sliding and rubbing action, as in the Macarthy Gin ; or sawing of 

 the fibre, as in tho saw-gin. The closing of the nipping blado upon the fibre is .so 



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like the action of a jaw, that the resemblance has given to this machine its best known 

 name. 

 Fig. 543 shows a perspective view, and fig. 544 a section, of it: N is the nipping 



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blade, B the roller on which are arranged the strips of leather, i. Those come into 

 action one after the other, in order to form one side of the pair of jaws to act with the 

 nipping blade ; fine combs, c, are also attached to the roller between the strips of 

 leather (when short-stapled cotton is being combed), s is a shaft, with cranks, to move 

 the beater, B, and excontrics to move the nipping blade, N, which latter is confined 

 by links, K, causing it to move in a curved elliptical path. F is a bar to fill up the 



