US Patent: 5,621X
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| Cotton Packing Machine
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Patentee:
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| Obadiah Stith (Slith) (exact or similar names) - Laurenceville, VA |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Aug. 25, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. Only the patent drawing is available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
“For a machine for Packing Cotton; Obadiah Stith, Laurenceville, Brunswick county, Virginia, August 25.
Each cheek of this press consists of two bars of iron standing upright. They are framed into a bed piece, and stand at the distance of a few inches apart, to allow a piece, called a driver, to extend out between them. These iron bars are perforated with round holes, to receive pins which serve as fulcra, upon which the levers work which are to force the driver and follower down upon the cotton. The cheeks are placed apart at a distance equal to the length of the bale to be packed. The levers, of which there are two, are each twenty feet long; they have a mortise in the middle, to allow them to pass up and down on the iron cheeks at each end of the press. The levers are to be drawn down at each end, alternately, the pins placed in the holes of the bars being shifted as they descend. The sides of the press are boxed up to receive the cotton, which is put in at the top. When the levers are at the upper end of the cheeks, the driver falls on one side, and offers no obstruction to the introduction of the cotton. An iron strap, or stirrup, from each end of the driver, connects it with the levers, descending into the centre of the mortises, where it is secured by strong pins, upon which it works as a joint.
We shall probably recur again to this press, as it is certainly more simple than many of those which are used for the same purpose, and we think that it will be found convenient in practice; should this appear to be the fact, an engraving shall, hereafter, be given, for the purpose of making it better known.
The general construction of the press is claimed, as is the particular mode in which the levers are made to operate; the iron cheeks with the slot between the bars which compose them, and which allow the driver to be drawn down by the levers; the application of the stirrup and driver, are also claimed.”
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 8, Nov. 1829 pgs. 336-337
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