A MACHINE FOR SOAKING BRUSHING AND RINSING AUTOMATICALLY BOTTLES JARS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1884

page_text: WILLIAM WHITFIELD HORNER Denmark House Lower Norwood London S.E.
Machinery Agent do hereby declare the nature of my invention for A MACHINE
FOR SOAKING BRUSHING AND RINSING AUTOMATICALLY BOTTLES JARS AND SIMILAR
ARTICLES to be as follows:—
I employ a wooden Tank or Trough in which is placed a drum shaped barrel or
cylinder which rests on rollers fastened inside the tank so as to give it (the Cylinder)
a rotating motion. This cylinder is constructed with a number of sockets extending
in lines across the same from end to end thereof. Above such line, of sockets is
placed a number of bars the ends of which are fastened into slots in the sides of the
cylinder so that they may be raised or lowered. These bars may be made in one
complete length or in separate sections. The necks of the bottles are placed into
the sockets and the bars before described keep them from coming into contact.
To prevent the bottles in the bottom portion of the cylinder falling into the tank
I place adjustable strips of wood metal or other suitable material running con-
centric with the cylinder so that the bottoms of the bottles rest upon them after
passing the center of the Cylinder.
The ends of the cylinder are provided with cogs and ratchet ways for the running
of a partly cogged wheel or pair of wheels or ratchet pieces to give an intermittant
motion to the cylinder.
For applying the motive power to give the cylinder the intermittant motion and
time between the movements to allow for the automatic brushing and rinsing of the
bottles also for the taking out of the clean bottles and placing in of dirty ones
I employ one or a pair of wheels only partly cogged running as before mentioned
with the ends of the cylinder or a ratchet piece running with the ratchet ways of
the cylinder. These wheels or ratchet pieces are fixed to a shafting having also
fixed a fully cogged wheel and for the driving of which a fully cogged wheel is
fixed to another shafting provided with a fast and loose pulley or other suitable
gearing for receiving a direct power so that on the partly cogged receiving a
continuous motion the cylinder is rotated from row to row each time these few cogs
or the ratched pieces come into contact with the cogs or ways on the ends of the
cylinder.

page_text: The bottles are automatically brushed by a number of brushes provided with
telescopic pieces or telescopic sockets the number corresponding with the number of
pockets in a row lengthwise of the cylinder These telescopic pieces and brushes
are carried by a bar running through the interior center of the cylinder.
The said telescopic pieces or brushes are rotated by bevelled contright or other
suitable wheeled gearing running also through the center of the cylinder the end
of the shafting carrying the wheeled gearing being provided with a pulley for
receiving the motive power-The Brushes are pushed in or out of the bottles by a
pair of cranks working on a bar fixed under the telescopic pieces or in any other
suitable position either inside or outside the tank and are connected by means of
other cranks to a main crank fixed to the end of the shafting or gearing giving the
intermittant motion so that immediately preceding or following the movement of
the cylinder from row to row the cranks are included inwards or outwards simul-
taneously extending the brushes and telescopic pieces to their longest positions
inside the bottles or reduced to their shortest positions within the cylinder.
Another method of brushing the bottles is to place two brushes fastened on rigid
spindles connected at any convenient position on the Tank of the machine such
brushes revolving in opposite directions so as to allow of the interior and exterior
of the bottles being brushed at the same time. This arrangement can be put in
motion by a treadle in places where there is no steam or other power.
For rinsing the interior of the bottles I employ a horizontal pipe placed above
the brushing gearing having a number of jets for entering the necks of the bottles-
Another pair of cranks either connected to or working separately from those before
mentioned are provided for rising the jets into the necks of the bottles, (in one
row) simultaneous with the extending of the brushes. Simultaneous with the
rising of the jets a valve or pump is caused to act allowing a stream of clean water
to flow into the jets and bottles.
Where no steam or other automatic power can be obtained the cylinder before
described may be revolved intermittantly by a pall connected with a hand lever
which is secured to the side of the Tank and so arranged that in pushing it forward
a water valve secured to the side of the tank is opened thus allowing a stream of
of clean water to flow into the row of bottles corresponding with the row
of rinsing jets.

page_text: I WILLIAM WHITFIELD HORNER Denmark House, Lower Norwood London, S.E.
Machinery Agent do hereby declare the nature of my invention for A MACHINE
FOR SOAKING BRUSHING AND RINSING AUTOMATICALLY, BOTTLES, JARS AND SIMILAR
ARTICLES, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say :-
My invention has for its object, the soaking brushing and rinsing bottles jars
and similar articles, in a rapid and effective manner, and by automatic mechanism,
instead of by hand power, being improvements on my Patent No 4904. 1882.
And in order that my invention inay be clearly understood, I annex a sheet of
drawings, representing a Machine made according to my invention, in which the
same letters of reference indicate the same parts, in any of the figures.
Fig. 1, is an elevation of the Machine, partly shown in section.
Fig. 2, is an end view of same.
In carrying out my invention, I employ a tank or trough preferably made of
wood, marked A, in which I support a revolving drum B, upon antifriction rollers C,
the large diameter of the annular axis or ring D, enabling me to dispense with a
central axis, and thus leaving the centre of the drum open for the introduction
of the various shafts, and mechanical arrangements, for the purposes hereinafter
described.
The cylinder or drum B, is constructed with two end plates E, having ratchet
teeth upon their peripheries, and the rings D, on their outer sides, and between the
ring and the periphery are radial slots F, corresponding in number with the ratchet
teeth.
· Bars are placed in each slot extending across to the opposite end plate, and are
secured by nuts or other means which will allow of a ready adjustment in the
slots, to or from, the centre of the Cylinder. Upon the bars, hollowed thimbles G,
of wood or other suitable material are placed, the spaces between the thimbles of
one bar and those of the next, forming supports for the bodies of the bottles.
The body of the Cylinder H, to which the end plates E, are firmly secured, and
which is preferably made of wood, is pierced with a number of holes I, corresponding
with the number of bottles the machines is constructed to hold, forming sockets,
into which the necks of the bottles are inserted, after passing through the openings
or spaces between the bars before described, by which means the bodies of the
bottles are kept apart.
To prevent the bottles dropping from the underside of the Cylinder as it revolves,
I fix adjustable strips K, of metal, wood or other suitable material, running round
the bottom half of the cylinder, to which they are concentric, upon which the
bottoms of the loose bottles slide, until they attain a horizontal position or
thereabouts, on the opposite side.
It is necessary in order to accomplish the automatic movements for brushing and
rinsing the bottles, and also to allow the attendant time to take out the cleansed
bottles and put in dirty ones, that the Cylinder should have an intermittent motion,

page_text: and this is accomplished by means of a pawl or finger L, to which a reciprocating
movement is given by a short arm M, upon the shaft N, which is slowly revolved
through the medium of the reducing gear O, driven by the pulley P, not shown in
Fig. 1.
The brushes Q, are placed in line, and correspond in number to the number of the
'sockets I, in a row. The shafts of the brushes slide through a series of small wheels
or pinions R, but are so constructed that they are carried round with the said
wheels, to which motion is imparted by the wheel S, through the bevel wheels T,
and shaft U.
The brushes are forced into, and withdrawn from the bottles by the action of the
lever V, driven by the crank W, on the shaft N, which is connected to an angle
iron bar (or other suitable section) shown black in the drawing, to which the ends
of all the brush shafts or spindles are connected, and which slides to and fro in
suitable guides.
The same movement before described of the lever V, acting upon the arm Y,
forces forward the jet pipes Z into the row of bottles which are opposite to them,
the short arm (a) opening at the same time the water supply valve (b).
The water is carried forward preferably by a flexible pipe (c) to a long tube,
shown black in the drawing, with which all the jet pipes Z communicate, and by
which they are carried. The reverse motion withdraws the jet pipes and releases
the valve which immediately closes and shuts off the water.
The above described operations are both completed while the cylinder is
stationary, each forward movement of the finger or pawl L, turns the cylinder the
required distance to bring the next row of bottles exactly opposite the brushes and
jet pipes.
.
Although the Machine I have described and illustrated is designed to be driven
by steam or similar motive power, it may be arranged to be worked by hand, the
intermittent motion being given by a hand lever and pawl, and the reverse action
of lever, being made to open the water valve and push forward the jet pipes. The
rotary motion of the brushes may also be obtained by means of a hand fly wheel.
I do not bind myself to the precise details of the mechanism of the machine as
herein described, as it will be evident that other mechanical equivalents may be
used for some of those shown, such for instance as the use of a series of bevel or
mitre wheels instead of pinions R, or the slow movement of the shaft N, may be
obtained without the use of the series of wheels O, and other similar alterations may
be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.
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. The Machine for automatically brushing and rinsing bottles, as hereinbefore
described and as illustrated.
2. In Machines for brushing and rinsing bottles, the method of supporting
and rotating the Cylinder upon a ring, or annular axis of large diameter, resting
and moving upon a number of antifriction rollers, for the purpose specified, and
substantially as described.
3. In Machines for automatically brushing and rinsing bottles, the combination
of the revolving brushes Q, the water jets Z and the mechanism for giving motion
to same, arranged inside the Cylinder B, and operated by any suitable intermittent
motion, for the purpose specified.
4. In Automatic Machines as herein before described, the arrangement of the
driving gear, and the speed reducing motion, for operating the Cylinder, and other
parts substantially as described and illustrated.
5. In Automatic Machines as herein before described, the method of supplying an
intermittent flow of water to the jet pipes, when they are moved forward into the
bottles, and of shutting off the supply as the jets are withdrawn, as hereinbefore
described.

page_text: 6. In Automatic Machines as herein before described, the method of driving and
rotating the brushes Q, by means of a series or train of wheels R, (either toothed
or frictional) and driven by intermediate gearing, connected with the shaft U,
substantially as described and illustrated.