Bottle Washing Machine.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 5th July, 1894-Accepted, 11th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Bottle Washing Machine.
HUGO VINE Engineer 9 Royal Hill Greenwich and JAMES ALEXANDER
O'SULLIVAN of No. 15 Parliament Street, Westminster, in the County of
Middlesex, Managing Director of a Public Company, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Bottle washing machine-with rotary & parallel movement of brushes,
consisting of twelve,-six on each side,-& propelled by centre shafts, for revolving
power on which are attached sliding bars, the same working horizontally &
sliding motion being obtained by connecting rod from discs, on both side of shaft,
thus gaining parallel movement, of brushes, the water being injected during
movement of brushes-the machine-being worked entirely by worn & wheel,-
double & treble thread on worm. When bottles are washed they are automatically
delivered on point to drainer by means of turning handles on both sides of tray
thus revolving tray & throwing bottles through a shute into drainer.
6th September 1893.
HUGO VINE.
Bottle Washing Machine.
1, HUGO VINE, Engineer, of 9 Royal Hill Greenwich in the County of Kent
and JAMES ALEXANDER O'SULLIVAN of No. 154 Parliament Street Westminster
in the County of Middlesex Managing Director of a Public Company, 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 a bottle washing machine constructed and operated as
will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a plan, Fig. 2 is a section on XX of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a part end
view of the bottle cradle.
Upon a suitable frame is mounted in bearings a spindle A which is caused to
On each end of
rotate by a belt on pulley B driven from any convenient motor.
the spindle A are fitted free to slide on feathers sprocket wheels C which drive a
number of sprocket wheels D by means of chains passing partly round and
alternately under and over the wheels D.
The spindle A has also about its middle a worm E gearing with a worm wheel
on a transverse spindle F. Cranks f on the ends of this spindle are connected by
links to a frame G consisting of two side bars between which the sprocket
wheels D revolve these wheels being fixed on tubular spindles d.
To the frames G are fixed projecting brushes H and on the spindles d are fixed
brushes K.
These spindles d are also connected by packed unions to branches of a water
pipe L which is connected by a flexible pipe to any convenient supply.
On each end of the frame a cradle truck M is arranged to travel to and fro on
rails m.
In this cradle there are mounted as many spindles N as there are
spindles d, one in the same vertical plane with each of the spindles d. On each
D

page_text: spindle N there is fixed a ring n and a fork n', and cranks n² on the ends of the
spindles are all jointed to a bar O having handles o.
Below the table of the machine there is an inclined shoot leading to a crate P
adapted to receive a row of bottles.
The machine operates as follows:-
A number of bottles being placed in the cradles M each bottle having its lower
part inserted in the ring n and its upper part near its neck laid in the fork n', the
operator at each end pushes the cradle towards the revolving brushes which enter
them and are caused to reciprocate to and fro by the cranks while they are also
caused by the chain gear to revolve within the bottles, water at the same time
passing through the tubular spindles d into the bottles, which are thus washed
internally. Also by the fixed brushes H on which water may descend in a shower
the bottles are externally cleaned as they are moved up to and drawn back from
them.
The operator having drawn back the cradle M by means of the handles o causes
the bar O to make half a revolution thereby turning all the spindles N half round.
During this movement the bottles fall, head foremost, out of the forks n' and rings n
and descend into the crate P which can then be removed.
Although the machine shewn in the drawing has two cradles M, one at each end,
there might only be one cradle, and the number of bottles accommodated in each
cradle may be varied, the form of rings n, and forks n', and the dimension of the
brushes may also be varied to suit various forms and sizes of bottles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. A bottle washing machine wherein a set of brushes are caused to rotate and
reciprocate longitudinally in a set of bottles supplied with water and mounted on a
travelling cradle from which they are all simultaneously ejected, falling, heads
foremost, into a recipient crate, substantially as herein described.
2. For holding the set of bottles in the cradle and ejecting them therefrom a set
of spindles each carrying a fork and a ring to receive respectively the upper and
lower parts of the bottles, and a crank jointed to a bar, substantially as and for
the purposes set forth.
Dated this 3rd day of July 1894.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for Applicants.