Daniel E Poole

US Patent:

8261415, Sep 11, 2012

Filed:

Sep 29, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/992500

Inventors:

Daniel Alexander Poole - Lewisville NC, US
Wesley Wade Burgess - Lewisville NC, US
Jon P. Rust - Cary NC, US

International Classification:

D01B 1/04

US Classification:

19 48R

Abstract:

An apparatus and method for cotton ginning are disclosed. For example, an apparatus for cotton ginning comprises a belt and one or more rollers which are operatively connected. The belt is configured to have a contoured surface such that unprocessed cotton is processed so that cotton seeds are separated from cotton fiber, with the cotton fiber being held by the contoured surface. A method of cotton ginning comprises feeding unprocessed cotton into an apparatus that contains at least two belts wherein two of the at least two belts are operatively connected to each other so as to generate an arced contour and wherein the arced contour applies a normal force to cotton fibers allowing separation of the cotton fibers from cotton seeds.