Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Aug., 1886.
Complete Left, 3rd May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 15th July, 1887.
We, GEORGE BURGES, Senior, of Gorefield, near Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, Farmer,
and GEORGE BURGES, Junior, of Effingham Works, Grange Lane, near Sheffield, York-
shire, Engineer and Brass Founder, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention
to be as follows:-
:-
This Invention relates to bottle cleansing machines, its special object being to
simplify the construction thereof and to render such apparatus capable of thoroughly
cleansing both the outer and inner sides of bottles and of effectually treating bottles
of different sizes and shapes.
In carrying the Invention into effect I adapt the parts for brushing and rinsing the
bottles at the side of the bottle carrier so as to effectually prevent oil or grease from
getting into the water in which the bottle carrier revolves.
The bottle carrier is made of a drum like formation with rows of recesses for bottles
radiating from the centre thereof, and the carrier is so adapted in relation to the
brushing and rinsing mechanism as to permit of such rows of bottles being
intermittently brought opposite thereto and acted on as desired.
The brushing mechanism consists of series of brushes which are suitably revolved
and are respectively adapted to cleanse the insides and outsides of the bottles, and
opposite such series of brushes there is adapted a series of pushers or sliding pieces
actuated by levers and which when a row of bottles comes in line with the series of
brushes automatically push the bottles of such row on to and between the said series
of revolving brushes which effects their cleansing, after which they are returned to the
carrier.
At the side of and at right angles to the said bottle carrier there is adapted a
smaller rotary bottle carrier into which the brushed bottles are automatically placed

page_text: by a similar series of pushers or sliding pieces actuated by levers, and in which sup-
plementary carrier the bottles are rinsed and finished in the tank in which such carrier
revolves.
The whole apparatus is mounted in a suitable frame, and the actions of all its parts
are rendered automatic by suitable connections, the attendant having only to place the
dirty bottles into the main carrier, and when brushed rinsed and finished they are
automatically removed by the action of the machine onto a table placed in a suitable
position under the small bottle carrier.
The present improvements can also be applied to other bottle washing machines.
Dated this 26th day of July 1886.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: We, GEORGE BURGES, Senior, of Gorefield, near Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire,
Farmer, and GEORGE BURGES, Junior, of Effingham Works, Grange Lane, Near
Sheffield, Yorkshire, Engineer and Brass-founder, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The objects of this Invention, which relates to improved machinery for washing and
cleansing bottles, are to simplify the construction thereof, to adapt the parts for
brushing and rinsing the bottles at the side of the bottle carrier in such a manner as
to effectually prevent oil or grease from getting into the water in which the bottle
carrier revolves, and to render such apparatus capable of cleansing both the outer and
inner sides of bottles of different sizes and shapes in an improved and more efficient
manner than hitherto.
The improved apparatus is illustrated on the accompanying drawings in Figs. 1,
and, 2, which represent elevations thereof, and in Fig. 3, which separately represents
a view of the apparatus for cleansing the outer sides of the bottles.
On the accompanying drawings, 4, represents a tank for containing the water in
which the bottles are soaked before being brushed and cleaned, and to and from which
the water may be led in any suitable manner; and, 5, represents a bottle carrier which
is mounted on the sides thereof as at, 6, in such a manner as that its lower half
rotates within the tank. The carrier, 5, is made of a drum-like formation of any
suitable diameter, and of a sufficient depth to properly support the bodies of the longest
bottles intended to be placed therein, and is formed or provided with rows of bottle
holding or containing recesses, 7, arranged in such a manner (vide Fig. 1,), in
relation to the brushing mechanism situated at, 8, and to the rinsing mechanism
situated at, 9, as to give the longest time for soaking purposes, and the rows of the
contained bottles, 10, may be intermittently and successively brought opposite to such
mechanisms and acted on a's hereinafter described.
In the operation of the machine, the bottles requiring to be cleansed are placed in
the carrier, 5, in the recesses, 7, thereof which have passed the rinsing apparatus, 9,
and as the carrier is intermittently rotated as hereinafter described in the direction
of the arrow, 52, the bottles are carried down into and through the water in the
tank, 4, and receive a prolonged soaking therein, and the rows thereof are successively
brought into a horizontal position in line with the brushing apparatus at, 8.

page_text: While each row of bottles is being operated on in this position, the carrier remains
stationary, and the brushing and cleansing of the bottles is automatically effected by
the following means, whereby the bottles are firstly removed from out of the carrier to
beyond the side edge of the tank, and are well brushed on their outer and inner sides,
and are returned to the carrier. The removal of the bottles from the carrier is effected
by plunger rods, 11, arranged at one side of the carrier, pressing against their punts,
and which are actuated by connected weighted levers, 12, centred to the framing 13,
at, 14, and which levers in such movement move from the position indicated in dotted
lines to the position indicated in full lines in Fig. 2, and by which means the necks of
the bottles are forced forward into the necks of opposite hollow cones, 15, on the
other side of the carrier, and which are guided by suitably supported bars or rods, 16,
the necks of the bottles entering into such cones when the latter are in the forward
position indicated by the dotted position of the levers, 17, which are centred to the
framing at, 18, and are adapted with weights, 19, not so heavy as those, 53, of the
levers, 12, and which are provided for the purpose of keeping the cones pressed firmly
against the bottle necks when the bottles are being removed from and to the carrier
and are being brushed. The bottles are thus removed by the levers, 12, to the position
indicated in Fig. 2, the parts, 11, 15, supporting them being guided as aforesaid, and
are thus carried between revolving brushes, 20, which cleanse their outer sides and
onto the revolving brushes, 21, which clean their inner sides, the spindles, 54, of such
brushes passing through the hollow cones, 15, working in bearings, 56, and being
mounted excentrically in bearings, 55, so as to cause an excentric rotary or sweeping
movement of the brushes when within the bottles.
The actuation of the plungers, 11, for the removal of the bottles from the carrier
may also be effected by means of cords chains or like means connected to the plungers,
passing over pulleys, and connected to and operated by attached weights, in an
equivalent manner to the operation of the levers 12. The removal of the bottles
from the carrier by such means operated by weight constitutes an important feature of
the present improvements, as should any bottle be inserted in the carrier in which any
cork, stopper, or other obstruction should be left, so as to prevent the brush, 21, from
entering the bottle the latter will not be pushed onto the brush and the brush will
remain uninjured. The brushes, 21, are revolved from the driving shaft, 22, by
means of a pulley, 23, and band, 24, passing round pulleys, 25, on the spindles of the
brushes. The brushes, 20, are carried by lever arms, 26, centred at, 27, and united at
their opposite ends by a spring or equivalent attachment, 28, and their spindles are
adapted with pinions, 29, which are revolved by a wheel, 30, which also is or may be
driven from the main spindle by connecting spur, bevil or other gearing, 57, the con-
nection of the levers, 26, causing the brushes, 20, to open apart or close together and
accommodate themselves to the size of bottles passing between them.
When the bottles have been thus cleansed they are returned to their original position
in the carrier, 5, by means of a cross bar, 31, which is connected to one end of a
lever, 32, centred at, 33, by a guided rod, 34, and connecting rod, 35, the other end
of the lever, 32, being connected by a rod, 36, to an operating crank, 37, on a
shaft, 38, which is driven from the shaft, 22, by a worm, 39, and worm wheel, 40.
The crank, 37, is slotted at, 41, and so permits of the bottles remaining at rest during
a portion of the travel of the crank, that is, while the bottles are being brushed and
cleansed.
When the carrier, 5, has been so far rotated as that a row of cleansed bottles comes
opposite the rinsing apparatus, 9, which is also arranged beyond the edge of the tank
and preferably above an independent tank or water container, the bottles are again
ejected from the carrier, 5, by means of other guided plunger rods, 42, which are
connected to and actuated by a cross rod, 43, also operated by the lever, 32, the bottles
being ejected in a horizontal position into recesses, 44, in a rinsing disc, 45,
which is also automatically revolved as hereinafter described in the direction
indicated by the arrow, 46, and which by successive movements carries the
bottles it receives firstly into the vertical position, 47, in which a guided series of

page_text: jets, 48, are forced as hereinafter described into their necks, the jets being arranged
to slide automatically up and down in a frame, 49, placed centrally within the
disc, 45, and connected with water pressure by means of a suitable flexible tube or
connection, 50, the water being intermittently supplied as the bottles assume the
vertical position, 47, so that jets of water are then forced into their insides thus
ensuring perfect cleansing thereof, the bottles being then carried by the disc, 45, into
the horizontal position, 51, from which they can be removed by hand or automatically
by any suitable means.
The successive apertures, 7, in the carrier, 5, revolving in the direction of the
arrow, 52, as they present themselves are filled with the bottles to be cleansed, and
enter the tank wherein they are carried round and subsequently delivered as herein-
before described. The carrier, 5, the plungers, 11, 42, and rinsing disc, 45, are
worked intermittently so that during the time the bottles are being brushed and
cleansed, such parts remain at rest.
The whole apparatus is mounted in a suitable frame, 13, preferably constructed of
angle iron, and the actions of all its parts are rendered automatic by suitable connec-
tions, as hereinafter described the attendant having only to place the dirty bottles into
the carrier, 5, and when brushed, rinsed and finished they are removed by hand or
may be automatically removed by the action of the machine onto a table placed in a
suitable position under the small bottle carrier.
The bottle carrier, 5, is intermittently revolved by means of a ratchet wheel, 58, the
number of teeth in which equals the number of rows of bottles in the carrier, and
which is secured on its shaft and is actuated by a catch, 59, connected by a rod, 60,
to a lever, 61, centred to the frame, 62, and a pin, 63, on the other end of which
lever is actuated by being depressed by the crank, 37, at each revolution.
The rinsing carrier, 45, is intermittently revolved from and simultaneously with
the bottle carrier, 5, by means of a bevel wheel, 64, on the shaft of the latter, and
which gears with and actuates a bevel pinion, 65, on a shaft, 66, supported by suitable
bearings and on which is a bevel pinion, 67, which gears with and actuates a bevel
wheel, 68, on the shaft of the carrier, 45, the wheels, 64, &, 65, being made of such
relative proportions as that the carrier, 45, is revolved one quarter of a revolution for
each movement of the carrier, 5, to the extent of one tooth of the ratchet wheel, 58,
thereof.
The intermittent rising and falling movements of the rinsing jets, 48, are caused
by means of a forked rod, 69, connected to a lever, 70, on a shaft, 71, supported in
bearings, 72, and on which shaft is another lever, 73, slotted at its free end, 74, and
operated by a small crank, 75, on the shaft, 38.
The present improvements can also be applied to other bottle washing machines.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :-
:-
1. The herein before described improved construction of machinery for washing and
cleansing the inner and outer sides of bottles of different sizes, in which the brushing
and rinsing apparatus is placed at the side and beyond the edge of the tank containing
the soaking water in which the bottle carrier revolves.
2. The herein before described improved formation of the bottle carrier, and its
arrangement in combination with and relatively to the brushing and rinsing apparatus
substantially as described.
3. The hereinbefore described improved method of automatically removing the
bottles from the soaking carrier, to beyond the side edge of its tank, and of then
brushing their inner and outer sides, and subsequently returning them to the
carrier.
4. The herein before described improved means of effecting such purposes of
removal of the bottles to and from the soaking carrier, the same consisting in the use
in combination of plungers arranged at and operated from one side of the soaking
carrier, with opposite hollow cones arranged on and operated from the opposite side of

page_text: the carrier, and with the means described of operating such parts substantially as
described.
5. The application and use for the purpose of removing the bottles from the carrier
of plungers actuated by weighted levers or connected weights substantially in the
manner hereinbefore described.
6. The hereinbefore described improved adjustable arrangement of the brushes for
cleaning the outsides of the bottles, substantially as described.
7. The herein before described improved arrangement of the brushes for cleaning
the insides of the bottles substantially as described.
8. The hereinbefore described improved method and means of removing the brushed
bottles from the soaking carrier to the rinsing carrier.
9. The hereinbefore described improved construction of rinsing carrier in
combination with the rinsing jets, arranged and operating substantially as described.
Dated this 3rd day of May 1887
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.