cotton ginning
Seed-fiber mechanical separation
Cotton ginning is the process of separating cotton fibers from their seeds.
Before ginning, raw cotton is a tangled mass of fiber, seeds, and debris.
The cotton gin—a machine with rotating teeth or saws—pulls fibers through narrow openings too small for seeds to pass.
The invention of the cotton gin revolutionized Southern agriculture.
- bollPlant seed pod
- textile productionMaking cloth from fibers
- fiber separationIsolating individual strands from mass
- separationState of being apart
- cleaningRemoving dirt and mess
sorting · condenser · feeder · pressing · carding · combing · lint · baling · harvest · defoliation · Eli Whitney · upholstery · paper production · soil preparation · cottonseed oil · white gold · crop rotation · irrigation
- agroindustryfood processing, grain milling, meat packing, sugar refining, rice mills
- Indian farmingrice paddies, paddy, sugarcane, wheat, maize
- fiber processingcarding, combing, hackling, retting, fiber separation
- food processingcanning, freezing, drying, packaging, pasteurization
- rural industriesdairy, ranching, farming, forestry, livestock breeding
- spinningspin, rotate, revolve, whirl, twirl
cotton ginningweaving
Interlacing strands into fabric
spinning · cotton weaving · yarn spinning · cloth finishing · fabric dyeing
cotton ginningweaving
Interlacing strands into fabric
spinning · garment manufacturing · yarn spinning · knitting · fulling