Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A machine for separating cotton-seeds from cotton-fiber, in the best form of which the separation is effected by leather rollers acting in conjunction with a knife or knives.
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Examples
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It is thought by Southern members of the United States commission that the introduction of the double roller-gin into our country would greatly increase the profitableness of the culture of cotton, and especially of the "sea island," which is at present much neglected, and in the growth of which we need fear no rivalry.
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Things work round, and the roller-gin is now the better machine, having in the most perfected processes supplanted the saw-gin.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
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But the roller-gin has again come upon the stage, and with the late improvements is likely to become the gin of the future.
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When the close of our civil war put an end to the "cotton famine," as it was called, in Europe, and American cotton resumed its place in the market, the export of the East Indian and Egyptian cottons would have been immediately suppressed if they had not possessed the roller-gin in those countries.
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The oldest machine for ginning cotton is undoubtedly the roller-gin, and it was known in
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Ten thousand of the double Macarthy gin are used in India, and five thousand of the single roller-gin in Egypt.
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The common roller-gin of Southern Asia was shown at the
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While the saw-gin injures any variety of cotton by cutting, tearing, napping and tangling the fibres, its action upon the long and fine staple called "sea island" is ruinous, and the roller-gin alone is suitable for working it.
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One of the most important machines in the Exposition, from the American point of view, is the "double Macarthy roller-gin," exhibited by Platt
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The slow action of the single roller-gin, cleaning about one hundred and fifty pounds of lint per day, made its cultivation too expensive, but the double roller-gin will clean nine hundred pounds in ten hours, or one hundred and twenty pounds an hour of the common upland short-staple cotton.
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