Cotton Picking. A cotton picker is either a machine that harvests cotton, or a person who picks ripe cotton fibre from the plants.
The machine is also referred to as a cotton harvester. In many societies, human labor was utilized to pick the cotton, increasing the plantation owner's profit margins.
The first practical cotton picker was invented over a period of years beginning in the late 1920s by John Daniel Rust with the later help of his brother Mack Rust. Other inventors had tried designs with a barbed spindle to twist cotton fibers onto the spindle and then pull the cotton from the boll, but these early designs were impractical because the spindle became clogged with cotton.
Rust determined that a smooth, moist spindle could be used to strip the fibers from the boll without trapping them in the machinery. In 1933 John Rust received his first patent, and eventually, he and his brother owned forty-seven patents on cotton picking machinery.
However, during the Great Depression it was difficult to obtain financing to develop their inventions. Hand picking cotton Weighing raw cotton In 1935 the Rust brothers founded the Rust Cotton Picker Company in Memphis, Tennessee, and on 31 August 1936 demonstrated the Rust picker at the Delta Experiment Station in Stoneville, Mississippi. Although the first Rust picker was not without serious deficiencies, it did pick cotton and the demonstration attract
The machine is also referred to as a cotton harvester. In many societies, human labor was utilized to pick the cotton, increasing the plantation owner's profit margins.
The first practical cotton picker was invented over a period of years beginning in the late 1920s by John Daniel Rust with the later help of his brother Mack Rust. Other inventors had tried designs with a barbed spindle to twist cotton fibers onto the spindle and then pull the cotton from the boll, but these early designs were impractical because the spindle became clogged with cotton.
Rust determined that a smooth, moist spindle could be used to strip the fibers from the boll without trapping them in the machinery. In 1933 John Rust received his first patent, and eventually, he and his brother owned forty-seven patents on cotton picking machinery.
However, during the Great Depression it was difficult to obtain financing to develop their inventions. Hand picking cotton Weighing raw cotton In 1935 the Rust brothers founded the Rust Cotton Picker Company in Memphis, Tennessee, and on 31 August 1936 demonstrated the Rust picker at the Delta Experiment Station in Stoneville, Mississippi. Although the first Rust picker was not without serious deficiencies, it did pick cotton and the demonstration attract
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