AN IMPROVED BOTTLE CLEANER
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark of the Firm of A M and
W Clark of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agents.
for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED BOTTLE CLEANER." A communication
from abroad by Wilmer Stanard Wood, of the City and County of New
York and Lewis Howard Livingston, junior, of Rhinebeck in the County of
Dutchess, both in the State of New York, United States of America
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Alexander Melville Clark at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th May 1882.
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK of the Firm of A M. and W. Clark of
53 Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex Patent Agents "AN IMPROVED
BOTTLE CLEANER " A communication from abroad by Wilmer Stanard Wood of
the City and County of New York, and Lewis Howard Livingston, junior, of
Rhinebeck in the County of Dutchess, both in the State of New York, United
States of America.
The object of this Invention is to facilitate the cleaning of bottles.
The accompanying Drawing represents a longitudinal elevation of the improved
bottle cleaner.
A series of metal or other balls or blocks A are provided with a series of
brushes B, B, of bristles or wire and a series of these balls are connected by chains
or links C, or the balls or blocks are attached certain distances from each other
on a cord or equivalent device. One end of this chain of balls is attached to a
rod F for introducing this chain of balls or blocks into a bottle and withdrawing
it therefrom.
Bristles E project from the lowest three or four balls A, and from every other
ball to the upper end of the chain; that is to say the three or four lowest balls A
are provided with bristles E projecting from the lower ends and then the balls are
alternately made with these bristles E and without them as shown in the Drawing.
Bristles E project from the lower end of the rod F. The bristles E projecting

page_text: from the lower ends of the balls or blocks are of such length that they project over
the next lower ball or block A. The balls or blocks A, can be made larger or
smaller as may be desired and the brushes B, may be replaced by bristles B,
projecting from the ball or block at all sides so that the ball will have the appearance
of a chestnut burr.
In operation the chain of balls is passed into the bottle into which the cleaning
fluid is poured before or after inserting the chain of balls. The bottle is then
shaken and the brushes B, and bristles E on the balls A, which are thrown about
in the bottle clean the inner surface of the same, the long bristles E passing into
the recessed parts of the bottle for instance those parts between the sides and the
inner raised portion of the bottom which recessed parts are very difficult to clean
by means of shot and the ordinary devices used heretofore. The chain of balls may
be longer or shorter and the balls may be separated a greater or less distance as may
be required
Having described the nature of the said Invention and the manner of performing
the same 1 declare that what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters
Patent is
1st A device for cleaning bottles made substantially as herein shown and
described and consisting of a series of balls or blocks flexibly united and provided
with bristles projecting from the sides, and bristles projecting from the ends as set
forth.
2nd The combination with the balls or blocks A provided with bristles B
projecting from the sides, of the chains or links C and bristles E projecting from
the ends of some of the balls or blocks A, substantially as herein shown and described
and for the purpose set forth.
3rd The conibination with the balls or blocks A flexibly united and provided
with bristles B, and E, of the rod F attached to one end of the chain of balls A, and
the bristles E', projecting from the lower end of this rod, substantially as herein
shown and described and for the purpose set forth
In witness thereof I the said Alexander Melville Clark have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of May in the year of our Lord, One thousand,
eight hundred and eighty-two
A. M. CLARK. (L.S.)