What is the machine called that is used to pick cotton ?

Question

besides a cotton picker ... ?

Answer 1

Most U.S. cotton is planted and harvested by machine. Spindle-type pickers or strippers are used to yank out the cotton from the seed pods...

Spindle picker: has barbed spindles that turn as it moves along the rows. The cotton gets caught in the spindles and is pulled off the plant. It is then blown into the picker.
Stripper machines: pick seed cotton. The machine pulls off the burs, the leaves and sometimes the stems. This means more extra trash comes with it than if a spindle picker was used.

Answer 2

The "modern" day cotton gin was invented by ELI WHITLEY....