A Revolving Rinser and Drainer Combined for Bottle Washing.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Mar., 1892-Accepted, 7th May, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Revolving Rinser and Drainer Combined for Bottle Washing.
JOHN CLEGG 14 Elton Road Elton Bury Lancashire Engineer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The apparatus consists of a round oak tub, twenty four inches diameter by
seven inches deep, lead lined, and divided in the centre, to form two seperate
divisions, one for the liquor that drains from the bottles after the washing process,
and the other from the bottles after rinsing. There is an outlet in the bottom
of each division, to convey away the drainings. The tub being so divided
prevents the washing liquor mixing with the water, so enabling the liquor to be
used again, the outlets being prepared for coupling. In the centre of the tub
is fixed a hollow, taper, brass plug having an aperture in one side. The plug,
having a long neck which is cored to the inside of the plug, is secured to the
bottom of the tub by means of two flanges and lock-nuts. The taper plug is
fitted with a brass cone cover, ground to a water joint, adjusted by means of a
washer and lock-nuts, from the top of the plug.
The conc cover is drilled,
tapped and fitted with six copper tubes, eight inches long, fixed at right angles.
These form arms, which carry the bottles as they revolve level with the top edge
of the tub. Each tube arm is drilled and fitted with two upright tubes four inches
high for holding on the bottles, which are jetted on the ends, and made to spray
four ways.
On the arms, each side the upright tubes, is fixed a rubber ring to
prevent chipping of the bottle necks, as they are placed on the upright tubes. In
actuating the apparatus, the bottles are placed neck downwards, on the upright
tubes, over the first division, to drain the liquor from the bottles after the
washing.
The operator now commences to move the arms in position, which by means of a
check on the edge of the tub, the tube arms are brought opposite the aperture in
the plug, which immediately commences spraying by the water coupled to the neck
of the plug, from underneath the tub, thoroughly rinsing the bottles. At each
move the taper plug self-acts in stopping the water, until the next arm comes
opposite the aperture continuously in revolving, which as the bottles pass the
aperture, drain in the second division from the rinsing. Thus making it a
continuous process, and fully employs a boy taking off the bottles as the arms
revolve.
Dated this 16th day of December 1801
JOHN CLEGG.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Revolving Rinser and Drainer Combined for Bottle Washing.
JOHN CLEGG 14 Elton Road Elton Bury Lancashire Engineer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The apparatus consists of a round oak tub, twenty four inches diameter by seven
inches deep, lead lined, and divided in the centre to form two seperate divisions,
one for the liquor that drains from the bottles after the washing process and the
other from the bottles after rinsing. There is an outlet in the bottom of each
division to convey away the drainings. The tub being so divided, prevents the
washing liquor mixing with the water, so enabling the liquor to be used again, the
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page_text: outlets being prepared for coupling. In the centre of the tub is fixed a hollow,
taper brass plug having an aperture in one side. The plug having a long neck
which is cored to the inside of the plug, is prepared for coupling for the water
supply. The plug is secured to the bottom of the tub by means of two flanges and
locknuts. The taper plug is fitted with a brass cone cover, ground to a water joint,
adjusted by means of a washer and locknut on the top of the plug. The cone of
the plug is prevented from sticking or galling as it revolves, by a plate washer,
screwed and locked on the neck of the plug underneath the cone, which frictions on
three setscrew points fixed and locked in the washer at right angles. The cone
cover is drilled, tapped and fitted, with six copper tubes fixed at right angles, these
form arms, which carry the bottles as they revolve level with the top edge of the
tub. Each tube arm is drilled and fitted with two upright tubes for holding on the
bottles, which spray four ways. The upright tubes are fitted with a spindle,
valved at the bottom, the spindle having a spring at the top, which selfacts in
closing the valve at the bottom of the upright tube, in case there be no bottle
placed on the upright tube while passing the point of aperture; thus as each arm
with the two upright tubes revolve past the aperture, the tube with the bottle will
spray, while the tube without the bottle will not spray. On the arms, each side
the upright tube, is placed a rubber ring to prevent chipping of the bottle necks, as
they are placed on the upright tubes. In actuating the apparatus it is now set in
motion and commences to revolve, speed, one revolution per minute. The operator
now places the bottles neck downwards on the upright tubes over the first division
to drain the liquor from the bottles after washing.
Immediately each arm comes opposite the aperture in the plug, it commences
spraying for ten seconds as it passes the aperture in the plug, which then selfacts
in shutting off its water, leaving the bottles to drain in the second division from
the rinsing. From this point the bottles are taken off, leaving the tubes vacant for
replacing in the first division, at each revolution.
The motion is derived from a gearing which consists of a spur wheel fixed on the
cone underneath the arms, driven by a pinion and upright shaft carried in a
bracket bolted to one side of the division in the tub. This upright shaft works
through a flange boss bolted to the bottom of the tub, and is driven from a pair of
bevel wheels, from a counter shaft carried in a long boss bracket which is bolted
on the outside the bottom edge of the tub. On the end of the counter shaft is a
groved pulley and friction cone, for rope driving, which is put in and out of gear
by a lever handle attached to the same bracket as the counter shaft works in.
When the cone is out of gear the operator may so work the apparatus as well by
hand as by power, by moving the arms when placing on the bottles. Thus without
gearing attached, works equally as well by hand.

page_text: M. are the rubber rings each side the upright tubes L. to prevent chipping of
the bottle necks.
N. the spur wheel fixed on the cone underneath the arms.
O. the pinion and shaft carried in a bracket, which drive the spur wheel N. on
the cone.
P. is the bracket bolted to the division carrying the upright shaft and pinion.
Q. are the bevel wheels driving the upright shaft from the counter shaft.
R. is the counter shaft.
S. is the bracket which is bolted to the outside the bottom edge of the tub, to
carry counter shaft and lever handle.
T. is the grove pulley and friction cone.
U. is the lever handle for working in and out of gear the cone, which works in a
aw on the bracket S. carrying the counter shaft R.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
ion and in what manner the same is to be performed. I declare I do not limit
myself to the details, proportions and sizes or to the working by hand or by power,
as shown or described for the purpose of explanation, but claim as the novelty of
ny invention particularly and substantially ;
1st. In revolving.
2nd. In selfact spraying and shutting off its water.
3rd. The hollow. taper, apertured plug.