New or Improved Apparatus for Cleansing and Rinsing the Inside and Outside of Bottles and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 21st Dec., 1891-Accepted, 23rd Jan., 1892
TROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Apparatus for Cleansing and Rinsing the Inside
and Outside of Bottles and the like.
I, ERNEST AXFORD, Secretary to the Pure Water Company Limited of Queen's
Road, Battersea, in the County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
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My invention relates to apparatus for cleansing and rinsing bottles and other like
receptacles.
The apparatus consists of suitable framework provided with a driving shaft
having fast and loose pulleys and the said driving shaft is provided with worm or
other gear for transmission of motion to a worm wheel or other suitable gearing
which is mounted on a shaft having cam grooves or other suitable mechanism, for
actuating a cross head which slides preferably up and down in a vertical direction.
The cross head has a bearing in which revolves another shaft or spindle and
revolving motion is communicated thereto by means of gearing or belts and pulleys
in such manner that the said spindle has both an up and down and a revolving
motion. At the bottom of this spindle is a brush which is so formed that it can
go into and down the neck of a bottle placed underneath, the bottle being on a
table or hollow socket by preference partly full of water. The interior is then
thoroughly brushed while at the same time the outside of the bottle is brushed by
means of a brush or brushes mounted in suitable bearings and connected to a
framework moving up and down with the vertical spindle. A jet or jets of water
may be allowed to play on the outside of the bottle while being brushed if desired.
A suitable arrangement for firmly holding the bottle in position during this
operation consists of a cross head mounted on the vertical spindle in such manner
as to allow the latter to revolve while at the same time it is held down on to the
upper part of the bottle during a portion of the vertical stroke of the said spindle
by means of springs or otherwise but releases the bottle in time to allow of its being
removed and replaced by another. Means are provided for allowing large and
small bottles to be cleansed in the same machine.
The bottle is when taken out of the brushing apparatus put on a nozzle upside
down and a cam or projection on some moving part of the machine actuates a valve
which admits water to the said nozzle thus rinsing the interior whilst the exterior
is at same time thoroughly rinsed by another spray or sprays proceeding from a
nozzle which is supplied from the same source as the inner nozzle.
The bottle is then put in an inverted position in a crate or other receptacle and
allowed to drain.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Apparatus for Cleansing and Rinsing the Inside
and Outside of Bottles and the like.
I, ERNEST AXFORD Secretary to the Pure Water Company Limited of Queen's
Road Battersea in the County of Surrey 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 :-
My invention relates to apparatus for cleansing and rinsing bottles and other like
receptacles.

page_text: Referring to the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a front view of one form of apparatus suitable for cleansing and
rinsing the inside and outside of bottles which are closed by corks or other similar
stoppers.
Figure 2 is a back view thereof.
Figure 3 is a vertical part sectional view on line X. Y Figure 1.
Figure 4 is an enlarged plan of brushes for brushing the outside of the bottle.
Figure 5 is a vertical section showing an arrangement for holding the brush for
acting on the interior and
Figure 6 is an elevation at right angles to Figure 5.
The apparatus consists of a suitable framework A provided with a driving shaft B
having fast pulley C and loose pulley D with striking gear handle c. The shaft B
is mounted in bearings B1 B2 and may as shown be provided with a fly wheel E for
assisting the machine to work steadily. The shaft B is provided with a worm F
or other suitable gear which imparts motion to a shaft G by means of a worm
wheel H (see Figure 3). The shaft G is mounted in bearings G1 G2 and has two
vertical ridges forming cam groove or path I against which runs a bowl or roller K
mounted on a crosshead L which slides up and down in a slot M in the framework A.
The crosshead L has a bearing L' in which revolves another shaft or spindle N
and revolving motion is communicated thereto by means of a cord or belt N' which
runs over a pulley C' keyed on the shaft B loose guide pulleys N2 and the pulley N³.
The spindle N has a collar at 3 and a shoulder n so that the said shaft moves up
and down with the cross head L.
The spindle N is connected to the pulley N3 by a feather and groove not shown
on the drawings in such manner that when the machine is at work the crosshead L
may be caused to reciprocate in a vertical direction by means of the worm F worm
wheel H shaft G and cam path I in which the bowl K runs and the cross head L
carrying the spindle N with it while the latter is caused to revolve constantly by
means of the motion imparted to it by the pulley N3 which is mounted on the
sleeve n and is prevented from rising with the spindle N by means of the collar n'.
The spindle N consequently receives both an up and down and a revolving motion.
At the bottom of this spindle is a brush O (Figure 1) which is so formed that it
can go into and down the neck of the bottle which is placed underneath on a table
or socket P hollowed out in the top as indicated by dotted lines.
It is under some circumstances preferable to fasten the brush O into the socket o
in the spindle N in a yielding manner so that if the brush be jammed or stick in
the neck of the bottle the bottle shall not burst detail Figures 5 and 6 show one
form of such arrangement to a larger scale. The socket is made in two halves o o
which are screwed at their upper end into the spindle N and there fixed by a set
screw . The spindle or handle of the brush O is held in between a piece or
pieces of india rubber or other yielding material o² o³ by screws of o*. The bottle
is when being brushed by preference partly full of water. A suitable arrangement
for firmly holding the bottle in position during the operation of brushing consists of
a cross head Q mounted on the rods of the crosshead L which rods have
shoulders l'. These shoulders, when the spindle N, and consequently also the
rods are near the end of upstroke take against the underside of the cross
head Q and cause it to rise against the action of springs q so as to allow of the
insertion of a bottle between the central hollow and conically shaped mouth piece
in the cross head Q and the socket P below. The interior of the bottle is then
thoroughly brushed by the descending revolving brush O while at the same time
the circular brush R mounted at the bottom of the descending rods brushes the
outside of the bottle. The brush R is shown to an enlarged scale in Figure 4.
Usually it is sufficient for the brush R to merely move in a vertical rectilinear
direction but if deemed advisable the brush may also be caused to revolve, motion
being communicated either from below or from the spindle N by means of gearing
or belt. A jet or jets of water may be allowed to play on the outside and inside
of the bottle while being brushed if desired, but if the bottle be half filled with
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page_text: water to begin with, it will suffice to let the water play on the exterior. Even
this is however sometimes superfluous. When the crosshead Q is near the summit
of its stroke the bottle may be taken out and replaced by another. Different
sizes of bottles may be cleansed by varying the height of the socket P or by
having mouth pieces of different sizes and lengths in the centre of the cross
head Q. When a bottle has been cleansed the operation removes it from the
machine as aforesaid and hands it to another operator or places it himself in a
ring S and over a nozzle T (see Figure 1) and a cam or projection U on the cross
head L actuates a valve W which admits water by a pipe w to the nozzle T thus
rinsing the interior, whilst the outside of the bottle is at the same time thoroughly
rinsed by another spray or sprays proceeding from a nozzle Z, which is supplied
from the same pipe w. The bottle is then put in an inverted position in a crate or
other receptacle or rack and allowed to drain.
The machine is preferably made horizontal for cleansing internally stoppered
bottle such as those provided with a ball stopper otherwise the construction is
practically the same as that particularly described with reference to the drawings.
It is then however generally advisable to fix the brush O in the manner described
with reference to Figures 5 and 6.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is.
First. A machine for cleansing the inside and outside of bottles consisting
mainly of a revolving spindle having also a reciprocating motion to which spindle
is attached a brush for cleansing the interior of the bottles and an external brush
which is connected to the aforesaid spindle in a yielding manner substantially as
described and shown.
Second. A machine for cleansing the inside and outside of bottles consisting
of a framework A on which is mounted the shaft B and worm F which latter
gears with the worm wheel H driving the cam shaft G the cam I reciprocating
the crosshead L and revolving shaft N having brush O for cleansing the interior
of the bottle the exterior thereof being cleansed by the brush R said bottle
being held in position between the cross-head Q and socket P substantially as
described and shown.
Third. The device for holding the brush in a yielding manner to obviate
breakage of bottles substantially as described with reference to Figures 5 and 6.
Fourth. The construction of rinsing device consisting of nozzles T and Z cam U
and valve W substantially as described and shown.
Fifth. The construction of apparatus as shown on the drawings.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.