By using numerous blades which look like thin circular saw blades. The blades grab some cotton fibers and pull them through thin slots which are too thin to allow the seeds to pass through. The cleaned cotton is then rubbed off the blades on the other side of the slots.
In a cotton gin revolving teeth pull the seeds out of the cotton fibers.
After the cotton is picked it is sent to a gin. The gin removes the seeds and the cotton is cleaned and bailed for shipment.
It was called the cotton gin because it separated seeds from the cotton, so that is how the invention got is name.
The cotton gin does not pick the cotton. It separates the cotton fiber from the seeds and other debris
I hung my cotton shirt up in the wardrobe.
cotton gin
cotton gin
With a cotton gin, you remove the cotton seeds and it is easier to make it into cotton fabric.
The cotton gin picked out seeds by combing through the cotton and leaving the seeds in one pile at the end, and having a pile of unseeded cotton in a compartment above.
The cotton gin removes the seeds from the cotton. This is a more difficult and slower process when done by hand, without the use of a cotton gin.
To separate seeds from cotton :)
It takes out the seeds from the cotton faster.
It efficiently extracted seeds from strands of cotton.