IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OR MODES. OF CLEANSING BOTTLES OR OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Allen, of Westbourne Street,
Pimlico, in the County of Middlesex, Wine Cooper, and William
Murrell, of Grosvenor Road, Pimlico, in the same County,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Allen
and William Murrell at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 15th April 1853.
We, WILLIAM ALLEN and WILLIAM MURRELL, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OR MODES.
OF CLEANSING BOTTLES OR OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES" to be as follows:-
Instead of shot or wire and hair washers, such as have hitherto been
used for the above purposes, we intend making a framing of metal or
wood with brushes fixed so as to act at once on the inside of the bottle
or other article; on the inside bottom thereof, and on the outside
thereof, while another brush fixed in a handle working by an elastic
or other hinge from the edge of the water tank or other vessel holding

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Allen and William Murrell, in the
Great Seal Patent Office, on the 15th October 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
WILLIAM ALLEN, of Westbourne Street, Pimlico, in the County of
Middlesex, Wine Cooper, and WILLIAM MURRELL, of Grosvenor Road,
Pimlico, in the same County, Whitesmith, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-threc, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said William Allen and William
Murrell, Her special licence that we, the said William Allen and
William Murrell, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said William Allen and William Murrell, our ex-
ecutors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OR MODES OF CLEANSING BOTTLES OR OTHER
SIMILAR ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said William Allen and William Murrell, by an instrument in writing
under our hands and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said William Allen and William
Murrell, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in

page_text: what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being
had to the annexed drawing.
We would first observe that various sorts of brushes have been made
for the special purpose of bottle washing or cleansing, but we have in
our Invention produced a combination of parts or apparatus by which
brushes so fixed, fitted, or otherwise placed, that the operation of
bottle washing is performed with a facility and completeness hitherto
unattained. By reference to the annexed drawing it will be seen that
Figure 1, represents the apparatus in vertical section; Figure 2, an
elevation thereof; Figure 3, a plan view of the supporting frame-work,
or plan of the entire arrangement. These diagrams serve to shew or
illustrate the mechanical means of construction adopted by us in
putting our Invention into practice, but the details may be considerably
varied, according to the size and shape of bottles or other similar
articles to be cleaned, or the materials, as wood, iron or other metal, of
which our apparatus shall be composed or fabricated. Similar letters
of referrence are placed on similar parts in the diagrams where such
parts are shewn or can be seen. b, b, marks the tub or water receiver;
c, c, a treadle working a crank d, and axle e, and which, by means of
the gearing at f, of the wheels g, and h, communicate a rotatory
motion to the vertical axle i, of the water tank or receiver. This axle
supports, by means of a screw joint at j, or otherwise, the metal
frame, between the side plates of which are affixed the side
brushes 1. To the central axle is also affixed the centre wire m, m,
carrying the central brush n, and bottom cleaner o, and is allowed
to vibrate sufficiently to carry the said cleaner round the circumference
of the bottom of the bottle. p, the top plate to which is fastened by a
leather or other hinge q, the brush », necessary for the purpose of
cleaning the outer side of the bottom of the bottle when introduced into
the tank; s, a fly-wheel to regulate the motion communicated by the
treadle to the vertical axle on which the bottle is placed. The bottle
is introduced with its neck downwards through the aperture t, t. of the
upper plate p, p, and the central wire m, and its brushes forced into it
by manual pressure. Rotatory motion is given to the two sets of

page_text: brushes within and without the bottle by means of the treadle, (or
other such as steam power may be used,) and by sufficient pressure
of the hand or otherwise the bottom cleaner is fored out of its vertical
position into the circumference of the bottom of the bottle; the brush 7,
is then brought down to cleanse the outer surface of the bottom of the
bottle, and the bottle being taken out of the receiver has only to be
rinsed in a second tank of clear water, and the operation is completed.
Variations in the shape of the brushes must be made when the larger
sized or unusual shaped bottles or jars are to be operated upon.
Having now described the nature of our Invention, and a means of
carrying it into practical effect, (machines or apparatus being now
in use,) that is to say, since the Fifteenth of April last past (made and
constituted upon the plan or plans herein laid down, described, and
illustrated); we desire it to be understood that no claim is laid by us
to any of the parts which compose our mode or modes of cleansing
bottles or other similar articles, when such parts are taken separately
and without reference to the uses of our Invention, and not in combi-
nation for such purpose or purposes; but we claim the combination of
means herein-before described and illustrated by the annexed drawing,
producing a novel mode or modes of cleansing bottles or other similar
articles inside and outside simultaneously.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Allen and William
Murrell, have herein-before attixed our hands and seals, this
Fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness,
JOHN GEDGE, Patent Agent,
(L.S.)
WILLIAM ALLEN.
WILLIAM MURRELL. (L.S.)
4, Wellington Street,
Strand, London.