IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WASHING AND CLEANSING BOTTLES." APPARATUS FOR WASHING AND CLEANSING BOTTLES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Gilbey, of Oxford Street, London, County
of Middlesex, Wine Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR WASHING AND CLEANSING BOTTLES."
APPARATUS FOR WASHING AND CLEANSING BOTTLES."
Sealed the 23rd December 1862, and dated the 9th July 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Gilbey at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th July
1862.
I, ALFRED GILBEY, of Oxford Street, London, in the County of Middlesex,
Wine Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WASHING AND CLEANSING BOTTLES," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in a, series of brushes fixed each upon a hollow
spindle which rotates in the inside of the bottle; through these spindles, by
means of a pipe that runs along and over the frame, I introduce a supply of
water for cleansing the inside of the bottles, the mouth of each fitting into a
hollow metal boss through which the spindle passes. The bottom end of each
bottle is laid on a slide seat so as to regulate its position. The slide is held
in its place by a spring so that the bottle is steadied during the operation.
These hollow spindles are made to revolve by means of rollers which are driven
by a strap..

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alfred Gilbey in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 9th
January 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J, ALFRED
GILBEY, of Oxford Street, London, County of Middlesex, Wine Merchant,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Alfred Gilbey, Her special licence, that I, the said Alfred Gilbey, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred
Gilbey, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR WASHING AND CLEANSING BOTTLES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Alfred Gilbey, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred Gilbey, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment, that is to say :-
My Invention consists of a series of brushes mounted upon a suitable
frame, each fixed upon a hollow spindle, which, with the brush, revolves in the
inside of a bottle to be cleansed. Through these hollow spindles and by
means of a general supply pipe with which each one communicates, I intro-
duce a supply of water which is carried into the inside of each bottle, and by
the action of the brushes revolving is used to cleanse the inside of it. The
bottle is placed slightly inclined from the horizontal plane, its mouth falling
into a hollow metal boss through and upon which the hollow spindle is
mounted, and, with the brush surrounding it is passed into the interior of the
bottle. The bottom end of the bottle is laid upon a sliding seat so as to

page_text: regulate its position. The slide is held to its place by means of a spring, so
that the bottle is steadied and held in its proper position during the operation.
The hollow spindles with the brushes are caused to revolve by means of rollers
or pullies and straps or by any other well-known motion. When complete
the frame upon which the whole is mounted is arranged so as to form a trough
to receive the dirty water as it comes from the bottles after and during the
operation.
In order to render more clear and intelligible the nature of my Invention
and the above description, I have to this Specification appended the accom-
panying Drawings, which are intended to illustrate generally the principles I
adopt in forming and carrying out my Invention, at the same time I wish it
understood that I do not confine myself to the exact details therein shown, as
these may be modified according to the situation in which the machine may
be placed or according to the extent and amount of work to be done, and
equivalents for certain portions may be introduced and other portions substi-
tuted for some of those shown.
Fig. 1. is a front elevation of a machine formed upon the principle of my
Invention; Fig. 2. is a plan of the same; and Fig. 3 is a sectional side view
of same.
In this machine arrangements are made to have always six bottles in
operation, but it will be easily seen that considerably more or fewer than that
number may be introduced by enlarging the machine.
A, A, is the frame of the machine, the table or top of which is formed in
the shape of a trough so as to receive the waste water or other liquor which is
used for cleaning. a, a, the bottles in position; b, b, the hollow spindles or
tubes, having the brushes c, c, attached to them; 6', is the boss at the ex-
tremity of the spindle when it is inserted within the seat and small bearing ¹,
and communicates with the injection pipes; all these injection pipes terminate
in one common supply pipe f, each one having, however, a cock or tap or
valve, by the action of which the flow of water or such other liquid as may be
used may be stopped to any particular bottle at pleasure; d is a small pulley
or roller into which the hollow spindles of the brush passes and turns with it.
It will be seen that the one end (the neck) of the bottle is supported by the
hollow axle of the brush, at the other end (the bottom) it rest upon the seat r,
a small slide m, moving on the pin and slot n, has a steadying cushion or
rest r, which forced against the bottom of the bottle and holds it in its place;
the elastic spring o holds the slide and rests against the bottle's bottom.

page_text: The operation is as follows:-Water on the liquid to be used for cleansing
is supplied by the pipe f, and the cocks or valves being opened, pass along the
pipes e, e, into the hollow spindle of the brush. The brush is then introduced
into the bottle at its mouth, the latter is laid on the rest, as seen Fig. 3, the
rest r is held against its bottom by the spring o, motion is then given to the
pulleys 9, by means of the strop h or by any other well-known arrangement,
the motion is then conveyed to the spindle of the brush which rotates within
the bottle brushing its inner surface, while a continual flow of clean liquid
runs in through the hollow spindle, the dirty liquid running off at the mouth
of the bottle into the trough.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and how the same is
formed and acts, I wish it understood that what I do not claim in particular
any of the parts of the machine individually or uncombined, but what I do
claim and wish secured by the before in part recited Letters Patent is,
the general combination of the whole so as to form a machine similar in its
general form and action substantially to that herewith described and more
generally illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Gilbay, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of December, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two.
ALFRED GILBEY.
(L.S.)