A New or Improved Apparatus for Removing Foil or Paper from Necks of Bottles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 21st Mar., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Apparatus for Removing Foil or Paper from
Necks of Bottles.
I, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert Haddan and Co., Patent
Agents, of 18 Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London, Civil Engineer do
hereby declare the nature of this invention a communication to me from abroad
by George Wiedeman, Jr., of Newport, State of Kentucky, United States of
America, Manufacturer, and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to a novel apparatus for removing tin or gold foil or
paper from the necks of bottles which have once been used, when it is desired
to cleanse them for further use, and it has for its object the production of simple
and efficient means for doing this work in the most expeditious manner.
The novelty of the invention will be hereinafter set forth and specifically
pointed out in the claims.
In the accompanying drawing:-
Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly broken, of an apparatus embodying the
invention.
Figure 2, is a transverse sectional view on the dotted line - of Fig. 1.
Figure 3, is a perspective view of the working end of one of the yielding
strippers.
Figure 4, is a partial perspective of one of these scraping bars under a modified
form of construction.
The same letters of reference are used to indicate identical parts in all the
figures.
In its preferred form, the apparatus consists of a spindle, A, suitably journaled
in a stationary head, B, and carrying a driving pulley, C, and loose pulley, D,
belted to the driving shaft.
Upon the projecting end of the spindle, which is threaded, is screwed, after the
manner of a lathe chuck, a circular disk, E, Fig. 2, having transverse gains or
mortises, a, on its periphery. In these mortises are laid the rear ends of flat
projecting scraping bars, F, G, of spring metal, and to lock their ends rigidly with
the disk, E, employ a divided ring, H, which surrounds the periphery of the
disk, E, and is provided with flanges, b, by which its two parts can be clamped
together by bolts or screws, c, to bind upon the ends of the bars, F, G, and
securely lock the latter to the disk, E. I have shown eight of these scraping bars,
of which the four F are the longest, and the four alternate bars, G, are about half
as long. The ends of these bars are bent first inward and then outward, as clearly
shown in Figs. 1 and 3, to form V-shaped scraping knuckles, d, whose inner sides
are grooved, as seen at, e, Fig. 3, to afford scraping edges. The outwardly flaring
ends of the scraping bars also afford throats for the ready guiding and introduction
of the necks of the bottles. In a bracket arm, I, secured to the head, B, is
vertically adjustable a guiding trough, J, carried on a post, K, passing through a
perforation in the arm, I, and held, when adjusted up or down, by set screw, f.
The spindle, A, carrying the scraping bars, F, G, is revolved at high speed, and
the attendant places a bottle with its neck toward the bars in the trough, J, and
pushes it forward until the neck is engaged by the scraping knuckles, first of the
bars, F, and then of the bars, G, the neck being advanced as far as is necessary to
remove, under the action of the rapidly revolving knuckles, whatever may be
adhering to it, whether tin-foil, gold-foil, or paper.

page_text: The action of cleansing the neck of the bottle is almost instantaneous, requiring
only the pushing in of the bottle and its instant withdrawal, the scraping knuckles
acting both on the advance and retraction of the neck, and owing to the yielding
character of the bars, the knuckles fit themselves to whatever swells or depressions
there may be in the neck of the bottle and effectually remove every particle of
adhering matter.
Any suitable hood, carried by the head, B, or arm, I, may be placed around the
revolving scraping bars to protect the eyes of the attendant from the flying
particles of the removed foil.
As an equivalent of the scraping bars, F, with their knuckles, d, I have shown in
Fig. 4, with all said bars, F, slotted at their end and having pivoted therein a steel
toothed wheel, h, free to revolve ou its axis, and which is rotated gradually by the
introduction and withdrawal of the neck of the bottle. The teeth on these
rollers, h, follow all of the irregularities in the neck and serve as scrapers to
effectually remove the foil, and when they become worn after long use, they can be
readily removed and new ones substituted in their place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a bottle-neck scraping apparatus, the combination of a revolving member,
and a series of metal scraping bars carried thereby and provided with scraping
knuckles, substantially as described.
2. In a bottle-neck scraping apparatus, the combination of the revolving
spindle, A, the disk, E, carried thereby, the clamping ring, H, and the spring
scraping bars held between said disk and ring, substantially as described.
3. In a bottle-neck scraping apparatus, the combination with a carrier, of a
series of yielding metal scraping bars of varying lengths carried thereby, sub-
stantially as described.
4. In a bottle-neck scraping apparatus, the combination of a supporting frame,
a revolving member therein, a series of revolving yielding scrapers carried
thereby, and a vertically adjustable bottle support and guide, substantially as
described.
5. In a bottle-neck scraping apparatus, the combination with a carrier, of a series
of yielding metal bars having toothed scraping wheels pivoted at their ends,
substantially as described.
Dated this 4th day of February 1906
H. J. HADDAN.