Improvements in Bottle Cleansing Machines.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 20th Jan., 1900
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottle Cleansing Machines.
I, HEINRICH WESKAMP, of Marienstrasse 32, Bochum, Westphalia, in the
Empire of Germany, Manufacturer, 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:—
The subject of the present invention is a contrivance to be affixed to a bottle
cleansing machine, to admit of the bottles being simultaneously cleaned within
and without by means of brushes and water under pressure.
The novelty of this bottle cleansing machine consists in the means employed
for cleaning the interior of the bottles. This is done, as shown in the accom-
panying drawing (Fig. 1) by means of water-jet taps m, in the plugs of which a
partially hollow spindle brush n, provided with holes is screwed, and by means
of which the bottles are internally thoroughly brushed out and syringed at the
same time as they are being rotated and cleaned on the outside with water by the
little brushes o, and the revolving horizontal brush d. As can be seen from
Figs. 1 and 3, the spindle brush n together with the plug can be tilted upwards
(as shown in Fig. 3 by arrows), whereby the flow of water to the inside of the
bottle is cut off, so that the filled bottle can easily in this position be taken off
and another bottle to be cleaned can be put on. To maintain the brush n in
its tilted up position, a spring z is adjusted within the injection tap m, which
exerts a pressure on the plug, so that the brush is held in this tipped-up position
by friction. The method of adjustment of the spring z and its action can be seen
in Fig. 2. By means of the screwed on closing cap the spring z can, as requisite,
be coiled tighter or expanded as the closing cap is either screwed forwards or
backwards A set screw serves to fasten the closing cap. The pressing of the
plug on its seat has at the same time the further result that the injecting tap
gives a hermetically tight closure, Fig. 1 shows such injecting tap on the left in
action, and on the right at rest.
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:-
1. A bottle cleansing machine, for cleaning bottles inside and outside by
means of brushes and water, wherein the brush for cleaning the inside of the
bottle is a hollow spindle brush provided with holes for injection.
2. A bottle cleansing-machine, wherein the brush (or brushes) for cleaning
the insides, together with the plug of a water-supply tap can either be raised
together to cut the water supply off from the bottles, or lowered to admit of the
water flowing through the hollow spindle of the brush, and its injection holes, to
the bottles.
3. A bottle cleansing-machine wherein the abovementioned brushes, together
with the plugs of the supply taps are maintained in their raised position by the
action of a spring pressing against the said plugs.

page_text: 4. The aforesaid bottle cleansing-machine, the adjustment of a screwed on
closing cap which either contracts the spring or lets it expand, pressing on the
plug, as required, accordingly as the cap is either screwed forwards and back-
wards, and which said cap is fastened by a set screw.
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... of December 1800
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London.