An Improved Apparatus for Washing Bottles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 7th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 9th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by ANDERS ANDERSON PINDSTOFTE, of Copenhagen;.
in the Kingdom of Denmark, Manufacturer.]
An Improved Apparatus for Washing Bottles.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare-
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an apparatus for washing bottles, which is effected
rapidly conveniently and without expenditure of power.
The improved apparatus comprises a tubular casing and a water admission pipe-
which has at the top a screw plug with an aperture for the passage of a valve rod.
At its bottom the tubular casing is closed by a valve pressed against its seat by a
helical spring surrounding the valve rod and the upper end of which acts against
a disc or collar on this rod.
At the upper end of the valve rod a stuffing box is arranged in the aforesaid.
plug so as to make a tight joint round the rod.
From the tubular casing extends a knee pipe, above the orifice of which the-
bottle to be washed is placed. A one-armed lever jointed to an arm on the tubular
casing has at its front end an aperture for the passage of the knee pipe. Against.
the said lever, near the fulcrum of the same, presses the end of a second one--
armed lever pivoted to a guide for the first lever and bearing upon the upper part.
of the valve rod.
The improved apparatus for washing bottles is used in the following manner:
The bottle is slid with its neck downwards upon the upper extremity of the
knee pipe and is moved down with a small pressure, causing the first lever to act.
upon the second lever and to open the valve. Water then passes through the
As soon
tubular casing and the knee pipe into the bottle and washes the same.
as the bottle. is removed from the pipe and the pressure upon the lever is thus
discontinued the valve will be closed by the spring round the valve rod.
In a modified arrangement of the apparatus the aforesaid second lever is dispensed
with, the first lever being fixed upon the axis of a toothed wheel which engages
with a rack at the end of the valve rod.
By exchanging the toothed wheel a longer or shorter movement of the valve
rod and valve can be obtained. The manner in which this arrangement is used is.
similar to that of the first-described arrangement.
Dated this 9th day of February 1893.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Washing Bottles.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent.
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 an apparatus for washing bottles, which is effected
rapidly conveniently and without expenditure of power.

page_text: In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 is a vertical section of a bottle washing apparatus constructed according
to this invention, and
Figure 2 is a vertical section of a modified form of such apparatus.
The improved apparatus comprises a tubular casing A and a water admission
pipe B the said tubular casing being provided at the top with a screw plug a
having an aperture for the passage of a valve rod b. At its bottom the said
tubular casing is closed by a valve c pressed against its seat by. a helical spring d
surrounding the valve rod b and the upper end of which acts against a disc or
collar on this rod.
At the upper end of the valve-rod in the plug a is arranged a stuffing box h so
as to make a tight joint round the.rod.
From the tubular casing extends a branch pipe D above the orifice of which the
bottle F to be washed is placed. A one-armed lever V pivoted to an arm m on
the tubular casing has at its front-end-an-aperture for the passage of the branch
pipe D. Against the underside of the said lever, near the fulcrum of the same,
presses the end of another lever W pivoted to a guide n for the lever V, the said
lever W bearing upon the upper part of the valve rod b.
The improved apparatus for washing bottles is used in the following manner.
The bottle is slid with its neck downwards upon the upper extremity of the
branch pipe D and forced down with a small pressure, causing the first lever V to
act upon the second lever W and to open the valve c. Water then passes through
the tubular casing A and the branch pipe D into the bottle and washes the same.
As soon as the bottle is removed from the pipe and the pressure upon the lever is
thus discontinued the valve c will be closed by the spring d.
In the modified arrangement of the apparatus shown in Figure 2 the aforesaid
second lever W is dispensed with, the first lever V being fixed upon the axis of a
toothed wheel E which engages with a rack F' at the end of the valve rod.
By using a larger or smaller toothed wheel I obtain a longer or shorter move-
ment of the valve rod b and valve c. The manner in which this arrangement is
used is similar to that of the first described arrangement.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
An apparatus for washing bottles, in which the pressure exerted upon the bottle
slid upon the pipe (D) causes, by means of the levers V, W, Figure 1, or of a
lever a toothed wheel E and rack F1, Figure 2, the opening of the valve c in
the water pipe B, which valve is closed automatically by a spring d on removing
the bottle from the said pipe.
Dated this 7th day of November 1802
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.