A device similar to circular saw blades mounted on a common
shaft could put thousands of lost dollars back into the pockets
of cotton growers. The invention, developed by agricultural
engineer Stanley Anthony, increases ginned lint yield by
approximately 10 lbs./500-lb. bale. Anthony has figured out how
to prevent the loss of marketable cotton fiber that is normally
ejected by a gin's saw lint cleaner, and then disposed of with
gin trash. Anthony explains that about 20 lbs. of material per
500-lb. bale is normally lost during one stage of the lint-
cleaning process at the gin. About half of that lint is the same
length cotton fiber that eventually finds it way into ginned
cotton bales. To remedy that loss of marketable fiber, he
developed a new lint-cleaning system with an additional saw
cylinder to prevent the good cotton fiber from being ejected
with the waste At the gin, harvested cotton is run through
several cleaning machines, such as a stick machine, before
separating the fiber from the cottonseed by the