Improved Apparatus for Washing Bottles and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 26th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 2nd Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Washing Bottles and the like.
I, JOHANN PHILIPP GRÜNIG, Mechanical Engineer of Gärtnerstrasse No. 13
Mayence in the Empire of Germany do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
:―
The object of this invention is to provide a machine for cleaning out the interior
of bottles, jars and the like by the use of a water spray carrying a coarse granular
material such as granulated zinc or coarse granular fragments of glass so that after
treatment with such spray the bottles cleaned of any sediment or deposit do not
require any further rinsing in clean water as is the case with bottles cleaned by
means of sand in the water spray.
In the trough is a basin like receiver having in the centre of its base an opening
through which the water under pressure may spurt upward when turned on. Over
this opening at a distance therefrom is a vertical tube through which the stream of
water spurting from the opening aforesaid passes upward into the bottle placed
upside down with its mouth over the said tube. The tube is supported by a
perforated frame which allows the granular material aforesaid placed in or falling
into the basin, to pass into the lower part of said basin above the opening therein
and thus be caught by the upward jet of water and thrown up into the bottle.
The block on which the mouth of the bottle rests when it is placed with the tube
aforesaid projecting into the neck, is preferably part of a lever by which the valve
governing the flow of water to the jet is controlled. When a bottle is placed in
the machine as described for cleaning the weight of the bottle depresses the lever
When
and opens the valve, thus allowing the jet of water to play in the bottle.
the bottle is removed the lever relieved of its weight rises, for instance under
spring pressure, and so closes the valve and shuts off the supply of water.
To prevent the granular matter used from choking up the jet, the opening in the
base of the basin communicates below with an enlarged chamber in which is a
conical mouth piece to the water supply tube. This conical mouth piece is
provided with narrow slit openings in the head, and with lateral openings below
the head so that the water stream is divided and flows into the chamber from
several orifices. The upper part of the chamber is preferably conical so that the
space between the conical nozzle of the water supply pipe and the wall of the
chamber is narrow enough to prevent the passage of any of the granular material
into the chamber.
Dated this 11th day of December 1891.
HERBERT & CO.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Washing Bottles and the like.
I JOHANN PHILIPP GRÜNIG Mechanical Engineer of Gärtnerstrasse 13
Mayence in the Empire of Germany 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 :-
The object of this invention is to provide a machine for cleaning out the interior
of bottles, jars and the like by the use of a water spray, carrying a cross granular
material such as granulated zinc or coarse granular fragments of glass, so that after
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page_text: treatment with such spray, the bottles cleansed of any sediment or deposit do not
require any further rinsing in clean water as is the case with bottles cleaned by
means of sand in the water spray.
In the trough is a basin like receiver having in the centre of its base an opening
through which the water under pressure may spurt upward when turned on.
Over
this opening, at a distance therefrom is a vertical tube through which the stream
of water spurting from the opening aforesaid passes upward into the bottle placed
mouth downwards over the said tube. The tube is supported by a perforated
frame which allows the granular material aforesaid placed in or falling into the
basin to pass into the lower part of said basin above the opening therein and thus
be caught by the upward jet of water and thrown up into the bottle.
The block on which the mouth of the bottle rests when it is placed with the
tube aforesaid, projecting into the neck, is preferably part of a lever by which the
valve governing the flow of water to the jet is controlled. When a bottle is placed
in the machine as described for cleaning, the weight of the bottle depresses the
lever and opens the valve, thus allowing the jet of water to play into the bottle.
When the bottle is removed the lever relieved of its weight rises, for instance
under spring pressure, and so closes the valves and shuts off the supply of water.
To prevent the granular matter used from choking up the jet, the opening in
the base of the basin communicates below with an enlarged chamber in which is a
conical mouth piece to the water supply tube. This conical mouth piece is
provided with narrow slit openings in the head, and with lateral openings below
the head so that the water stream is divided and flows into the chamber from
several orifices. The upper part of the chamber is preferably conical so that the
space between the conical nozzle of the water supply pipe and the wall of the
chamber is narrow enough to prevent the passage of any of the granular material
into the chamber.
In the annexed drawings
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of a trough with the improved washing
apparatus therein.
Fig. 2 a plan view thereof.
Figs. 3 and 4 vertical sections on an enlarged scale of two forms of the
apparatus.
Figs. 5 and 6 detail views.
The apparatus is arranged in the trough A. and consists of an injector as herein-
after described and of a lever B fulcrumed on a bracket B° and ending in a
ring R surrounding the nozzle pipe k of the injector, the other arm of the lever
being connected with the link rod p which controls the valve V of the water feed
pipe. The said valve is normally held closed by the spring F. The ring R before
mentioned is slung in the forked end of the lever B on two pivots Z Z and it is
armed on its upper face with a washer or cushioning ring of caoutchouc or other
soft material. The bottle resting on the ring R leans against the pipe k and when
the water jet issues into the bottle and throws the granular material therein, the
bottle is subjected thereby to a rocking movement which causes the jet to play
upon
all the interior surface of the bottle, so that the attendant requires only to
place the bottle on the nozzle and in due time remove it therefrom. He may thus
attend to two or more such apparatus in the same trough. With this apparatus
worked with coarse granular material as described no after rinsing of the bottles is
required as is the case when sand is used.
Referring to Fig. 3 the injector comprises a tray G in the lowest point of which
is the water inlet. In axial line therewith is the counter tube g which is connected
to the tray G by the perforated plate g¹. The counter tube g terminates above in
the tubek before referred to.
Fig. 4 shows a further construction which is intended to more particularly
prevent the granular material from choking the water inlet of the injector. Under
the orifice o is a conical chamber in which the conical nozzle D is arranged as
bereinbefore described, S being the slits and o' the lateral orifices therein.

page_text: In place of this construction a piece of wire gauze may be arranged in the
orifice o.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. Apparatus for washing bottles and the like having an injector adapted to
throw granular material into a bottle placed thereon in combination with a lever
adapted to be moved by the presence of the bottle to control the flow of water to
the injector in the manner described.
2. Apparatus for washing bottles and the like having an injector in combination
with a lever B having a pivoted ring R as and for the purposes set forth.
3. Apparatus for washing bottles and the like having an injector adapted to
throw granular material into the bottle, and possessing under the orifice o a conical
chamber with conical nozzle D with slits S and lateral orifices o' arranged in said
chamber as herein described.
Dated this 26th day of February 1892
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.