Improvements in Bottle Washing Machines.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 25th July, 1896-Accepted, 12th Sept., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottle Washing Machines.
I, CARL ERNST PETERS of 44b Tauentzienstrasse Breslau in the German
Empire, Engineer, 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 bottle washing machines, and its objects are to facilitate
the cleansing of the bottles, to effect a reduction in the quantity of water or other
liquid required, and to diminish the danger of breakages.
In order that my invention may be more readily understood I have hereto
appended a sheet of drawings to which I refer hereinafter and which illustrates one
form of machine constructed to embody my improvements.
Figure 1 shews the machine in side elevation.
Figures 2, 3 and 3ª represent details.
Figure 4 illustrates the machine in plan.
A
Similar parts in the different figures are indicated by similar letters of reference.
The frame A of the machine is provided with a table or arms B and carries two
horizontally rotating brushes E which are driven in any suitable manner.
carriage C is arranged to move along the table or arms B, its two extreme positions
being shewn in full and dotted lines respectively in Figure 1. The rear or outward
end of the carriage is adapted to receive the bottles D and its forward end is
furnished with a horizontal guiding device, as, for example, pivoted collars moving
along fixed horizontal guide rods. Owing to the shape of the table or arms upon
which the carriage is moved the bottles and the carriage at one end of their stroke
are in an inclined position, and are in a horizontal position at the other end of the
stroke. The front end of the carriage is provided with two spring-controlled
double hollow cones or funnels c one end of each of which is adapted to receive the
neck of a bottle and the other end to act as a guide to the cleaning brush.
cones c.
The bottles are placed upon the carriage when the latter is in its inclined
position as indicated by the full lines in Figure 1. The operator takes a bottle in
each hand and places the neck of each into one of the rear openings of the double
The cones are then pressed against their springs d along the guides a in
the direction of the machine until the bottles can be laid upon the carriage with
their bottoms against the rear wall. The carriage is now moved forward until it
assumes a horizontal position in which position the brushes have entered the bottles,
being guided therein by the openings of the double cones. After the cleansing is
completed the carriage and the bottles are returned to the inclined position and the
bottles are removed. In consequence of the inclined position in which the bottles
are placed in and removed from the machine, very little of the contained liquid is
wasted so that without great expense a solution of soda may be employed. When
in the horizontal position the liquid is prevented from escaping by the rotating
brushes.
As illustrated in Figure 3A part of the cone into which the bottle neck fits may
be cut away as at & to facilitate the entrance and removal of the neck without the
bottle departing materially from the sloping position illustrated.
Owing to the spring controlled cones in which the necks of the bottles are placed
a machine constructed as described possesses great advantages over the machines
at present ordinarily in use in which the neck of the bottles, the weakest parts, are
hold rigidl

page_text: The machine illustrated and described is most economical in use, as the workman
is free to use both his hands, but it will be understood that my improvements are
equally applicable to machines for one or any required number 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. In a machine for washing bottles, a carriage for the bottles capable of
assuming an inclined position at one end of its stroke and a horizontal position at
the other, constructed arranged and operated substantially as and for the purpose
herein before described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. In a bottle washing machine, the combination with the bottle carriage of
spring controlled double hollow cones to receive the necks of the bottles, constructed
and arranged substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth and as
illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
3. A Lottle washing machine constructed arranged and operating substantially
as hereinhefore described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 24th day of July A D 1896
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.