Word: fluff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cleaner. Dirt and trash are removed from the fibres by dropping the fluff on a rapidly revolving disc. Heavy particles are drawn out by the centrifugal force. A belt-and-cylinder device cleans further. The fluff is bagged at the rear of the machine...
Another type of cleaning device opens the closed bolls and passes all fibres to a drum with spindles which will pick up only fibres, no trash. The fluff is then pneumatically bagged or loaded, ready to be ginned (have the seeds re-moved...