used herein the term u201c cotton gin u201d encompasses that series of machines which operated together process seed cotton into baled lint cotton the apparatus which separates out the cottonseed from the cotton will be referred to as the u201c gin stand u201d for historical reference of e whitney 39 s cotton gin machine for separating cottonseed from lint is in modem usage referred to as the gin stand typically baled seed cotton 10 is passed through first dryer 11 and in the example here to cylinder cleaner 12 thereafter processing at stick machine 13 followed by second dryer 11 occurs the cotton is then processed at impact cleaner 14 and then to gin stand 15 where seed is removed following gin stand 15 lint cleaners 16 process the cotton in series u2014 two such cleaners are shown in fig1 with three such cleaners in series in fig2 at the end of lint cleaners 16 the cotton is baled and further processed as by spinning it will be understood that modem storage of raw seed cotton in modules has created a new style of seed cotton entrance into the cotton gin the old style utilized a suction tube that sucked the cotton out of trailers while the new system utilizes raw seed cotton storage into highly compressed modules the use of the modules requires a machine module feeder to break up the cotton from its highly compressed state into a loose state one in which it can be properly dried and machined cleaned typically raw baled seed cotton is fed into the system 10 by module feeder we illustrate an exemplary cotton gin the reader will understand the various gin arrangements are so varied that it is impossible to depict all of the various designs that are in use.