Opening Bottom Patents (Class 56/479)
  • Patent number: 5537809
    Abstract: An infeed conveyor feeds seed cotton modules successively to a feeder head having disperser drums which reduce the modules to clumps of cotton. Incorporated into the conveyor are fluted rollers and beater rollers which cooperate to agitate the bottom portion of the modules and work the fibers on the bottom of each module so as to stretch and relax these fibers, thereby causing the sand, dirt, mud, trash and other debris accumulated along the bottom of the modules to be released. A conveyor feeds this debris to a hopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Harrell Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Billy J. Blalock