Bottle and Pipe Cleansing Apparatus.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 1st May, 1895-Accepted, 13th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Bottle and Pipe Cleansing Apparatus.
I, MORIZ POLLAK, Engineer of Leipzig-Gohlis, Saxony, Untere Georgstrasse 10
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
In the apparatus invented by me the cleansing brush is spreading over the bottle
or the pipe in a worm-motion, and for the purpose to be able to intensively
clean the bottom of the bottle a rotary motion of the brush is combinated with
the worm-motion.
The apparatus for bottles consists firstly of a trough wherein the bottles to be
cleaned are moved in water by an endless track so that by this motion already their
outside cleansing is procured or at least contributed for an easier cleansing
effectuated by means of two rotating brushes, the one of which fit for the neck and
the other for the bigger part of the bottle with the bottom. Being the outside
cleansing effected in this manner the bottle is moved by another endless track in
a second trough properly filled with water. Thereby the dirt will be likewise
softened so that it can be easily removed. All the motions for these hitherto
mentioned purposes which are the motion of the first endless track, the rotation of
the brushes for the outside of the bottle, and the motion of the second endless track
are got by a proper gearing from the impulsive power, which may be a mechanical
one or human power acting on a crank, and this motion is transported also to
a small pulley rotating upon the neck of a fixed guide-piece for the brush which
has to clean the inside of the bottle. This guide is one of the kind as to be able
to induce a worm-motion to a spirally ribbed rod straightly forwarded through
it, like the slide of the spiral-drills, existing thereby only the difference that
the guide-piece of the heredescribed apparatus is fixed upon the frame and the
rod moved.
This rod is the bearer of the brush and can be moved through the guide, whereby
the brush is entering into the bottle, by means of an angle-lever and a foot-step,
and its retiring with the worm-like pushing out of the brush is automatically
obtained by means of a weight or a spring-power as soon as the foot is drawn back
from the step. In order to facilitate the entrance of the brush into the bottle it is
drawn back from the bottle when the foot-lever is got loose into a proper casing
with a small mouth able to be put into the opening of the bottle. Different from
the brushes general in use is the part of the brush destinated to clean the bottom
of the bottle. It consists in a special brush of the most proper shape with regard
to the form of the bottom able to a more or less cross-position relating to the longer
part of the brush to which it is attached by means of a hinge-joint a spring or
otherwise. The before mentioned rotary-motion of the brush is caused by the
small pulley rotating upon the neck of the fixed guide of the brush. This pulley
contains for that purpose a groove or cuts into which a properly arranged rib or
pins joint with the spiral-wounded rod, are gearing and pressed to by the foot-lever
as soon as the bottom of the bottle is touched by the brush. In this case the rod
can be rotated within the guide-piece by being in proper distance turned up.
a smaller diameter corresponding as to be able to rotate within the projectings of the
guide-piece. With regard to small differences of largeness existing even with
bottles of a particular class the gearing for the rotary-motion of the brush is
attached to a spring inserted between the brush-rod and its buttom-like bearer, the
same which allows at same time of the straightly pushing forward of the brush by
to

page_text: means of the foot-lever and of its rotation. By means of this spring the gearing
for the rotary-motion is beginning to act only when the forward motion is limited
by the bottom of the bottle. Instead of the firstly mentioned mode for the outside
cleansing of the bottle a proper combination of a brush with the motion for the
inner cleansing also may have place.
To clean pipes, hoses etc. or generally to spread them over, the guide to induce
the worm-motion may be fixed upon them and the wounded wire or rod of the
brush or in general of any other mean to flank with is pushed through it.
Dated this Twenty-ninth day of July 1894.
Bottle and Pipe Cleansing Apparatus.
I, MORIZ POLLAK Engineer of Vienna (Austria), Hernals Hauptstrasse 57,
late of Leipzig-Gohlis, Untere Georgstrasse 10, 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 present invention serves the purpose of cleaning articles, such as bottles,
pipes, hose-tubes etc. inside or outside; to coat them with any substance or in fact
to operate upon the surfaces of them in any manner required."
The accompanying drawings represent the invention as devised for cleaning
bottles and an arrangement of brushes for cleaning long tubes etc.
Fig. 1 shows an entire bottle cleaning apparatus in vertical section and plan;
Figs. 2 and 3 a vertical section of the new brushing device,
Fig. 4 three different brushes for the bottom of the bottle in free and one in
receded position.
Fig. 5 is an arrangement for treating the inner surface of a long pipe.
The cleaning apparatus consists of a vessel A, resembling a trough, in which
there are shafts a for guiding the endless belt B. The one wall of this vessel may
be provided with an upward slanting shoulder to receipt the articles to be cleaned.
Motion is imparted laterally from A to one of the shafts by means of a pulley or
a crank c and is transmitted by suitable devices to the brushes d, e and to the shafts a¹,
guiding the endless belt B' to a second similar vessel A. One of the last named
shaft maintains the pulley C in motion by suitable transmission. By means of this
pulley, which may be actuated by any other contrivance, a peculiar motion of the
brush is brought about, consisting in the brush moving screw-like into the bottle,
but permitting also a simple rotation of the brush, so that when the same
comes into contact with the bottom of the bottle, the latter is also thoroughly
cleaned.
According to Fig. 2 the pulley C rotates on the neck of the guiding-piece D,
which is fastened onto the stand E. This pulley is provided with notches or
a groove corresponding to the projections or the rim on rod F. The guiding
piece D is shaped after the manner of the guides of spiral screw-augers, the guide-
hole having projecting pins which engage into the guided rod F, for which purpose
latter is spirally drawn or provided with a spiral incision, so that the rod is forced
to move in a spirally twisting direction forwards and backwards. The rod is
provided in the present drawing with a brush G, but it might according to require-
ments be also provided with knives, scrapers, etc. attached to it fixedly or with
intervening springs. At a certain distance from the brush the rod is weakened to
a smaller diameter in a manner that when this part h has entered the immovable
guide-piece D the rod may rotate freely. The conical wheel g fixed to the
rod then engages into the corresponding notch of the pulley C and directly
the wheel is pressed sufficiently against it, the rod F is also set into rotatory
motion.

page_text: The rod F loosely penetrates the button H directly or with intercalation of a
regulating spring u, so that it may rotate in the same without however being able
to shift horizontally. Any horizontal motion of rod F being produced by this
button; in the present sketch for instance by means of the fast joined part i, the
joint k, and the angle-lever . The direction in which the button moves is con-
trolled by rollers m, n on the support o, and the angle-lever is actuated by the foot
of the workman. By the removal of the foot the lever together with the brush are
always brought back to their initial position through a counter-weight p or
a spring 9 coming into action.
The required motion of the brush can also be obtained by the arrangement
shown in Fig. 3. In this arrangement the pulley C turns in the bearings r, sand
is perforated in a manner, that the brush-bearer F may be inserted and made to
rotate at the same time, which may be arrived at as well by elliptical or angular etc.
borings and corresponding shape of the brush-rod as by screw-auger guiding.
In order to prevent the rod being carried with by the rotating pulley, when the
brush is drawn back, the rod may be of a smaller diameter at its corresponding
part, so as to permit the pulley to freely rotate around it. For the cleaning of the
whole bottle, but especially of its bottom surface, a brush J adapted to the shape
of the bottom is attached to the main part of the bottle-brush in a manner as to
always aim to be at right angles to the direction of the brush bearer, so as to be
suitable for an intense cleaning of the bottom, and it should naturally be made of
an appropriate material for that purpose.
The manipulation of the described apparatus is easily understood. The dirty
bottles are put into the trough A, which is partly filled with water, and are carried
forward by the endless belt B towards the brushes d, e which clean the outside of
them. They are then taken into the second trough A', also partly filled with
water, and the belt B₁ carries them towards the apparatus for inside cleaning. The
bottle is there held against the mouth of the shell K surrounding the brush G and
by placing the foot ou the lever the brush G is inserted into the bottle. After
having been cleaned the bottle is rinsed by injection at t.
For cleaning pipes and tubes the spiral motion of the brush suffices and can be
effected in a simple manner by fastening the guiding piece D onto the pipe or tube
and introducing the spirally conducted brush-rod (Fig. 5).
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
:―
1. A bottle and pipe cleansing apparatus, characterized by a cleaning device,
which is conducted in a spiral course against the body or surface to be cleaned by
being attached to a rod, the moving of which is forced through guides (D) and
also is brought to a simple rotatory motion by the rod (F), which carries the brush,
engaging with a pulley (C), in order to thus also rub against the bottom surface.
2. A bottle and pipe cleansing apparatus, having a bottle-brush which consists
of two parts (G, J), the one of which is at an angle to the other, said brush being
thereby adapted for intensely cleaning the bottoms of bottles.
3. A bottle and pipe cleansing apparatus, characterized by having an endless
belt, by which the bottles etc. are carried to and from the cleaning contrivance.
4. A bottle and pipe cleansing apparatus combining any, two or all of foregoing
claims.
Dated this Twenty-fifth day of April 1895.
MORIZ POLLAK.