High-Performance Ginning and Lint Cleaning from Lummus

The 2014-2015 ginning season marked the introduction of a new high-performance ginning and lint cleaning line from Lummus Corporation.  Desire for greater capacity, improvement in lint quality, and ease-of-use features often drive market demands for machinery in the cotton ginning field, and the current industry climate proves to be no exception.  The portion of the ginning process being discussed here includes the extractor-feeder, gin stand, centrifugal-type lint cleaner, and saw-type lint cleaner.  Experimentation, empirical evidence, and customer input have yielded results leading to significant improvements in each product offering representing these aspects of the ginning and lint cleaning process.  While simply increasing the width of each machine may, at first glance, seem to provide the desired results, there are a number of other factors to consider.  Take, for example, the challenges relating to power transmission techniques and electrical demands.  An increase in width also brings about additional concerns relating to vibration and the sheer increase in machine weight.  Serviceability, operator safety, and ease of installation must be addressed, all the while responding to the current needs of the industry.  Many of these areas of concern will be addressed.  The specific machine models being presented here are the 120” wide Model 700™ III Extractor Feeder, the 222-Saw Gin Stand, the 120” wide Super-Jet^®, and the 144” wide Sentinel™ II Lint Cleaner.