IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WASHING BOTTLES
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Joseph Harvey at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th October 1881.
JAMES JOSEPH HARVEY, of Kidderminster, in the County of Worcester.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WASHING BOTTLES."
The object of my Invention is the effectual cleansing of the interior surface of
bottles or jars by their agitation when charged with water, and gravel, stone, shot,
or other cleansing material, the friction of which on the interior surface effects the
scouring required.
The apparatus consists of a frame (hereinafter called a cradle) carrying at each
end a contrivance for holding bottles or other vessels, which I describe more fully
below, and for convenience refer to as the bottle-holders.
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The "cradle" swings freely on a rod through its centre, which also forms one
of the "ties of the supporting frame, and this rod is prolonged sufficiently at
one side to carry a driving wheel; the cradle having a bottle holder at each
end is evenly balanced, and is so mounted as to wheel completely round in its
frame when required.
A small pulley carried on a tie rod below the above, and at a sufficient distance
from the driving wheel to allow the cradle to turn over (or reverse), carries a
connecting rod which attaches to and detaches from either end of the cradle.
The bottles are held in the bottle holder with the mouth of each communicating
with a receiver; each bottle is held tightly to its receiver by means of a belt
passing over its punt.
The cradle contains, as already stated, a bottle holder at each end; these are so
attached that at one end the bottles are uppermost, and at the other end the
receivers are uppermost.

page_text: The machine is used as follows:-The workman standing at front end (where
the receivers are at the lower part of the holder and charged with a proper
quantity of the cleansing material) fixes bottles in position, and then by detaching
the connecting rod reverses the cradle and re-attaches the rod to the end thus
brought in front; this other holder is similarly charged. By turning the driving
wheel a rapid motion is given to the cradle, which causes an agitation of the
material in the bottles which effects the scouring required.
It will be observed that at the rear end of the cradle the bottles are charged
from the receivers and scoured, and at the front end they are emptied of their
contents, the contrary operations proceeding simultaneously at opposite ends of the
cradle.

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
19th April 1882.
JAMES JOSEPH HARVEY, of Kidderminster, in the County of Worcester.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WASHING BOTTLES."
The object of my Invention is the effectual cleansing of the interior surface of
bottles or jars by their agitation when charged with water, and gravel, stone, shot,
or other cleansing material, the friction of which on the interior surface effects the
scouring required.
The apparatus consists of a frame (herein after called a cradle) carrying at each
end a contrivance for holding bottles or other vessels, which I describe more fully
below, and for convenience refer to as the bottle holders.
The "cradle" swings freely on a rod through its centre, which also forms one of
the "ties" of the supporting frame, and this rod is prolonged sufficiently at one
side to carry a driving wheel; the cradle having a bottle holder at each end is
evenly balanced, and is so mounted as to wheel completely round in its frame when
required.
A small pulley fixed below the above, at a sufficient distance from the driving
wheel to allow the cradle to turn over (or reverse), carries a connecting rod which
attaches to and detaches from either end of the cradle.
The bottles are held in the bottle holder with the mouth of each communicating
with a receiver; each bottle is held tightly to its receiver by means of a belt
passing over its punt.
The cradle contains, as already stated, a bottle holder at each end; these are p
attached that at one end the bottles are uppermost, and at the other end
receivers are uppermost.
The machine is used as follows:-The workman standing at front end (where
the receivers are at the lower part of the holder and charged with a proper
quantity of the cleansing material) fixes bottles in position, and then by detaching
the connecting rod reverses the cradle and reattaches the rod to the end thus
brought in front; this other holder is similarly charged. By turning the driving
wheel a rapid motion is given to the cradle, which causes an agitation of the material
in the bottles which effects the scouring required.
It will be observed that at the rear end of the cradle the bottles are charged
from the receivers and scoured, and at the front end they are emptied of their
contents, the contrary operations proceeding simultaneously at opposite ends of the
cradle.
In order that my Invention may be fully understood I have shewn in the
Drawings hereunto annexed an apparatus constructed as above described.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a plan view, Figure 2 a front elevation, Figure 3 a side view of
the apparatus; Figure 4 is a side view partly in section, and on a larger scale
shewing the way of coupling the connecting rod to either end of the rocking frame;
Figure 5 is a section through the line B, C, Figure 2.
A is the fixed frame of the machine with a cross tie rod B at the top, upon which
the cradle C swings, and upon one end of which is also mounted the driving
wheel D. From the driving wheel D motion is transmitted by an endless band to
a pulley E, which has fast with it a crank pin F. The crank pin is coupled to one

page_text: this bar has a slot in it through which passes the cross tie rod B. The bar H lies
close along side of one of the side bars of the rocking frame which forms the cradle.
When the bar is slidden endwise away from the tie rod, its end may be caused to
enter into a metal socket I at one or other end of the cradle, and so connect the bar
to that end of the cradle. The bar H has jointed to it a locking bar J; when this
locking bar is in the position shewn by full lines at Figure 4 it prevents the bar H
from moving endwise, and keeps its end within the socket I. A rocking motion
can then be given to the cradle by turning the driving wheel D. When the cradle
is to be turned round end for end, the locking bar is turned into the position shewn
by the dotted lines in Figure 4, and the bar H is slidden endwise so as to with-
draw its end from the socket I; the cradle can then have a half turn given to it,
and be again locked to the bar H. At each end of the cradle is carried a receiver K
which contains cleansing material. Each receiver is formed with mouths L in
which are held rings of vulcanized india rubber for the heads of bottles to fit into.
The bodies of the bottles are held between two notched pieces of wood M which
can be set nearer to or further from one another, and clamped at the requisite
distance apart by clamping screws N, according to the sizes of the bottles to be
cleaned; O is a band which passes over the punt ends of the bottles and holds the
heads of the bottles into the socket mouths of the receivers. The band at its two
ends is attached at 0¹, 0¹, to the frame of the bottle holders. The band also passes
through a triangular loop P formed with an eye P₁ through which is led a cord R;
this cord is fixed at one end to the receiver, the other is led over a pulley S and
has attached to it a spring T; when a pair of bottles have been placed into one or
other bottle holder, the cord R of this holder is drawn tight and led around studs V
which project from the front of the receiver, as shewn at Figure 2, and a ring at
the end of the spring is then hooked over one or other of the studs, and both
bottles are thus simultaneously secured.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I claim, the combination
of apparatus for washing bottles, substantially as herein before described.
: In witness whereof, I, the said James Joseph Harvey, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
TAMEN TOSEDI HARVEY (1.0)
JAMES JOSEPH HARVEY