Improvements in Bottle-brushing Apparatus.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 31st Oct., 1890-Accepted, 6th Dec., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottle-brushing Apparatus.
I HENRY TRASK of No. 69 Middle Street, Yeovil in the County of Somerset,
Engineer and Aërated Water Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to apparatus for brushing bottles both internally and
externally at the same operation.
For this purpose I provide a spindle mounted in bearings upon standards between
which are fitted upon the spindle a fast and a loose pulley for conveying motion
thereto by means of a belt connected with a countershaft speeded to provide a
speed of about five hundred revolutions per minute for the spindle herein before
referred to.
This spindle has a screw thread formed at each extremity upon a tapered surface
which is divided by cross cuts and is drilled up at the centre to admit the stem of a
bottle brush at each end of the said spindle.
These bottle brushes are secured firmly by the closing of the divided ends of the
spindle caused by screwing thereon tapered cups sufficiently large to enclose therein
the bottles under operation and having fixed therein by means of screws put through
from the outside, longitudinal brushes which may readily be reversed as they wear
unevenly or be replaced by new ones when worn out. These longitudinal brushes act
upon the outside of the bottles while the central brush enters the bottle to operate
upon the inside.
From the standards which support the bearings for the rotating spindle extend on
each side a horizontal rod upon which is fixed a circular sheet metal guard to avoid
splashing of water at the mouths of the brush-containing-tapered-cups.
In order to avoid loss of water from the bottles under operation by way of the
split ends of the spindle I provide at the apex of each of the brush containing
tapered cups an india rubber disc fitted inside and having a small hole at the centre
through which the stem of the central brush may be passed without allowing any
leakage. By this means the whole contents of the bottle passes over the outer brushes
as it pours from the bottle during the internal brushing operation and bottles are by
that means rapidly cleaned both inside and outside.
Dated this 31st day of January 1890.
AYRTON & THOMAS,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottle-brushing Apparatus.
1 HENRY TRASK of No. 69 Middle Street, Yeovil in the County of Somerset,
Engineer and Aerated Water Manufacturer 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 relates to apparatus for brushing bottles both internally and
externally at the same operation.
For this purpose I provide the apparatus hereinafter described reference being had
to the accompanying drawings in both the figures of which the same part is indicated
by like reference letters.
Figure 1 is a plan of the apparatus having the brush and brush cone removed from
one end of the spindle.
Figure 2 is a plan of one of the brush cones.

page_text: The spindle is mounted in bearings erected upon a dished base G the raised
walls of which are intended to retain any oil which would otherwise find its way
into the water trough over which the bottles are brushed. Upon the spindle are
fitted a fast pulley "c and a loose pulley to provide for stopping and starting
the machine by means of a striking gear D employed for transferring the driving
belt from the fast to the loose pulley or rice versa in the usual way.
An inside bottle brush may be securely fastened to the spindle bone at each end
for which purpose the spindle is split by cross cuts at each end after being drilled
through so as to receive the stems of the bottle brushes. To provide for closing the
split ends of the spindle upon the stems of the brushes a tapering screw thread is
formed upon each extremity of the spindle so that a nut being screwed thereon
closes the divided parts of the spindle and thus firmly secures the brush F. These
nuts which close the divided ends of the spindle form part of the metal caps C to
which are attached the hollow wooden cones B sufficiently large to enclose therein.
the bottles under operation. Within the cones B are secured by means of screws
put through from the outside, longitudinal brushes E which may be readily reversed
as they wear unevenly or be replaced by new ones when worn out. The brushes E
operate upon the outside of the bottles while the central brush F enters the bottle to
operate upon the inside.
From the standards which form the bearings for the rotating spindle extend at
each side of the machine a pair of rods a upon which a circular sheet metal guard A
is fixed to avoid splashing of water at the mouths of the wooden cones B.
In order to avoid loss of water from the bottles under operation by way of the split
ends of the spindle 1 provide at the apex of each of the wooden cones B an
india rubber disc fitted inside and having a small hole at the centre through which
the stem of the brush F may be passed without allowing any leakage. By this means
the whole contents passes over the outer brushes as it pours from the bottle
during the internal brushing operation and the bottles are by that means ray
cleaned both inside and outside.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is ;-
I. In bottle brushing apparatus the device for securing the stems of the brushes by:
closing divided ends of the machine spindle upon the said stems by means of the
outside brush containers B substantially as described.
2. In a bottle brushing apparatus having outside brush containers, the guards. A
for arresting and delivering to the trough the water hurled from the outside brush
containers substantially as described.
b
3. In a bottle brushing apparatus the combination of a spindle spli
at each extremity, with outside brush containers B and guards A sub..
described.