Portable Gins: Lilliput Gin, CLOY Gin and HIPRO Gin

Description and Salient Features : 

The quality of cotton samples can only be assessed after ginning i.e. separation of fibres from cottonseed. Cotton is ginned in India on commercial size Double Roller (DR) and Saw Gins, which are not feasible for ginning of small cotton samples required for assessing fibre quality attributes. ICAR-CIRCOT Portable Ginning Machines provides the solution for quick ginning of small quantity of cotton samples to assess the fibre quality for the benefit of cotton traders, graders, ginners and researchers. It also helps farmers to obtain seed for sowing. 

Salient Features: 

• Comprises of leather roller, fixed knife, moving knife, seed grid and feeder
• Power: Electric motor of 0.75 kW (Single Phase) 
• Capacity
• Lilliput Gin: 4-5 kg seed cotton / h
• CLOY Gin:  7-8 kg seed cotton / h

HIPRO (High Production) gin: 19-21 kg seed cotton/ h

Stakeholders :

Cotton traders, breeders, graders, ginning industries, cotton testing laboratories, farmers, seed companies and researchers

Benefit to Stakeholders : 

Benefits: 

• Useful to gin small samples for assessing fibre quality and ginning percentage
• Objective assessment of cotton fibre quality leading to fair pricing to farmers. 
• Import substitute and saves foreign exchange
• Useful to farmers for preparing seed for sowing 

Impact: 

Technology is highly useful for determination of ginning percentage (GP) and quality of cotton which are important parameters in cotton trading. One percentage increase in GP over and above 34% will fetch minimum additional premium rate of Rs. 200/-per quintal to farmers. 

Cost : 

Lilliput  Gin  : Rs  37,000/-

CLOY Gin    : Rs 48,000/-

HIPRO– Gin : Rs  95,000/-

Status of commercialisation  : 

Technology is licensed to M/s. Precision Tooling Engineers, Nagpur for commercial scale production and marketing. More than 500 lab model gins of different variants are in use now. Few are exported to USA, Afghanistan and several African nations.

M/s Precision Tooling Engineers, Nagpur
C-69, MIDC, Hingna Road, Nagpur – 440028
E-mail : pte69-ngp@sancharnet.in
Tel : 07104 236787, 237507