Patent GB-190322100-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bottle Washing Machines.
Inventor: GLAB NICHOLAS
Filed: 1903-10-13
Granted: 1903-12-17
Abstract: 22,100. Glab, N. Dec. 11, A.D. 1902, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Bottles, washing and otherwise cleaning.-Fig. 1 shows a longitudinal section on the line, Fig. 2, and Fig. 2 shows a horizontal section on the line 2-2, Fig. 1. The bottles 90, in an inverted position, are placed in a crate which is mounted o n a n endless travelling carrier and are first brushed and washed in the inside by revolving reciprocating brushes 55, which are introduced into the bottles simultaneously with a jet of water, and are subsequently rinsed by jets of water issuing from a chest 71. One crate full of bottles i s brushed and washed at the same time that another i s being rinsed. Crates are put on to the carrier at one end of the machine and r e - moved at the other. The crate consists of two plates 21, 22 spaced apart and having suitable sockets and apertures for the reception of the bottles. A sliding plate 29, shown separately in plan in Fig. 4, is provided with projection 30 which fit into the bottoms of the bottles and lock them in the crate when the plate 29 is moved by the handle 31 to the position shown in full lines in Fig. 4. The endless carrier consists of a number of links 16 pivoted together by cross rods 17 which also join together links on opposite sides of the machine and these rods are provided at their ends with rollers 18 which run in guide ways formed in the side plates of the machine. The links have hollow projecting sockets 19 with which corresponding sockets 32, Fig. 4, on the bottom plates 21 of the crates are engaged. The carrier is moved forward intermittently by reciprocating arms 33 operated from a rocking shaft 34 on which is an arm engaging with a groove in a cam 36. The cam shaft is driven from the main shaft through a vertical shaft and bevel and worm gearing &c. The arms 33 have each at their upper ends a spring pivoted finger 44 in which is a socket 45 ; these sockets are adapted to engage in turn with the cross rods 17 and move them forward. The brushes 55 work in and through guide tubes 56 and are mounted at the upper ends of tubes 54 secured at their lower ends to hollow shafts 51 which open at their lower ends into a water chest 50. The brushes are revolved by a wheel 62 which engages with a wheel 61 which drives a shaft 59 on which is splined a wheel 63 in gear with intermeshing wheels 52 on the shafts 51, the wheels 52 being rigidly connected to wheels 53 by which the said shafts are revolved. The water chest 50 and the brushes and their appurtenances are mounted in a framework which is vertically reciprocated along a shaft 59 and a fixed rod 58, the reciprocation being effected by levers 64, 67 operated by a cam 68 of the shape shown, so that the brushes rise and fall several times in the bottles during one revolution of the cam. The framework of the water chest is provided with guide rods 69 which enter the sockets 19 during the rise of the chest &c. and keep the parts both rigid and in alignment during the operation. The water chest 50 is supplied with water through a flexible pipe 75, and is provided with a rod 77 which operates upon the stem of a threeway cock 76, so that water is admitted to the cock and passes to the water chests 50, 71 only during the rise of the chest 50.