Patent GB-190510389-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Soaking and Washing Bottles and the like.
Inventor: GOLDMAN SIGMUND LUDWIG
Filed: 1905-05-17
Granted: 1906-06-16
Abstract: 10,389. Golman, S. L. May 17. Cleaning bottles &c.-A wheel B, consisting of a pair of side plates connected by angle-irons and tie-rods, rotates in a tank A, and is provided with a number of carriers D, which may be of the type described in Specification No. 9014, A.D. 1904, and which receive and disc h a r g e crates or other supports filled with bottles, cans, plates, &c. Means are provided by which the bottles of each crate are immersed any desired number of times in the tank before discharge, and these means may be applied to machines using chain conveyers. Two machines may be used in combination, the discharge from the washing-machine being led directly into a similar soaking-machine. Fig. 2 shows one of the carriers, consisting of a pair of side frames D' and a central frame D' connected by a T-iron at the top and a rod at the bottom ; a perforated plate D' receives the bottle necks, and prevents the falling of the bottles when carried mouth downwards. Spindles having arms provided with rollers H<1> are provided on the side frames, and pass through bearings in the plates of the wheel B. Spiral springs G connect these bearings and the side frames. Both side and central frames have guides so that crates can be slid into the carrier on each side of the central frame. A bell-crank lever J, Fig. 4, is pivoted on this frame, and a tapered projection J' on one arm is held so as to close the guide-mouth by means of a spring J' attached to the other arm. The discharge side of the guide is similarly closed by an arm of a lever similarly controlled. This arm carries stops K<1> and a projection K<3>, which, when depressed, operates a rocker L so as to withdraw a bolt M against the action of a spring. After a carrier has been emptied and while it is approaching the loading-platform Q, its bolt M is engaged by a pin or boss on one of the projecting plates N on the wheel, the carrier being thus held in position for loading. When this is effected, the rollers H<1> on the carriers come into engagement with hooks P<1> on spring- or weight-controlled levers P supported on the tank, and the roller arms are held thus until the bolt M is engaged by one of a second series of catches 0 on the wheel, in which position the springs G hold the carrier firmly so that the bottles enter the tank mouth upwards and leave it mouth downwards. When, after the desired number of immersions, the carrier comes opposite to the discharge guides R, a stop S is arranged to remove the stops K<1> closing the carrier guides, and the crate falls out on the discharge guides. The stop S is normally held out of the way by gravity or spring tension, but it is brought into operation at the desired intervals through a lever attached to a rod, at the other end of which is a roller, tappet, or the like, operated by a cam S<5> rotated from a chainwheel on the soaking-wheel shaft; or the stop S may be operated from the soaking-wheel by a worm-wheel and shaft. The soaking-wheel is driven by a worm shaft and a wheel C', and the main shaft T drives both the soaking-wheel and an agitator A<3> in the tank. Pipes A<1> leading from the bottom of the tank to the top and provided with an injector A<2> or pumps also circulate and heat the liquid. If every n<th> carrier is released, then, provided the number n is prime to the number of carriers, each will be immersed n times. The number of immersions may thus be alterad by changing the chain-wheel and the cam S<5>. Speed changing-gear may be provided on the soaking-wheel. Means other than catches may be used for holding the carriers in proper position.