Improvements in Apparatus for Rinsing Bottles and similar Objects.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 7th Apr., 1894
* Improvements in Apparatus for Rinsing Bottles and similar
Objects.
I, WILHELM VON DER BEEK, Manufacturer, of 12, Citadelstrasse, Düsseldorf
in the German Empire, 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 :-
This invention has for its object, to provide a simple rinsing machine with which
bottles and similar objects may be rinsed quickly and thoroughly.
In the following description reference will be made to the accompanying drawings,
of which
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of a rinsing apparatus embodying my invention,
Fig. 2 is a section along line c-d of Fig. 1,
Fig. 3 is the same in a different position of the apparatus,
Fig. 4 is a section along line a-b of Fig. 1,
Figs. 5 and 6. are sections along line e-f in two different positions of the
apparatus.
According to my invention the bottle is first mounted on a tube and subjected to
a preliminary rinsing process by means of fine shot or similar granular material,
after which it is rinsed with water by means of a second tube, and in order to open
and close the said tubes when required, it is only necessary to turn the same by
means of the bottle, when mounted on the respective tube.
The apparatus comprises a stop cock or valve casing y which is screwed on to
the water supply pipe and carries the two conical plugs or valves adapted to turn
independently of each other, and to be secured in the desired position by means of
set-screws or pins s.
The head of the plug or cone c carries a discharge nozzle d supporting a brass
funnel t. On the latter is screwed a holder / carrying a funnel t¹, steel nozzle d¹
and discharge tube e. On the holder is secured a sieve or strainer k.
The head of the cone or plug c¹ carries a discharge nozzle e'.
The flanges or wings of the discharge tubes e, carry indiarubber buffers p, p¹.
The apparatus operates as follows:
After the apparatus has been screwed on to a rinsing box and connected with
the water supply pipe, the funnel t is filled through the sieve k, with suitable
granular material, such as fine shot; subsequently the bottle is placed upside down
over the tube e (as illustrated in Fig. 1) and on the rubber ring p, which has a
peculiar shape so as to avoid injury to the bottle neck. Afterwards the attendant
draws the bottle towards him (or away from him), thereby causing the entire
funnel, and the plug c to turn on the axis of the latter, until the lateral orifice
of the plug c communicates with the water passage in the casing g.
The pressure
water now flows through the passage i and the nozzle & into the funnel t and,
carrying with it some of the granular material contained in the funnel, enters the
nozzled, the discharge tube e and impinges against the inside of the bottles,
subsequently falling through the strainer back into the funnel t. After this
preliminary cleansing of the bottle, the plug c is again turned back, the bottle
taken off and placed over the tube e', on which it is turned in a similar manner,
and rinsed with pure water.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;-
Apparatus for rinsing bottles and similar objects by means of granular
material and water, comprising in its construction a transversely arranged valve
casing provided with hollow plugs or cones, a pair of discharge nozzles or tubes
adapted to carry the bottles and to introduce pressure water into the same, and
a funnel for granular material, provided with a strainer, the different parts being
so arranged and connected with one another, that the valve port may be opened
and the pressure water caused to enter the bottle by turning the bottle together
with the corresponding discharge tube, substantially as described.
Dated this 17th day of February 1894.
FAIRFAX & WETTER,
433, Strand, London, Agents.