An Improved Apparatus for Cleaning Bottles and other Hollow Vessels.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Oct., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 13th July, 1897-Accepted, 14th Aug., 1897
[Communicated from abroad by the Firm of BOLDT AND VOGEL of Hamburg in the
Empire of Germany, Machine Makers.]
An Improved Apparatus for Cleaning Bottles and other Hollow
Vessels.
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:-
In apparatus hitherto used for cleansing bottles and other hollow vessels by means
of a jet of granular substance, such as sand, and water, obstructions in the water feed
pipe at the outlet orifice are inevitable because on stopping the supply of water, the
granular material settles in front of, and enters the water outlet orifice.
Devices applied to the outlet orifice of the water feed pipe and intended to prevent
this disadvantage have not proved successful, because the granular material has a
directly destructive effect upon such preventive devices.
In the cleaning apparatus forming the subject of this invention the granular
substance used is prevented from entering the water outlet in a novel and improved
manner.
In the tank or vessel a water feed pipe is provided, the lower part of which is
connected to the water conduit. The feed pipe, according to this invention serves to
receive the jet pipe which is adapted to slide telescopically therein after traversing
the bottom and the inner space of the receptacle serving to hold the granular
material.
This jet pipe is supported by an arm which is fixed to a transverse bracket. This
bracket serves as a bottle carrier and is supported by a rod or bar movable vertically in
a guide attached to or formed on the tank or vessel, by means of a cam.
The cam shaft when being turned in one or the other direction will either
raise or lower the transverse bracket as the case may be, together with the jet
pipe.
The jet pipe is provided with lateral openings which when the transverse bracket
is lowered, are immersed in the granular substance, and, when the said bracket is
lifted, will be raised from, and so be clear of; the said granular substance.
To the cam shaft a water feed cock is suitably connected in any appropriate
manner, so as to open when the transverse bracket is lowered and to close after it has
been lifted. -
If the cam shaft is so moved that the transverse bracket descends, the lateral
openings provided in the jet pipe will also descend into the granular material, while
simultaneously a jet of water passes through the jet pipe into the bottle to be
cleaned; during this operation a mixing of the water with the granular material has
taken place at the lateral openings.
After the bottle or other vessel has been cleaned, the transverse bracket together with
the jet pipe is lifted, and the feed water cock thus closed, the openings in the jet
pipe then being raised from the granular material, so that the entry of the latter into

page_text: the openings is rendered impossible. Subsequently the operation is finished by
rinsing the vessel with water alone, which latter is passed through the water conduit,
while the jet pipe openings are raised clear of the g anular material.
According to a modification of the invention, the feed water pipe is made in one
piece with the jet pipe, and this pipe conduit is immovably fixed to the tank. The
arm of the transverse bracket carries the receptacle for holding the granulated
material instead of the jet pipe and the said receptacle can be moved up and down,
together with the bottle carrier by means of a cam as before, while the jet pipe with
its openings remain immovable. If the receptacle is so displaced that the openings
in the jet pipe are below the surface of the graulated material, the feed water conduit
is open so that a mixture of water and the granular substance is forced into the
bottle. If on the other hand the receptacle is so displaced, that the granular
substance is below the openings in the jet pipe, no granular substance can issue from
the pipe into the bottle.
In the same tank and to the same transverse bracket, several of the devices
hereinbefore described (bottle carrier, receptacle, pipe conduits) may be provided for
simultaneously cleaning a plurality of bottles or other vessels.
Dated thie 14th day of Istaban 1000
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
An Improved Apparatus for Cleaning Bottles and other Hollow
Vessels.
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:-
In apparatus hitherto used for cleaning bottles and other hollow vessels by means
of a jet of granular substance, such as sand, and water, obstructions in the water feed
pipe at the outlet orifice are inevitable because on stopping the supply of water, the
granular material settles in front of, and enters the water outlet orifice.
Devices applied to the outlet orifice of the water feed pipe and intended to prevent
this disadvantage have not proved successful, because the granular material has a
directly destructive effect upon such preventive devices.
In the cleaning apparatus forming the subject of this invention the granular
substances used is prevented from entering the water outlet in a novel and improved
manner.
In the accompanying drawing I have shown how my said invention may be
conveniently and advantageously carried into practice.
Figure 1 is a vertical sectional elevation of my improved apparatus.
Figure 2 is a similar view showing a modification."
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
In the tank or vessel A a water feed pipe a is provided, the lower part of which is
connected to the water conduit b. The feed pipe a according to this invention serves
to receive the jet pipe d which is adapted to slide telescopically therein after
traversing the bottom and the inner space of the receptacle c serving to hold the
granular material.
The jet pipe d is supported by an arm f which is fixed to a transverse bracket g.
This bracket forms at the same time a bottle carrier g¹ and is supported by a rod or

page_text: bar h movable vertically in a guide i attached to or formed on the tank or vessel A,
by means of a cam or crank device. The crank device shown on the drawing consists
of a shaft & mounted in suitable journals p and provided with a crank k; the latter
being pivotally connected to the guide rod h or its lower extension the arm n,
respectively, by means of a link o
The crank shaft when being turned in one or the other direction will either
raise or lower the transverse bracket g as the case may be, together with the jet
pipe d.
The jet pipe d is provided with lateral openings m which when the transverse
bracket g is lowered, are immersed in the granular substance, contained in the
receptacle e, and, when the said bracket is lifted, will be raised from, and so be clear
of, the said granular substance.
To the crank shaft a water feed cock, not shown is suitably connected in any
appropriate manner, so as to open when the transverse bracket is lowered and to close
after it has been lifted.
If the crank shaft is so moved that the transverse bracket y descends, the lateral
openings m provided in the jet pipe d will also descend into the granular material,
while simultaneously a jet of water passes through the jet pipe d into the bottle B to
be cleaned; during this operation a mixing of the water with the granulated material
bas taken place at the lateral openings.
After the bottle B or other vessel has been cleaned, the transverse bracket g g¹
together with the jet pipe d is lifted, and the feed water cock thus closed, the
openings m in the jet pipe d then being raised from the granular material, so that
the entry of the latter into the openings is rendered impossible. Subsequently the
operation is finished by rinsing the vessel with water alone, which latter is passed
through the water conduit while the jet pipe openings are raised clear of the granular
material.
According to the modification shown in Figure 2 the feed water pipe is made in
one piece with the jet pipe, and this pipe conduit a d is immovably fixed to the
tank A. The arın f of the transverse bracket g carries the receptacle c for holding
the grannlated material instead of the jet pipe and the said receptacle can be moved
up and down, together with the transverse bracket by means of a cam or a crank
device as hereintofore described with reference to Figure 1, while the jet pipe d¹ with
its openings remains immovable. If the receptacle is so displaced that the opening
in the jet pipe are below the surface of the granular material, the feed water conduit
is open so that a mixture of water and the granular substance is forced into the
bottle. If on the other hand the receptacle is so displaced, that the granular
substance is below the openings in the jet pipe no granular substance can issue from
the pipe into the bottle."
In the same tank and to the same transverse bracket several of the devices
hereinbefore described (bottle carrier, receptacle, pipe conduits) may be provided for
simultaneously cleaning a plurality of bottles or other vessels.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In an apparatus for cleaning bottles and other hollow vessels by means of a
liquid and granular material, the combination of one or more jet-pipes having lateral
openings and one or more receptacles encompassing the jet pipes, the jet-pipe or
pipes and the receptacle or receptacles being vertically movable relative to each other,
substantially as and for the purpose specified.
2. In an apparatus for cleaning bottles or other hollow vessels by means of water
and granular material the combination of a tank, a water supply pipe, a receptacle
serving to hold the granular material, a jet pipe having lateral openings and adapted
to slide in the feed pipe and traverse the bottom of the said receptacle, a suitable
support or transverse bracket carrying the jet pipe, means for guiding the said

page_text: transverse bracket and means for raising and lowering the said transverse bracket
together with the jet-pipe within the said receptacle, substantially as and for the
purpose set forth.
3. In an apparatus for cleaning bottles or other hollow vessels by means of water and
granular material, the combination of a tank, a water feed or supply pipe, a stationary
jet pipe having lateral openings, a vertically movable receptacle for holding the
granular material, a suitably guided transverse bracket carrying the said receptacle
and means for raising and lowering the transverse bracket together with the said
receptacle, substantially as and for the purpose described.
Dated this 13th day of July 1897.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.