IMPROVE- TV ADDADA MITS DAD WASHING BOTTLES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Joseph Harvey, of Kidderminster, in the
County of Worcester, Wine Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
TV
ADDADA MITS DAD WASHING BOTTLES
"
Scaled the 2nd September 1873, and dated the 26th March 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Joseph
Harvey at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 26th March 1873.
I, JAMES JOSEPH HARVEY, of Kidderminster, in the County of
Worcester, Wine Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WASHING BOTTLES," to be as
follows:
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The object of my Invention is the effectual removal of wine crust or .
other adhering matter from the interior surface of bottles, and also the
scratching or roughening such interior surface to cause the crust or
sediment of wines or other liquids more firmly to adhere. The bottles
are for this purpose held in a frame in pairs, and connected together,

page_text: mouth to mouth, by a water-tight passage in the following manner :—
Two tubes, each carrying a cup (holding a washer) to fit over the mouth
of a bottle, work telescopically in opposite directions through an inter-
mediate piece fitted with a cock, and the cups are pressed outwards away
from one another and from the intermediate piece by coiled springs, and ||
thereby press the heels of the bottles against wooden blocks at the ends
of the frame; two straps or bands attached to each side of the frame,
support each bottle on one side, and the bottle is held up to and against
these bands by a third band on the opposite side of the frame, which
carries on its inner side a spring to press against the bottle; this third ]
band is attached at one end to the frame by a hinge joint, and at the
other is fastened by a spring catch. The frame thus fitted to carry a
pair of bottles or any number of pairs is mounted at its centre on axes
within an outer frame; this allows of the inner frame being turned end
for end within the outer frame, and a spring catch is employed to retain ]
it in either position. The outer frame is connected at one end to a crank,
and at its sides are pivots working in vertical slides, so that when the
crank is revolved the frame has an up-and-down as well as a side-way
motion imparted to it. Two or more such frames are connected to cranks
on the same shaft to counterbalance one another, and the cranks may be 2
placed either above or below the frames as desired.
The mode of operation is as follows:-Bottles containing a proper
quantity of spar or other suitable material mixed with water are placed
into the lower part of the inner frames and empty bottles in the upper
part, the machine is then set in motion, whereby the lower parts of the 2
bottles. containing spar and water will be quickly scoured; the inner
frame is then reversed and the machine again put in motion, and when
the bottles have been thus scoured the machine is brought to rest, and
by opening the taps before mentioned the spar and water is allowed to
pass from the bottles now cleaned into the empty bottles opposite to 3
them; the cleaned bottles are then removed and empty bottles substituted
for them, and the same operations are repeated.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Joseph Harvey in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 25th September 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES-
JOSEPH HARVEY, of Kidderminster, in the County of Worcester, Wine
Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-sixth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said James Joseph Harvey, Her special license that I,
the said James Joseph Harvey, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said James Joseph Harvey, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WASHING BOTTLES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said James Joseph Harvey, my executors or admini-
strators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Joseph Harvey, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:―
The object of my Invention is that a bottle containing a cleansing
agent may be so shaken as to be cleansed, and also that its interior surface
may be (if required) scratched or scarified, and that the cleansing agent
may be shaken out from one bottle into another.
I produce a shaking motion to a frame called in this Specification the
outer frame, connected at one end to a crank or eccentric (turned by

page_text: pulleys, cogged wheels, friction wheels, chained wheels, or other method)
the other end being held either by pivots working in slides or by a rod or
rods running through a suitable bearing or bearings. The outer frame
may work either vertically, horizontally, or otherwise; within it is a
reversible inner frame, which locks securely by either end to the outer
frame, or if required to an intermediate frame; I provide for bottles
being held securely in the inner frame, mouth to mouth, with a passage
between the mouths, which can be fitted with a tap if required.
I provide for the variation in the length of bottles by springs either at
the heels or between the mouths, or by screws, wedges, levers, or other- 1
wise. I support bottles in the inner frame (in addition to such pressure
at the mouth and heel) when required by bands or rings to grip the body
of the bottle.
In order that my Invention may be fully understood I will proceed to
describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.
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Figure 1 is a front elevation, and Figure 2 an end elevation of a
machine constructed as above described; A, is the framing of the
machine; B, a driving shaft mounted in bearings at the top of the
frame and giving motion by driving belts to crank shafts C. On each
shaft are two cranks as shewn, and a connecting rod from cach is fixed
to the end of a frame D, from each side of which projects a pivot, and
these pivots are received in slides E on the fixed framing of the machine.
Within each of the outer frames D is an inner frame F, carried at its
centre by the pivots G, so that it can be turned end for end within the
outer frame, and can be retained in either position by the spring catch
H; I, I, are bottles held in the inner frame; K, K, are bands fixed on
one side of the frames for one side of the bottles to rest against, and L is
a third band on the opposite side of each bottle carrying a spring to press
the bottle up to the bands K, the band L is hinged at one end to the
frame, and at the opposite end is secured by a spring catch, this allows
of the bottles being readily placed into and taken out of the frame F;
or in place of retaining the bottles in the inner frame in the manner
above described they may be held therein, as shewn at Figures 3; in
these Figures K, L, is a band to grip the body of the bottle, the one half
K on the one side being fixed, and the other half L on the other side being
hinged at one end to the frame and secured at the opposite end by a
spring catch, each of the half bands having a spring on the insido that

page_text: they may grip the bottle closely. In Figures 1 and 2, M is a tube
carried at the centre of each frame F, and fitted with a tap as shewn;
N, N, are other tubes working telescopically in or upon the opposite ends
of the tube M, or if the tap piece M is dispensed with they may work in
cach other and be carried at the centre of the inner frame, as shewn at
Figures 3. The outer ends of each tube N are formed with a cup to fit
over the mouth of a bottle; each cup contains a washer, so that when
it is pressed over the mouth of a bottle a water-tight joint is formed.
Around the tubes N is a spiral spring by which they are pressed away
from one another, and the cups at their ends thereby pressed against the
heads of the bottles I, whilst the heels of the bottles rest upon wooden
blocks at the end of the frame F.
The mode of operation is as follows:-Bottles containing a proper
quantity of suitable cleansing liquid, say of spar or other like material
mixed with water, are placed into the lower part of the inner frames F,
and empty bottles in the upper part, the machine is then set in motion,
whereby the bottles containing the cleansing agent will be quickly
scoured. The inner frame is then reversed and the machine again put
in motion, and when the bottles have been thus scoured the machine is
brought to rest, and by opening the taps before mentioned the cleansing
material is allowed to pass from the bottles now cleaned into the empty
bottles opposite to them; the cleaned bottles are then removed and empty
bottles substituted for them; and the same operations are repeated.
As already stated the tap M may be dispensed with, in which case_the
cleansing material would be discharged into the empty bottle immediately
on reversing the inner frame.
At Figures 4 and 5 is shewn a modification of the machine, the upper
part of the outer frame D being supported by a rod capable of sliding
to and fro through a bearing E, which can rock upon pivots, as shewn at
Figuro 5; in other respects the machine is similar to that before described,
and the several parts are marked with the same letters, so that it is
unnecessary to give any further description of it.
If desired, provision may be made for causing the bottles to revolve
either by making the outer frame to revolve by a swivel joint on the
rod attaching it to the crank or eccentric, the other end in such a case
being supported by a guide rod, as in Figures 4 and 5, or by employing
an intermediate frame between the outer frame and the inner frame,

page_text: either the inner or the intermediate frame revolving on its axes, and, as
the case may require, either the intermediate frame reversing and locking
in the outer frame, or the inner frame reversing and locking in the
intermediate frame; the revolving motion I control by a ratchet or
toothed or notched wheel with a catch at either axis, or it may be. 5
arranged to revolve with the motion of the frame.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
(of performing the same, I would have it understood that I claim as my
improvements in machinery for washing bottles,-
1. The combination of a reversible inner frame with an outer frame 1
to which a shaking motion is communicated by a crank or eccentric, the
inner frame being adapted for bottles to be held therein, mouth to mouth,
with a passage between the mouths, which passage may or may not be
fitted with a tap.
2. The combined arrangement of machinery substantially as herein 1
described and illustrated in the Drawings annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Joseph Harvey, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
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