adheres to the upper surface of flight 18 which is roughened so that the lint is pulled through the space between the bottom of knife 60 and the upper surface of flight 18 to effect separation of the seed from the lint the seed remains on the upper surface of the knife and are engaged by counter clockwise rotating seed removal rotary knife 70 rotary knife 70 is rotating in a counter clockwise direction and carries the seed at sufficiently high velocity to cause the seeds to be propelled into transverse auger housing 48 and fall into the curved channel 50 so that the rotating auger 52 conveys the seed transversely to the side of the belt for removal from the gin assembly the lint is gathered by suction in the vertically extending duct 36 and is conveyed into the lint removal and out feed duct 30 which conveys it to downstream processing equipment fig9 illustrates a second embodiment of the invention in which a gin assemblies is canted at an angle relative to the direction of movement of the upper flight 18 it is consequently possible to obtain increased production since there is a longer length of knife across the width of the upper flight of the belt however if the arrangement of the type illustrated in fig9 is used it is necessary that the backup.