GENERAL COTTON REMARKS 



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<1) Patent Single- Action Macarthy Cotton Gin, ^Oin. ivide, with 

 5 bearings, crankshaft IJin. diam., and fitted with Piatt's 

 Patent (Drawback) Feeder. (Seed Grid with open ends and 

 Wood Stripper Roller) as per circular. Price £42 15s., plus 

 195 per cent. 



{2) Patent Double-Action Macarthy Cotton Gin, 40m. wide, with 

 5 bearings, crankshaft l^in. diam., and fitted with Seed Grid 

 with open ends, Wood Stripper Roller and Piatt's Patent 

 (Drawback) Feeder, as per Circular. Price £44 10s., plus 

 195 per cent. 



(3) 50-Saiv Gin, with I2in. Saws, complete with Feeder and 

 Condenser. Price £100, plus 195 per cent. 

 Packing in Cases and delivery alongside ship at port charged 

 extra on the gross prices, viz : 

 Manchester, 17| per cent. 

 Liverpool or Birkenhead, 18| per cent. 



Piatt Brothers & Co., Ltd., do not hold themselves respon- 

 sible for any breakages which may occur in transit after 

 delivery of the cases in good condition to the shippers. 



A MODERN ROLLER GINNERY IN PERU 



This illustration represents a 4-roller gin outfit and is completely automatic in its operation 

 right from feed to condenser in press house. The seed cotton is fed down a chute from 

 the room above ; as the cotton falls from the ginning roller it is directed into the line of 

 draught from a fan through the medium of a vacuum box; the working portion of this box 

 simply consists of a leather bladed roller driven from the gins, as shown. This roller 

 revolves in close contact with the sides of the box and deposits the cotton into the suction 

 pipe, through which it is drawn to the condenser and delivered to the press in a similar 

 way to that of the usual saw gin factory 



