IMPROVE- MENTS IN MACHINES FOR WASHING BOTTLES
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Hutchinson, of Sheffield, in the
County of York, Bookkeeper, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINES FOR WASHING BOTTLES"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Hutchinson,
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 30th December 1852.
I, HENRY HUTCHINSON, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Book
Keeper, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR WASHING BOTTLES " to be as
follows:.
I make an adjustable frame for holding bottles, so that it may be
altered to hold pints, quarts, and other sizes. I insert screw
stoppers through the top of the frame into the necks of the bottles.
I then prepare a corresponding frame, and mount them on an axis
supported on a fixed frame opposite to one another, so as to form
a balance. Water, with shot, cinders, or other suitable cleaning
inaterials, are placed in the bottles, the screw stoppers inserted, and
rapid to and fro motion is communicated to the frames through the

page_text: intervention of a wheel fixed on the axis, which carries them
connected at its periphery by a lever to a smaller wheel, to which
rotary motion is imparted. The lever can be so fixed to the
smaller wheel as to give a long or short stroke.
Instead of two bottle-holding frames, four, six or any other even
number may be mounted on the axis.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said Henry Hutchinson in the Great Scul
Patent Office on the 30th June 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
HENRY HUTCHINSON, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Book
Keeper, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in
the sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry Hutchinson,
Her special licence that I, the said Henry Hutchinson, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
Hutchinson, my exccutors, 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 MACHINES FOR
WASHING BOTTLES," upon the condition, (amongst others) that I, the
said Henry Hutchinson, by an instrument in writing under: my hand
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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Hutchinson, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what inanner
the saine is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had
to the Drawings hereunto annexed (that is to say):
My Invention consists in the employment of adjustable frames
for holding the bottles to be washed, which frames are mounted in
pairs so as to form a balance to each other on an axis, to which
motion is imparted in order to give to the frames carrying the
bottles a vibrating or semi-rotary motion. The frames can be
adjusted to suit various sized bottles, such as quarts, pints, &c.
The drawings hereunto annexed represent a machine constructed ac-
cording to my Invention. Figure 1, is a side elevation; Figure 2, an
end view; and Figure 3, a view of one of the frames shewn detached
from the machine. A, A, is the framework of the machine. B, B,
are two side pieces, which are fixed to the shaft C; D, D, are the
two frames in which the bottles to be cleansed are inserted. These
bottle frames are inserted between the side pieces B, B, one on each
side of the shaft, so as to counterbalance one another, and are
retained in their position by the bolts and nuts a, a.
The con-
struction of these frames will be better understood upon reference
to Figure 3. E, is a sole piece, which is free to slide up and down
in grooves in the side pieces F, F, when acted upon by the screw G,
actuated by the hand wheel H. The upper front or face of the
sole piece E, is hollowed out to receive the bottom part of the
bottles, as indicated by the dotted lines. I, I, are a series of stoppers,
formed of vulcanized india rubber or other suitable material, which
are inserted into the necks of the bottles to prevent the escape of
the water and shot, or other cleansing material placed inside the
bottles, during the process of cleansing them. These stoppers are
attached to the ends of spiral springs inside the tubes K, K, which
tubes are passed through the rails L, of the frames. When it is
desired to insert a number of bottles in the frames, in order to be
cleansed, the sole piece E, is lowered by means of the hand wheel H,
and screw G, when the bottoms of the bottles are placed in the
hollows, and the sole piece is raised by turning the screw in the

page_text: opposite direction, which brings the bottles up against the stoppers,
.and inserts them into the necks as shewn at M, in Figure 3. N, N,
are guides placed around the stoppers, so as to insure their entrance
into the necks of the bottle. O, O, are helical springs between the
sole picce and the rail P, of the frame, to assist the raising of the
.sole piece. Q, is the wheel mounted upon the end of the shaft C, in
order to give the requisite motion to the frames carrying the bottles.
d, d, are stud pins arranged round the circumference of the wheel
Q, and to either of which one end of the connecting rod R, is
attached; the other end is attached to a pin c, projecting from the
disc S, keyed upon the shaft T. The disc S, is perforated with a
number of holes e, e, so as to shift the position of the pin c, nearer
to, or farther from, the centre of the shaft T, to lengthen or shorten
the crank, when desired to impart a quicker or slower motion to the
frames D. The stud pins d, also enable the frames to be placed in
any required position, by shifting the end of the connecting rod.
U, is a pinion upon the shaft T, into which gears the teeth of the
spur wheel V, driven by the crank handle W. X, is the fly wheel
mounted upon the same shaft Y, which carries the spur wheel V.
Should it be desired to cleanse a greater number of bottles at the
same time, four, six, or more frames may be mounted upon the
same shaft, but in such a manner that they shall balance each
other.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, I declare that I
claim the arrangement and combination of machinery or apparatus
for cleansing and washing bottles, as herein-before described, and
represented in the Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Hutchinson, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of June,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
HENRY HUTCHINSON. (L.S.)