An Improved Bottle Rinsing Machine.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1897*
Complete Specification Left, 5th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 30th Apr.,
1898
An Improved Bottle Rinsing Machine.
We, JOHN MCINTYRE, Grocer, Atholl Street, Dunkeld, and THOMAS BUCHANAN,
Plumber, Cathedral Street, Dunkeld, in the County of Perth, N.B., do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to an improved bottle rinsing machine. It consists of.
a stand having one, two, three, four or other number of upright water spraying
pipes fixed to it. The arrangement is such that when passing a bottle on to the
spindle, its weight automatically opens a valve which allows the water to spray
into the bottle. On withdrawing the bottle from off the spindle the valve is auto-
matically closed. This is effected by providing a cock with a lever having a weight
at the end and providing the cock with an opposite or shorter lever having
metal piece which is so shaped that when the bottle is put on to the tube the weight
of the bottle causes the neck of the bottle to press upon an inclined surface of the
metal bent piece, the inclined metal piece being that of an inclined plane. The
weight on the inclined plane causes the one lever of the cock to be depressed and
the other lever (the weighted lever) to be elevated and the water supply turned
on. Upon taking the bottle off the tube the weighted lever descends again and
closes the valve. Underneath the rinsing table is any suitable water supply pipe.
Dated this 14th day of July 1897.
An Improved Bottle Rinsing Machine.
We, JOHN MCINTYRE, Grocer, Atholl Street, Dunkeld, and THOMAS BUCHANAN,
Plumber, Cathedral Street, Dunkeld, in the County of Perth, N.B., 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 an improved bottle rinsing machine. It consists of
a stand having one, two, three, four or other number of upright water spraying
pipes fixed to it. The arrangement is such that when passing a bottle on to the
spindle its weight automatically opens a valve which allows the water to spray,
into the bottle. On withdrawing the bottle from off the spindle the valve is auto-
matically closed. This is effected by providing a cock with a lever having a weight
at the end and providing the cock with an opposite or shorter lever having a bent
metal piece which is so shaped that when the bottle is put on to the tube the weight
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page_text: of the bottle causes the neck of the bottle to press upon an inclined surface of the
metal bent piece. The weight of the inclined plane causes the one level of the
cock to be depressed and the other level (the weighted lever) to be elevated and
the water supply turned on. Upon taking the bottle off the tube the weighted
lever descends again and closes the valve. Underneath the rinsing table is any
suitable water supply pipe.
The accompanying drawing clearly illustrates such a bottle rinsing machine,
the tubes A & A¹ being shewn with the bottles in position and the water cocks
opened thereby. The tubes B B₁ are shewn with the cocks closed by the weighted
arm b when the bottles are removed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:-
1. The improved bottle rinsing machine constructed and operating in the manner
as herein before described and shewn in the accompanying drawings.
2. Providing the cocks of bottle rinsing machines with a lever having an
inclined portion at one end and a weight at the other, or the mechanical equivalent
of the same, arranged in such a manner that the water is turned on when the bottle
is placed upon the rinsing tube and cut off when the bottle is removed, substantially
as hereinbefore described and shewn in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 3rd day of March 1898.
JOHNSONS,
Applicants Agents, 115, St. Vincent. Street,¨