Improvements in and Connected with Bottle Cleansing Apparatus.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd May, 1889-Accepted, 6th July, 1889
COMPLETE DIECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Connected with Bottle Cleansing Apparatus.
I CHARLES EDWARD BEAVIS, of Jacob Street, St. Philip's, Bristol in the county of
Gloucester, Mineral 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 certain improvements in and connected with apparatus for
washing and cleansing bottles and has for its object to attain greater efficiency than
heretofore.
I will describe my invention in reference to the accompanying drawings in which
figure 1 is a plan and figure 2 a section on line A-B thereof. Figure 3 is a cross
section on line C-D figure 2. The other figures are hereinafter described and similar
letters refer to similar parts in all of the figures.
In apparatus of this kind as usually constructed hitherto a great disadvantage has
been that the agitation of the water necessarily caused by the delivery and motion of
the bottles in the soaking tank has always kept the sediment and dirt from bottles
previously washed in suspension and motion so that it entered the bottles next intro-
duced.
In my apparatus the water tank A is mounted upon a suitable framing as usual and
according to my invention by a perforated strainer or screen B placed across the tank
in suitable position I divide it into two compartments the one A¹ for soaking, the
other C for rinsing. Within the soaking compartment A' is placed an open inclined
plane or series of inclined planes a a supported on suitable cross pieces a' a' so as to
be easily removable for cleaning and repairs. The planes are spaced apart according
to the size of bottles to be cleansed, and partitions a may be introduced as guides or
not as desired. Bottles may be placed upon the planes a a either sideways as illustrated
in figure 2, or endways as in figures and 3: In the first case the tops of the planes
are made flat to enable them to roll down, and in the second they are or may be
bevelled off in pairs on adjoining sides so that the bottles may slide down lengthways.
A stop piece a³ may be provided at the foot of the planes to support the bottles or the
strainer B may be used for the purpose.
The bottles then automatically fill soak and deliver themselves to the hand of the
brusher, agitation of the water being in great measure prevented, while all dirt
detachable labels sediment and the like settle to the bottom of the tank through the
spaces between the planes and thus also the water left in contact with the bottles is
comparatively clean. In or upon the compartment C a series of rinsers c of any suit-
able type is arranged and connected to the water supply pipe c¹. By this arrange-
ment the strainer B prevents the dirt and refuse from the rinsed bottles, also broken
glass, stoppers and so forth returning to the soaking compartment and either entering
the bottles or choking the outlet for dirty water, which is arranged in any convenient
position, and the drains-a matter which has often hitherto proved a source of great
inconvenience and trouble.
Upon a suitable bearer across the tank A in convenient position for the operators
are fixed the external and internal brushing devices. These are illustrated as duplex,
being designed for two operators one at either side of the tank, but they may be
single and they may be disposed either horizontally parallel as in figures 1 and 2, or
vertically parallel as in figures 4 and 5. The spindles d d of the brushes are mounted
in a cast iron bearing frame D and have fast and loose pulleys driven direct by a belt
either as in figures 12 and 3, or connected and driven as in figures 4 and 5.
Figure 6 is a plan of an outside brush and figure 7 a vertical section thereof.
According to my improvements I fix the bottom brush S to the spindle d so that it
revolves with it against the bottom of the bottle, and I arrange four side brushes ss ss

page_text: as illustrated so as to revolve round and against the periphery of the bottle. The
brushes ssss are fixed to angle brackets s¹ s¹ which may advantageously be made
capable of adjustment to any diameter of bottle by the set screws and nuts s²² passing
through flanges fast upon the spindle d. Thus the whole of the outside of the body
of any bottle can be subjected to a scouring and thoroughly cleansing process.
The inside brushes t t are arranged as illustrated either along side of or below the
outside brushes described and are of the types ordinarily used for the purpose.
To securely fix the round wire shanks t¹ of the inside brushes to the driving
spindles d and so as to be readily detachable I have designed the improved chuck
illustrated in figures 8 and 9 the former being a longitudinal section and the latter a
section on line y z thereof.
The end d¹ of driving spindle d is fixed into a sleeve or holder K in the usual way,
or it may be made in one therewith. In the other end of the holder K a round or
square aperture is made and in it are fitted and inserted a pair of moveable jaws kk.
They are grooved or squared or otherwise suitably formed on their inner or nipping
faces where they engage the shank t¹, and both, or one, may be operated by the set
screw or screws k¹ k² to clamp or release the brushes t.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In a bottle cleansing apparatus a perforated strainer dividing the water tank
into two compartments, one for soaking and the other for rinsing, and an arrangement
in the soaking compartment of an open inclined plane or planes for feeding the bottles
to delivery sideways or endways, substantially as set forth in reference to figures 1, 2
and 3.
2. The construction of an outside brushing device capable of adjustment or not
substantially as described in reference to figures 6 and 7.
3. A chuck for holding the shanks of rotary brushes constructed as described and
illustrated in figures 8 and 9.
4. A bottle cleansing apparatus constructed and arranged substantially as described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings-having a soaking tank fitted with an
open inclined plane or planes and separated from the adjoining rinsing tank by a
perforated strainer, and having a set or sets of outside and inside brushing devices
disposed fixed and operating in the manner and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 22nd day of May 1880
J. C. CHAPMAN, Fel. Inst. Patent Agents,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.