{"id":25382,"date":"2019-06-19T12:27:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T10:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/uncategorized\/cotton-gin\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T18:06:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:06:18","slug":"cotton-gin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/cotton-gin\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton Gin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">&nbsp;The cotton gin is a machine that removes the seed from the fibre. \u201cGin\u201d originates from the word engine. Invented by Eli Whitney 225 years ago, it revolutionized the cotton industry. The gin was able to separate more fibre from the seed in a day than usually was separated by hand in several months. Today, the farmers bring their harvested cotton to the gin, where it is cleaned roughly. Then the fibre is separated and pressed into bales. Essentially, there are two kinds of gins: roller-gin (on the picture) and saw gins.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9547\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9547\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9547\" src=\"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1_DSC_0347-bearb-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"409\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cotton farmers take their harvested cotton to the gin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9548\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9548\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9548\" src=\"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2_DSC_0424B-WEB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"409\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The roller-gin seperates fibres from the seed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9549\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9549\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9549\" src=\"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3_DSC_0798-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"409\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cotton lint is pressed into bales and will be shipped to further processing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Pictures courtesy of Ernst Grimmelt, Velener Textil<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;The cotton gin is a machine that removes the seed from the fibre. \u201cGin\u201d originates from the word engine. Invented by Eli Whitney 225 years ago, it revolutionized the cotton industry. The gin was able to separate more fibre from the seed in a day than usually was separated by hand in several months. Today, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,92],"tags":[159,325,379,894,895,896,897],"class_list":["post-25382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","category-baumwolle","tag-cotton","tag-fibre","tag-gin","tag-ginnery","tag-proccessing","tag-roller-gin","tag-seed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25383,"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25382\/revisions\/25383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}