Improvements in Bottle Washing Apparatus.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Dec., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 13th Sept., 1898-Accepted, 10th Dec., 1898
Improvements in Bottle Washing Apparatus.
I, JOHN THOMAS TRAVIS, of Cheapside, Hyde, in the County of Chester, Botanic
Beer Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
My said invention relates to improvements in bottle washing apparatus.
In an apparatus constructed in accordance with my invention I arrange a suit-
able frame carried or supported by end standards or pedestals. A shaft revolving
in bearings formed in or carried by the frame is provided at intervals along its
length with bevel wheels. Any convenient number of such bevel wheels may
be employed according to the length of the frame. Each of these bevel wheels
gears with two bevel pinions, revolving in bearings one on each side of the frame.
Secured to each bevel pinion and revolving therewith is a projecting horizontal
tube or sleeve. The tube is capable of accomodating the stem of a suitable brush,
the stem being secured to the tube by a thumb screw or the like. A fast and loose
pulley is mounted upon the shaft carrying the bevel wheels so that motion may
be imparted to the shaft, which thus communicates rotary motion through the
bevel wheels and pinions to the horizontal tubes and brushes carried therein. The
bottles are taken from the tank and placed upon the brushes, the revolving
scrubbing brushes rapidly and effectively cleansing the bottles which are then
removed. If desired a suitable reversing gear may be applied to the driving shaft
to secure a reversal of the direction of rotation of the brushes.
The apparatus may be supplied with one frame of horizontally arranged brushes
or several rows or tiers of such frames may be mounted in one machine. By
means of my invention I am enabled to carry a large number of brushes operated
by bevel gearing as described in one machine, and thus materially increase the
efficiency and output of such machines.
I, JOHN THOMAS TRAVIS, of Cheapside, Hyde, in the County of Chester, Botanic
Beer Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
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page_text: manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement and accompanying drawings:-
My said invention relates to improvements in bottle washing apparatus and is
designed to facilitate the operation of washing the bottle. In practice it is
customary to use for this purpose a single rotary brush upon which the operator
places a bottle taken from the soaking water.
The object of my invention is to provide means whereby the operation of wash-
ing bottles is facilitated and materially increase the output of washed bottles.
This I effect by the provision of a multiplicity of brushes and a special means
of driving the same.
The accompanying sheet of drawings clearly illustrates my invention.
Fig. 1 is a plan view partly in section of my multiple arrangement of brushes
and driving means for the same.
Fig. 2 is an elevation of part of the same.
Fig. 3 is a cross section.
In an apparatus constructed in accordance with my invention I arrange a
suitable framing A carried by brackets or end standards B shown in dotted lines
in Fig. 2. It will be understood that the frame A is secured to or connected with
a suitable tank containing water, which I have not considered necessary to show,
in which the bottles are soaked prior to their being cleaned by the brushes.
Revolving in bearings in the frame is a central driving shaft b. The
driving shaft 6 is provided at intervals in its length with any convenient number
of bevel wheels c. In the drawings twelve of such bevel wheels c are shown
though it will be obvious that less or more than this number may be employed.
The driving shaft bis provided with a fast pulley d by which the shaft is revolved
by belting from a suitable driving source. A loose pulley is also provided so
that the shaft may be readily stopped when required. Gearing with each side
of the bevel wheels e are bevel pinions e e which are secured upon studs f revolving
in bearings f¹ carried by the frame A as clearly shown in section in Fig. 1. The
studs are formed with collars g to which are screwed tubes h. The stems i of
scrubbing brushes ; are inserted within the tubes h and secured in position by
means of pinching screws k.
The apparatus is therefore provided with twenty four scrubbing brushes
revolved at any suitable speed from the shaft b. A metallic cover shown in
dotted lines in Fig. 3 may be provided to shield the bevel gearing from splashing
water.
One, or more, operator may attend at each side of the frame A and each operator
having at his disposal a number of revolving scrubbing brushes can rapidly effect
the washing of a large number of bottles taken from the soaking tank.
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:-
As means for facilitating the washing of bottles the employment of two rows of
scrubbing brushes mounted to revolve in bearings carried by a suitable frame and
driven by means of bevel gearing from a driving shaft in the manner and sub-
stantially as described and illustrated.
1301
000
Dated
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12th day of September 1898.
For the Applicant,
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
Chartered Patent Agents, 5, John Dalton Street, Manchester,